Collected Item: “Starbucks Barista in 2020”
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Starbucks Barista in 2020
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Three Photographs
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
I worked at Starbucks Coffee Company from 2019-2021. The company begging their workers to continuously go to work under awful conditions, with little regard for their safety, took a huge mental toll, not only on me, but every barista. We were told providing coffee to our community was an "Essential" job, when in all reality is was essential for us to work to ensure that company's made a profit. We had to work to pay rent and buy food because the united states government offered little support, but were not justly compensated for our work. These pictures of myself remind me how tired I was working from 3 am to 2 pm, in the middle of a pandemic, in order to be able to afford living.
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#Barista, #Starbucks, #Essential, #Louisiana, #Underpaid, #Overworked
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Self
Give this story a date.
2020