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Collected Item: “Selling Coffee during the Plague Year”

Give your story a title.

Selling Coffee during the Plague Year

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Text Story, self

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.

A journal of a Starbucks employee working during the pandemic. Describes the ways in which the company provided in ways adequate and not. Six weeks of paid stay-at-home that spiraled into depression, and the mounting stress from working with the public, and the pressure to open space for customers to stay in store.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#Starbucks, #retail, #foodservice, #work, #workers

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Joshua Albrecht

Give this story a date.

2020-10-16
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