Starbucks fires employee on food stamps for eating a sandwich from the garbage
Submitted by Ramona on Aug 28 2013 19:31
Last Monday, 21-year-old barista Coulson Loptmann says he was fired from a downtown Seattle Starbucks where he’d worked for more than a year. The reason? He ate a sandwich that had been thrown away.
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