Starbucks New ANTI-Homeless Person Policy [View all]

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As if I don't have enough battles in my life already, having sued Mitt Romney for Racketeering: now I'm finding myself running out of places to go online with Starbucks new policy against "you people' (referring to my homeless status).

For nearly 2 years now, I go to one of 3 places on a daily basis. Panera, Starbucks and the Law Library. My job/career - that doesn't pay anything (yet) - is to bring down Mitt for his organized criminal efforts in " target="_blank">"Bust Outs" / "Bankruptcy Rings" public and private companies for Bain Capital, Sankaty & Solamere Capital gains.

Then, the Starbucks I attend very frequently and purchase multiple items daily, gets a new manager. From the very beginning the man's hostility to me is readily apparent. When mistakes are made of customer orders, the workers (whom are all very friendly), give out the mistakes. When one worker said "Laser, you want this"?; the new manager snatched it out of his hand and said "You give that to one of 'THEM' and we'll get flodded with street people".

How he happens to know that I'm homeless, is not by my appearance; but that security contacted them about my sleeping in a friends car - waiting for Starbucks to open at 5 a.m.; and the local storage company who is also a customer, has evicted me because we were in after 10 p.m. for more than 1 hour.

This store location's District Manager came in one day, thinking she would be cute, having a brand new employee coming over to me and telling me I had to buy something every 1/2 hour. She was a little miffed when I pointed out my receipt that was time stamped only 12 minutes prior.

Starbucks corporate office customer service center apologized and even credited my GOLD Card account with $10

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Then, the manager, on another day (where we actually spent $36 and I also collected my freebie {12 bonus star frequent buyer} sandwich), comes up and says

"I'm here to talk to you about the item we discussed earlier. I know you spoke to customer service and I don't care, my manager backs me up on this. You people don't spend enough money and I'm aware you bought multiple items today; but that's not enough. Here's my District Manager's card, who supports me in this decision.

You are to leave quickly and never come back, or I'll have security remove you from premises".

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Here's a funny thing. The guy Romney' is backing for Governor of California, (Neel Kashkari - a former Goldman Sachs guy who worked for Paulson), just did a stint with homeless people in Fresno that received some quirky press (here).

Wonder if he would have been evicted from Starbucks?

Starbucks has been sued for discrimination before. There's a well known case where they made fun out of handicap people (Here). There's another case where employees sued because managers were keeping their tips and a jobless man with one arm in San Diego who also sued for discrimination in seeking a job at Starbucks (here).

I'm homeless by choice. My family has lost everything and people are dead in my case. So those who offer me a place to stay, including my brother and other dear sweet heart persons, must first consider the risks of my case inherent. As we get closer to the date of going to trial (9th Cir. briefings start in October 2014), I have to worry about putting people in harms way. So I choose to be a vagabond, for safety's sake. This also makes me the less than favorable candidate of suing for the sake of homeless discrimination. But I am going to consider it.

If I do decide to sue Starbucks, it will be to stop them from doing such to others. I have to be convinced its not just Romney's gang using undue power and influence. Starbucks would have a hard time with the case because of the fact that I have an email from theirCorporate office that specifically stipulates they don't have a table rent policy.