Something's a little bit too bitter about that coffee

More than 1,000 Starbucks baristas go on strike to protest new dress code

More than 1,000 Starbucks baristas at 75 U.S. stores have gone on strike since Sunday, protesting the coffee giant’s new dress code.

AP NewsDEE-ANN DURBIN

Something's off with both the labor union and its nightclubbish dress code.

First of all, coffee shop people are intellectuals, not dumb jock laborers. Not that there's a lot of money to be made merely by being intelligent, of course. There's usually some guy sitting at the corner table in a trenchcoat raising his eyebrows slightly and hiding his face with a newspaper sipping his coffee and eating a pastry. It's not the right atmosphere for a "labor union" as such. Formerly, many Starbucks workers were given college tuition as a job benefit and encouraged to pursue higher education. Not something a labor union would be friendly to, but perfectly natural for intellectuals to pursue.

Second, there's the luddite anti-intellectual attitude.

“Customers don’t care what color our clothes are when they’re waiting 30 minutes for a latte.”

Lol. I think it's about time for customers to walk off the property, and start watching our bank accounts for extraneous coffee shop charges. Do those rows of bottles on the shelf really just contain non-alcoholic liquor flavors? Or is something a little bit harder, deleterious or poisonous sneaking into the drinks with the corporate nightclubbing and online dating atmosphere?