to director of regional operations Brigitte Herbert, demanding store partners be allowed to decorate for Pride.
Despite the company’s claims, Starbucks worker Amanda Rivera says things indeed feel different this year. Rivera is a shift supervisor at the, and says that in the 11 years she’s worked for the company, workers have been encouraged to decorate for Pride as they saw fit. But recently, Rivera says, there has been a lot of turnover at her store, which she credits to Starbucks’ alleged, and the new managers have not said anything about Pride.
Alisha Humphrey, a barista at the 63rd and Grand location in Oklahoma City, claims the three union stores in that city have been told not to decorate for Pride. “Our district manager told our store manager that it was a corporate change that Starbucks made last July,” she says, and the reason given was that Starbucks wanted there to be uniformity in the stores.