Hold on because this one will take a second but I’m LIVID.

There was a barista that worked at my first store and he was an ass. Let’s call him G. He was rude to all the partners and customers that he worked with, and he was generally very misogynistic. He got away with a LOT of it because our manager at the time, also super misogynistic. Whatever. So he had enough negative interactions with female partners and lots of customers that eventually they moved him to a different store.

Months later, we get a borrowed partner who spent the ENTIRE shift talking about my body, cornered my shift and told her he “liked chocolate” which is problematic alone but we’ll just focus on the fact that he was so disgusting towards both of us the entire shift that my Shift sent him home 2 hours early. After the shift, we told our SM who took no action so we called his store manager and said we don’t want him back and explained what happened. Our SM finally got involved, took our statements, and guy got fired. BUT we find out later that G, from paragraph A, is like.. best friends with this guy. He then came into our store while the shift and I were both on, and YELLED AT ME while I was on bar, saying that we got his friend fired and “we’d be sorry.” Very ominous. He did it in front of a bunch of customers.

It’s a year or so later and now I’m at the store G had transferred to. He has been gone for a while, but a partner that I worked with recently told me that while he was at that store, he slept with a shift who was living with her boyfriend at the time, and then demanded she break up with the boyfriend and move out whatever. When she didn’t, he called corporate and told the managers and she got demoted and moved. Apparently he was equally sexist and gross there, so he was MOVED AGAIN. NOW I FIND OUT, HE IS A SHIFT AT THIS NEW STORE. IN OUR SAME DISTRICT.

I’m sorry, but 1. Why was someone like this not fired after the first incidents? 2. Why was he just moved around to distract from the gross stuff he’s done and 3. WHO TF THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO PUT SOMEOME LIKE THIS IN A POSITION OF POWER?? Think about how many younger girls work at Starbucks. This is their first job. They’re young. He’s a 23-24 year old man in a position of authority and I have no doubt he’s still being gross and probably taking advantage of (or at least harassing) the girls under his supervision.

I’ve only been at my new store for 2 weeks and I have been a shift for about a year now, but I don’t feel right NOT saying something. I don’t know if I can even remain anonymous given the extensive history there but I don’t want other girls or women to be treated the way I know he treats women. He should have been fired a long time ago and I’m just reeling. Advice?