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Original Comment I am writing you in regards to your completely unacceptable actions to one of your barristas in a seattle downtown store!!!! (see below exerpt from internet news report) It is unacceptable that , in a world where you advertise &amp; sell fair trade items, to keep the rest of the worlds economically disavantaged fed, that you would fire an employee that is equally disadvantaged &amp; had no $$ to eat with while working a 7 hr shift. Why could he not of received a warning if what he did was sooo wrong (by your standards) I understand the reason as you do not want employees marking down items just to consume them, but why could these not be made available to you people for a limited time (1 hr or so after being removed from stock) The poor &amp; unfed are no longer in third world countries anymore, they are our neighbors and employees. Wake up &amp; take the correct action! Rehire this young man &amp; be responsible for the solution &amp; not be part of the problem of the pervasive greed &amp; disregard for their workers, of many large companies.<br /> <br /> If you expect our family to continue to use Starbucks,<br /> as we daily do, I will expect a reply to this e mail not to be disregarded. To us this is a very important issue please regard is as such. fjaco2<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 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. Really. Like most cafes, the coffee giant gets rid of food that has expired; they donate what they can and toss the more perishable items. <br /> <br /> Loptmann, who says he couldn't get enough hours to pay his bills and survives partly on his food stamps, explains, &quot;I hadn't eaten all day and I was on a seven-hour shift.&quot; A coworker had just marked some breakfast sandwiches out of stock, and he figured no one would mind if he grabbed one of the plastic-wrapped sausage sandwiches out of the trash can.<br /> <br /> But Starbucks did mind. According to Loptmann, his manager sat him down a week later and told him she'd found out about the sandwich and contacted HR, &quot;and they consider it stealing, and it's against policy. So I'm sorry, but I have to terminate you.&quot; She fired him on the spot.

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