Being a College Graduate Just Got Tougher

Most college graduates today pour me lattes at Starbucks. Their degrees in History and Liberal Arts earns them big bucks, but now thanks to a court ruling, less tips.

From CBS here:

Starbucks baristas must share their tips with shift supervisors, but assistant managers are left out in the cold, New York’s highest court ruled Wednesday.

The Court of Appeals found that shift supervisors do much of the same work as the coffee servers and therefore get to share in the tips. The court also ruled the company can deny those tips to assistant managers.

The ruling, responding to two lawsuits, backed Starbucks’ policy of divvying up the tips, saying it’s consistent with labor law.

Hospitality industry groups say the state court decision will be felt far beyond shops owned by Starbucks. and will affect 42,000 New York businesses statewide and a quarter-million hospitality industry workers in New York City alone.

Of course a leftist company would believe in the Marxist stratagem of ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.’ I hope baristas quit over this. But then again, I never tip at Starbucks, mostly because they all voted for Obama. Their coffee already costs too damn much.