BREAKING NEWS: There was a straight man working at Starbucks.
And he says the company fired him for it.
A longtime Starbucks manager is suing the coffeehouse chain for discrimination, retaliation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, accusing his bosses of ignoring the 'extreme and outrageous' harassment he claims he suffered on the job because he is straight.
Christopher Thevanesan, a 'heterosexual, gender typical man' in Rochester, New York, claims supervisors at his location treated him 'in a materially different manner' than employees who were 'not heterosexual and/or gender typical men,' according to a lawsuit filed under New York State's Human Rights Law and obtained by The Independent.
This is the weirdest inversion of a Bee prophecy that I've ever seen.
Of note, Christopher Thevanesan is a "man of color," but I guess having dark skin isn't enough for Starbucks these days!
[Attorney Neil] Flynn told The Independent that he believes Thevansan's heterosexuality had been 'weaponized' against him.
'Management was indifferent to his complaints,' Flynn said, claiming Starbucks workers in the store and surrounding area were attempting to drive out their straight colleagues.
The suit claims that Thevansan was "harassed by the staff due to his sex, sexual orientation and/or gender in the course of [his] employment," and according to the filing it got pretty bad, with the suit describing it as "frequent, pervasive, and severe."
The gay mafia rolling up to harass the one non-gay employee of color:
As for Starbucks' excuse:
'He was given several different conflicting reasons for why he was discharged,' Flynn told The Independent. 'We're in the course of discovery, so we're still trying to verify what their claims are.'
One thing's for sure: The affidavits in this case are sure to be fabulous!
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