Starbucks put new limits starting Monday on what its baristas can wear under their green aprons. The dress code requires employees at company-operated and licensed stores in the U.S. and Canada to wear a solid black shirt and khaki, black or blue denim bottoms.
Under the previous dress code, baristas could wear a broader range of dark colors and patterned shirts. Starbucks said the new rules would make its green aprons stand out and create a sense of familiarity for customers as it tries to establish a warmer, more welcoming feeling in its stores.
I think people are still super used to everyone on the internet being gargantuan assholes and are quick to be defensive. I honestly don’t fit in in most places because I’ve done my time being an asshole when I was a teenager and don’t want to be that way anymore. It’s too much energy and entirely pointless and toxic. I don’t blame people for reading me that way, the world sucks too much right now and the amount and level of rhetoric everywhere is insane, but I do have to try to not let it be disheartening. Honestly, if the majority of people read it negatively, then that’s still likely on me.