I always found something a bit odd about managers at Starbucks. They are always happier then normal, younger than most subordinates in the business world, and personally they always came off as creepers. This story shows us that there was something else brewing in this starbucks location.
Kati Moore of Orange County, CA claims a 24-year old supervisor at Starbucks made almost daily demands on her for sex, months after she began working as a 16-year old barista.
“I felt like I didn’t have a choice,” Moore, now 20, told ABC News.”I was ashamed and embarrassed. And I felt like he had complete control over my job… he knew all this stuff about my family and my friends and my school.”
She says the supervisor would summon her for sex in hundreds of text messages, including one that said, “I’d liked to f— tomorrow.”“It was an everyday, numerous times a day occurrence,” Moore said. “And I just saw it and did what I had to do.”
She says other Starbucks supervisors and managers knew what was happening but did nothing to stop the illicit relationship.
After the young woman’s mother learned of the relationship, she alerted prosecutors who brought criminal charges against the Starbucks employee, Tim Horton. After claiming he did not know the barista was 16 years-old, Horton pleaded guilty to a felony charge of illegal sex with a minor and served four months in prison.
