The "Love You" Coffee Shop Is a Dystopia
A new coffee chain opened and the script requires staff to say "love you" when they hand you your drink.
All the workers are 18-20 year old women. The line is 90% women.
"The pain in these girls voice as they reluctantly looked me in my eyes to say 'LOVE YOU' as I got my cold brew."
Mandatory performed intimacy as a business model. Forcing young women to say "I love you" to strangers for minimum wage is not a vibe, it's just coercion with an aesthetic.
This coffee shop prob does 20k+ day easy. Crazy packed. Big chain coffee shops are cooked.
A viral account of a new coffee chain scripting young female employees to say "love you" to customers exposes exactly how far brands will go to manufacture emotional labor from underpaid workers.
Source
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