More than $ 100,000 was raised for a Starbucks barista late last month. Now the woman behind the viral story claims she deserves half.
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Amber Gilles posted a photo of San Diego Starbucks barista Lenin Gutiérrez on social media, criticizing the man for not serving her because he was not wearing a mask. Starbucks has announced that all customers must wear a mask while inside the store.
“You know Lenen from Starbucks who refused to serve me because I’m not wearing a mask. Next time I will wait for the police and file a medical exemption, ”Gilles wrote in the June 22 complaint.
Donations continued to accumulate until they reached $ 100,000, money that Gutiérrez said he plans to use to help him continue his education.
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The story began to gain momentum online, where Matt Cowan, an Orange County, California resident, saw it and decided he wanted to help the barista by starting a GoFundMe.
Although Cowan did not know Gutiérrez, he wanted to raise money for the man with the initial goal of $ 1,000.
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“It has always bothered me to see people treating someone in the hospitality industry with rudeness or disrespect when they are just doing their job,” Cowan said in an interview with Fox Business.
Donations continued to accumulate until they reached $ 100,000, money that Gutiérrez said he plans to use to help him continue his education.
“Lenin and I are flabbergasted,” Cowan had said in the interview.
However, Gilles now claims that half of that money belongs to her for “discrimination.”
“It was discrimination and everyone agrees with that and allows and rewards that behavior,” Gilles told KGTV.
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According to the woman, she claims that she has various medical reasons that prevent her from wearing a mask while entering Starbucks to collect her coffee.
“In one of them I have difficulty breathing, dizziness and my heartbeat bothers me. And I also have asthma, and I have mask acne. So there are several things that happen and not only that, but it doesn’t even work, “he told the local media.
Gilles’s medical documentation for not wearing a mask in public reportedly comes from a San Diego chiropractor who wrote the woman a note saying she has “underlying respiratory conditions that prevent her from wearing a mask or any type of facial covering. “
The name of the chiropractor, who is not a doctor, was not shared.
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Now Gilles is looking to start her own GoFundMe to hire an attorney to help her claim the money the barista received as her own.
