https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/whi...s-n1074431

"...About a month after the arrests, Phillips was ordered to suspend one of her subordinates, a white 15-year employee, who was a Starbucks manager but had nothing to do with the arrests or the store where they occurred, the suit says. The manager who was responsible for the store, who is black, was not penalized.

Her bosses told her that nonwhite employees at the store whose manager they wanted her to suspend had been paid less than white employees. Phillips objected, pointing out that store managers have nothing to do with determining salaries, which are set by a different division of the company, according to the lawsuit.

The next day, Phillips was fired, with managers telling her "the situation is not recoverable....”"

Well, all that makes no sense. The only thing I can think of is that the black employees of the store with the white manager found out they were making less and, rather than admit it was a corporate screw up, they decided to blame the manager and wanted her fired. This Phillips lady was just sticking up for her manager, which I admire, since the company had no real basis for their order to fire the manager.