A Deaf man’s Facebook post about the note a Starbucks barista gave him has gone viral.
Ibbey Piracha was given a note that said “I’ve been learning ASL just so you can have the same experience as everyone else.” He has described the barista as “an inspiration.”
A Virginia man’s Facebook post is creating some Internet buzz after he shared a note from a Starbucks employee who offered a kind gesture.
Ibby Piracha, who is deaf, told ABC News through an interpreter that he was surprised Friday morning to be greeted by the familiar barista with sign language.
“I usually use my phone and I’ll text them what I want to order,” Piracha of Leesburg, Virginia, said. “She was saying she looked on YouTube because she had a lot of customers that came in using text. I was very surprised she was willing to learn [sign language] and it shows she respects deaf people … she’s an inspiration.”
Piracha, 23, said the female barista handed him a note that read, “I’ve been learning ASL just so you can have the same experience as everyone else.”
Piracha posted a picture of the kind words to Facebook, where it received over 2,000 “shares.”
“I was very shocked to go in there one day and have her sign a little bit and I kind of smiled, thinking about it and I even told the Starbucks manager, ‘You know, I was very impressed by your employee.”
Read the full story: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/deaf-man-receives-touching-note-starbucks-barista/story?id=37110792
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pennybsl
February 23, 2016
Currently, in the United Kingdom, many people in front-line services and retail are ‘forced’ to pay for their BSL learning, as well in their own time.
Ironically, instead of staying on within their workplaces when completing BSL, they leave and apply for deaf-support-related jobs!
The scarcity of employer-funded BSL learners means good examples like above are far and few within the UK.
Hartmut
February 23, 2016
Two Starbucks employees took ASL classes from me during the 1990’s. They have paid themselves for the classes. One of them got invited for dinner by a deaf consumer.
Cathy
February 23, 2016
What a wonderful gesture and foresight! Sadly, that rarely happens in Britain. Not least because sign language classes have closed down in various Colleges around the country and many people can ill afford the classes anyway.
We will rarely find such people as the American lady in this story and as the cuts dig ever deeper we never will. It is very easy to imagine this once Great country becoming a basket case for all our undesirables who will have neither compunction nor compassion to make “deaf people have the same experience as everyone else!”