02450cam a2200385 a 4500 14749552 20141211162910.0 070227s2007 nyu 000 0aeng 2007008168 9781592402861 1592402860 9780007268863 (OCoLC)ocm85783305 (OCoLC)85783305 DLC DLC IG# BAKER BTCTA JED ZS3 YDXCP BUR DLC n-us-ny HF 5810.H44 .G475 2008 647.95092 B Gill, Michael (Michael Gates) How Starbucks saved my life : a son of privilege learns to live like everyone else / Michael Gates Gill. New York : Gotham Books, c2008. 265 pages : 20 cm. In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a big house, a loving family, and a six-figure salary. By sixty, he had lost everything: downsized at work, divorced at home, and diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor, Gill had no money, no insurance, and no prospects. He took a job at Starbucks, and for the first time in his life, he was a minority--the only older white guy working with a team of young African-Americans. He was forced to acknowledge his prejudices and admit that his new job was hard. And his younger coworkers, despite half the education and twice the personal difficulties, were running circles around him. Crossing over the Starbucks bar was the beginning of a transformation that cracked his world wide open. When all of his defenses and the armor of entitlement had been stripped away, a humbler, happier and gentler man remained.--From publisher description. Gill, Michael (Michael Gates) Starbucks Coffee Company Employees New York (State) New York Biography. Advertising executives New York (State) New York Biography. Marketing consultants New York (State) New York Biography. Coffeehouses New York (State) New York. Acoustic neuroma Patients Biography. Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0804/2007008168-d.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0804/2007008168-b.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK FOR 276953 276953 0 0 lcc 0 CL CL GC 2014-12-11 DONATION GC 1 HF 5810.H44 .G475 2008 C19034 2018-05-15 00:00:00 2015-01-05 2014-12-11 BK