“I’ve lived in the city nearly all my life. I never had to repeat my highly complex Starbucks order — a “tall” coffee — three times to get a response from the bummed-out barista, the way I do now,” New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo writes in a column posted Sunday.
Cuozzo spreads the blame, pointing in part to the decriminalization of marijuana, which he argues had made smoking it pervasive.
“A license to get high has turned service employees into zombies,” Cuozzo also writes.
Cuozzo collects several anecdotes from resident and concludes: “Our ‘progressive’ pols are throwing our city into the trash — and it’s no accident.”
He also writes, perhaps to exaggeratedly to show his outrage : “It’s time to lower the minimum wage.”