Tragedy of the Starbucks Commons

Employees have just about had it maintaining public rest rooms.

Remember last spring when Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz announced shortly before departing the company that the coffee chain would allow everyone to use its rest rooms? His former colleagues have been left with quite a mess.

This week Business Insider reports:

Starbucks is installing boxes for safe disposal of syringes in the bathrooms of certain locations, following workers’ reports of discarded needles and sometimes concerning...