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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Coffee nuts don't drink starbucks and those of us who just drink coffee can't tell the difference...starbucks is a shit company with overpriced drinks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

And it's just mediocre coffee anyway. Roasted too dark just to keep a consistency in flavour between locations. Starbucks is a tax dodging lifestyle brand, they could start a clothing line and make the same money as they do selling coffee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It really is. I like dark roast coffee, but I want flavor besides burnt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

I volunteer at food shelters, and every now and then we get something we can't really hand out, like unground coffee beans, so I ended up with a large bag of some Starbucks ultra dark roast of some kind. Had a leopard? on the bag. It smelled like boiled cat shit the instant I opened the bag, went in the compost bin immediately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Starbucks is a company that sells sugar for a lot of money. Who cares what happens to them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Continue to boycott starbucks. There are many alternatives just as good and even better.

And if you really want to take things to the next step, making your own coffee at home from freshly roasted beans is soooo worth it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but look at this smile!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Shop local. It's just coffee. Don't let the marketers tell you any different. For sweet creamy syrupy treats go to the ice cream store. Let's not support the current system of the bigwig at the top who does very little and reaps most of the rewards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

But the local shops are often treating employees in ways that starbucks couldn't possibly get away with. Source: ex who worked 14 hr shifts without weekends at 4 different places for a couple months each and came out at net negative.

There are some nice places though, where barista is the owner, and not just some stupid rich kid trying his hand at entrepreneurship.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

Plus ordering there takes 3x longer than if I just made a coffee at home. They are not convenient unless you are traveling and have no access to a coffee maker.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Hell even my regular coffee shop does most of the ~~milkshakes~~ fancy coffees that Starbucks does.

I drink black coffee but they do look really good

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago

I worked there back in the early aughts. It actually was a cool retail job that paid reasonably well, a few dollars above minimum, and you got company stock, benefits, a free pound of coffee a week or box of tea, you were invited to company meetings, free drinks on shift, and we did all sorts of cool volunteer stuff, like with the food bank and habitat for humanity, and we would do coffee tastings at events, all sorts of things. It honestly was a fun job lots of the time. It's so sad it's turned into trash.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

They are hired assasins. Like how they had special officers in WWII to commit the massacres

[–] [email protected] 14 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I have never gone to a Starbucks and I never will. It's not that hard to do that. They will never get even a penny out of me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Fair warning, if you're brewing coffee at home it's still possible to buy Starbucks.

Most of the coffee at Costco is just rebranded Starbucks beans. A lot of dark roast coffee is secretly shitty Starbucks beans. If it smells like cigarettes at any point, you've probably got Starbucks coffee.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

What if I told you, I don't drink coffee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I have to give this another try.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

THAT'S NOT TRUE

THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Shouldn't Costco warn people if they're gonna sell burnt ass coffee beans though?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

The only reason i would go to a Starbucks is to look at the people working and buying coffee there. Or to meet a cute person behind the counter, but i have never nore will i spend money in that

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Just for perspective here,

1000 * $15/hr = $15,000 / hr

$96,000,000 / $15,000  / hour = 6,400 hours

6,400 hours / 40 hours / week = 160 weeks

160 weeks / 52.17857 weeks / year = 3.0663929655412174 years

They could afford to keep those employees on for another 3 Years with that amount.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Was it baristas that were laid off or office workers? Minimum wage for their corporate headquarters is a bit over $20/hour, and I'd suspect very few corporate employees are making only minimum wage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

That might be fair, but "laid off" has the sort of vibe to it that they didn't get to choose between minimum wage and no job. Also, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 and the minimum wage in Washington state, where starbucks HQ is located is $16.66 so yeah definitely would have to rework the math based on location of the layoffs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Agreed, just trying to point out that if the laid off employees were corporate, not retail, the $15/hr assumption is probably pretty low. If retail, those could be spread across the country, and $15/hr is probably pretty generous. Starbucks HQ is in the city of Seattle, which has an even higher minimum wage than the state (I think $20.76/hour now?).

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They could have paid every one of those employees nearly 6 figures instead. If the company is doing so badly that they feel they need to lay off a thousand people, they should not be handing out CEO bonuses, period.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure a good portion of that was union busting, but that's what we're all about now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

This would not shock me in the slightest

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like Luigi got another flag to reach

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Why do the Italians need to keep fighting? Let some others get into the action, like Yoshi or Peaches. We can always branch out and have other Nintendo properties get these guys. How about Zelda or Link?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's $96,000 per layed off worker

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is the same douche canoe that was the CEO of Chipotle and denied that the serving sizes were getting smaller and told people to just harass the worker making the food if they thought their serving size was to small.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Wait we had permission to do that? I thought I was just being a dick and telling them to "keep going". What a relief, too bad I won't go back.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Also the same guy trying to green wash plastic waste to be customer responsibility while commuting on a private jet from Southern California to Seattle.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's absolutely no way he's adding enough value compared to Joe MBA to justify that compensation.

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