Starbucks continues to be terrible

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• Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I guess it’s a good thing I make my own coffee at home. Bonus! It doesn’t taste like burnt bean water!

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Shifting “blame” on these white-collar police dogs (megacorp CEOs) instead of shareholders (and the system demanding growth) only needs to happen when everyone understands that 96m is on 3.760m of net income (2024).

  So if 1k people were let go all of them could have gotten 1m of bonus and still the company would have made almost 3bn.

  But they were let go bcs yoy income (but not revenue) was lower last year, and the financial markets demand a sacrifice (literally any action, even of not actually needed, just to send a signal they are ‘on it’).

  The usual “efficient” meat grinder stuff.

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  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That fullstop is confusing matters.

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• dumbass@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If someone Luigi’s him, they better spell his name wrong on the bullets.

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  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    that’s very witty, well done

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• Coffeegrinder@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gets invited to meeting with manager. Employee orders coffee for the meeting Manager says, his coffee will be “To Go”

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I work at a bakery (we’ve got snacks, coffee, cake, and danishes in addition to bread), and every once in a while I see two people come in and it’s not clear if they’re on a date until they disagree about whether it’s for here or to go. Then I realize that only one of them thought it was a date. It’s especially awkward if the one who did has already offered to pay for everything.

    Doing that for a job instead of a date is brutal

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  • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s fucking cold

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• Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Had to get the money from somewhere. Just like Trump. Fire a bunch of workers for the tax cut payments to billionaires. Like clockwork.

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• JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I haven’t seen someone with so punchable face

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• frazw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean he has been rewarded for making the line go up. Part of making the line go up is reducing overheads. So he is being directly rewarded for actions like firing 1000+ employees. So is it a surprise?

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  • frazw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Since I’m sitting negative I should clarify that I do not think the actions are moral. Only that he is incentivized to do things like this.

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    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just because there’s a financial incentive doesn’t mean you should do something. This is a step or two below murber for proflt.

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• RaptorBenn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t know why people think large companies aren’t allowed to get rid of people when they want to? And especially Starbucks, it’s shit-work, not a 20y long career maker.

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  • Earflap@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do you keep a list of workers who you feel are beneath you and don’t deserve a living wage?

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    • RaptorBenn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why would I do that.

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  • psivchaz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To the company it is “an adjustment.” To those people, it can be a devastating loss of healthcare, of the money they use to pay for food and shelter, and even an identity crisis. Starbucks has all sorts of positions, ranging from seasonal part time employees, to store management that gets paid pretty well, to corporate employees that presumed they were in 20y career trajectories. Every single one of them deserves better than losing their job just to pay for a big bonus for one guy.

    It’s not about whether they are allowed or not. It’s that actions should have consequences but the modern corporate structure has so divorced leadership from the consequence of their actions that this is normal. Let me rephrase: Hurting people to pump your personal wealth is not just normal, it’s expected. That’s sick.

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    • RaptorBenn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lol, okay, blame starbucks all you want, it’s a faceless entity. You could be mad at the politicians who set you up to instantly fall into desperation the moment you lose a minimum wage job, but if you want to be mad and ineffectual at the same time, be my guest.

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  • fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s not like individual locations determined they’re overstaffed or something. The CEO is just blanked firing people because it makes some numbers look more gooder on some spreadsheet.

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    • RaptorBenn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh so that’s their reason is it, make number look good, company be strong.

      It wouldnt be because of your idiot president causing a recession where more people wont be able to afford to buy coffee as often? You dont think that could be a contributing factor?

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