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FYI: Ed Sheeran is a scab.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FlyingSquid@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨workreform@lemmy.world⁩

https://jezebel.com/starbucks-workers-rip-ed-sheeran-for-picking-up-shift-a-1850779755

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  • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Willing to bet he knew nothing about the union issues and was just there for the Album PR. His manager said “Be here at this date and time and serve coffee and you’ll get a few more million album sales”

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    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Probably, but still a dumb PR stunt. Why would anybody think serving coffee would boost album or concert ticket sales?

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      • VulKendov@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Its got people talking about it. Seems like a pretty successful PR stunt to me.

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      • nolefan33@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I didn’t know he had a new album coming out. Now I do. And now we’re all talking about it. That’s all they’re looking for, more people discussing it so it’s back of mind when it actually drops.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Idk if you know this but the Venn Diagram of Ed Sheeran’s target audience and consumers of Pumpkin Spice Lattes is a circle.

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      • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Dude if I got my ass out of retail/food service to finally become a famous rock star, and my PR agent told me to go work a shift at the local MickyDs I would absolutely fire my agent… From a replica Quake 1 rocket launcher.

        Or if that can’t be invented yet I’ll settle for good ol Reliable Trebuchet.

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      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The vast majority of Starbucks customers don’t care about unions but they do like ed sheerans music since he’s a pop star

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    • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      100% this. People actually think that folks track the inner-political bullshit at Starbucks?? The delusion of some people is incredible.

      If you don’t like Starbuck’s agenda, then how about you just stop buying food from there? Oh, but that is a bridge too far for most. Hell, I bet 1/2 the people crying in here have probably bought from Starbucks and ordered from Amazon and given money to other anti-worker companies in the last week.

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    • vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not sure why that would disqualify him for scab behavior. Also anyone basing this much of their branding around pumpkin spice bullshit should at least be a little aware of the situation with the union.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s only scab behavior if the point is to supercede the union which this most definitely does not do.

        The entire article is just laughably bad.

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  • elouboub@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don't assume malice when ignorance is an apt explanation.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He’s a ridiculous successful pop star! His PR team has a PR team! There’s at least a handful of people whose sole full time job is to make sure that he doesn’t make any mistakes out of ignorance that might make him look bad.

      This was on purpose and with all pertinent information available.

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    • nobleshift@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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      • shadearg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hanlon’s Razor has been weaponized too many times

        And the rich, affluent, and powerful are thankful for it.

        An act of malice is a crime.
        An act of stupidity is specifically not.

        Whom does Hanlon’s Razor benefit?
        An accosted’s peace of mind, or an accoster’s ass?

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In this case, is there a functional difference? Will this pop star suddenly realize that the workers were protesting and join them in solidarity? Or will he go back to his life and continue to ignore the problem?

      At a certain point, ignorance and malice qchievw the same effect.

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      • elouboub@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So when you buy a phone made from slave labor, are ignorant of the fact until someone tells you about it, but buy another phone built from slave labor, are you malicious?

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  • flossdaily@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d boycott his music, except I already don’t listen to it.

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    • clevadio@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Put some on just so you can shut that shit off!!

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    • Poiar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I always find it nice when people call it boycott rather than canceled

      So, thank you

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can’t really cancel something.

        Nobody who claims to have been cancelled has actually been cancelled.

        Because otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to claim so, since nobody would be there to listen.

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    • Aurangutan@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m just going to not listen to it twice as much!

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  • randint@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What the hell is this news outlet? No matter how badly someone messed up, media should always refrain from using words like scabby or loser behavior.

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    • roboticide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Jezebel is part of the original Gawker Media (now “Go Media”) network, and is a glorified blog. Hardly a “news outlet”.

      It’s also not even scab behavior. Scabs are people who take shifts at places where unions are on strike. This is a store with no union, so he’s not doing union work. It’s maybe anti-union, but it’s not scab-y.

      And while I’m generally pro-union, my experience with unions is they are very, very against non-union members doing union work. So if Ed Sheeran wanted to pick up a shift at a Starbucks for a promo, I can see why he might have had to pick a non-union location. I’d be curious to find out if he asked or what his agents discussed. Doesn’t seem likely to me that Sheeran himself said “I want to do manual labor for several hours, make sure it’s at a union-busting location.”

      This whole story seems overblown.

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    • elFlexor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A scabby one, it seems

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  • dx1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The pop musician who makes vacuous top 40 hits doesn’t have any principles? Color me shocked

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  • Waldowal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m confused. I’m not a Sheeran fan at all, and definitely fuck scabs, but in this case, it seems the employees are all working. In other words, he didn’t cross a picket line to go work a shift. This seems like sensationalist bs.

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    • sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The other workers were managers.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reads a bit like an onion article.

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  • WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not surprising, given that if he doesn’t take the corpos side by being scabby, his music wouldn’t play in any mall in the world anymore. Not that it would be a bad thing, his songs are mind-numbing shit anyway

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    • Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What’s a mall?

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      • Ravaja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s like an apartment building but for shops, kept alive by doing CPR on your local Spencers, chain clothing store such as JCPenney, and Sbarro’s. Your milage on the latter statement may vary

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      • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A super super market full of super markets

        A walmart full of smaller walmarts

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Especially the point with him and Camilla Cabello

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This whole article reads like the author just badly needs to get laid lol

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    • DietBajaBlast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sexist douchebag

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t know if the author is male or female so calling me sexist seems a bit weird.

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  • Aurangutan@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, and he also crossed a picket line.

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  • MarsMa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a union movement half-way across the planet from where he lives. He has never worked a normal job in his life. Why do you expect him to care?

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    • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Where do you get the idea that “he has never worked a normal Job in his life” from?

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      • MarsMa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        From the fact that he went from busking and performing at small venues as a teenager, to his debut single at 20. Maybe there was room for menial work during that. If you can find evidence of it, i’ll amend my comment.

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  • LeatherRebel@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    well yah one glance at him and you know hes a cunt

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dude has a very punchable face

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  • sadreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dude was always sus

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  • pizzahoe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    God himself can come down and serve Starbucks for free, and yet i still would not go into this unworthy expensive piece of shit cafe chain.

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  • Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Human does thing: others rage

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