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.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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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.
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
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.
I already have dirty toilet water at home, I don't see why I would pay Starbucks for it.
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.
Looks like Luigi got another flag to reach
Luigi did his part
Maybe we need Mario now?
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.
Pretty sure a good portion of that was union busting, but that's what we're all about now.
This would not shock me in the slightest
That's $96,000 per layed off worker
I guess it’s a good thing I make my own coffee at home. Bonus! It doesn’t taste like burnt bean water!
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.
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.
There's absolutely no way he's adding enough value compared to Joe MBA to justify that compensation.
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I don't get it. We did not let kings and lords and counts keep their belongings. Why are we treating this scum any different?
Capitalism has no face to punch
It has many!
In the time of kings and lords, it got way, way worse than this.
Not saying we should wait that long now, just saying.
Starbucks gives the new CEO a $96 million bonus, then a month later, lays off 1,000+ ~~workers~~ Potential Luigis.
FTFY.
We wish
Friendly reminder, comrades: There is no such thing as a good billionaire. From the East to the West, they are humanity's enemy.
Happy Cake Day!
So he literally stole their salaries. We can't put up with millionair ceos anymore, it needs to be outlawed..
Cap the maximum compensation gap (including bonuses and stocks) between the highest paid and lowest paid person in a company at 1000:1. Any overpay goes into a UBI account that pays out equally to all.
Should be 30 :1 on whichever is lower average or median salary and contractors count if they perform core business functions/work on location.
Boycott what you don't like. Vote with your money.
Haven't spent money in a Starbucks for over a decade...nor fast food chains, nor Walmart.
Did do a few Amazon purchases a few years ago and I still feel guilty about it.
Thank you for defeating starbucks for us. It's wonderful to know that this news story didn't happen thanks to your valiant efforts!
I've literally only bought two things from amazon, ever. I feel bad about it to this day :/
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