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(14,449 posts)I went to have a Frappicino today. It was delicious.
Cha
(297,240 posts)mahalo Play
MindMover
(5,016 posts)"higher tax revenue, lower government spending, and cuts to Social Security and Medicare
thru this organization ....
http://www.fixthedebt.org/
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ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)being celebrated? Insane
Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)From a man who's networth is 3.1 BILLION and who's company posted net revenue of 15 BILLION dollars and net EARNINGS of 3.8 BILLION for fiscal year 2013.
(Do I need a sarcasm tag?)
AND...AND he's gonna hire 10,000 vets and or veterans spouses over the next 5 years! (lets see...that's...10,000 divided by 5 years)...WOW that's a whole 2,000 per year!!! That'll be how many veterans per store? (13,279 stores in the US...divided by 2,000 new hired veterans)...that's...1 per every SIX stores!!!
AND he'll pay those veterans (and the veteran's spouses) minimum wage and make them share their tips with management.
Fuck Howard Schultz, he's the worse kind of 1%er. This is nothing but a cheap PR move. I live in Seattle, and I make it a point to never trade at Starbucks
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)How dare any DUer say something nice about a rich person.
Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)Throw up all strawmen you want, but it doesn't change the fact that this is nothing but a PR campaign.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)For that, in a real emergency, I'd rather use McD's.
ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)places since he started asking people to accept a 22 per cent cut to their Social Security. No one in my family goes there anymore either. I never quite understood why people go to Starbucks anyway. Let's say you're getting two Venti Lattes a day every single day. What is that $7.00 a day X 365 =$ 2555.00 a year? I bought cheap espresso machines for a long time to avoid Starbucks costs. Last year I bought a $1200.00 Breville double broiler model at Williams Sonoma. I make my own lattes and they are made fast and perfect. So what did it really cost me compared to buying Starbucks stuff everyday. It cost me a negative $1355.00 plus espresso, which I get wholesale from Mr. Coffee. The machine has long paid for itself in savings from not going to Starbucks.
Good luck to you Johnyawl. Maybe these other folks here did not know about Schultz almost begging for people to cut their Social Security. I may even have a vocal somewhere. Oh well, bye.
wolfie001
(2,240 posts)....he was quoted to say that if a job seeker has any Union work in a resume that he immediately throws it in the trash. Really, is this the best we 99%ers have to look forward too? Barf...........
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Gross and other workers, unhappy with the refusal of the Manhattan store to guarantee any full-time shifts, had planned to vote on whether to be represented by the Industrial Workers of the World. As the election neared, Starbucks brought in a manager, Fabian Vera, whose only job was to oppose the union, Gross says. Vera took workers on walks around the block to assess their positions and argue his case. Three pro-union workers were discriminatorily fired at three New York stores, the labor judge later ruled, while anti-union workers were rewarded with free gym passes and Mets tickets. In recent years Starbucks has settled five labor complaints in connection with similar practices in New York City, the Twin Cities, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is not a few bad apples, Gross says. This is a company really undermining the right to organize.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/are-starbucks-and-whole-foods-union-busting
is right. This guy is 100% asshole.
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TomClash
(11,344 posts)Or maybe we need fewer wealthy people.