Posted on 07/03/2016 4:15:00 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Starbuck's kids really don’t think ahead which is truly a lost art in today’s brainless and oversexed world.
Idiots live idiotic lives.
If the Starbucks employees find themselves with too few work hours, they should be able to pick up another $15 per hour job to help fill the void...or maybe go back to school for a more marketable skill.
Quit!
Starbucks charges $6 for a cup of coffee and pays workers $15 per hour for a job any high school dropout can easily do.......BUT, then has the gall to put a damn tip jar at the check out counter....Star Bucks can Kiss My Backside.
All liberals need to go back to school to study math and economics. And told there are no money trees then left to cry. Reality and truth; neither live in them.
Well, since the remaining human workforce is complaining, Starbucks should start implementing automation and server robots. They would provide a better customer experience without the attitude.
Quit? Nah, it’s easier to whine and play the victim.
I wonder if Liberals ever see how ludicrous they look when grand schemes go wrong as they always seem to do?
I’ll get my (better)coffee somewhere affordable, thank you.
Buying roasted beans (currently Guatemalan) from costco, I make a 14 cup carafe daily for less than a buck a pot.
Even the Starbucks when on sale at Costco is way cheaper.
[Sorry...I just like the “burnt” flavor.]
It’s not hypocrisy, it’s another example of a large business using regulation to help stifle smaller competitors.
Starbucks is a huge operation with a large economy of scale. They can afford machinery and business process and inventory systems that smaller competitors can’t. By hiking the minimum wage they are putting pressure on themselves, but even more pressure on the smaller coffee shops around them.
Where ever you see a generous businessman talking about higher wages, look for the following:
1) His competition depends on minimum wage labor.
2) He has a commanding lead in exactly the sort of infrastructure and scale than allows him to minimize the use of such labor.
In matters of taste there is no right or wrong.
A job at Starbucks sounds like a great place for a recent college graduate to get their foot in the door of the work force.
$15.00 per hour wages
Stimulating conversations at the work place
Meeting interesting, smart people in the corporate world.
Sometimes serving the glitterati.
Only have to work 10-15 hrs a week.
But wait...........................................
I agree with Jackie Mason. Starbucks = ‘Boint Coffee’.
I like strong coffee not Boint Coffee.
A 12oz cup of coffee at Starbucks costs $1.95. I just bought one.
They don’t care how ludicrous they look. For some incomprehensible reason, holding certain policy positions is their only “greatest commandment”.
It outweighs horrible outcomes. It even outweighs the bad, hypocritical things they personally do.
Hypocrite but excellent marketing and business strategy.Sales up, labor down, image with customers up, employees locked in.
Simply consider demand curves as taught in economics 101 (and beyond). If you select a higher price, the quantity demanded is less. This applies to wages also. Raise the minimum wage; get less employment of minimum wage workers. Raise union wages; get reduced employment of union workers. This is real. People just don’t want to believe it.
The examples above were done through fiat, or arbitrary orders. Let’s consider another approach, increasing worker productivity.
It makes sense to pay someone more when they are more productive. If a company is more productive, they can reduce the price of their product and sell more. Combining the productivity increase (more product per worker) with increased sales of the final product may keep employment about the same - but with an increase in wages.
Of course, increasing productivity is easier said than done. There are always companies and individuals trying to do this, with some success every year. Our wages have gone up over the centuries due to increasing labor productivity. Unions, politicians, and others claim the credit, but the real credit should go to everyone who figured out a better way to get a job done.
They never realize how ludicrous they look. They just move on to some new social project, never looking back.
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