Posted on 07/03/2016 4:15:00 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Coffee machine. Put a quarter in and out comes coffee. Just need to upgrade the flavor of output. Ad a chatty voice and your there.
” My great grand mother was installed in the break room at the General Electric plant in Liverpool, NY. She didn’t speak....... “
“In matters of taste there is no right or wrong.”
True...but “to buy” or “to not buy” becomes the prevailing dichotomy, the yin and yang as it were.
And paying six bucks for burned s*** in a cup scribbled with socialism handed to you by a pimply faced know-it-all barista who expects a tip, to that I say,
“No thanks”.
And they won’t even add the sugar or creamer for ya....99 cents a cup at any mcdonalds...and they even do the sugar and creamer part...fancy that?
Table A. Relative importance of employer costs for employee compensation, March 2016
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.htm
No, it demonstrates he is a marketing genius.
It makes people think that Starbucks is a socially conscious company, which plays well with their customer demographic.
And, it places competitors at a disadvantage, especially if they don't have the labor flexibility to reduce hours when they increase pay.
Explain to me how it harms an employee to get a 10% raise and then have 10% fewer hours scheduled. You can't, because it actually benefits the employee since he now has more free time.
I resisted the temptation to tell Adder “In matters of taste there is no right or wrong, but you’re wrong!”
I tip,and tip well,for table service ONLY.
I will never tip for take out coffee.
.
Many of my coworkers tried Starbucks once, and have been drinking Dunkin’ Donuts ever since.
Starbucks tastes so awful black & barefoot that customers will pay for the added schlock just to cover it up.
I don’t have the option of sitting at home with a cup of coffee. I am out of the house 14 hours a day and need to be on the road by 4:30 am.
That’s why God made slip-ons..
PEETS COFFEE IS SUPERIOR
grind the beans
use a thermal coffee mug
YETI
THERMOS
CONTIGO
cheaper, better coffee...
BUT
IF YOU WANT TO PAY FOR THE BARISTA SHOW AND EFFEMINATE ATMOSPHERE
continue...
Worker’s comp insurance, the employer portion of SSI - to name a few more.
Six dollars? I pay $1 for a Starbucks cup of coffee in E TN.
Have you ever asked? They do it for me.
I swear, there's so many people who have never set foot in a Starbucks but know all about their coffee products and how they operate.
I don’t think either of those would be considered “compensation” for an employee. The workers comp insurance also protects the employer (who would otherwise be liable for worker injuries anyway), and a payroll tax for SSI is a tax, not paid to an employee.
How much labor will they need if the customers engage every employee in a conversation about race?
Yes i went to a starbucks once...and they gave me a black coffee and directed me to a filthy area where the cream and sugar was....I grind my own beans and brew coffee that way....I loathe going to any coffee shop let alone such a politically biased organization such as starbucks...
Wrong! Waffles are always better than pancakes! ;-)
“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”
That's too bad. I go there nearly every day and my experience is nothing like that at all.
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