Posted on 07/03/2016 4:15:00 AM PDT by HomerBohn
I totally agree with your assessment.
However people stand in line to pay outlandish prices for their product.
I’ve always said Howard Schultz is a marketing genius...probably on par with David Axelrod.
Actually, from watching them work, a barista is a demanding job. The typical even small Starbucks store generates several million dollars per year from only a few employees. They ware always busy, unlike other chains I visit. And they need to know the drink combinations for a myriad of beverages.
< Basket Weaving? >
What planet have you been living on?
Underemployed McDonalds burger flippers have Engineering and Computer Science degrees, Masters level & PhD too.
Ever heard of H1-B, ban on citizenship?
The STEM workers hate hearing the truth because they too are vulnerable in time.
Ever hear about the career half-life? That means you are 1/2 obsolete in 5 yrs due to technology. Experience is not accumulative in many fields.
A workers best hope is find a stable niche occupation and shut up about it.
Starbucks sells a bottled water named Ethos (costs $1.95) which claims to help those in 3rd world countries get supplies of drinkable water. Sounds great, no?
When you read the fine print only a nickel of every bottle goes to the cause.
WHOA!! TMI...you need to get a life!
Hate to break it to you, but Peet’s is a left wing organization based in San Francisco.
Guarantee you theyre coming, just like kiosks in MacDonalds and robotic burger flippers.
Will they be programmed to “Have a discussion about race” with the customers?
“The person who gave it to me was thoughtless in giving me something I normally wouldnt use.”
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So give it to someone who WILL use it.
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They raising the price of a cup of coffee?
Surprise. Surprise. Do it gradually and the public won’t
even notice.
A $15 an Hour Minimum Wage costs the Employer about $18.
If the Employer provides additional Benefits like Paid Sick Leave and Paid Vacation, you can add another 10% to that cost. We’re not even talking about the costs of Training and Employee Management.
The Politicians are pushing to make Paid Sick Leave, Paid Vacation and Paid Family Leave Mandatory. A small Business cannot afford to pay People for not working.
As for the cost of a cup of Coffee, I make it at home or I get a Senior Coffee at McDonalds for $.79. The McDonalds around here pay their Employees $10 an Hour to start.
Heck, I’m still upset that the raised the Price of a Big Mac from $1.99 to $2.19 on Big Mac Monday. LOL
It’s like the rising strength of a burgeoning central socialist government. We’re so busy watching the great new shows on television, playing with our cell phones and spending ourselves into bankruptcy (what’s good for the feds is good enough for me) that we don’t notice how the District of Corruption and our state governments are growing like topsy.
If a clueless electorate forces another Clinton win our nation is totally toast....and so are we, our children, our grandchildren and THEIR progeny.
Their toilet facilities are labeled properly though.
Believe me. What young employees need the least today is free time. Too much breeds sloth.
You don’t work at Starbucks of McDonalds do you?
IOW, he’s a (gasp!) capitalist!
“...Peets....”
Now that, FRiend, is awesome coffee.
Along with the government spewing Monopoly money around like it’s truly worth something, raising the wages for doofuses is what creates this horrible inflationary spiral we’ve undergone for decades.
For example, the $1.00 bill’s value in 1936 compares to day’s nickel! If you don’t believe it a 16 oz bottle of Pepsi cost 5 cents and today it’s well over $1.00.
Doesn’t this fit under the category of crony capitalism? Using the power of the government to drive out compitition?
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