Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz? Are you still running for president? If I were you, I'd bail out now because if you stay in, you might as well go ahead and burn stacks of your own money for what little good staying in the race will do you.
Because you're not going to be getting any of my money anymore. This kind of crap happens far too often. Right now, Howie, I'd rather drink a cheap instant than patronize a Starbucks.
Because you're not going to be getting any of my money anymore. This kind of crap happens far too often. Right now, Howie, I'd rather drink a cheap instant than patronize a Starbucks.
I agree with you about Starbucks, but I must point out that Howard Schultz is no longer CEO.
ReplyDeleteStarbucks has a presence here in eastern Massachusetts, but Dunkin' Donuts is our beverage of choice. In any event, I make my own coffee at home.
ReplyDeleteThe problem was the employee in question and perhaps her immediate supervisor or the franchise manager. The employee elected to succor an obnoxious patron, who should have been told to pound sand. If we didn't live in clown world, she'd have a lot of 'splainin to do.
ReplyDeleteI'd have boycotted them years ago when I first heard they support Planned Parenthood, but I never patronized them anyway since they've always been overpriced.
ReplyDeleteAnd their coffee is wildly overrated.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Katherine, I didn't know that. But he's still associated with the brand.
ReplyDeleteStarbucks apologizes. A real apology. This is a good step.
ReplyDeletehttps://pjmedia.com/trending/starbucks-apologizes-for-idiot-employee-who-asked-cops-to-leave/
Good for them. I'm still not going. But that has more to do with the fact that I don't own a car and there isn't a Starbucks within walking distance. :-)
ReplyDeleteI can get to Starbucks, but I don't go. The espresso drinks are priced too high, and their plain brewed coffee just isn't good.
ReplyDeleteI sense a Starbucks delivery option opening up.
ReplyDeleteStill won't work. At least with me.
Never buy Starbuck's whole beans at a grocery. The stuff is not very good.
ReplyDeleteStarbucks apologizes. A real apology.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt drafted jointly by their press agent and the GC.
The real question here is whether this is an ineluctible consequence of their employee orientations and the cascade of official memoranda, or if the employee is just an idiot. Idiot employees can be reprimanded and canned. If your cultivated institutional culture leads to this, you've got a deeper problem. The thing is, the losers who manufactured the culture aren't the one's most likely to evaluate it dispassionately.