uhhh starbucks is kinda crashing and burning right now 🤡

talking a bit about the new starbucks ceo and fast food going downhill
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[d-angelo.]

if you could only pick one forever, would it be coffee or tea? 🤔

[jen-xzed]

i work at starbucks and our store percentages are going down sm and they’re blaming it on THE BARISTAS and not “connecting enough” with our customers as if there isn’t an active boycott going on 😭

[saniah-]

What is crazy is that most fast food workers can't afford the food they serve. That should be a huge sign of how greedy these companies are.

[freebryy]

the downfall of starbucks is getting so down right embarrassing for the entire company ☠️

[NoFuqinIdea]

Removing furniture from cafés is such an incredible galaxy brain move. Like holy shit dude, that's the damn point. People go to cafés to hang out there, vibe with the atmosphere, enjoy the coffee scent in the air, maybe get some work done on their laptop even. What's the fun of going to a café without vibing there? Man, we need more real third places asap.

[ChiricuazoV]

Boycotting Starbucks comes naturally when youre poor asf

[lastnoelle]

MY FRIEND WAS A STARBUCKS UNION ORGANIZER AND THEY LITERALLY WATCHED HIM ON THE CAMERAS UNTIL HE MADE A MISTAKE SO THEY COULD FIRE HIM!!!! he won his lawsuit against them, but fuck man was that a crazy few months

[sevhells]

“Eat the rich would be cheaper than Starbucks” will live rent-free in my head for a while.

[FrostclawPlays]

I have been a Starbucks barista for almost two years, and things have been steadily declining (see; nosediving). Prices on everything are going up $0.25 every quarter (sometimes $0.50!). I work in California, where the FAST Recovery Act boosted our minimum wages, and I could never afford our own drinks and food, I would never buy any if I didn't work there. I've been reading our weekly feedback and people are abandoning Starbucks because it's too expensive. That doesn't even touch on the active boycotts we're under because this publicly traded American coffee company decided it should support a foreign apartheid state's colonization and genocide. WHAT EXACTLY does that have to do with us? The worst part is that this is all being blamed and offloaded on us, the lowest wage workers. We're super understaffed, getting hours cut, new policies, strict rules, and write-ups left, right, and center! It's a nightmare.

[coyoteadams]

I quit starbies when i realized the unionized stores make twice as much and were still open and operating. One union member told me at her store union employees make $26 an hr, and starbucks was still running the store, because they CAN afford to pay them that and still make a profit from the store.

[KaylaaaMarieee]

I work at a unionized Starbucks and they’re trying to weed us all out. They won’t give us enough hours to schedule people and they hammer on taking customers order and having their drink ready in about a minute which is so unrealistic. Starbucks is money hungry and burn out their employees with all of these promotions when we’re so understaffed and unappreciated. It’s basically worker abuse. Not to mention everyone I work with has to have a second job as Starbucks pays so low compared to even McDonald’s. The company is just greed and they’ll continue to fail until things drastically change. Thankfully hopefully I’ll be able to leave soon but please have grace and empathy and be kind to your baristas.

[smassiha]

That WSJ article is hilarious. As if we’re not boycotting Starbucks for being aggressively anti-worker, pro-genocide, and because they consistently fuck up the easiest thing you can make.

[AlexCab_]

Ive been boycotting Starbucks even before the current Israel/Palestine conflict. Their anti union activities was enough to push me away plus how pricey it is

[leon]

Not only the prices, its the boycott, FREE PALESTINE.

[angelipie]

I mean, they're not completely wrong citing wages as an issue, they just failed to clarify it's the executives' wages, not baristas making minimum wage.

[kauthar]

it’s crazy how starbucks has decided this is the hill they’re gonna die on

[lolrip]

I work at Starbucks and today I kept saying on the headset “this is hell, ” etc. It was a mess, we were understaffed, and customers were extremely rude and complaining. It has been like this for years. Everyone who works there, hates it there. Please boycott Starbucks!!

Thank you D’Angelo for spreading awareness

[ajturquoiseskies]

I worked at Starbucks in a franchise location 10 years ago. I was paid $10/hr. I spoke to someone the other day who currently works there and she told me her starting pay was $10.50/hr. So the excuse about wage costs increasing is such BS.

[allisonmoon]

mac miller once said “fuck a corporation, i support local business” in 2014 and i’ve been living by that phrase ever since. find a local coffee shop, everybody!! 😊

[Starsongzz]

I’m about to quit my Starbucks job TODAY for more money. I didn’t give them notice AND I’m the closer for most of the days. That store is trash and the people I work with are worse, one of them harassed me and management did nothing 😜




16:16 I had a customer who would come in and only order 7 black shots of espresso in a grande cup. No milk, no sugar. It nearly filled the whole cup.