20-Year Starbucks Veteran Sends a Message To Howard Schultz

Daniella Griep has worked at Starbucks for the past 20 years, at seven different stores. She’s furious at Howard Schultz’s anti-union rhetoric and has a message for him: “Change is coming to this company.”
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[johnsee]

Greed forced unionization. CEOs and execs took too much and forced this change. Let's go Starbucks employees! You got this!

[chrisg]

When I started at starbucks, the people who were there for 3+ years were just barely making more than me (under a dollar more). They would rather fire their experienced employees and hire someone with no experience and expect the store to perform the same. Management literally chewed us out for underperforming when they fired half of our staff and hired two new guys. Apparently those people who got fired complained about wanting to get a raise after working there for 4 years.

Edit: most people who work there either hate it or suck up to the managers in hopes of getting promoted.

[notbydesign]

I love how Starbucks and Amazon are both spending so much money to fight efforts to unionize. They're literally just costing themselves more money than if they just shut up and let people unionize.

[yamnayaseed]

Greed makes every workplace soulless and stressful.

[johndrocky]

United We Bargain, Divided We Beg!
👏🔥🥊

[saikuran]

As a former Partner of 15 years, I can second what she says about what led up to all of this. Starbucks incurred more losses than expected throughout the 2010s, and the blame and consequences for those losses were dumped on store Partners in the form of cut labor and hours.

[endcorruptio]

End canniving freeloader capitalism. Worker owned economic democracy is the future. Schultz is a canniving corporate freeloader. The workers built that company

[thegeekshot]

My friend got fired from Starbucks Corporate because his manager didn’t train him on his job. His training was his manager give a huge ass packet to him of how to use their systems during their busiest time of the season. The packet didn’t really have clear instructions on what he should really use.

Three months later, his manager realized my friend’s performance was bad even though my manager never really spent time with him. So he kinda just fired him without warning.

So pretty much, my friend had to learn the job on his own during the busiest time of the season. Got his ass kicked during the season, and then thrown out of the company.

Starbucks.

[LeftyMemess]

I remember when Howard Schitz wanted to run for President. What a joke!😂😂😂

[planetarysolidarity]

"Companies...are being assaulted by the threat of unionization."

He feels assaulted and threatened by workers organizing for fairness. How pathetic.

[burritobronson]

Yall are gonna wanna fix your video title

[janeq]

I watched this Howard!talk as a Starbucks manager and the blatant hypocrisy was utterly disgusting. I watched my fellow managers in my regional call, and my superiors as well, talk about how "rude" it was that unionizers wanted to be heard-- that "[they were] sorry we had to hear that. I AM NOT SORRY I HAD TO HEAR IT. The pain of my workers IS my pain. That is part of why I am no longer with the company.

[endcorruptio]

Hey Howard, get a job, earn your own money. Stop freeloading off of the fruits of other peoples labor. We can do better than capitalism, which over rewards canniving. Economic democracy is the future

[anja]

I’m a 6 year partner and even just within these 6 years my experience at starbs has changed so much…

[KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH]

For these CEOs it is never enough. Share the wealth or move on, Schultz.

[mtag]

Worked for Starbucks for eight years before forced out due to making too much and voicing my concern that I made more money when I first started because pay didn’t keep up with inflation. District manager told me that wasn’t Starbucks fault it was the insurance companies raising the premiums. So out of touch. They put profit over partners. I wish them all the luck

[gemmeldrakes]

Starbucks opened recently in my country. I was underwhelmed by its offerings. I even less impressed with the company now.

[RobinHerzig]

It's especially shocking + disgusting because Howard Shultz comes from the working class. He grew up in the projects. This is what capitalism does. Unbearably infuriating! #TaxTheRich #BillionairesShouldNotExist

[darinsingleton]

CEOs in the late 90s started pushing their self-serving PR agenda of promoting "productivity" throughout the corporate-media; which meant simultaneously slashing the workforce, while demanding ever-increasing output. This, unsurprisingly, lead to massive bonuses & salaries for CEOs, and increasing pressure on struggling working-class people.

This is the price of "business as usual, " and settling for "acceptable norms." A cost paid on the backs of tens of millions of Americans, so that a handful of ultra-wealthy sociopaths can collect more trophies & accolades from the mainstream media & bought and paid for politicians. This is America.

[yasssgawwwd]

Greedy Money Loving Execs is why Starbucks is becoming UNIONIZED. Good for the Baristas!🎉