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The Best or Worst Place to Work. A Chapter of Hell in my Life is Done.

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Started 4 years ago by acerockola
Latest reply from whuddawhudda

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quit hate starbucks quitting sucks customers dm ha

acerockola

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Unfortunately, when Fortune Magazine conducts studies about the best companies to work for they do not work a day in the life of the company. If they did, Starbucks sure as hell wouldn't be number 7.

Several events led to my decision to quit today. First, it is the most degrading job, ran by a dog-eat-dog management style similar to the tactics of Enron (The Smartest Guys in the Room is an eye opening movie about Corporate America if anyone is interested). The company does not pretend to follow any Mission Goals, rather than #6 - Profitability is essential to our future success.

The "uniqueness" of the wonderful third place environment that is created is a overrated broadly generalized exploitation of American culture and addiction. Please watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxpfx8W8C20

You are now left with bitter management that is overworked and usually has a people pleasing anal retentive personality especially due to the downsizing that is happening. For some small examples, in our district a ASM was called a derogatory female body part and then refused service to a man. In response of complaints of him, he was given free coupons and told that he was welcome at any Starbucks. This to me is a failure.

We then had a DM today come and berate our staff and store today. Even though our store has extremely high customer satisfaction and has preformed extremely well throughout the time that I have worked there. Nit picking over every single detail of unimportant ****. Starbucks corporation breads anal people that become because they fear for their job or maybe it just attracts them.

Customers.... Terrible. Usually people coming in looking for their daily caffine fix (caffine headaches suck right?), or to fulfill their need to fit in somewhere in this world. People who will be demanding and rude to get what they want.

After working there for too long, I had become bitter. I am on cloud 9 now that I have resigned, I have not been this happy in ages. I wish I did this a long time ago. Adios!!

I urge anyone that frequents this board and works at Starbucks to do the same, or if you're reading this and like Starbucks to take a long hard look at your life. I hope to be around to see the failure of this company. Trust me, you can do better.

Posted 4 years ago #
vivanno

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Right On. So very well worded and accurate. This should be repeated again and again and i also can't wait to see the demise of starbucks company.

Posted 4 years ago #
tiredbarista

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Thanks for the you tube video, it was hilarious. If you find any more like those, post them. I especially liked the discussion of how people think that creating a drink helps them establish a special identity. I love the way they say, "This is what you guys do, isn't it?" and then preceed to order something absolutely ridiculous, with 5 different modifiers. I mean I understand one or two but the amount people now tack on is petty and stupid. What if people were permitted 10 or 30 different modifiers, can you imagine someone asking for every single one.

Posted 4 years ago #
whuddawhudda

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I think this stuff is exactly what we need, well based arguments showing starbucks is not all that it seems, and proves what a greedy, abusive, anal breeding **** fest it really is; but what is truly needed are more facts. Dont get me wrong The youtube vid was great, but lots more info is needed.

Posted 4 years ago #
acerockola

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Nothing would make me happier right now than reading or writing a good well researched article about the inequalities of Starbucks and working for Starbucks. Unfortunately, posting on ihatestarbucks.com (although it is awesome) is preaching to the choir. Reaching a mass audience that spends 8.22 on two white mochas a day would be ideal.

Posted 4 years ago #
tiredbarista

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Does this sound like your workplace:

Pretty all-white suburban neighborhood. The local Starbucks brings the "culture" of "African Americans" with those special books and jazz music and art. What's with the political correctness? Why can't they just make a decent cup of coffee? I guess they jam this other crap down our throat because they know their coffee sucks.

Posted 4 years ago #
whuddawhudda

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Its kinda sad as well, Starbucks is attempting to become the norm with their double caffeinated coffee and mentality inducing, brainwashing lingo when in fact they are the exception, and for this I hope they fail, having double strength coffee is not just addictive, its bad for you; I have a few friends who tried to drink the sludge they pass off as coffee and said it felt like it was eating their insides and gave them stomach cramps, just imagine a venti size inside you, what is it 24oz? of double caffeinated coffee, blech. Another reason why there is a suxbux on every freakin corner, is so that people don't see a alternative and suxbux is all they know (another attempt to become the norm in the coffee world). Unfortunately suxbux so far is having some success at alienating all the other competition due to the fact that people just dont know any better, if they did they would not be drinking the stuff. Keeping the mass populace in the dark is something that those tools down at corporate have done much too well.

on a another note has anyone seen this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMQetYjbH5s&feature=related
I laughed when the "reverend" started shaking, but its cool to know that theres like a "anti-suxbux" religion and so many others hate the **** (excuse my french) .

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