Howard Schultz describes Starbucks corporate as Jews held captive by Nazis on death trains in an attempt to stop unionization

[anon76551318]

I remember that when I started work at Trader Joe’s umpteen years ago part of their welcome packet was a friendly note from the CEO telling us how we were all a big happy family and the company took such good care of us that we had no need for a pesky union. Admittedly, it was a couple of years before they started dismantling the excellent retirement plan and instituting a tiered wage system to keep salaries low, but, you know…

[Brainspore]

@jlw

Schultz, who noted that he is Jewish before sharing the story

And there are a handful of prominent Black people who will tell you that taxation is a form of slavery.

They are wrong too.

[Mister44]

“Not everyone, but most people shared their blanket with five other people,”

You know, he could have evoked this imagery without making a bad analogy with the Holocaust.

[bobtato]

Welp, if nothing else he’s immune to parody. I hope his employees loot the stores down to the copper piping on their way out.

[bobtato]

Fun paragraph from the OP:

Starbucks told Motherboard at the time that [anti-union reprogramming sessions] were encouraged but not mandatory, and that the decision to close one of the stores and use it as a “training store” was a response to complaints from workers that they weren’t receiving enough training and had been stung by bees in a beehive that had been at the store for months.

I dunno, I feel like maybe it was collective punishment for union-curious employees? And not [checks notes] motherfucking bees? If only there were some way to intuit the truth.

[eccentriccog]

ears perk up

I am always interested in workspace design. Doubly so when coldbrew is on the line.

[moortaktheundea]

@anon48584343

“We’re a family here.”

I am so happy to have been inoculated against that incredibly young. As I was preparing to start my first job two of my mother’s pieces of advice were to never work for free and that if anyone said they were like a family that they are trying to get you to work for free.

[anon94804983]

The atheists must be correct, or sure as shit every last MFer who talks like this would be struck by lightning.

[pfranz]

I’m imagining the bee hive is now part of the training environment.

[Ceran_Swicegood]

I’ve been refusing to buy Starbucks since they destroyed the Coffee Connection (a great local chain). That was 25 years ago. Now normally, I’m not the type to hold a grudge that long, but on a pretty regular basis they throw up a reason to renew.

[FGD135]

[BakerB]

I made sure to tell any student workers I had in the bakery at the college I worked at about the realities of working and unions and how your boss isn’t really your friend and so on. I hope it stuck a little bit, even if they didn’t give it much mind at the time.