This fuckin’ guy. He lives in Newport Beach and was made the CEO of Chipotle, which was headquartered in Denver. Since he didn’t want to move to Denver, he laid off almost the entire corporate office and moved it to Newport Beach.
He justified all this by having a consulting company come in and do a study about where the best restaurant talent is in the US. Surprise, surprise. The best place for a corporate office just happened to be right where this assclown lived.
I guess what I’m saying is two things:
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Fuck this clown.
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Starbuck corporate employees are about to be surprised to learn that apparently Newport Beach has the best coffee talent in the country.
It all makes sense now, why the headquarters is close to Boeing Field. Remember, patronize your local coffee shop, no matter how cheap this shit gets. I live in Seattle, btw.
Who goes to Starbucks for the coffee anyway? I goto places like Starbucks for over sugared blended ice drinks.
Consultancy firms know where their bread is buttered. In cases like this one, they’re not much more than professional yes-men in suits.
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Life on earth isn’t going to last much longer if we tolerate these types of people
Unfortunately a significant proportion of the population idolizes these parasites because they think they too could be billionaires if they just lick those boots hard enough.
As long as we keep pretending conservatism is a valid political ideology, things will only get worse
As long as we keep pretending conservatism is a valid political ideology, things will only get worse
Hear, hear
This comment, in reference to anything but parasitic sociopaths who exploit others for their own benefit, would be very troubling.
But because this is targeted at a billionaire asswipe, I have to say I agree wholeheartedly.
Change People to choices and we are all good all around.
Unfortunately, people don’t usually tolerate my brand of intolerance towards people actively making the world shittier.
A quick drop and a sudden stop pretty effectively neutralizes any future plans billionaires can make.
Recently being swallowed by the ocean has been another method the Earth has been using to remove them as well.
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We’re already past the tipping point. Don’t have any more children.
Maybe there’s a higher power who you will be judged by. Even if not, there is no need to be wasteful at the expense of other life.
CEO’s are the pox upon this planet! They are only here to maximize profits in anyway possible wich usually means fucking over everyone they can
Remember they only have to maximise profits because of the exorbitant salaries they demanded.
The profits were already there before they took them, and now they want the customers to increase their profits so they can hand that to their shareholders
I’d say in general sure, but I’ve known some CEOs of small companies who really do care. They just never make it to massive companies, probably because they aren’t willing to do the horrible shit needed to “take it to the next level.”
I think cancer is a better analogy.
Like cancer cells, billionaires are part of the system that just keeps on trying to grow and hoard all the resources, hurting and damaging the organism
In our healthcare system they’re talking about refusing non emergent treatment for people without insurance until they get Medicaid, which can apparently take a month. This would save about 20million, which is strikingly close to what Propublica reports the system pays in executive compensation. In other words, if the money is THAT important, we have a way to save that money without literally denying cancer care (time is a factor). But reduction in executive expenses isn’t on the table. Fuck these high earning sociopaths.
Just don’t buy Starbucks and this MF will magically disappear. It’s terrible anyway…
I started boycotting Starbucks when I learned they had partnered with Nestle for store-bought products - their Sumatra and Komodo Dragon coffees were pretty good.
I send an email every year or so to let them know, since boycotts aren’t effective if the group being boycotted doesn’t know why, with predictably apathetic responses.
Anyway, if you’re a no-Nestle person then Starbucks is on the list…
I started boycotting Starbucks since the first time I tasted their coffee. Espresso isn’t supposed to taste like burning tyres. I don’t understand how they can charge so much for dogshit coffee.
It’s not impossible to make a chain of coffee houses that serves decent coffee, Espresso House did it in Sweden.
Most people put cream and sugar in their coffee or get one of milk based beverages.
They are not there for single origin light roasts.
The society in general is more about brands than good stuff. For anything…
No, society in general just isn’t too particular about their sweet milk drinks. You don’t need to use the most perfectly extracted espresso in a beverage that’s mostly dairy and sugar syrup.
Edit: typo
It’s genuinely some of the worst coffee you can get. They only specialize in drinks that are basically just milkshakes with coffee in them.
Hersheys + ice + milk + coffee beats any iced mocha they’ve ever made at starbucks.
Australian’s know good coffee.
I realize as a mere pawn in the giant corporate chess game I have no right to ask this question.
But how in the ever loving fuck is this man providing that much value that he can justify this kind of action. There wasn’t another candidate for the job that could do 90% of the same work, but was willing to live in the same zip code as their employees and save the cost and emissions of this commute? I guess this man will result in the most profit for shareholders. I can’t even comprehend how someone can justify it, though.
His “value” is he can schmooze and stroke egos
This is really about class and a small club of inside people who are wealthy and have a lot of shit cornered.
To be a successful CEO at this level you need to have zero morals and be the most sociopathic person society has to offer. It really tracks when you see stories like this.
No other person has the chipotle experience he has.
Chipotle is up 135.78% above the s&p 500 over past 5 years.
All of that growth is directly attributable to the CEO (/s)
That growth is also directly attributable to short term gains that will ruin the future of the company.
The price of a share is supposed to reflect the expected discounted value of all future dividends.
As long as the shareholders can sell at a higher price, they don’t care about short vs long term.
He’s not providing value. He’s showing off.
another candidate for the job that could do 90% of the same work, but was willing to live in the same zip code
But then who’s gonna do the remaining 10%? Oh wait…
See? It goes around and around.
I’d boycott them but I haven’t had Starbucks in years.
I’ve been boycotting it for a while but honestly it’s not hard. If I’m going to spend Starbucks money on a drink there are so many better places around.
Just had my first cup in years and it was trash. My macchiatos are so much better.
I just spent enough for a month supply of espresso on a fucking cup… Was away from home and got weak
I used to like their hot chocolate but they don’t have that anymore.
That guy’s private jet is gonna crash with him in it.
We need sky orcas to deal with the sky yachts.
I’m thinking armored California Condors? Maybe highly trained pods of Bald Eagles, with cybernetic enhancements.
Pigeon mounted nuclear arsenal
This is not far off the actual mark. Didn’t the US use pigeons as actual targeting systems in missiles at one point?
Fuckin’ hope so.
Optimists like you make me sick.
Gooby plz.
Fuck this guy. The only thing I think of when I see his face is that god awful video he did about Chipotle’s portion sizes.
Fuck Nestle.
And since Starbucks is owned by Neste: Fuck Starbucks.
Starbucks is a publicly traded company owned by its shareholders. But still, fuck Nestle. Also fuck Starbucks for being union-busting asshats.
My bad, its even worse: they choose to work together with nestle: https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2023/nestle-and-starbucks-celebrate-five-years-of-their-global-coffee-alliance/
On the bright side, every time he flies there’s the risk he gets into in a plane crash.
Maybe we can get lucky and he crashes into the home of another billionaire. Two uber rich, one plane
Fly small crash small
Planes are a magnitude safer than cars. Health wise, he’s better off flying for his daily fucking commute
Flying really is safe. What you’re hoping for is a daily commute via auto.
Guillotine.
It goes
It goes
It goes
It goes
It goes
Stuff like this is why I hate these companies so much. Yeah mate I’ll use a paper straw for your overpriced coffee to save the environment, you can continue to come to your office in a fucking plane everyday.
Can he commute via billionaire submarine instead?
Or yacht off Sicily
The crazy thing is that when I try to put myself in their shoes, it would be hell to commute to an office by a plane, even if it had all the luxuries in the world, 5 days a week. That’s like 5 hours wasted every weekday. If I had private jet money I’d just work from home or if that’s not possible, buy a house a walking distance from the office.
private jet isnt like a regular plane though just imagine a man cave that can go anywhere
Sounds nice until you have to commute every day in it, same as driving a car.
PRIVATE jet though. He’s not standing in line with his shoes off
It’s still 5 hours stuck in a loud metal tube every day, with no freedom to get out without landing somewhere.
I used a paper straw once, it fucking melted in my drink because paper doesn’t work well with liquids
I remember when Maccas stopped using straws in France.
They just printed on the cup - “We’ve stopped using plastic straws. To drink, remove lid. You’re not an infant”
Don’t suppose that’d work in a country of insufferable crybabies though lol
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They cut the heads off the rich, of course they are!
You think every American alive can’t handle drinking without a straw?
Try printing that on a cup in the US and see what happens
You sound ignorant
People freaked out when cups didn’t say “Merry Christmas”, I think you have too much faith in people.
The way covid was handled should have long eroded any faith in people.
Lmfao the irony
No seriously, the amount of stupid remarks I hear coming from Europeans is insane, “Americans why do you not have healthcare, if you guys just changed your policies you would be fine, you all love guns and policies that make life a living hell.”
No dumbass, I have no control over my government and not every single American gets pissy over little things because we’re not a hive mind.
That’s like saying every Frenchman riots and is a good lover, it happens but clearly that’s not the case.
I mean we do have control, we vote.
Also, having health care for all isn’t a “little thing”, it can make or break lives…
Americans like ice in all their drinks. Straws are way better when there’s ice. For the rest of the world it’s no problem to drink from a cup.
I’m trying to imagine someone thinking that only yanks like ice in their drinks and that the other 7 billion+ people haven’t discovered ice or something, and it’s quite funny
This is actually a legit concern for some people with handicaps. That said, the number of people that just get handed a straw as a matter of course far outnumbers the number that needs it because of handicaps. And of course carrying your own around is a thing.
It’s a fair point that some people would need a straw to drink, but I don’t think it’s entirely unfair to expect them to have a reusable straw or something in preparation. Certainly it seems more reasonable than having the remaining 99% of the population default to having a straw, especially when they probably don’t use one at home anyway.
I 100% agree. At the very least, I don’t think it should be the default expectation that people use and discard a straw with every meal, regardless of what it’s made of. Personally, I have three metal straws. One is a plain straight one, one has a bend in the end, and the last one is collapsible.
They work fine, what you encountered was a cheapo shitty paper straw.
proper ones are quite thick, more like a cardboard tube, and will start to go sliiiiightly soft when your drink is finished anyways.
I have tried the ones you are describing and they’re still shit. At that point, just skip the dang straw and design your cups to work well without.
The most annoying thing is most places giving out paper straws still put their iced coffee in a big plastic cup.
Every one I ever had was shit.
Metal ones work great for me, but paper? Come on, I’d rather have no straw at all. It’s just more junk, more CO2.
Every single paper straw I’ve ever used has been awful, and has significantly diminished my enjoyment of my drink.
While it is a small thing, I have on multiple occasions not bought a drink when I otherwise might have, because it was going to have to use a paper straw.
Of all the places where we can reduce plastic usage, the humble straw is a horrible place to start.
I just carry around a silicone straw. It’s also useful for various drug things, MacGyvering stuff, etc.
