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.
Consultancy firms know where their bread is buttered. In cases like this one, they're not much more than professional yes-men in suits.
Yeah fuck Seattle. All they ever did was revolutionize the entire coffee industry 2 separate times, and foster talent for generations of musicians. I guess they're also great at culinary experiences, art and culture, and maritime history. Oh and tech. They kind of dominated the tech industry for 40 years. But nothing else! Fuck that place! All hail Newport Beach!
Seattle has something that most places I've been to lack; Quality People. The weather sucks, traffic sucks, housing is expensive, but the people, John Q Public is what makes Seattle Seattle and the PNW such a wonderful and supportive place to grow as a person.
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
There's nothing wrong with conserving. There's everything wrong with whatever the fuck people who call themselves conservatives today are.
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Nah when faced with crises there is something wrong with conserving the status quo. Never mind that modern conservatives are actually regressives who want to undo past progress.
No, I mean there's nothing wrong with conserving non-harmful tradition, ideals, etc.. It becomes an issue when that conservation hinders progress, or hurts people, the environment, or animals.
they think they too could be billionaires if they just lick those boots hard enough.
'They see themselves as temporarily-embarrassed millionaires' is a straw man, and it's always been a straw man. No one has ever earnestly expressed this sentiment.
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.
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.
Right?? Private jet or no private jet, I would jump at the chance to just decree from on high that corporate HQ was now virtual. Like why make that much money and still enslave yourself to a commute?
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is really about class and a small club of inside people who are wealthy and have a lot of shit cornered.
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.
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.
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'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.
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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
It should honestly be a disqualifying demonstration of bad decision making.
You can either put in a lot of effort straight away (saving time and effort later), or delay the inevitable, pay quite a large sum in transport costs every day, and have to do infinite airport runs?...
Choosing the latter shows he shouldn't have the job.
Honestly it shows a lack of commitment. By refusing to relocate it shows he’s not planning on staying.
Come in, axe some heads, “streamline” and “cost cut” whilst gutting indispensable roles that have invisible contribution. Stock gets attention, lines goes up, he gets his bonus payout; it’s a classic CEO shuffle pump and dump.
Or maybe he’s their agreed scapegoat for their increasing union busting. Either way, he clearly has no plans to stay with the company long term.
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.
This is not far off the actual mark. Didn't the US use pigeons as actual targeting systems in missiles at one point?
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I am so tapped out with souls these days that I don't even know what to ask for in modern Faustian Gambits.
Would you settle for a Snickers bar?
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.
Maybe we can get lucky and he crashes into the home of another billionaire. Two uber rich, one plane
Planes are a magnitude safer than cars. Health wise, he's better off flying for his daily fucking commute
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/
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.
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
It's still 5 hours stuck in a loud metal tube every day, with no freedom to get out without landing somewhere.
I went to starbucks and bought a large reusable plastic cup that I'll probably never use again... I helped save the planet!
Not that I would be surprised, but source? I don't get my news from images that anyone can throw together.
I saw a news article about this pop up on my feed earlier - which had more info. He's not actually commuting every day. Just 3 days a week. They're also building an office for him in Newport for him to work out of.
Fuck this guy.
I want to watch a documentary about the dickheads that came up with the spin phrasing "supercommute" to try to preempt us naturally labeling this "Planet-fucking-pollute-o-rama"