Boycott Starbucks

[mike_s]

This may be an unpopular view regarding Starbucks but why does everyone hate success? Could it be....ENVY????

I could care less if they are successful. if they are, good for them. I just think it's a joke to go pay $3 to $5 bucks for a freaking cup of coffee and to be treated rudely by them.

EDIT - D@mn! ONESPEED types faster than I do!

You must type REALLY slow... just ask Onespeed

Well I don't feel like supporting or carrying the stupid, lazy or weak...

Two thumbs up

Sorry Don, didn't mean to get your panties in a bunch, got caught up defending the American way, feel free to contribute.

You've got on Don's panties? :shocked2:

Want to knw why the poor stay poor? They have a "poor persons" mentality. They exist in a world of instant gratification. They get a paycheck and go out to eat, they buy beer and cigs with it. They go to the movies, they buy that HD TV they have been looking at in Wallyworld. They don't care that thier car payment is due in 3 weeks. They don't care that rent is due next week. They have no savings, and live paycheck to paycheck because they want to. It's not fun to save money and live cheaply.

How many of you work with the general public and visit thier homes? It's a shock to see poor peoples homes. They live in a $10,000 house, on a 30 year mortage but they have a $5000 flat panel on the wall and a Bose suround sound system. They often have $5000 car with $10000 worth of wheels, rims, stereo and speakers.

These are also the same people sucking off the teat of the gov't too. I have no sympathy for "poor" people like that.

another two thumbs up

It amazes me that when I cut through the housing projects on the way to work, that these folks who are living "rent free" because they are poor can have $3,000 plus of "Hooptie" rims and tires on their cars and a custom paint job. but they get government assistance

Or to see someone at the grocery store driving a new Cadiliac buying food with food stamps and wearing rings on every finger and wearing a fur coat.

 

[Cave Diver]

It amazes me that when I cut through the housing projects on the way to work, that these folks who are living "rent free" because they are poor can have $3,000 plus of "Hooptie" rims and tires on their cars and a custom paint job. but they get government assistance

Or to see someone at the grocery store driving a new Cadiliac buying food with food stamps and wearing rings on every finger and wearing a fur coat.

And they can now get free cellphones (according to the commercial) if they're on any type of government assistance.

 

[mike_s]

 

[wrybosome]

Now I'm on a four-margarita post...wtf, it's nice weather for once.

I am only speaking anecdotally; your experiences may differ, but as a cabbie I would wager you spent less time in the homes of your fares than those who must respond to the calls for service, including fire and medical personnel.

Mostly helping carry groceries in. LR/DR/Kitchen. Virtually never upstairs (Philly row homes).

Maybe not more time than police who go into John Q's house to conduct witness interviews. Though how many rooms do you guys see, when it's not a crime scene or a warrant? Less time than fire dept, but they have other things on their mind. I doubt the medical guys spent any more time in peoples houses than I did, and they had other things on their minds too.

Look...I'm sure you saw more than me, ok? I'm not saying it should be free balloon day at A & Lehigh. Just that I saw lots of people who could have been more a part of the world. I think that they and the world would have been better off.

Does that seem like a bad idea?

Capitalism is wasteful of people, in the same way that natural selection is wasteful. You get a cathedral, a Dorado, a cheetah...at the cost of everything that doesn't succeed. There's no arguing with it but I can hope for better. Obviously socialism/communism isn't it so please don't waste my time with that tar brush.

I like the microcredit idea...that's a good one, maybe a step forward.

What do you do that you earn a living "noticing sh!t"?

I'm a chemist, but work mainly in microscopy. My sh!t is mostly immobile, unlike people and their foibles...a lot of my job involves looking for very small changes in the physical properties of materials. Very often these changes show up morphologically before analytical instruments can detect them. The other part is having built my position in the company by noticing what sh!t people needed and trying to provide. What I do is fast and cheap compared to some of the traditional analytical tools. At any rate I notice what I see around me.

 

[fstbttms]

I could care less if they are successful. if they are, good for them. I just think it's a joke to go pay $3 to $5 bucks for a freaking cup of coffee and to be treated rudely by them.

I am in one Starbucks or other almost every day. Easily over 300 times a year and have done for many years. No exaggeration to say I have visited Starbucks over 2000 times in my life. I cannot recall a single instance where I have been treated "rudely".

 

[idocsteve]

Well if you say so. I'll ask the eye doc.

Before I give you my diagnosis I need a copy of your present eyeglass prescriptions and the results of your last rectal probe. If you don't have those results available please put on a gown and proceed to exam room one.

 

[ZenDiver.3D]

I don't like Any place that charges $5 to $7 for a cup of COFFEE,(with no Bailey's or anything-sheesh). And living here, I have great respect for my boys and girls in Iraq and Afghanistan. If it makes the OP happier in the Hellhole he is in, I will help him out.

Oh, and on other notes- I am pro-capitalism. I believe in helping the needy- not the lazy.

 

[DandyDon]

I am in one Starbucks or other almost every day. Easily over 300 times a year and have done for many years. No exaggeration to say I have visited Starbucks over 2000 times in my life. I cannot recall a single instance where I have been treated "rudely".

Just overcharged, huh? At those prices, it'd better include some liqueur.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

And you can't even get a decent cup of regular coffee. Bitter and a lousy after taste. I don't know how to order that half caf double dippity do dah with sprinkles and cinnamon whipped cream stuff anyway. Mickey D's has better coffee even though they are trying to make the country obese.

 

[mike_s]

And you can't even get a decent cup of regular coffee. Bitter and a lousy after taste. I don't know how to order that half caf double dippity do dah with sprinkles and cinnamon whipped cream stuff anyway. Mickey D's has better coffee even though they are trying to make the country obese.

Mickey D's is selling low fat grande frappichino wimpy arm coffee drinks now also.

They are taking direct aim at Starbucks as competition, putting in fancy coffee stations and offering fancy coffee drinks and pricing them less than Starbucks.

But they don't have the building overhead that starbucks has because they are already selling burgers and fries in that space. so this is almost a "pure profit" add on for them.