• RaptorBenn@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t know why people think large companies aren’t allowed to get rid of people when they want to? And especially Starbucks, it’s shit-work, not a 20y long career maker.

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      4 hours ago

      Do you keep a list of workers or jobs who you feel are beneath you and don’t deserve enough money to support themselves with basic essentials like food, water, or shelter?

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          4 hours ago

          Let me translate that rhetorical question for you:

          Why do you believe society should allow certain businesses to remain in existence, when those businesses utilize human labor, yet do not pay enough for human laborers to subsist?

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            1 hour ago

            I don’t believe that, you’ve just attached that to my argument because you either can’t understand my point or don’t want to.

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              17 minutes ago

              I don’t believe that,

              I see. Maybe we have had a failure to communicate. What I was referring to was this:

              And especially Starbucks, it’s shit-work

              Whatever you meant by “shit-work” is what I asked you about.

              Why do you believe companies offering “shit-work” should be allowed to remain in business?

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      It’s not like individual locations determined they’re overstaffed or something. The CEO is just blanket firing people because it makes some numbers look more gooder on some spreadsheet.

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        Oh so that’s their reason is it, make number look good, company be strong.

        It wouldnt be because of your idiot president causing a recession where more people wont be able to afford to buy coffee as often? You dont think that could be a contributing factor?

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      To the company it is “an adjustment.” To those people, it can be a devastating loss of healthcare, of the money they use to pay for food and shelter, and even an identity crisis. Starbucks has all sorts of positions, ranging from seasonal part time employees, to store management that gets paid pretty well, to corporate employees that presumed they were in 20y career trajectories. Every single one of them deserves better than losing their job just to pay for a big bonus for one guy.

      It’s not about whether they are allowed or not. It’s that actions should have consequences but the modern corporate structure has so divorced leadership from the consequence of their actions that this is normal. Let me rephrase: Hurting people to pump your personal wealth is not just normal, it’s expected. That’s sick.

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        5 hours ago

        Lol, okay, blame starbucks all you want, it’s a faceless entity. You could be mad at the politicians who set you up to instantly fall into desperation the moment you lose a minimum wage job, but if you want to be mad and ineffectual at the same time, be my guest.

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          I don’t understand why you think it’s either/or? I didn’t say, “Starbucks is solely to blame” or anything of the sort. It’s incredibly stupid that living requires an employer, and that’s something we need to fix, but as long as it does they should act and be treated like they have the ethical responsibility they’ve been given.

          Maybe you should stop giving people free passes for psychopathy just because it’s within the law.

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            There’s a fucking recession coming you dolt, ofcourse large companies are going to dump people, and it doesnt take a psychopath to do it.

            Your hearts in the right place, but if you cant be realistic about the why and how of running a business, i dont want your opinions.