Showing posts with label Starbucks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starbucks. Show all posts

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Unconscious Bias Training: Yeah, Starbucks' schizoid approach to business is not working.

Angela the Anonymous.
by Angela K. Durden
The Most Brilliant Woman in the World

First they came for Zookerbug
and I spoke up.
Did I get any thanks?
I did not.
Then they came for Starbux
and I spoke up.
Did I get any thanks?
I did not.
But when they come for me,
Zookerbug and Starbux will be silent.

Bad derivation of the famous poem, but what do you expect when writing about P-HWPCDLRSFC* companies who have served their Deep State masters until those turned on them?

Liberal Socialist Fascist Commie ideology has never inspired a great stringing together of words. Have you ever tried to read Mein Kampf or The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future? Self-focused, overly romantic, and narrow viewpoints were not only boring to read, but lead to great destruction for destruction's sake with never a thought as to how to actually build.

In other words, Adolf and Ted alike were so focused on what went wrong in their own lives, they assumed everybody else felt the same. But they must have known, deep down in their heart of hearts that maybe, just maybe, they were wrong. Otherwise, why would Adolf have to lie to his own people, throwing generations of them under the bus, by calling his blatantly Marxist ideology Social Democracy? Otherwise, why would Ted remain anonymous and kill and maim for almost 20 years as a domestic terrorist?

Starbucks has just done the same thing to their managers and employees — and their paying customers — with their Socialist Fascist Commie Unconscious Bias Training.

Here's how they've done it.


Starbucks managers are responsible for sales numbers in their stores. Corporate is not interested in maintaining sales. No, managers are required to build those numbers.

In order to build those numbers, certain controls must be in place. Cost controls such as employee hours, shrinkage, and facility maintenance are musts with little wiggle room.

For those controls to work, somebody must make hard decisions. Who works when and for how long. How to keep customers and employees from walking off with products displayed in the store. And making it easy for paying customers to have a place to sit.

Starbucks managers' feet are held to the fire if they miss any Corporate-mandated profit goals.

And now store managers have to worry about reading minds? And identifying cheapskate social justice warriors wanting to use their facilities for their Campaign HQ? And now being told that the company they work for has always been a racist company whose goal is to control public spaces?

Really? How insane can you get?

However, here is what is most ironic about all of this.


Just as Facebook and Zuckerberg found themselves attacked by the Deep State and many other Liberals including #CrunkNewsNetwork crowd, so has that self-righteous bastion of How To Be the Best Liberal Company Ever — Starbucks — found themselves in the crosshairs.

Neither understands that no matter how much they do for the cause, P-HWPCDLRSFC will never be happy with anything they do because it will never be enough. And because they so want to please the crowd and have the crowd love them, they end up pleasing no one and being unloved.

With their Unconscious Bias Training, Starbucks' knees buckled to the psychosis of political correctness, and in so doing, they painted targets on their stores, their employees, and their customers. 

Starbucks needs to decide what business it is in and then do that. This schizoid approach to business is not working.




P-HWPCDLRSFC is Pussy-Hat Wearing Politically Correct Democrat Liberal RINO Socialist Fascist Commies

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Your righteous indignation is my overreaction? Wait...I'm confused.

Angela the Anonymous.
by Angela K. Durden
The Most Brilliant Woman in the World

If you didn't see the story wherein two black males were arrested and perp-walked out the front door of a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, Starbucks, well then, it is obvious you aren't woke enough.

The woman who filmed it on her smart phone immediately put it up on YouTube wherein, self-reported by herself, within two days 4.5 million hits were accrued. The news story about her hits had her gushing madly about the video going viral. This report of her viral video showed up almost before the story hit the FLOTSAM* mainstream media.

But that report barely mentioned a peep about the incident itself.

The denouement came fast enough when the Starbucks store manager and Corporate came to an agreement that their work relationship would end, after which CEO Kevin Johnson says — caring drum roll, please — they will implement Unconscious Bias Training.

Next came protesters. Signs were hoisted (Is she fired or nah?) Chants were heard (Starbucks Coffee is anti-black! and Anti-blackness anywhere is anti-blackness everywhere!)

Then came the Bacefook posts from my peeps ranting against all Starbucks and their employees everywhere and calling them racists.

I've been in many Starbucks. Everybody gets treated the same: Order is taken with a disdainful smile and burnt coffee is served with bored affect.

It is at times like this Angela wishes she could remain truly anonymous in her postings on social media. Yes, Angela K. Durden, The Most Brilliant Woman in the World, did something stupid: She told a black man that she knows in real life, V—, that he was overreacting in his condemnation of all the company's employees.

I thought V— would understand my comment since he was protesting the overreaction of one person (the manager) about two guys (black) waiting for their friend (white). You see, V— believes his overreaction is righteous indignation and that trumps everything else.

But did V— ask what caused the manager's reaction in the first place?

No, he did not. 


Not only did V— not understand Angela's comment, before she knew it Angela was being villified, called names, and so forth by both her friend and his friends. She also received massively long messages that, by the time she got to the end of them, made her realize the man must be mentally unstable.

I'm serious. This is not me throwing about mentally unstable as if it was a silly last-ditch diss, but me truthfully worried about him. What's worse is there is nothing I can do except...

UNFOLLOW HIM. 


Notice I did not say Unfriend him. That would simply be too cruel because he would notice. And then he would kill himself. And next thing you know I'd be hounded by the SM police. (Gitcher head out of the gutter. SM stands for Social Media, not Sado Masochistic. Geez, you people.)

So unfollow it was. That just means his posts won't show up on my feed and that I have to go looking for him. At least...that's what unfollow used to mean, but what with all the algorithm changes, I bet you somebody somewhere has flagged communications between us and will now make his stuff show up as soon as I log on so they can start a war.


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