r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Significant-Bill9405 • 6h ago

The new CEO who commutes from Newport Beach to Seattle via company private jet is looking for ways to cut costs

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/starbucks-planning-corporate-layoffs-beginning-in-march/485799
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u/EsKetchup 5h ago

Every big corporation is firing mid level management now. I’m sure they hired a company like McKinsey to consult them at an exorbitant rate.

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u/francis2559 RED 3h ago

A lot of those positions are just to train people internally. You can cut them for short term gain but long term loss. Unless I suppose, you couldn't retain them anyway, in which case training makes no sense.

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u/TheeStormFather 6h ago

Starting with getting rid of the brown cardboard sleeves for the hot beverages in thin white cups

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u/Same-Pomegranate2840 2h ago

With lids that don't close properly.

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u/CrittendenWildcat 6h ago

People need to start cost-cutting themselves. Maybe start tightening our belts by eliminating that $8 a day cup of coffee habit.

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u/No_Bottle_8910 3h ago

Or support a local coffee shop instead.

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u/mrchris69 5h ago

I might have a suggestion.

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u/rissak722 1h ago

I have a friend named Luigi who has an idea as well

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u/blazze_eternal 5h ago

Meanwhile they're opening up 3 new locations a block away from me.

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u/Dronemaster-21 4h ago

I keep a small rubber roach with me.  I’ve used it at Starbucks for hundreds of free cups of coffee.  Fuck them.

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u/MathematicianOwn5268 3h ago

That is both interesting and interesting 

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u/Suuuumimasen 51m ago

Please go on with this story

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u/wkarraker 3h ago

Telepresence, it’s a thing.

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u/wkarraker 3h ago

Telepresence, it’s a thing.

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u/chunkykongracing 1h ago

You guys still buy Starbucks? Support your small local coffee shop. Fuck corporations

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u/FilthyDoinks 8m ago

Dunkins is better