• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    Shop local. It’s just coffee. Don’t let the marketers tell you any different. For sweet creamy syrupy treats go to the ice cream store. Let’s not support the current system of the bigwig at the top who does very little and reaps most of the rewards.

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      Plus ordering there takes 3x longer than if I just made a coffee at home. They are not convenient unless you are traveling and have no access to a coffee maker.

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      But the local shops are often treating employees in ways that starbucks couldn’t possibly get away with. Source: ex who worked 14 hr shifts without weekends at 4 different places for a couple months each and came out at net negative.

      There are some nice places though, where barista is the owner, and not just some stupid rich kid trying his hand at entrepreneurship.

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      Hell even my regular coffee shop does most of the milkshakes fancy coffees that Starbucks does.

      I drink black coffee but they do look really good

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      You have to be willing to exploit your fellow humans to get where he is. Either you don’t have a soul to start with or it gets torn to bits every step you take up the ladder.

      I’ve known people like that. I’ve been very close to people like that. It’s crazy, everywhere they look they’re looking for some win/something they can take. They never feel guilty. Honestly, the only thing they feel is betrayal when someone won’t bend the knee.

      That’s my little observation.

      Sad thing is, they still have people who love them but they aren’t truly capable of reciprocating. Everything is transactional and they always expect it to be profitable for them. The only thing that truly hurts them is when it isn’t profitable. It sucks being caught in their orbit too. Believe me.

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          I have spent most of my life dealing with a successful sociopath. Thing is, at times it really looks like he means well.

          It’s a constant battle in my head. Is it just his belief system? Is it just that he views everyone else as incompetent?

          I constantly find myself making excuses for him because I love him. I get angry and I’m able to really look at everything sometimes, or he does something really shitty to someone else. Like recently, he wanted to buy tires for his son. Great, right? But he had to find a way to make it a tax write off or he didn’t want to do it. He got his daughter a car, but with the condition that her mother couldn’t drive it under any circumstances. And it had to be a flood damaged car. Good deals with the salvage titles and all.

          He finally caved and sent his son money when I guilt tripped him, but he was mad for weeks about it. He’s probably still fuming. Mom ended up buying his daughter a car she couldn’t afford on credit and he gave the one he bought her to his girlfriend.

          He ended up buying his son used tires because he couldn’t work it out to get the write off without sending a check and he didn’t trust him with it (with no reason to feel that way).

          He built a cabin with his step brother in the 80s. They both poured blood, sweat, and tears into it. He had the money so he technically owned it, but it was understood that it was theirs with no strings attached.

          When it was completed he informed him that he was welcome to use it any time he wanted, so long as his mother never stepped foot through the door. Naturally his step brother said “fuck that”, took the L and never went back.

          I don’t know I’m doing dealing with it. Emotions are weird.

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            I understand, my brother only ever fucked over everyone else except me (probably because he knew what would happen) and it was an ever frustrating thing. I miss him but I think it’s for the best that he isn’t around to do more damage.

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              What ended up happening to him? Was it drugs that stopped him from being successful enough to really hurt people?

              Sorry to say it like that. That’s just been my experience.

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                He got hopped up on coke and booze and tried to kill a random driver with one of his beloved guns and they ran him down.

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            9 days ago

            I trust you know this person well and that your experience is accurate.

            However, you might find it useful to look up coping mechanisms in dealing with someone with OCPD. OCPD is extremely common and people with this personality disorder usually are extremely miserly and controlling. I’m not saying your person has this disorder. But from your story, the issues with money align closely enough that the tools people use in dealing with OCPD miserliness might help you. Or at the very least it might help you feel less alone in that experience.

            I’m really sorry you are having to manage that and deal with this person. You sound like a very reasonable and empathetic person yourself. Please do something small and kind for yourself tomorrow. ❤️

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              I did some reading. It would be spot on if he wasn’t convinced that he was perfect and everyone else wasn’t.

              No one is smarter than him. No one does it better than him. No one could even come close to comprehending his work. When he dies he feels sorry for anyone who has to work behind him and it will take teams of people to understand the genius of his work. Anyone who has a slightly different worldview than him is “thinking wrong”.

              He isn’t obsessed with perfection. He is perfection. No lover could please a woman like him. No one is stronger or more capable. He has done the work of 500 men in one lifetime.

              He prides himself on being the best, but not because he has anything to prove to anyone. He knows he’s the best. No one is better.

              His father’s dying words were, “Please God. Let my son find some humility. Please. He’ll have no peace until he finds it.”

              His father was a great man. An activist. A man who actually worked to change the world.

              He wasn’t always that guy though. He had to learn some hard lessons to get there and his son suffered while he learned those lessons. He knew that. He took accountability for it.

              I don’t know. I wouldn’t have made it without him in this life, but it was always a transaction. He doesn’t know how to do anything without it being a transaction. I’ve been trying to show him that it isn’t always about that. Every job we do, he tells me to keep track of my hours so he can pay me. I don’t want him to pay me. I want him to see that life can be something we experience and enjoy without it being a transaction.

              I’m probably wasting my time, but I love my uncle irrationally and I don’t know why.

              My body aches right now as I type this from driving a pick into slate to find some wires for him. It’s probably stupid, but a year from now when I still haven’t asked for a dime, maybe he’ll think about it. Or maybe he is who he is and he’ll think I’m an idiot.

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    Boycott what you don’t like. Vote with your money.

    Haven’t spent money in a Starbucks for over a decade…nor fast food chains, nor Walmart.

    Did do a few Amazon purchases a few years ago and I still feel guilty about it.

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    10 days ago

    So he literally stole their salaries. We can’t put up with millionair ceos anymore, it needs to be outlawed…

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    10 days ago

    Gets invited to meeting with manager. Employee orders coffee for the meeting Manager says, his coffee will be “To Go”

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      I work at a bakery (we’ve got snacks, coffee, cake, and danishes in addition to bread), and every once in a while I see two people come in and it’s not clear if they’re on a date until they disagree about whether it’s for here or to go. Then I realize that only one of them thought it was a date. It’s especially awkward if the one who did has already offered to pay for everything.

      Doing that for a job instead of a date is brutal

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    Just so people are aware, Starbucks was caught buying from farms in Brazil multiple times that used slave labor. In Guatemala, along with Nestle, were caught buying from farm(s?) that used child labor.

    EDIT: On top of this the company partnered with Conservation International to certify the farms met the company’s standards. The incident in Brazil saw CI trying to coverup the certification of that farm. Also CI is involved with arms dealing.

    EDIT 2: Their retail products have the claim “100% Ethically Sourced”. That is a lie.

    EDIT: I got the slogan wrong. It is “Committed to 100% Ethical Coffee Sourcing”.

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    Remember when Ford had an amazing performance growth, made record profits, then laid off a huge amount of people and moved more business overseas. Nothing like capitalism to fire you when you’re down and fire you when you’re up!

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      Or sharing profits among the leeches when it’s going great, but when shit goes down they are begging for help from government and firing people. How about you not instantly take out profits but you build resillience through reserves and preparation? Lol, who am I kidding, milk the cow till it’s dry and then make beef patties when it stops giving milk.

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    I mean he has been rewarded for making the line go up. Part of making the line go up is reducing overheads. So he is being directly rewarded for actions like firing 1000+ employees. So is it a surprise?

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      9 days ago

      Since I’m sitting negative I should clarify that I do not think the actions are moral. Only that he is incentivized to do things like this.

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        Just because there’s a financial incentive doesn’t mean you should do something. This is a step or two below murber for proflt.

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    Shifting “blame” on these white-collar police dogs (megacorp CEOs) instead of shareholders (and the system demanding growth) only needs to happen when everyone understands that even 96m is 2.6% of 3.760m of net income (2024).

    So if 1k people were let go all of them could have gotten 1m of bonus and still the company would have made almost 3bn.

    But they were let go bcs yoy income (but not revenue) was lower last year, and the financial markets demand a sacrifice (literally any action, even if not actually needed, just to send a signal they are ‘on it’).

    The usual “efficient” meat grinder stuff.