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re: Employees at Starbucks on S. Sherwood have Unionized
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:47 am to TheSadvocate
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:47 am to TheSadvocate
How do employees unionize without employer support? Can the employer ignore their demands and/or fire them?
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:51 am to TheSadvocate
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Red Cup Rebellion
It's "Red" alright. Let the leftists destroy each other, though, not us...
Also, it will be funny when their checks aren't any bigger b/c the extra $ goes to union dues
Posted on 1/12/24 at 10:36 am to TheSadvocate
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racial and gender equity
At a retail store?
Posted on 1/12/24 at 10:43 am to TheSadvocate
Are these people trying to make a career out of working at Starbucks? Wtf it’s a fast food job you work it for a short period of time while in school then move on
Posted on 1/12/24 at 10:56 am to Jake88
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Unionization for low skilled workers simply means they will be replaced
Hopefully.
Indeed. The human element is our weakest link, people just arent capable anymore.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 10:59 am to whatiknowsofar
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It is not. Otherwise you'd see Starbucks doing it more
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Starbucks is investing in automation to halve the time it takes to make your Frappuccino
sigh.....
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The financial investment needed to make it work per store I would imagine would be far more significant than keeping employees and again, you'll have even worse service once said robots take over producing your Frappuccino.
bruh, kindly remove your foot from your mouth and research. Seriously, you have no idea what the frick you are talking about.
Machines are going to be flipping your burgers and serving you coffee.
A kiosk to order is much better than trying to decipher ebonics or some other fricking language these frickers speak. The order accuracy goes up taking the telephone element out of keying in orders.
They are also moving to a smaller store footprint. Smaller stores, more automation, less employees.
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Another topic that Starbucks mentioned but did not delve into too much detail about is the reinvention of their store portfolio with new convenience-focused prototypes.
“Our physical stores have to change — they were built for a different era,” Culver said. “We have to reduce complexity and increase experimental convenience.”
Part of that reimagining includes adding the aforementioned new equipment but also new goals like increasing accessibility, and designing “purpose-built stores,” like more drive-thru and express store formats.
This post was edited on 1/12/24 at 11:09 am
Posted on 1/12/24 at 11:29 am to whatiknowsofar
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Otherwise you'd see Starbucks doing it more
They do in offices and some hotels. IKEA has a similar machine.
We already place our orders with modification online. The next step is to input a very specific amount of each ingredient into the product. A machine would arguably do it better so long as the lines were clean and the supplies were kept at appropriate levels.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 11:55 am to dgnx6
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Machines are going to be flipping your burgers and serving you coffee.
And they'll be breaking down. You seemed to gloss over that point.
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A kiosk to order is much better than trying to decipher ebonics or some other fricking language these frickers speak.
When a kid calls out for his shift, someone else slides in. When the kiosk is broken, who will take your order?
I'm sorry this common sense stuff doesn't seem to make sense to you. It's why smaller markets will take years to see any type of automation take place.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:03 pm to whatiknowsofar
Have you ever worked with machines? They don't break down every 5 seconds like you're implying here. You don't need people there.
A kiosk? It's a computer. I've used them at multiple fast food places and they work just fine. The order tends to come out correct and there's less workers needed.
A kiosk? It's a computer. I've used them at multiple fast food places and they work just fine. The order tends to come out correct and there's less workers needed.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:14 pm to whatiknowsofar
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And they'll be breaking down. You seemed to gloss over that point.
And humans call in sick, want vacation, can’t work certain days, or go on strike.
And “machines” dont routinely break down. They also have a regular maintenance schedule. You know the difference between the people that repair the machines and these coffee cashiers? The repair people actually have a skill.
This post was edited on 1/12/24 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:54 pm to whatiknowsofar
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When the kiosk is broken, who will take your order?
The backup kiosk. Don’t you notice there are 2 Redbox machines most places?
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:29 pm to TheSadvocate
I’d buy a bunch of gift cards with $1 on each one, write “$100” in Sharpie on each one, and leave them in places like Boil & Roux’s parking lot.
The location manager should schedule an all hands meeting and share a “fairer schedule” for the next two weeks and ask for feedback. If a person doesn’t want to work on Fat Tuesday or Che Guevara’s birthday or whatever, ask who will volunteer to swap shifts…it will get nasty real quick.
The location manager should schedule an all hands meeting and share a “fairer schedule” for the next two weeks and ask for feedback. If a person doesn’t want to work on Fat Tuesday or Che Guevara’s birthday or whatever, ask who will volunteer to swap shifts…it will get nasty real quick.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:55 pm to BigBinBR
In addition to them not breaking down constantly, it’s not like you need one technician per store. Starbucks are already so dense you could have one serving multiple stores. In bigger stores you would already have redundancy for busier times. There are people that automate things for a living. These processes already have solutions, just need the current costs to exceed the entry point.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 3:31 pm to Ping Pong
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as much as I hate unions
Why?
Posted on 5/6/24 at 8:22 pm to TheSadvocate
The other Starbucks thread reminded me, don’t know if it was mentioned there but….drove by the S Sherwood location this weekend and it’s now closed. I did smile when I thought about how that Union deal was working out for those employees.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 8:48 pm to The Korean
Yeah, but the sign says "remodeling"
Posted on 5/6/24 at 8:58 pm to jrobic4
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"remodeling"
Modeling new employee behavior.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 9:46 pm to jrobic4
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Yeah, but the sign says "remodeling"
During the oil bust around 1987, every business going bust in BR would have a sign on the door reading “closed for remodeling.”
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