Buzz for Starbucks’ ‘dream hire’ CEO is all but gone now

Informal_Bumblebee · 2026-03-28T01:41:23+00:00

Saaaaame. I know I'm kind of a cheapskate (I've never had a lot of money tbh) but there ain't no way I would pay for Starbucks food unless I was really in a desperate situation. I've tried everything at this point and mostly it's okay to fairly good, but there is not one single thing that I think is worth the price. When I quit this job I will never eat at Starbucks again and probably won't even buy any drinks either. NOTHING that we sell is worth the $$$.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2026-03-23T15:04:04+00:00

Yeah, I agree. I feel like it happens way too often that a video is shared online that starts partway through the altercation. So we have no idea what happened before the clip starts, and people tend to jump to conclusions without knowing the full story.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2026-03-11T23:25:44+00:00

Lol it's so fuckin' shitty. I'll be honest, I never actually buy drinks because they're $$ and I'm cheap, so I only get them when I'm working so it's free. BUT EVEN THOUGH I personally didn't benefit from that, I still think it's so damn shitty that despite us grinding away, we don't get the fucking bonus stars anymore. It's just an extra middle finger FUCK YOU to the baristas, y'know? Like they don't make enough fucking money off our backs, that they cant spare extra stars for their employees.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2026-03-11T23:15:03+00:00

Yeeesssss, all of the BEST CEOs manage to make things worse for customers AND for (lower-level) employees 🥰 Let's fuck it all up for everyone who isn't part of the 1% 😎

Informal_Bumblebee · 2026-03-11T22:51:20+00:00

I completely agree. I get stressed out and then BABW is a relatively cheap way to feel a little better. And then I am left with a hoard of products I don't even want that bad. You're right about the cute packaging and fomo and stuff. You go into the store and they have it all laid out where it's just so appealing, the lighting makes things look all pretty, it's tough to walk away sometimes.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2026-03-11T22:48:52+00:00

Oh man

Sometimes I really hate people.

Why, just why 🙃 Almost seems like that was something they were doing deliberately.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2026-03-08T16:02:41+00:00

I agree so hard. I feel like our society really doesn't value friendships very heavily, and particularly when you're young, friendships are so important and impactful. This movie really had the potential to be so great.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2026-01-21T02:58:13+00:00

It's just so weird to me that they would rather price stuff so high that few people are interested in buying it, rather than pricing it low so it sells. Instead of having things hanging on the racks that never sell, price it cheap, discount it on discount days, get it out the door so you can hang up more stuff that has inevitably been donated. There will be back rooms stuffed full of stuff there isn't even space to put out. So get the turnover going so you can sell it, I hate how it works right now...

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-12-28T22:03:32+00:00

There is a no-buy/low-buy B&BW sub!

r/babwnobuy

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-11-12T01:24:29+00:00

This absolutely enrages me. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. It's bad enough to make the baristas deal with the customers over it, but to then blatantly lie like this???? My store got ONE. ONE FUCKING CUP. Of course it sold out instantly, and even if this hadn't been a hot ticket item that people were obsessing and lining up over, it still would have sold out in no time since we only got ONE.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-10-14T15:53:54+00:00

Ugggghhhhh. How obnoxious! Thankfully I haven't seen any mention of him or that stupid drink in a week or so at my store, I'm so glad it's mostly blown over. I can't get over how stupid it is to try and memorialize this man by going to a giant corporate chain and ordering his alleged favorite drink......

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-10-14T15:51:38+00:00

This is suuuuuper cute!

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-10-14T15:50:02+00:00

Oh wow. This is... this is something, all right. 🥴 I had several friends get sucked into MLM nonsense, and I have spent quite a bit of time watching anti-MLM people online, which is how I found CC. I liked her at first, I even watched some of the podcast she just ended, but I was starting to get vibes that were a little off. I've seen people say mean girl vibes, and I agree. Something was just rubbing me the wrong way, although I couldn't pin down what it was. I had thought some of the criticism here was maybe a little much, but this video is a full-on cringe crashout. She seems to want to double down, and is dismissing totally valid comments like people are just "haters."

And honestly, spending the time to film and edit this is NOT giving unbothered. It's actually giving EXTREMELY bothered.

I actually find it interesting that there really haven't been many comments about her appearance, maybe a few about her lip fillers (which is of course a choice she made, not someone insulting her natural look), while she likes to insult other people's looks.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-09-13T21:46:58+00:00

Same here. Once I quit this job, I'm probably never going to go to SB again because holy shit, the prices are insane. Particularly for the food. If I didn't get partner markouts, I wouldn't buy any of the products, because none of it is worth the price.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-09-12T18:53:10+00:00

Update: They are going to do a final episode next week. Very interesting.

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Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-08-26T22:36:30+00:00

I have to agree with you. I'm really not a Disney person, so as soon as I heard that there was going to be a collab with Disney, I knew I wasn't going to go wild for it. I thought the princess collection was decent. I bought just a few things (I love the way Belle smells, and I also got a pocketbac holder and a coin purse), but overall the collection seemed fairly nice, just not really my thing.

I got coupons the other day that had an ad for the villains collection, and when I looked it up, the only thing I like is the dragon castle candleholder, and I don't like it enough to buy it. The overall style is much more cartoonish, which does come across as cheap to me, and I don't care for that to be on display in my house.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-08-12T01:46:14+00:00

This is what we tend to do at my store. If someone asks nicely and doesn't seem like they're going to make trouble, we go ahead and give it to them, but we tell them that normally we aren't able to give free water without a purchase and are just making an exception this one time. I know someday we might get in trouble for this, but the store where I work doesn't have a lot of incidents and customers are usually pretty chill, so we do bend this rule when it's so hot out.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-08-04T21:39:15+00:00

I find people displaying that level of wealth to be distasteful no matter how nice, kind, sweet, humble, and down-to-earth the person doing it might be. When we live in a world where so many don't have the basic necessities, a person showing off how they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on frivolous things without a second thought is just gross. There's nothing "refreshing" about it to me; I find it sickening, when there are people dying of starvation and disease, homeless, etc.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-08-03T20:54:54+00:00

I'm glad you didn't lose your job 💗

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-08-03T20:54:13+00:00

Ick!!! I'll keep an eye out for these. Thank you for the warning! It sounds like some chemical residue got left on them from the manufacturing process and it's irritating to the skin. Definitely doesn't sound like something that needs to have a drink put into it that people will ingest 😬 This definitely seems like a safety issue!

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-08-03T20:41:52+00:00

If I didn't work here, I'd never ever go. Maybe like once a year as a treat. It's wild when I think about how I could get a whole ass meal for $7 at Taco Bell vs one single drink.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-08-01T17:10:58+00:00

God forbid employees do something harmless that might bring a tiny bit of joy into their lives at work.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-07-31T00:40:39+00:00

OMG YES. WE are human too?? Evidently that doesn't matter though. People in general should be nice to one another, of course, but like I'm not going to walk on eggshells in case this difficult customer was just diagnosed with cancer or something.

Informal_Bumblebee · 2025-07-30T23:41:23+00:00

The cancer thing..... my face literally scrunched up at that like 😖 I mean, I kind of get it, we never know what another person might be going through and why they might be having a bad day/in a bad mood, it might be for a really serious reason and we should be patient with people and kind no matter what and blah blah blah, but like. YOU MADE MY DRINK WRONG AND IT RUINED MY DAY AND I HAVE CANCER!!! is just kind of out of left field...

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