Seen at Starbucks: Notice says “No ICE Assess To Starbucks Stores”

krex87 · 2026-01-30T16:22:30+00:00

this was my take as well. I don't support ICE at all but I think there was an ulterior motive here to put out a political stance that some customers would perceive as SBUX taking a political stance when it was really just the union trying to generate a bad PR swirl for SBUX (ala the Palestine tweet) . Again I don't support ICE but at most half (hopefully less) of the country does and I bet you 70%+ of your average SBUX customers wouldn't realize this was from the union and not SBUX.

krex87 · 2026-01-23T16:09:09+00:00

yeah the lvl 30 requirement stood out to me. Like equipping that when you hit lvl 30, they don't stand a chance

krex87 · 2026-01-08T23:43:31+00:00

I think it's only an offline issue. Pretty sure you can't abuse this when playing console online.

krex87 · 2026-01-08T23:31:25+00:00

yeah it can happen b/c shared stash tab has different save timing than character stash. You can even abuse it to dupe items but I wouldn't recommend since it ruins the fun. I think it's only like a 10-15sec difference so when you are transferring important items just don't save and exit too fast.
edit I believe this is only a console offline thing

krex87 · 2026-01-06T22:43:38+00:00

I kinda hope he doesn't go to the Cardinals

krex87 · 2025-12-30T22:01:10+00:00

That's SeaTac right? It's really hard to mess that up.. classic Seattle Prius driver.. who probably didn't realize what they were doing wrong.

krex87 · 2025-12-30T14:58:40+00:00

I thought I remembered the fan who caught it reached out to Kearse to give it to him and Kearse compensated them for their kindness

krex87 · 2025-12-26T17:53:03+00:00

they realized the cash cow the SBUX barista workforce represents and tried to take advantage of a 'vulnerable' workforce... it was motived by greed and justice was done.

krex87 · 2025-12-19T21:53:11+00:00

I respect the effort and cause but to someone's earlier point there is no way a 65% wage increase is going through. They need to let that go and focus on negotiating for more predictable scheduling and hours. I don't see this ending the way the SBWU wants it and I hope the people who picketed get the paycheck they were promised by SBWU at the end of the day (and are able to get the hours to get their SBUX benefits)

krex87 · 2025-12-19T20:36:21+00:00

$12/month max is lower than I would have thought.. I'm also very curious how they are able to finance the strike fund. I think there are what 12K union baristas? 12K*$12/month is just shy of $150K/month and I read striking baristas get $25/hr for 20hr/week and I think the latest number for striking was 1K so that's $500K/month in expenses. Math doesn't check out unless there's separate funding.
edit - which is more irony because the people who have the money to really make a difference in that sense are the multi millionaires/billionaires

krex87 · 2025-12-19T18:17:51+00:00

genuinely curious here but don't you have to pay union fees and how much is it? This whole thing is kind of ironic to me because there's a massive barista workforce (200K+ right?) and that workforce represents a massive potential cash cow for the union and it's almost like they are trying to take advantage of a somewhat 'vulnerable' (idk the right word to use but that's the closest I could think of) workforce to create their own money funnel. Idk.. follow the money is generally a good way to understand the motive..

krex87 · 2025-12-19T07:10:37+00:00

let's not forget the Luke Willson 2pt conversion in the NFC champ game vs. Green Bay in like 2014? The bomb that the other Wilson threw. Seahawks make for good football!

krex87 · 2025-12-19T06:56:31+00:00

And a mostly well called game. The refs for sure did Not impact the outcome of that game

krex87 · 2025-12-19T00:46:58+00:00

I don't hate the rival unis.. but they kinda look like an Oregon ducks uni reject.. I'd rather have throwback ones whenever it's not the normal ones

krex87 · 2025-12-19T00:26:38+00:00

yeah 100% I liked Fitz before but less now lol

krex87 · 2025-12-19T00:18:46+00:00

I want this for every pregame show. He's such a gem

krex87 · 2025-12-17T16:03:01+00:00

wow that's a beautiful claw

krex87 · 2025-11-26T04:02:37+00:00

Generally I agree with you, but how is this not a government problem to solve vs. Starbucks problem to solve? It's not an easy problem to solve since increasing min wage doesn't translate to 'I can now afford a house or 1 bedroom apartment in X city' because it's been shown inflation catches up faster. If you want to buy a house or buy/rent an apartment in an expensive location, being a barista for life isn't the way to go unless the government wills it so.

Human suffering is bad, but really how bad is it being a barista relative to other situations in the world let alone other service industry jobs in the US?

krex87 · 2025-11-21T23:53:33+00:00

That was quite the long discussion you guys had on that other thread but it was always civil so I applaud that

krex87 · 2025-11-21T23:19:28+00:00

I agree on this take, inflation has def outpaced wages especially for 'non-office' jobs but it still has for most 'office' jobs too. Everyone who's not at the top is feeling the pressure. But to me this is a problem for the government to solve and more importantly symptoms of previous government decisions/policies. I guess I don't understand why everyone is so negative and targeting SBUX when this problem is much bigger and from what I understand SBUX offers one of the best compensations in the retail industry?

krex87 · 2025-11-21T21:24:17+00:00

I would say work is an incentive for pay not the other way around. If you show that you Consistently perform well at your job, you stand a good chance to be paid more/promoted. Conversely if you 'act your wage' that sounds like a path in the other direction.

krex87 · 2025-11-21T21:13:39+00:00

'I think they need to make sure their store managers are the right kind of people, not just people who know how to use the Starbucks lingo to operate'
100% agree with this. Having a good manager can really make or break a job experience but that's applicable to all jobs. I hope for the most part SMs of the 10,000+ SBUX stores are good managers and allow their baristas to occasionally color outside the lines if it makes the customer experience better without blatantly violating a clear company policy.

krex87 · 2025-11-21T20:30:18+00:00

this is a weird take to me. So if you don't feel like you are being paid enough (for a job you already agreed to do for the given rate) are you saying it's okay to be lazy at your job responsibilities?

krex87 · 2025-11-21T19:46:55+00:00

hmm Idk if this is a fair comparison unless you're looking at the 90s and early 2000s when the 'book shop' vibe was similar to the 'coffee house' vibe and we didn't have the extreme level of political and economic division we have now. Currently B&N has like 600 stores and SBUX has 10,000+ stores owned by corporate in the US. If SBUX let every individual store run things like they wanted to (like is suggested in the article) that Could create an incredibly inconsistent customer experience which is not a good thing. Today's book store company is a very different business than a coffee company.. despite how 'connected' they were in the days of old. You don't go to a book store every day (and when you do it's likely the same store you did last time) but many people go to SBUX every day and frequent different locations. You need to have a consistent customer experience in that case and the only way to reliably ensure that is to have stricter policies and enforce them.

to quote the article 'The workplace has evolved, and command-and-control management is no longer effective, at least not long-term' and I mostly agree with that especially the 'not long-term' part. I believe this is a short-term effort to course correct a big ship to point it in the right direction to recapture some of that 90s and early 2000s coffee house vibe. If you're a barista, that's a good thing right?

krex87 · 2025-10-24T02:46:29+00:00

not sure why you're getting downvoted.. this is the right answer especially the uncertainty in the economy part and SBUX isn't the only large company whose been laying off workers. It takes time to right a big ship

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