Re: Off Topic? I'll give you Off Topic!!

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Starbucks is a big company.  Obviously the person who wrote the article  
about the 9/11 incident has it out for Starbucks.  DO you really think  
if Starbucks management knew what it's employee did they'd condone it?   
Of course not, for negative publicity alone.  Some dorky employee did  
this.  Big surprise they're upper management is hard to get to.  All  
you people who love PCs, try calling Bill Gates when your copy of Word  
isn't working.

Anyway, I have no real love for big companies or Starbucks.  However,  
they employed an ex girlfriend at a time she really needed a job and  
gave her health insurance and a bit more dollars per hour than most  
service industry jobs.  It's not the best coffee in the world, but it's  
decent, especially when on the road traveling through the midwest where  
coffee isn't widely understood.  I'm happy they opened up a second near  
my house, as the "mom and pop" coffee place (JavaRama) has shitty  
coffee.  Do I go to Starbucks instead?  No, my wife roasts our own  
coffee, but we will go to the Peets (a smaller Starbucks like CA chain)  
that took Starbuck's lead and opened a cafe across the street from  
them.

I am surprised they won the logo lawsuit.  Doesn't that fall under  
parody?  Blame our conservative country's anti free speech judicial  
system.  What can you expect from the decedents of puritans?

Mark

On Aug 6, 2004, at 2:48 AM, Stephen Goodman wrote:

>> OK, here's one--
>> Why is Starbucks evil?  Or rather, how?
>
> Why?  Only they can answer.  How?
>
> Here are two examples:
>
> 1. No sense of humor and a litigious tendency:
> http://www.illegal-art.org/print/popups/consumer.html
>
> Covered also at:
> http://dir.salon.com/business/feature/2000/06/01/starbuckssuit/ 
> index.html
>
> 2. Starbucks tried to charge paramedics for water while they were  
> attempting
> to help victims on Sept. 11:
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/40164_robert25.shtml
>
> Normally I give everyone three chances.  In this case I made an  
> exception -
> #2 almost counts for two items on its own.
>
> That said, one should wear a Consumer Whore t-shirt whenever possible,  
> and
> into a Starbucks as many times as possible.
>
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