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Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

wkat4242 wrote: post #97
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #94

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Of course you can. In France, Germany, Italy, Poland you can ask for less ice or no ice. I always do.

Here in Spain you can only order on the portal screens anymore (the only thing you can do at the desk is to pay if you only have cash). And there are no ice modification options there. You can only modify some of the burgers. I didn't realise that in other countries they still have staffing where you can order. But I bet that will be changed soon too. They recently rebuilt all the restaurants here to make this change…

No, you are right - the orders are more and more taken via screens (not everywhere but almost). But for some fast food places you can edit your order (BK, KFC if I remember well) and for those where you can't (McDonalds I think) I go to the counter with my command and say "no ice please" and it always worked.

Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by fragmede »

Mistletoe wrote: post #25
nytesky wrote: post #16

So wait, is he considered remote/hybrid or he’s just a regular employee whose commuting by jet?

Also who is paying for the three times a week personal jet flights? Edit: Nevermind the article says corporate jet. Silly me. Imagine Starbucks even paying the gas for a serf to commute to their job, much less the vehicle.

the article didn't go into numbers, but $20k each way, or $40k each day is a reasonable estimate of how much it'll cost to have that commute. 3x per week is $120k/wk; * 50 is $600k/ yr.

assume his salary is the $1.6 + $3.6 million, or $5.2 million (from the article), or 11% of his salary. if you made $100k/yr, that would be like spending $11k/yr on gas driving to and from work, or $900/month. which is 6x as much as $150, which is very roughly what I spend on gas commuting per month.

Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by wkat4242 »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #101
wkat4242 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here in Spain you can only order on the portal screens anymore (the only thing you can do at the desk is to pay if you only have cash). And there are no ice modification options there. You can only modify some of the burgers. I didn't realise that in other countries they still have staffing where you can order. But I bet that will be changed soon too. They recently rebuilt all the restaurants here to make this change…

No, you are right - the orders are more and more taken via screens (not everywhere but almost). But for some fast food places you can edit your order (BK, KFC if I remember well) and for those where you can't (McDonalds I think) I go to the counter with my command and say "no ice please" and it always worked.

Yeah true, BK has always advertised with customisation options so I'm not surprised they do allow this. I don't have one near me so I don't go there so much.

But I didn't realise I could ask at the desk to modify my order once it's placed. Thanks!

Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by maxehmookau »

wkat4242 wrote: post #80
pjc50 wrote: post #63

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Insanely, the Chicago Convention of 1944 exempts international flights from any fuel tax. https://www.icao.int/publications/pages/doc7300.aspx Various attempts to work round this without rewriting the convention have been discussed, e.g. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn00... but I don't think they've got anywhere. The US _might_ be able to tax fuel on domestic flights, but that would result…

Part of this has a decent reason: If fuel is much cheaper in e.g. Dubai, airlines will chock their planes full of fuel instead of the optimised amount, leading to overburning of fuel due to excessive transportation of it. And the opposite, they will skimp on fuel going inbound to there. Of course fuel qty is the captain's decision, however a lot of airlines already pressure those. As one example Ryanair had a "list o…

The idea that airlines can pressure captains in to doing _anything_ is terrifying and should be utterly outlawed.

Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by anshumankmr »

wkat4242 wrote: post #79
scarab92 wrote: post #10

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Private jets should be required to burn biofuels or purchase carbon offsets. If you can afford a private jet, you can easily afford to make it carbon neutral.

Biofuel-fueled jets aren't carbon neutral. The building of the jets, the material extraction, the maintenance, the work around growing the fuels, the processing, the transportation, most of that is not fully sustainable. It's only "less bad" for the climate crisis, not better. Definitely not perfect.

Something is better than nothing.

Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by benhurmarcel »

ExoticPearTree wrote: post #57

Starbucks mandates that everyone be in the office 3 days a week, so does the CEO. OK, he gets to fly into the office, but it is still a very long commute, probably 2-3 hours each way, so I wouldn't envy the guy that much.

They’ll also setup a new office near his current home just for him.

> Starbucks also notes that it will set up a remote office for Niccol in Newport Beach

Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by lamontcg »

nehal3m wrote: post #99
bdjsiqoocwk wrote: post #96

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You have something that's too viscous and your solution is to put it thru a straw? Am I getting that right?

Yes. Have you had milkshakes? You should try 'em, they're good.

So people are buying their daily caffeinated milkshake from Starbucks, and we wonder why there's an obesity crisis in America.

Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by penguin_booze »

wkat4242 wrote: post #86
ExoticPearTree wrote: post #57

Starbucks mandates that everyone be in the office 3 days a week, so does the CEO. OK, he gets to fly into the office, but it is still a very long commute, probably 2-3 hours each way, so I wouldn't envy the guy that much.

What bothers me more that he's burning so much fuel for no real reason, just to reinforce this stupid internal rule. That's really the worst reason to do it. Most of starbucks already works "in the office" 5 days a week because they work in a coffeeshop which can't be remote anyway.

> What bothers me more that he's burning so much fuel for no real reason

So are we, only that are far less important; and we're aren't paid in millions. Everything can be done from home. But, no: we must commute and "collaborate" the shit out of each other.

Re: Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle

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Post by jasonmclaren »

beej71 wrote: post #93
bArray wrote: post #8

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Exactly. We're all expected to suffer the inconvenience of soggy straws to offset this guys near daily commute. And it's not just this. Near all elites have unsustainable lifestyles that we are expected to offset by changing our daily habits.

(I think I might be the only one in the world who actually prefers paper straws based on their qualities.)

You may be interested in reading Nicholson Baker's novel The Mezzanine, where he wrote about preferring paper straws.

http://weblibrary.apeiron-uni.eu:8080/webdokumenti/6304-ip.p...

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