Calling these folks "baristas" is truly a joke. Unlike skilled baristas who control the length of the espresso draw, frothing quality of the milk, and decorative artistry of the pour, Starbucks employees merely push a button on the machine (a job that could easily be done by a trained chimp).
Hire better people!! It might take longer but worth it’ll in the end. Starbucks standards have went down and this is what happpens! Starbucks get your standards back! The pay is great and benefits are great, need more greatful employees, get new ones because once this is unionized, you’ll never be able to get rid of them
Let me get this straight. They want to raise the $18 minimum wage by 64%, so they want to be paid $29.50 for making coffee. PLUS tips. That's insane. Guess who's not tipping Starbycks employees anymore?
I mean 18/hour definitely isn't survivable in Seattle. A cheap studio is 1750/month here. They're basically working a slave wage. People that sit behind a desk making 100k plus a year (which is most adults in seattle) complain about kids making more than 20/hour for actually actively working blows my mind.
@@larstreat8650 But it's 1750 in Tacoma too. Most adults in Seattle don't earn 100k. Plenty bus up from Tacoma and earn $20.25 as managers in Seattle working jobs that require an expensive education. People behind desks DO work. IDK where that stereotype comes from. Finance is very stressful, and doesn't have the protections that unionized workers have.
@@mavicmaverick-pnw Starbucks is everywhere, so go work at a Starbucks where you can afford to live. I can't move to NYC, NY and expect to rent in Williamsburg as a Starbucks barista.
@@craigstaul839anyone that works 40 hours a week shouldn't be a slave to their job. They should make a enough money to live and for self development. Trying to create a pay gap and forcing unlucky kids to be stuck at a slave wage while commending desk jobs making 100k plus is incredibly shameful. Those kids stress more about making rent than those desk warriors stress about their job. And yes, the majority of seattle makes over 100k to sit at an easy desk job. Most of which have no clue what real stress actually is in life. Its literally modern day slavery with extra steps.
By the way, you don't like your employer, open a competimg store with better prices and better products and service. Buy your products at Costco and make millions. Oh, wait, I forgot, you will need to take risk and make an effort. This is not suitable to any US wokee from Seattle.
@@thewintergardener2873bruh? Anyone that trades 40 hours a week of their life 100% deserves a living wage. 29/hour isn't career money, its barely surviving in seattle. Do some research.
@@PeterHonig. They should be grateful an employer was willing to hire someone with Green hair, colassoly oversize Glasses, a Bull Nose Ring, and the requirement for a prefered pronoun Name Tag...
Oh no, what would we do without coffee that tastes burnt, overpriced dry miniature pastries, and snarky service from woke staff that can be replaced by a robot in two seconds. I call on Starbucks management to change all the unionized stores to automated stores with robotics and staff over 60 years old. Any store whose staff decides to unionized will be closed immediately, refurbished to robotics, and reopened as a fully automated store. We don't need usless coffee makers at $30/hour.
Their over-roasted beans is why many of us call them Charbucks. I like really nice espresso, so I bought a professional machine about 15 years ago. It has easily paid for itself.
Starbucks coffee is good tasting coffee. The cold sediment at the bottom of the cup is yucky. Starbucks employees and their demand for fairness could extend to the growers that cultivate the golden beans. We could soon be paying a 'Vente' for a 'tall'.
Throw out some recommendations, if you drink coffee. Lived in Seattle for years and have been to many that have come and gone. Came to UW when the Last Exit shut its doors. I wish I had gone there when my brother was attending UW and lived a block away.
Im with the employees. All these people complaining make 100k plus at a desk. 64% pay increase would put them around 29/hour (or about 65k a year). Which sounds high, but this is Seattle where a single adult making 85k/year can barely make ends meet. I literally have no idea how they're doing it with 18.50/hour. The income to rent ratio needs to match, I dont care if you're punching holes in tickets at the theater. If you're trading 40 hours a week of your life, then you absolutely deserve enough pay for rent and self development. If a business cant provide this, it shouldnt be open. Y'all are basically pushing for modern day slavery. Thats what this is, just with extra steps. This is coming from someone that has to listen to them protest all through the night. Im not happy about it. But I understand it and empathize.
Them being paid that much is absurd along with being a low skilled job they are already paid well above minimum wage along with numerous benefits if you want to be paid more you need to work on your skills
@@matthewdillard2308spoken like a true egomaniac. Anyone that trades 40 hours of their time a week deserves enough for rent and self development. Doesnt matter the skills. You're trying to say that if youre too dumb, then you should be a slave to our country. Thats what you're saying.
why dont they ask for a 40 hour work week first? corporate model of high turnover is to only give minimum hours. i doubt they even work a full week and then cry about not making enough.
Now you're going to tell me that making coffee is a career choice? I know, I am going to start my own union where we review crappy news stories and get pay, benefits, and can choose our own schedule. Yep, makes fiscal sense to me 🙃
They don't have any skills, so they don't have anything to bargain with. Those jobs are meant for teenagers and students, not grown ass adults who failed to launch and refuse to be productive members of society. Make better life choices, you want to be a barista your going to be paid like one.
Firstly, your projections are wild af. Secondly anyone that works 40 hours a week deserves a living wage and 18.50 is certainly not in Seattle. That won't even pay for the cheapest studio available here. Complain about the desk jobs making 100k plus, not these guys. Geez.
@@larstreat8650 Collective bargaining doesn't work without a skilled work force, that's why Starbucks will never negotiate. They can simply hire people and train them the basics in a few hours. The 5 day strike is going to hurt the employees since they won't be getting paid, while the union fat cats at united workers enjoy their "desk jobs" collecting dues. Starbucks isn't losing anything, corporations plan for things like this and invest accordingly.
work as barista but want income as much as doctor or engineer. Let them strike, find another worker. Let their union take care of them! the union take too much portion of their income anyways
7-11 sells coffee and it's good
It’s that or Ampm for me! ☕️🧐
High prices for beans and hot water?
No longer needed.
Oh no! Guess people will have to go to one of the other 155,000 coffee places in Seattle...
Calling these folks "baristas" is truly a joke. Unlike skilled baristas who control the length of the espresso draw, frothing quality of the milk, and decorative artistry of the pour, Starbucks employees merely push a button on the machine (a job that could easily be done by a trained chimp).
Hire better people!! It might take longer but worth it’ll in the end. Starbucks standards have went down and this is what happpens! Starbucks get your standards back! The pay is great and benefits are great, need more greatful employees, get new ones because once this is unionized, you’ll never be able to get rid of them
Let me get this straight. They want to raise the $18 minimum wage by 64%, so they want to be paid $29.50 for making coffee. PLUS tips. That's insane. Guess who's not tipping Starbycks employees anymore?
I mean 18/hour definitely isn't survivable in Seattle. A cheap studio is 1750/month here. They're basically working a slave wage.
People that sit behind a desk making 100k plus a year (which is most adults in seattle) complain about kids making more than 20/hour for actually actively working blows my mind.
@@larstreat8650 But it's 1750 in Tacoma too. Most adults in Seattle don't earn 100k. Plenty bus up from Tacoma and earn $20.25 as managers in Seattle working jobs that require an expensive education. People behind desks DO work. IDK where that stereotype comes from. Finance is very stressful, and doesn't have the protections that unionized workers have.
They want to be able to afford to live where they work. Is that so much to ask?
@@mavicmaverick-pnw Starbucks is everywhere, so go work at a Starbucks where you can afford to live. I can't move to NYC, NY and expect to rent in Williamsburg as a Starbucks barista.
@@craigstaul839anyone that works 40 hours a week shouldn't be a slave to their job. They should make a enough money to live and for self development. Trying to create a pay gap and forcing unlucky kids to be stuck at a slave wage while commending desk jobs making 100k plus is incredibly shameful. Those kids stress more about making rent than those desk warriors stress about their job. And yes, the majority of seattle makes over 100k to sit at an easy desk job. Most of which have no clue what real stress actually is in life.
Its literally modern day slavery with extra steps.
I didn't notice. I make coffee at home.
By the way, you don't like your employer, open a competimg store with better prices and better products and service. Buy your products at Costco and make millions. Oh, wait, I forgot, you will need to take risk and make an effort. This is not suitable to any US wokee from Seattle.
Minimum wage is $20.29 in King County starting January 1
SEATTLE NEEDS FOOD NOT COFFEE.
How much should you get paid to make a cup of coffee some jobs a only worth so much
Somewhere in their warped thinking they began to believe that serving coffee should be a viable career path....
@@thewintergardener2873bruh? Anyone that trades 40 hours a week of their life 100% deserves a living wage. 29/hour isn't career money, its barely surviving in seattle. Do some research.
Well, they do have to know which button to press on the automated espresso machine.
@@PeterHonig. They should be grateful an employer was willing to hire someone with Green hair, colassoly oversize Glasses, a Bull Nose Ring, and the requirement for a prefered pronoun Name Tag...
Oh no, what would we do without coffee that tastes burnt, overpriced dry miniature pastries, and snarky service from woke staff that can be replaced by a robot in two seconds. I call on Starbucks management to change all the unionized stores to automated stores with robotics and staff over 60 years old. Any store whose staff decides to unionized will be closed immediately, refurbished to robotics, and reopened as a fully automated store. We don't need usless coffee makers at $30/hour.
Their over-roasted beans is why many of us call them Charbucks. I like really nice espresso, so I bought a professional machine about 15 years ago. It has easily paid for itself.
I make my coffee at home, costs less than 5 bucks a cup...more like 50 cent 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Starbucks coffee is good tasting coffee. The cold sediment at the bottom of the cup is yucky. Starbucks employees and their demand for fairness could extend to the growers that cultivate the golden beans. We could soon be paying a 'Vente' for a 'tall'.
Merry Christmas ❤from us homeless people........🎁
SOLIDARITY
Who cares! Crappy coffee…
Find a coffee hut. Stop being lazy and get out of your car. .
68 years and ZERO coffees bought from Starbucks. Consider this a great accomplishment for someone from Seattle.
Throw out some recommendations, if you drink coffee. Lived in Seattle for years and have been to many that have come and gone. Came to UW when the Last Exit shut its doors. I wish I had gone there when my brother was attending UW and lived a block away.
McDonald has coffee for one dollar
Im with the employees. All these people complaining make 100k plus at a desk. 64% pay increase would put them around 29/hour (or about 65k a year). Which sounds high, but this is Seattle where a single adult making 85k/year can barely make ends meet. I literally have no idea how they're doing it with 18.50/hour. The income to rent ratio needs to match, I dont care if you're punching holes in tickets at the theater. If you're trading 40 hours a week of your life, then you absolutely deserve enough pay for rent and self development. If a business cant provide this, it shouldnt be open.
Y'all are basically pushing for modern day slavery. Thats what this is, just with extra steps.
This is coming from someone that has to listen to them protest all through the night. Im not happy about it. But I understand it and empathize.
Them being paid that much is absurd along with being a low skilled job they are already paid well above minimum wage along with numerous benefits if you want to be paid more you need to work on your skills
@@matthewdillard2308spoken like a true egomaniac.
Anyone that trades 40 hours of their time a week deserves enough for rent and self development. Doesnt matter the skills.
You're trying to say that if youre too dumb, then you should be a slave to our country. Thats what you're saying.
Let the hiring begin.
why dont they ask for a 40 hour work week first? corporate model of high turnover is to only give minimum hours. i doubt they even work a full week and then cry about not making enough.
Now you're going to tell me that making coffee is a career choice? I know, I am going to start my own union where we review crappy news stories and get pay, benefits, and can choose our own schedule. Yep, makes fiscal sense to me 🙃
I demand a raise!
Good.
If a batista can make almost $30 /hr.... my job where I have to travel a lot... i should atleast get $40/hr.... but i don't lol
They don't have any skills, so they don't have anything to bargain with. Those jobs are meant for teenagers and students, not grown ass adults who failed to launch and refuse to be productive members of society. Make better life choices, you want to be a barista your going to be paid like one.
Firstly, your projections are wild af. Secondly anyone that works 40 hours a week deserves a living wage and 18.50 is certainly not in Seattle. That won't even pay for the cheapest studio available here. Complain about the desk jobs making 100k plus, not these guys. Geez.
@@larstreat8650 Collective bargaining doesn't work without a skilled work force, that's why Starbucks will never negotiate. They can simply hire people and train them the basics in a few hours. The 5 day strike is going to hurt the employees since they won't be getting paid, while the union fat cats at united workers enjoy their "desk jobs" collecting dues. Starbucks isn't losing anything, corporations plan for things like this and invest accordingly.
😂this will be short lived.
work as barista but want income as much as doctor or engineer. Let them strike, find another worker. Let their union take care of them! the union take too much portion of their income anyways
And nothing of value was lost.
Nothing was lost in this
I was a barista in Seattle once. They fired me after 14 hours on the job for eating the customers and sucking oenis now i;m in jail man
I’m almost certain they all voted Kamala
Ugh, okay, okay, they made their point! Can they go back to making my latte now?
76 gas station has the best coffee.
Nothing beats truck stop style coffee...
No waaaay Jose I’m taking the AMPM coffee in Renton 🤣 but 76 is fine too. 🙂
Oh no where will I get super overpriced crappy drinks