Ogie got to them...https://www.wsj.com/articles/starbucks- ... counts-wsj

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"disruptive behaviors include smoking, drug or alcohol use, improper use of restrooms and sleeping"


Interesting that they don't include panhandling/begging in that list.

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I was pleased to read my Journal this morning

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Would sleeping be acceptable as long as you are not snoring?

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this is going to backfire on that terrible overroasting shitty beans company. and it makes me happy.

Why?

It seems that it only took one day for there to be strong pushback from employees, shareholders, and the landlords of the places Starbucks leases from. They already have heavily modified the policy and I expect that after a few more days they will be doing so even more. You don't push away your paying customers to accommodate people who are not there to spend money.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

You can't open the shithouse doors to every junky and bum in the country.. Sales would plummet.. I've never been in a starbucks.

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Right, but why does that make you happy?

I guess it's just fun to watch when someone comes up with an incredibly bad idea and it fails exactly as everyone predicted it would.

It's pretty clear that the exec who came up with this idea has never set foot into their own stores.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Seems kind of pointless.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

To Ogie's point, when we are fed bullshit and expected to accept it at face value, it's satisfying to see the bullshitter backtrack.

I'm on record as a Tesla skeptic...I've been saying they will never sell a $35k Model 3. And now Musk comes out saying they are going to offer "loaded" versions for up to $78k (more than the standard Model S), and stated they would not be making the $35k units anytime soon, because if they did, "the company would die."

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Yup.. Like mitch Rosen and his awful hirings, or Hahn running the Sox into the celler.

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Oh. Well, I'm pro happiness, so whatever works for you.

Speaking of the Model 3...

https://www.consumerreports.org/hybrids ... mendation/

“The Tesla’s stopping distance of 152 feet from 60 mph was far worse than any contemporary car we’ve tested and about 7 feet longer than the stopping distance of a Ford F-150 full-sized pickup,” Consumer Reports said.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Yeah, saw that...first they disputed CR testing, and then Musk says it can be fixed by a "firmware update."

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Yeah, he really should leave the car building to Ford, Honda, BMW, etc.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I still do not whether you mean the design and engineering of automobiles or the manufacturing process?

manufacturing primarily. He should leave that to the experts. His company could be make a fortune in licensing if they let car makers do what they do best.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

yeah they still have quite a following. the owner of our company has an X and and S (while waiting for the 3 to come around) and while he loves it, he says its frought with issues and is regularly downloading new firmware to resolve silly issues like coming out to the parking lot to randomly have all the doors open and crap like that.

Can't wait for him to say he's going to start building airplanes.

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If they are only closing for one day, I can't imagine this is a very long race they are training for.

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I like racing, I guess you can say I'm a bit of a racist.

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I see they’re combatting the homeless issue in the Canal and Roosevelt location by removing tables for them and the paying customers to sit at. Looks like they took 3 out .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I have to laugh at how ridiculous the media can be: https://www.fastcompany.com/40578317/bl ... osed-today

Try black owned coffee places because Starbucks is racist.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

How is the race training going so far today?

Not sure but the 2 black, 2 Hispanic baristas at the one where I’m at seem rarin’ to go for the training later on.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Would really love to get my hands on those Powerpoint slides.