Starbucks says Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’ head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet
The sooner we destroy all private jets the better.
Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating
Submitted 2 months ago by Midnight@slrpnk.net to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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lemmus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are legitimate reasons for private jets to exist, though the list is admittedly small.
The ability to transport lifesaving medications and things like organs long distances as fast as possible comes to mind.
There isn’t much reason for individuals to travel on private jets in non emergency scenarios though
Rakonat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Transporting organs doesn’t happen on Private Jets, helicopters and courier craft typically do the job. It’s also now well within the possibility for medium sized drones to be able to rapdily move something the size of an organ container reliably long distance, faster and more efficient than a jet can load, fuel, taxi, land and unload.
Private Jets are just luxury items of the rich, and are the carbon equivalent of burning down small forests or power a small town with coal burning. There is nothing they do that can’t be done more efficiently by a drone or helicopter for a fraction of the emissions.
abfarid@startrek.website 2 months ago
I’m sure that private (meaning small) jets can have valid use cases, it’s the abuse by the rich that is the problem.
dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Private” doesn’t mean “small”. It means “privately owned”, which means by a rich person.
painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I’m sorry, if you aren’t willing to relocate, you are not a good fit for the company.
I heard this in a job interview and the position was disclosed as remote.
Scolding7300@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t understand why can’t the CEO be remote. They can buy all their important staff Apple Vision Pros if they’d like and it’ll still be cheaper than this
bluemellophone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s not how you write off a corporate jet from your taxes.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So, you’re going to continue to increase climate change, rather than just using a zoom call. GOD DAMN CEOS!!! Why the hell is return to office so important to you assholes??? Just do a god damned video call!
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Have you considered the culture ?? Hmmm???
Milksteaks@midwest.social 2 months ago
Yeah the cubicle farm that smells like farts and microwaved fish is integral to a good days work!
ashok36@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A zoom call has the possibility of being recorded. I’m 90% sure at this point all these execs insist on in person meetings is so they can plan and discuss illegal and unethical shit without worry.
I’m only in middle management and I know I feel the difference in the way I talk about things on zoom calls VS in person.
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You could also record an in person meeting.
Zoom tells participants if the are being recorded by the zoom app.I think these people just get off on having their fiefdom and serfs in person before them to pander and be sycophants.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Self-preservation. If they stay at home for too long, they’ll get sued for domestic violence.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Calling it “supercommute” is such a stupid thing. It should be called “stupidcommute” or maybe “commoronute”.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Cuntycommuting
There ya go
demizerone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have to dry my clothes between 12am and 3pm and this m’fer gets to fly a jet to work. Private jets along with luxury yachts are things humanity shouldn’t have.
qarbone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s no inherent polluting/ecological threat in either vehicle (in the far-flung hypothetical that they run on sustainable sources), i.e. you can conceive of a solar-jet or a fusion yacht. Why can’t people have nice, private things? Because my utopia conception of an equitable, 1%-less future doesn’t necessitate me crammed in 949 hyperplane with 1000 other people for efficiency.
dch82@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Add a few more paragraphs and boom: you’ve got a copypasta
Xanis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You keep using the word “future”.
That’s sort of the point you’re ironically appearing to miss.
Threeme2189@lemmy.world 2 months ago
supercommute
I think the word they’re looking for is ‘travel’.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Once a month or something. Otherwise, he’ll work from home obviously.
isles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Niccol will still be expected to work from the Seattle office at least three days a week
Except when he’s flying around the country/world to other locations.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Well fuck you and your co² farting anus, Brian Niccol!
ghostpony@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Guillotines for these motherfuckers. Guillotines for all of them. I’m not joking. It’s time we got rid of this cancer.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Real “Meetings that could have been Emails” energy on this executive level decision.
spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do we have the FAA registration number for the aforementioned jet yet?
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Didn’t they change the law so you can’t track private flights anymore? Or was Melon Husk just trying to get that done? Or was that just me imagining things again? 🤔
spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As far as I know, you can still track Elon’s flights. It’s not illegal since it was all publicly available information to begin with.
mvirts@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They can’t prevent tracking because aircraft are required to broadcast their information when in flight.
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The FAA reauthorization act slipped in that ownership of private jets could remain anonymous. So you can still track them, because all flight plans are public and need to be for safety reasons, but they no longer have to tell you who owns what tail number. A dedicated tracker can figure out what plane belongs to who, either by showing up at the airport, or by comparing flight logs with other information about celebrity locations.
FuryMaker@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just stop buying their coffee. You don’t need it.
black0ut@pawb.social 2 months ago
It’s not even coffee. It’s artificial sweeteners with a bit of sugar and some more sweeteners.
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Mostly real sugar isn’t it? I always viewed Starbucks as kind of an adult breast milk. Sweet warm milk with a little stimulant to keep from crying on the way to work.
Soggy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s no need descend to such hyperbolic depths, there are plenty of factually accurate complaints against the company and their product.
PeroBasta@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, I take their cold brew every once in a while (where I live is basically the only place that does it) and it’s quite good. I take it with no sugar, only ice.
DerArzt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s shit coffee
Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I think I got starbucks once in the past 6 months.
aidan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think I got Starbucks once in my life
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I think there should be tax on flights, and the tax rate should double every time you fly in a year.
Nobody needs to be this cunty.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For private flights, correct?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Not if you actually want to fix the environment.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
All flights, proportional to the income of the passenger.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Taxes need to scale with income. Your plan will hurt regular people that have to fly to see family.
Fuckers like this CEO make too much money and they need to be taxed into oblivion.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can i vote for you?
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’ head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet
Replace all the Taylor Swift memes with this fucking guy.
DampSquid@feddit.uk 2 months ago
We can do both, let’s not forget that Taylor Swift is a garbage person too!
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Taylor Swift is the liberals’ emotional support billionaire
AshMan85@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eat the rich
midnight_puker@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I keep my cutlery sharp in preparation.
Donebrach@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We need to return to the office though.
tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Remember kids, climate change is your fault specifically, and only you can make things better by making your own life harder!
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Gosh. Thinking about all the time I wasted on the damn bus today made this sting more than usual.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I stopped using plastic straws at Starbucks. If enough of you join me we can compensate for an entire weeks worth of the carbon footprint of this very important man.
cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lucky him. Other corporations are designating hub cities and forcing remote employees to move or find a new job.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He could commute from 1 casino in Vegas to like down the street in Vegas
smokebuddy@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I wonder what happened to all the Chipotle head office employees who had to relocate to be near this guy now that he bounced
NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t worry, he probably has some arrangement to only go like once. A month.
lilbirddog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Try once a week! He will have to be in Seattle three days a week to conform to Starbucks’ remote/hybrid work policy.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is it, y’all! This is the one.
No political messaging, no debatable tech contribution, no societal contribution, the company will be fine because they change CEOs like I change my underwear.
I think everyone can agree, this is the one we eat. It’s time to send a message and enjoy a damn fine meal.
assembly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The article says when he started at Chipotle they were headquartered in Denver but dickbag moved it to Newport Beach so it was closer. Guessing the same thing will happen to Starbucks. He will (randomly) decide that Newport Beach is a better location for a global coffee chain than Seattle.
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dude has two families
Numenor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They got their CEO to-go
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
What an asshole.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“I’m tall and have great hair, and I feel my thralls really need to see that.”
bizzle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Piece of shit, wow!
stoly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And here I was thinking naively that this was an opportunity for change.
AstroGnomeical@mander.xyz 2 months ago
How do you boycott a company you already weren’t buying anything from?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
Molotovs.
wabafee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cockroaches + Starbucks product + video
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Bricks
null@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Shoplift?
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Bricks are cheap
Dadifer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You mean pickett?
Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Take their coffee grounds for compost?
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Buy stuff and then return it, over and over? I couldn’t do this with Starbucks because I wouldn’t want to even smell it.