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Starbucks abandons mandatory vaccination policy for employees (archive.ph)
posted 4 years ago by lgbtqwtfbbq 4 years ago by lgbtqwtfbbq +56 / -0
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– Lurker404 33 points 4 years ago +33 / -0

A company that caters to liberal college students abandons mandatory vaccines while a company that caters to conservative working class (Carhartt) enforces it. Clown world indeed.

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– lgbtqwtfbbq [S] 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

Didn't they "push back their implementation date" to February? Thought I saw that in their letter. As with all the companies which kept pushing back their "return to the office" date in 2020, they may just be buying time to see which way the wind is blowing.

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– almond_activator 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Didn't they "push back their implementation date" to February?

Only for select facilities, named in the letter.

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– deleted 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0
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– current_horror 14 points 4 years ago +14 / -0

The doubt that Starbucks' costumer demographics overlap significantly with those who question the jabs.

More likely scenario: their workforce is disproportionately non-white and therefore disproportionately unjabbed, so a mandate represents both an untenable corporate cost (too much lost labor) and a PR issue (firing too many brown people). The latter is, as always, cover for the former.

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– Hitokiriizo 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

Ever been to a StarCucks? ALL tattooed, septum pierced white 20 somethings where I've been.

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– CptLightning 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Carhartt has stopped catering to the working class in the last few years. They're chasing tranny money now. Never buying from them again

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– GeneralBoobs 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

It's about the cost of: enforcement, negative reactions, and testing. That is a can of worms with such a strong potential to drag the company down in to financial ruin, they decided not to even pry the lid up to peek inside.

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– MetalGearMk4 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Huh I would have never thought

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– deleted 19 points 4 years ago +19 / -0
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– lgbtqwtfbbq [S] 14 points 4 years ago +14 / -0

Nor will I, but every company that does this pushes momentum to this side. Which makes it easier for all the companies that keep pushing back their "implementation date" to simply abandon their plans entirely.

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– CptLightning 12 points 4 years ago +12 / -0

shifts momentum to this side

Lol. It's all more psyops. We're not winning, they're just gearing up for Biden to declare victory over covid at his State of the Union in March. They're already starting to change how they report wuflu cases and deaths

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– lgbtqwtfbbq [S] 15 points 4 years ago +15 / -0

Of course they're doing that (and if/when they decide that the vaccines aren't as "safe and effective" as they claimed Trump gave them on a silver platter sound-bites to use against him in 2024), but they quite clearly didn't want to declare victory in this way. They don't write all these mandatory vaccination policies and develop all these "vaccine passport" systems because they want to throw it all away.

And it won't be thrown away, but a short-term reprieve is a victory nonetheless.

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– current_horror 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

Funny thing, though: they've whipped their psychotic base into such a permanent state of panic that any good news about covid-19 draws disdain and anger from democrat voters. Maybe they'll let go tht moment the MSM tells them to, but early indications are that it won't be that easy. Leftists have been legitimately psychologically damaged by the last 6 years.

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– Hitokiriizo 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Until saint Fauci is thrown under the bus, thus giving them a different reason to be angry, and the narrative shifts to Fauci was a Trump mole and he's quietly pushed back into the background like he was after his AIDS fiasco and they have someone else lined up to be the figurehead of the branch covidians.

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– Assassin47 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

I broke down and decided to try their Pistachio Latte the other day after seeing an ad that made it look super tasty. (someone also gave me a gift card, so it was free)

It wasn't as bad as most of their drinks, but that's no reason for me to go back. I can make coffee at home.

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– brappablat 12 points 4 years ago +12 / -0

You don't go to Starbucks for the coffee. It's just a comfortable, familiar place to be a shiftless layabout pretending to work on your laptop that's not home. The vaguely coffee-scented diabetic child's drink you buy with it is a mere courtesy.

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– Eltrion 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

I made the mistake of ordering something labeled tea there once. Probably more corn syrup in it than anything that could be accurately called tea. I'll stick to the he iced chocolate if I ever end up there again. At least then I know I'm getting a chocolate milkshake.

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– brappablat 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

I go to local non-chain coffees not because the coffee is any better (it very often isn't) but I'd figure my courtesy $3 or $4 on a burnt roast and a small pastry means more to them (especially after 2020) than Starbucks, which easily survives civil unrest and has plenty to go around.

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– Adamrises 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Nobody is drinking Starbucks for coffee and what you drink coffee for, they are drinking it for the super tasty, ultra unhealthy drink that sates the fat craving. It being coffee just lets it double dip on addiction by mixing caffeine with sugar.

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