Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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Dear Starbucks, (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Ixion_9
I’ve just finished my taxes. It is a crime how little we get paid for the work we do. I tell everyone that I volunteer for Starbucks. It sounds better than saying I’m enslaved. It’s a crime that everyone’s part time. It’s exhausting work. We should all be salaried at $75,000 a year to start. And that should be for 32 hours a week. If you don’t, the government will step in and raise your corporate taxes. You don’t care about us at all. Why? The wealthy shareholders? You have such an opportunity to change. Go for it!
TheDoubleDan 13 points 1y ago
r/antiwork
MyLifesParody 2 points 1y ago
Was thinking the same thing.
Necessary_Low939 13 points 1y ago
Write that to Howard and not reddit
Ixion_9 [OP] 3 points 1y ago
I belief the right answer is write to Howard AND Reddit.
Necessary_Low939 1 points 1y ago
Fair enough
ecstatic-hatter 8 points 1y ago
Bro a baristas job is not worth 75k a year, and a part-time position at that. Computer science majors and nurses are paid less than that. You can't just apply for a position knowing full well you're getting paid mw and then complain that it's slavery.
Ixion_9 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
It’s not my fault
Venom-99 6 points 1y ago
Nothing we do is worth $75,000 a year. You want that kind of money, get some qualifications and do something worth that much.
Ixion_9 [OP] 3 points 1y ago
No. The $75k is meant to be polemical. But on the other hand why not $50/hr? That’s how much it costs to live comfortably in Los Angeles. The point is, in my view, speaking on a macro level, pay needs to shift away from market value and toward worker needs and well being. American society has unprecedented wealth. The social and civic values need to shift away from markets, capital, and shareholder profit and toward the value of workers as people themselves. Stuff, junk, and services should never be valued more than people. The right to a life which is stable, safe, rewarding. That includes health care, MBI, housing, and the bare minimum socialist planks. This country has shifted into a Kafkaesque nightmare where even the mega rich can’t understand how the system can let them get away with this inequality for so long. So yes, $50/hr or simply setting believing you’re not worth it. To each according to their need from each according to their (present) ability.
HSinvestor 5 points 1y ago
I'm all for better wages. However I believe we (baristas) are worth $20-25 dollars per hour, depending on the state.
I don't think we are worth $52 dollars per hour, nom matter how you slice it. Being a barista is hard, I get it. However many jobs that requires multiple degrees don't even pay 75K per year.
However, I think corporate should make a clear path to succession for Baristas to rise the ranks to an SM, and reduce how many corporates DMs and others are people who never were green beans.
If Starbucks really cared, they should focus on raising wages to 20, and then initiate programs to insure that corporate people all spent their fair share of time being a barista, helping them better understand what the bog standard barista goes through and therefore making them care more for the well-being of the people below them.
I don't think we are worth $52 dollars per hour, nom matter how you slice it. Being a barista is hard, I get it. However many jobs that requires multiple degrees don't even pay 75K per year.
However, I think corporate should make a clear path to succession for Baristas to rise the ranks to an SM, and reduce how many corporates DMs and others are people who never were green beans.
If Starbucks really cared, they should focus on raising wages to 20, and then initiate programs to insure that corporate people all spent their fair share of time being a barista, helping them better understand what the bog standard barista goes through and therefore making them care more for the well-being of the people below them.
Ixion_9 [OP] -1 points 1y ago
All good stuff. The $75k is meant to be polemical. But on the other hand why not $50/hr? That’s how much it costs to live comfortably in Los Angeles. The point is, in my view, speaking on a macro level, pay needs to shift away from market value and toward worker needs and well being. American society has unprecedented wealth. The social and civic values need to shift away from markets, capital, and shareholder profit and toward the value of workers as people themselves. Stuff, junk, and services should never be valued more than people. The right to a life which is stable, safe, rewarding. That includes health care, MBI, housing, and the bare minimum socialist planks. This country has shifted into a Kafkaesque nightmare where even the mega rich can’t understand how the system can let them get away with this inequality for so long. So yes, $50/hr or simply setting believing you’re not worth it. To each according to their need from each according to their (present) ability.
HSinvestor 5 points 1y ago
I don't disagree with what your saying. But at least $20-25 for a barista would be a start into the positive 😭, from what it is right now.
friendlySkeletor 2 points 1y ago
A lot of people aren't ready to move past "this job kinda sucks" into the radical positions necessary to do anything about it. American capitalism has gaslit labor into taking this shit and thanking your boss for it. Our hellish nightmare system will crumble around us and we'll all keep going to work because socialism is a scary word.
Ixion_9 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Good points. Thanks for your thoughts.
friendlySkeletor 1 points 1y ago
I'm an angry tired trans anarchist. I have infinite thoughts and rage.
BlackberryOpposite31 5 points 1y ago
Look I’m all for higher wages. But do you really think you should be getting $75,000 a year to make lattes. That’s a little ridiculous. You’re also not enslaved at Starbucks. You applied there. Accepted a position there. Choose to work there every day. And could leave whenever you want to. Let’s not compare your suffering to that of actual people who have been enslaved. Its insensitive to people who have actually suffered through slavery. It’s vastly different and your experience does not compare. Enslaved people are forced to work at a place they did not consent to working at and are not paid for that work. They do not have the choice to leave and are beaten if they break rules or sometimes for no reason at all. Being a part time worker is not a crime. Starbucks cannot guarantee that baristas and shifts will get 40 hours a week so telling people they can be full time would be deceitful.
MsMadcap_ 2 points 1y ago
This is very dramatic. Starbucks is not even the worst part-time job I’ve had. Honestly, compared to a LOT of other American companies, it’s pretty good.
Ixion_9 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
I agree it’s dramatic. I agree that the company isn’t so bad relative to other corporations. Unfortunately, their all wrong. Hopefully we can unionize. That would be a step. Especially because it doesn’t involve our moribund legislative wing. We shouldn’t sell ourselves short. Hopefully this inspires some people.
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