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tohsaccharin:reachfortheot3:jamesblackhound:reachfortheot3:ratboigles:biscochozorro:biscochozorro:So #Starbucks has begun to penalize its employees for taking home out of date food. So anything that would have fed us and our families or donated to pantries and shelters must now be trashed under penalty of termination. Please call or tweet #starbucks and let them know you think this is horrible.So let me reiterate exactly why this is horrible:Because not only are they wasting food, they are taking food out of peoples mouths who needed it. A lot of those people being the very people that starbucks employs, because even at a higher than minimum wage most places do not pay a living wage, many food service workers subsist on the food they serve to make ends meed each month. On top of taking that food they are branding these people who are mostly trying to feed themselves, friends and family thieves. They are terminating people for “acts of theft” for food that is unfit to sell. Which not only takes money out of their pockets ( a still not livable wage even if they boast a higher than minimum one) but they are also blacklisting people from getting hired elsewhere.And even when the food was not going to starbucks staff often times would be handed out by us or others to homeless people, or collected by churches and shelters.Starbucks is not gaining any money through this policy, this policy does not benefit the customer. They are literally punishing us for being hungry and not paying for the food that many of us could not afford otherwise.MailStarbucks Customer ServicePO Box 6363Dover, DE 19905-6363Phone800-Starbuc (800-782-7282)Mon – Fri 5 AM – 8 PM (PST)Sat – Sun 6 AM – 4 PM (PST)MSGhttp://customerservice.starbucks.com/app/contact/ask_retail_stores/You can also bombard their Facebook and Twitter Accounts and ask why they are punishing their partners for being hungry.i can personally attest to the sheer amount they throw away for little reason, as i’ve been in the position of having to dumpster dive to feed myself and my family. you can find loads, and i mean loads, bags upon bags worth of their goods thrown in the trash.and to top it off, a good lot of it doesn’t even get as far as being unwrapped from its plastic wrapping.if they at least donated these goods to the local churches, they’d probably still have enough to spare for employees to take home to eat. there’d be so much to go around, they waste so much food its incredible.the local starbucks is a regular place to hit for just about any poor/starving person(s) in the neighborhood.What is the minimum wage in America?Bc this sounds like one of the more stupid corporate decisions in the history of corporate decisions XPDepends on the state but it’s around 8 USDFUCKOur minimum wage is something like $16 or $17 AUDAnd our dollar is weaker than the US’sFuckWhat the fuckYeah, I worked for minimum wage in my state part-time (because almost nowhere hires full-time) for my first job and the actual baseline minimum wage in my state is $7.25 an hour. I finally got a full-time job that pays $11/hour and honestly it’s the first time I’ve felt safe for the moment in ages. Like, that is honestly far more than I ever expected. And places like Starbucks only hire part-time so they won’t have to supply benefits and are CONSTANTLY making public statements about how any push to raise minimum wage to, like, $15 an hour so people could live on it working part-time in theory will make their operation so expensive that they will have to raise prices much higher for the end consumer. And they hope this will make enough of the people who already have living wage jobs who can afford Starbucks buck against any raising of the minimum wage enough to prevent it. Because, in the end, even companies like Starbucks that do occasionally do something like the education benefit they offer really only care about how MUCH profit they are making and any loss of the amount of profit they are making is unacceptable. -- source link