https://twitter.com/FoxGGreen/status/1550181570421706753

Baristas also deserve to be hand fed by an influencer looking to make 5 trillion views from charity porn.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    2 years ago

    What? No, dipshit, if you get rid of your fucking workforce that actually produces wealth then what's fucking left? A supervisor or manager to try and keep the store functional? A bunch of middle-management pencil-pushing dweebs that send each other spreadsheets of numbers of this and that? Upper management clowns and department heads whos entire existence is to sit in meetings letting their eyes glaze over watching powerpoints?

    You get rid of the foundations of a business, then the bureaucratic house of cards will tumble down

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      They literally think an automated coffee machine can do a Barista's job. That sound you can hear is the entire population of Melbourne (a city that ran Starbucks out of town because it was worse than the worst coffee you can conceive of getting there) laughing at them.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          No, but they think if you just put a row of hospital coffee machines in place of a Starbucks that's the same thing.

          Like...I'm pretty pro automation but they've clearly never drank coffee before.

          • machiabelly [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            There is also the hyper specific orders that people get. I'd love to see an automated machine pump out some of the crazy shit that people order at starbucks. Or the anal fucks that go apeshit over the tiniest bit of foam. Barista is hard job and machines are too simple for what people want. People don't even know how to order and they want to take out the humans helping them! And the taste ofc

            • Mardoniush [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              Oh, I've tried to order a Flat White at a stopover in Canada and it's not a great moment for me or the Barista (nor is it remotely their fault I want a failed cappuccino as a drink).

              Australians are famously anal over coffee, more so than Viennese or Italians.

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      That coffee grinding noise off in the distance is the tendency of the rate of profit to fall.