The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108985   Message #2273290
Posted By: Greg B
26-Feb-08 - 10:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks closing: did you care?
Well, props to Starbucks for being one of the few US employers to even
offer health insurance to their part-timers. In fact, I understand a
number of 'artists' work at Starbucks part-time just to qualify. On
the other hand they've resisted mightily the efforts of the IWW to
unionize them.

As to the closing, it reminded me of an Air Force or Naval Aviation
'stand down' in which after some sort of incident or accident everyone
stops flying for a day of re-education. We did that in the CAF a few
years back after a bunch of guys managed to de-restore a few of our
WW2 era fighters and bombers, some of them getting out of the shallow
end of the gene-pool in the process. I was kind of thinking "what is
that, an espresso machine or a flippin' F/A-18?"