that's a pay gap, alright

[DoBW]

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-08-27T21:27:37.967770Z

[MIButterfly]

1. I love Starbucks chai tea latte, but I have been boycotting them

for the last several years because they are anti-union. Although I have never had a union job, I am in solidarity with the workers. I believe if a company is anti-union, they're anti-worker. Starbucks seems to go above and beyond just being against unions; they will fight unionization all the way up to the Supreme Court. So they don't get any of my business anymore.

So far, I haven't found any chai tea lattes I like as much as Starbucks, but I keep looking.

[Norrrm]

6. My wallet boycotts them.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I have always avoided them.

[Greg_In_SF]

3. Never been

and never will.

[BidenRocks]

4. Inconsiderate Bastards!

They clog their drive thru and then block a lane of traffic for a quarter mile. (In N Out also)

I get off the freeway, hang a right and almost rear end stopped charbuks assholes!

It's burnt coffee, and suckers are hooked. Just like heroin, they must have their fix.

I would not be surprised if they find an addictive additive besides caffeine.

[FHRRK]

13. I can deal with a lot, drink straight black coffee

And Starbucks just sux.

[BidenRocks]

15. 8 O'Clock whole bean

French Press.

I was at charbuks three times, always as a guest. One in San Fran. Still burnt.

[kimbutgar]

5. I NEVER go to Starbucks

Make my own coffee at home. I’m have a Starbucks gift card that I haven’t used.

Back in 2013 I was still working in the downtown area of my city and one day a week I had to start work at 6;00am and I used to go to Starbucks. I got to know the servers and was shocked they barely made minimum wage.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Went there a few times many years ago...

I was given a gift card.

Actually don't like their coffee. Tends to be over-roasted, and since I don't care for lattes or other deep sweetened coffee drinks, no reason to go there.

Oh, and there's the whole thing with the Seattle Supersonics basketball team. Not a BBall fan myself, but what he did then kind of soured me on anything adjacent to Howar Schultz. I know he's gone now, but I still won't drink their shitty coffee.

[BidenRocks]

16. Missing the 50 cup Marine Corps coffee urns?

First one in, made it.

I still have the gift card too.

[Wounded Bear]

17. Had to fill those many years ago, as a young corporal on mess hall detail...

[markodochartaigh]

8. Starbucks is out of my price range.

But at the airport I have gone there a couple of times as a treat. When they ask my name I say "Union Strong".
I got that from a unionizing newsletter a couple of years ago.

[MissouriDem47]

9. I Have Never Gone to Starbucs

I can make and enjoy my Folgers at home for a lost less money.

[RainCaster]

10. I buy Peet's

I order directly from their Web site and have it shipped to my house. Much better coffee in my opinion.

[sdfernando]

12. I'm with you on PEET's....Much better coffee

and as luck would have there is one of their coffee houses about 1 mile away from my house. Its a regular visit at least once on the weekend. There is another about 5 miles away, close to the ocean....and when I was working they had a coffee house about 2 miles from the office. I was never in need of PEET's and could easily avoid SuXBux.

[GiqueCee]

14. Peet's French Roast...

... is all we ever buy. I just wish they weren't owned by a German conglomerate with questionable ties to private equity firms, the vampires of the business world.

[dumbcat]

18. Peet's MAJ Dickenson's Blend

Is pretty much the only coffee I buy. Discovered it about five years ago and I started drinking it straight black. My three cups a day is one of life's pleasures.

[RainCaster]

19. That's my choice as well

A great balance of flavors, IMO.

[ms liberty]

11. Never been, and not interested in going.

Coffee's not my thing.