This fuckin' guy. He lives in Newport Beach and was made the CEO of Chipotle, which was headquartered in Denver. Since he didn't want to move to Denver, he laid off almost the entire corporate office and moved it to Newport Beach.
He justified all this by having a consulting company come in and do a study about where the best restaurant talent is in the US. Surprise, surprise. The best place for a corporate office just happened to be right where this assclown lived.
I guess what I'm saying is two things:
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Fuck this clown.
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Starbuck corporate employees are about to be surprised to learn that apparently Newport Beach has the best coffee talent in the country.
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I realize as a mere pawn in the giant corporate chess game I have no right to ask this question.
But how in the ever loving fuck is this man providing that much value that he can justify this kind of action. There wasn't another candidate for the job that could do 90% of the same work, but was willing to live in the same zip code as their employees and save the cost and emissions of this commute? I guess this man will result in the most profit for shareholders. I can't even comprehend how someone can justify it, though.
It should honestly be a disqualifying demonstration of bad decision making.
You can either put in a lot of effort straight away (saving time and effort later), or delay the inevitable, pay quite a large sum in transport costs every day, and have to do infinite airport runs?...
Choosing the latter shows he shouldn't have the job.
Stuff like this is why I hate these companies so much. Yeah mate I'll use a paper straw for your overpriced coffee to save the environment, you can continue to come to your office in a fucking plane everyday.
The crazy thing is that when I try to put myself in their shoes, it would be hell to commute to an office by a plane, even if it had all the luxuries in the world, 5 days a week. That's like 5 hours wasted every weekday. If I had private jet money I'd just work from home or if that's not possible, buy a house a walking distance from the office.
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alright guys, lets not get into paper strawman arguments here
i'll be genuinely surprised if he lasts a year, especially with schultz standing over his shoulder
I went to starbucks and bought a large reusable plastic cup that I'll probably never use again... I helped save the planet!
what dude cant pay for a fancy hotel or something? seriously?
When do we get to eat this guy?
This guy looks so out of touch... Looks like the kind of guy that goes to a donut shop and when asked what he wants, he says, "uh, just whatever makes sense"
Fuck corpo coffee
Did he say he would do it every day? I know he's not moving but in my (admittedly limited) experience execs fly up Monday morning and stay to Thursday or Friday night and fly home.
That's at least a good 6 cups of Starbucks purchased by my wife.
Time for a strong, progressive, freaking wealth tax.
Flying 1600km just to check emails and tell an underling to bring them coffee... nice.
