Starbucks says Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’ head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet

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    30 days ago

    I’m sorry, if you aren’t willing to relocate, you are not a good fit for the company.

    I heard this in a job interview and the position was disclosed as remote.

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      I don’t understand why can’t the CEO be remote. They can buy all their important staff Apple Vision Pros if they’d like and it’ll still be cheaper than this

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    Next time Starbucks does a greenwashing campaign just think of this asshole drinking champagne while commuting on a private jet.

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    So, you’re going to continue to increase climate change, rather than just using a zoom call. GOD DAMN CEOS!!! Why the hell is return to office so important to you assholes??? Just do a god damned video call!

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      A zoom call has the possibility of being recorded. I’m 90% sure at this point all these execs insist on in person meetings is so they can plan and discuss illegal and unethical shit without worry.

      I’m only in middle management and I know I feel the difference in the way I talk about things on zoom calls VS in person.

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        You could also record an in person meeting.
        Zoom tells participants if the are being recorded by the zoom app.

        I think these people just get off on having their fiefdom and serfs in person before them to pander and be sycophants.

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    Calling it “supercommute” is such a stupid thing. It should be called “stupidcommute” or maybe “commoronute”.

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    I have to dry my clothes between 12am and 3pm and this m’fer gets to fly a jet to work. Private jets along with luxury yachts are things humanity shouldn’t have.

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    Real “Meetings that could have been Emails” energy on this executive level decision.

    Honestly, doing the big Star Wars Emperor hologram head would have made this guy look less evil.

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      29 days ago

      Didn’t they change the law so you can’t track private flights anymore? Or was Melon Husk just trying to get that done? Or was that just me imagining things again? 🤔

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          It’s also not something that you can really stop people from doing.

          You might be able to stop people sharing the information freely, but, the transponders that people track and the protocols and standards for the communication are well known internationally. It doesn’t take more than $50 in parts to set up your own receiver and connect it to a computer.

          I’d consider any law prohibiting the observation of air traffic by the public to be impossible to enforce. How can you stop someone from listening by law?

          Sharing the information, however, that’s a bit different.

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        The FAA reauthorization act slipped in that ownership of private jets could remain anonymous. So you can still track them, because all flight plans are public and need to be for safety reasons, but they no longer have to tell you who owns what tail number. A dedicated tracker can figure out what plane belongs to who, either by showing up at the airport, or by comparing flight logs with other information about celebrity locations.

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    Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’ head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet

    Replace all the Taylor Swift memes with this fucking guy.

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      Spirit/Frontier, he’s not allowed to buy a single upgrade in advance, and the employees are required to harass him about the size of his personal item and upcharge him for a carry-on on every single flight.

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    I think there should be tax on flights, and the tax rate should double every time you fly in a year.

    Nobody needs to be this cunty.