Starbucks Baristas Share Things They’re Just So Tired Of (35 New Posts)

...and i mean a lot of it is true tho, just sayin ~an american citizen

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Except it isnt. 48% of Americans are over weight according to BMI(AN outdated useless scale) so the majority isn't over weight even by archaic standards. We're stupid but have pioneered the most advancements in medicine in history. We're so hateful we take in half the world's immigrants and people risk their lives to come here. We're so underpaid that the lowest paid worker is richer than 85% of the rest of the world.

Of course the US has made huge advancements, it has 330 million people. But it's only the rare few that actually have common sense. It takes in so many immigrants because it's a huge country and everything about it is extremely over-exaggerated, and racism, sexism, and homophobia are huge problems. Underpaid Americans make more than 85% of the world because it's a rich but extremely inequal country, so even though they're technically richer than 85% of the world, they're still making barely enough to survive.

So basically you're invalidating anyone who complains about not being able to afford basic necessities because someone else might have it worse?

Yes, bmi is stupid because it doesn't analyze whether your weight is based on fat or muscle. As for the rest of the arguments, I cannot agree.

Yes, you are underpaid. For comparison - the Big Mac in most of the EU costs the same as a Big Mac in Washington DC for example - yet employees in the US get paid a fraction - so.. why ? You guys are worth so much more.. I hope you can grab this moment to force a change for the better.

Because we're idiots, and because we work within a system in which everyone is corrupt. And if progress is made, as soon as the person responsible leaves office said progress gets undone asap. It sucks.

The US government is owned by corporations, full stop. You cannot get the citizenry to agree long enough to institute change. There is no fixing it. It's cute that you think we can.

Because we can't do anything. We're trying but our government is owned by lobbyists for corporate interests. It doesn't matter where public opinion lies as long as politicians are getting their pockets stuffed, and there's always enough gaslit Americans afraid of anything that gets called "communism" to squash any efforts of unity.

What would we do? Boycott restaurants? Run for city council? Have a protest? I'm open to suggestions.

A national strike for hospitality workers. It worked for other sectors, even in the US

Because, as apposed to what is believed, the US is a Democrat Republic. You vote for the people who vote for the leaders, so that doesn't mean everyone's votes actually matter, or that the person they elected will choose what they want.

It's not up to us, the ordinary people, or it would have been corrected by now. I have no power over those with money and power who make those decisions

If you don't think it's a skill, do it without any training. There's no such thing as unskilled labor. You just think that the people who work jobs that aren't prestigious or whatever don't deserve to live.

Really? Because I know some people REALLY qualifies and REALLY overworked and REALLY underpaid.

I mean once in a while the service mightn't be that bad but that's only because you got up 15 times to ask for the same drink and they realised that they can't take an hour to give you your desert jsut because the servers are all hungover and tipsy