I just read this little blurb about how Starbucks all over the country are closing their doors for 3 hours to reinvigorate the coffee passion and retrain their people. I can see this sort of thing working in Seattle, where they are headquartered, where there might actually be some passion involved. But was there ever any passion to be lost in the 7,000 other stores throughout the country - like say the one in the Target store here in Springfield? Yeah… I bet they just take 3 hours off and wander over to the connected Pizza Hut Express.
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February 26th, 2008 @ 7:11 am by EJ · 8 Comments
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Aunt Kath
// Feb 26, 2008 at 7:54 am
I venture a guess that I, too, would not show much passion in a minimum wage job. (Of course, there is personal pride in a job, but that depends on the individual.) But, again, I’m sure that pride may be elusive if your life’s work is selling coffee (or “flipping
burgers,” or cleaning toilets) all day.
Suffice it to say that our families are fortunate.
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Bob
// Feb 26, 2008 at 9:11 am
I think I am going to take 3 years off and re-ignite my passion for my job :-).
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EJ
// Feb 26, 2008 at 9:12 am
You should forward that article to someone…
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Aunt Kath
// Feb 26, 2008 at 11:43 am
Bob,
Excuse me!! It’s only been 1 year and 10 months!
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EJ
// Feb 26, 2008 at 11:51 am
I think Bob was saying that 3 hours wouldn’t quite re-ignite passion in his job - it would take a few orders of magnitude more than that, years.
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Aunt Kath
// Feb 26, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Yeah, I assumed that because of the “3″ and “3″, but I sent that on the off chance that he had a double meaning–you KNOW how your dad is!
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EJ
// Feb 26, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Alright, I just don’t want a war on my blog… I’ll shut it down!!
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Dave
// Feb 26, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I bet tomorrow morning (or maybe even later tonight,) the baristas will be all smiles. Nothing like a healthy dose of soul sucking corporate kool-aide to promote and further your evil coffee empire. I’ll stick with the local chain; it just seems less pretentious than Starbucks.