Starfucks Coffee
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Bad things happen when you work too much from home. T-shirts and boxers become your daily uniform and shaving can become a forgotten art. We won’t even describe the joys of waking up at your desk. Thankfully, wireless networking has made the café a great option to work outside the office and still get a healthy dose of human contact. We polled café workers everywhere from large chains like Starbucks and Panera to small, artsy shops to uncover the unspoken rules that will either make you look like the café’s sophisticated freelancer or an annoying oaf that’s possibly homeless. Read on. They slide into the establishment and subtly pop up at a table so they can enjoy the sweet workspace and internet access without being detected…and paying a cent. Everyone we polled at cafes notice these folks (after all, they stay for hours) and about one quarter of the employees we talked to were offended by their freeloading ways. These folks don’t realize that if they ever do get hungry there’s nothing more horrifying than buying food from disgruntled service.
CHANGE FOR A BUCK?
So apparently, you cannot just go into starbucks and use internet anymore, now they MAKE you buy something, or they kick you out. I guess there goes my hope of setting up a camping trip/tent in a used car lot.
"You can't just stand around and eat from our vending machines, you have to buy a car!"
Talk about forcing shit on people, right?
Look, starbucks should be happy. These people are doing them a favor. People want to fit in, it's a neccessary need of human life. People feel they need to fit in in order to be accepted, and so the more people they see in starbucks, even if they aren't ORDERING, they're gonna go, "Wow, that place is popular!" So they'll start going there, "just because everyone else was doing it and I just wanted to be popular". They'll conform. Then they'll order stuff. These people are like free ads. Starbucks is one of the worst places in the world. I mean, Wal-Mart is bad, alright, but at least Wal-Mart greeters have never told anyone, "You can't come in here to use the bathroom! You have to buy something!" You never hear a story like that from Wal-Mart. Because they've successfully grasped this whole "free marketing" idea. That's all these people are. They're cash free marketing employees.
As I said, people will want to fit in, it's a basic need, it's a human instinct. We crave and hunger for acceptance, and WHATEVER age we are by the way, and so if they see people sitting in starbucks, they'll assume everybody goes there, it's popular, and if they go there, then they will, by association, become popular and look hip as well.
Hooray for run on sentences.
If I ever go to a starbucks, and they make me order, I'll go, "Yeah, I'd like a maine lobster".
"Well we don't HAVE that."
"Well you SHOULD, you may get people to actually PURCHASE something, if you started carrying things WORTH purchasing."
Besides the fact that coffee is in fact bad for you. It's a habit. It's a co-dependency, a chemical co-dependency. Humans crave, along with acceptance, we crave and thrive on consistency, we don't like change. We are a primitive people scared of what we do not understand. Therefore we thrive on consistency. And that means that people who get these co-dependency's (cocaine, coffee, pills, sex, alcohol), are often the ones who become addicted to it. It's why it's so easy to become addicted, AND to get help. Because we FEAR change, (same with death) it ruins the simplistic idea of the leisure life of consistency, because then we think how everything may be different, and sometimes just the imaginary results are horrifying to us.
SO...
Without this turning into a fucking sermon, I'll have to revert back to the story of starbucks. Coffee. Co-dependency. Internet. Co-dependency. All addictions. Starbucks should get use to the idea, frankly, of using these people, free of charge, as large neon flashing signs that read, "DRINK HERE! WE DON'T, BUT YOU SHOULD!" Free marketing. Free ads.
I belong in the vice president department of a large marketing firm, or the white house. I really do.
I have an executive mind.
Meaning I know what's wrong for the environment, and will do my hardest not to fix it.
Hey, change is scary.
I like consistency.
M@RK WIL@ND
Bad things happen when you work too much from home. T-shirts and boxers become your daily uniform and shaving can become a forgotten art. We won’t even describe the joys of waking up at your desk. Thankfully, wireless networking has made the café a great option to work outside the office and still get a healthy dose of human contact. We polled café workers everywhere from large chains like Starbucks and Panera to small, artsy shops to uncover the unspoken rules that will either make you look like the café’s sophisticated freelancer or an annoying oaf that’s possibly homeless. Read on. They slide into the establishment and subtly pop up at a table so they can enjoy the sweet workspace and internet access without being detected…and paying a cent. Everyone we polled at cafes notice these folks (after all, they stay for hours) and about one quarter of the employees we talked to were offended by their freeloading ways. These folks don’t realize that if they ever do get hungry there’s nothing more horrifying than buying food from disgruntled service.
CHANGE FOR A BUCK?
So apparently, you cannot just go into starbucks and use internet anymore, now they MAKE you buy something, or they kick you out. I guess there goes my hope of setting up a camping trip/tent in a used car lot.
"You can't just stand around and eat from our vending machines, you have to buy a car!"
Talk about forcing shit on people, right?
Look, starbucks should be happy. These people are doing them a favor. People want to fit in, it's a neccessary need of human life. People feel they need to fit in in order to be accepted, and so the more people they see in starbucks, even if they aren't ORDERING, they're gonna go, "Wow, that place is popular!" So they'll start going there, "just because everyone else was doing it and I just wanted to be popular". They'll conform. Then they'll order stuff. These people are like free ads. Starbucks is one of the worst places in the world. I mean, Wal-Mart is bad, alright, but at least Wal-Mart greeters have never told anyone, "You can't come in here to use the bathroom! You have to buy something!" You never hear a story like that from Wal-Mart. Because they've successfully grasped this whole "free marketing" idea. That's all these people are. They're cash free marketing employees.
As I said, people will want to fit in, it's a basic need, it's a human instinct. We crave and hunger for acceptance, and WHATEVER age we are by the way, and so if they see people sitting in starbucks, they'll assume everybody goes there, it's popular, and if they go there, then they will, by association, become popular and look hip as well.
Hooray for run on sentences.
If I ever go to a starbucks, and they make me order, I'll go, "Yeah, I'd like a maine lobster".
"Well we don't HAVE that."
"Well you SHOULD, you may get people to actually PURCHASE something, if you started carrying things WORTH purchasing."
Besides the fact that coffee is in fact bad for you. It's a habit. It's a co-dependency, a chemical co-dependency. Humans crave, along with acceptance, we crave and thrive on consistency, we don't like change. We are a primitive people scared of what we do not understand. Therefore we thrive on consistency. And that means that people who get these co-dependency's (cocaine, coffee, pills, sex, alcohol), are often the ones who become addicted to it. It's why it's so easy to become addicted, AND to get help. Because we FEAR change, (same with death) it ruins the simplistic idea of the leisure life of consistency, because then we think how everything may be different, and sometimes just the imaginary results are horrifying to us.
SO...
Without this turning into a fucking sermon, I'll have to revert back to the story of starbucks. Coffee. Co-dependency. Internet. Co-dependency. All addictions. Starbucks should get use to the idea, frankly, of using these people, free of charge, as large neon flashing signs that read, "DRINK HERE! WE DON'T, BUT YOU SHOULD!" Free marketing. Free ads.
I belong in the vice president department of a large marketing firm, or the white house. I really do.
I have an executive mind.
Meaning I know what's wrong for the environment, and will do my hardest not to fix it.
Hey, change is scary.
I like consistency.
M@RK WIL@ND