Starbucks pushes job growth program...More Corporate BS

[rsmith6621]

http://www.komonews.com/news/business/130968998.html

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Starbucks hopes customers will be willing to pay at least $5 more when they stop in for their morning cup of Joe.

Starting Nov. 1, Starbucks will begin collecting donations of $5 or more from customers to stimulate U.S. job growth through its "Jobs for USA" program.

The Seattle-based coffee chain is collaborating with the Opportunity Finance Network, a nonprofit that works with nearly 200 community development financial institutions to provide loans to small businesses and community groups. Starbucks says 100 percent of the donations will go toward loans for firms and organizations that can add jobs or stem job losses.

Starbucks, which pioneered how Americans drink coffee, declined to estimate how much money it plans to raise, but millions of people visit its nearly 7,000 company-owned U.S. stores each day. Customers who give will get a red, white and blue wristband that says "Indivisible."

"This is about using Starbuck's scale for good," said Howard Schultz, Starbucks Corp.'s CEO.

[Brickbat]

1. ROFLMAO.

Epic.

[white_wolf]

2. You mean the company that manages to sell coffe for 5$ can't afford to create new jobs?

So are they admitting that the rich cannot create jobs?

[leftstreet]

7. +1

[arcane1]

3. I'll give them $5 if they promise not to buy out Peets n/t

[Arctic Dave]

4. Isn't that the reason we gave the MF'ers on Wall St all the money?!

I won't completely knock this, but damn, WTF.

[IndyPragmatist]

5. This is a lot better than an Indianapolis tv station's plan for job creation

Just hire people...that's it. Fox-59's amazing plan for job creating is to hire more workers.

I'm not kidding.

They call it the Just One Job project. They are calling on every company to hire a worker. Oh if it were only that easy. Why not just ask every company to hire 20 people, then things would be amazing!

[AsahinaKimi]

6. In SF

I am willing to bet there are more Starbucks shops then any other food chain in the city. (Even Peets is slightly lagging behind.)You can't go downtown without finding a Starbucks on every block. You would think they would hire more people. I went once, and was told I was "over qualified". (Another way of telling me, we want the fresh young ones who come out of high school, so we can mold them to our way of doing things!)How many seniors do you see working at Starbucks? I can't recall any...