Starbucks says incoming CEO Brian Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’s head office in Seattle on a corporate jet.
I want to point out again that on a very basic, definitional level, every single person in the comments of this post are more qualified to be CEO of Starbucks than Brian Niccol
Brian Niccol was the CEO of Chipotle, a position he no longer holds because he was bad at it
Seeing as none of us have yet proven to be bad at being CEOs, we are by definition more qualified to be CEO of any company than someone who has already proven he’s bad at the job
If you’ve ever worked as a barista, especially if it was at Starbucks, you’re far more capable of doing this job than Brian Niccol. To me this is the obvious solution to get a much cheaper, better pick: Literally don’t even bother interviewing, just do a random lottery of baristas. Are there better methods? Probably, but it’s still a significant improvement than finding one of ~15 dudes in the country as specifically unqualified for this job as this man is.
He was a union buster, that’s why they brought him in. He’s qualified to either break the unionization or destroy the company trying, and they are perfectly willing to destroy the company to stop the union. Why should they care? If they can’t bust the union, sell off Starbucks to some private equity firm and liquidate the whole thing.
I really really hate living in the “strip the copper out of the walls” stage of capitalism this shit sucks ass
And also is he?? I would think if he successfully busted the union at Chipotle and it went great Chipotle wouldn’t have kicked him out for being so shit at his job. It sounds more like he tries to be a union buster but again, is bad at his job.
He shut down the stores that unionized and killed unionization momentum for years. Sure, Chipotle had to pay a pittance when the NLRB fined them but the company came out ahead there.
Why is he not still CEO of Chipotle then? That’s why I’m confused. If he did a good job, I would think he would still be in that position. But he got removed from that position, presumably because he did a “bad job” according to whatever metrics they’re using.
I would think if he did a successful job killing the union effort and Chipotle was doing great with him in charge he would still be in charge of Chipotle. I think I’ve heard Chipotle’s been on an upswing but that’s since he left which confirms to me that he was bad at it and that’s why they fired him.
He wasn’t fired from his job as Chipotle CEO, he was hired away by Starbucks basically by giving him a shitload of power. He’s generally seen as one of the best CEOs right now (best here meaning most bloodless ofc).
I have such strong Deja vu from when the university I worked for until recently hired a new president.
They selected a former Republican US senator who had previously been president of a small private college for one (1) year, before being fired for being so shitty at it.
In order to make this selection, they broke Florida law which lays out a particular process for selecting a president, which involves publishing a public shortlist of 5 candidates. They claimed at the time that they were unable to do this as they couldn’t find 5 candidates willing to have their name published unless they got the job.
Which, to me that sounds like something that specifically disqualifies you for the job. There are no technical requirements for the position; You can pick anyone. Literally the only requirement is being okay with your name being on that published list during the interview process.
If you selected 5 random undergrads, 5 random grad students, 5 random staff members, or even 5 random alumni every single one of those people would’ve been more qualified for the job than the man they went so far out of their way to select. There are only like 10 guys in the country who have failed at being a university president, and seemingly they only looked at the people on that list when trying to select someone. Random lots would’ve had a higher chance of a successful outcome
He quit after a little over a year, and is now under investigation because he tripled the budget of his office, and spent it on travel and giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to random Republican cronies who were never even in the state. What a great choice!
I think this shit might piss me off more than anything else about the dictatorship of the bourgeois. We’re constantly told we live in a meritocracy and while I don’t even think meritocracy is good (everyone should have their needs taken care of regardless of their ability) it drives me fucking crazy to see that it’s not even a meritocracy, because if you’re rich and powerful you can literally only keep failing upwards. They will search out the people with the least merit to fill these positions, to the point where drawing lots looks like an incredibly reasonable alternative.
Idk if it’s just my autism being like “It’s not fair!” or what but it pisses me off
I want to point out again that on a very basic, definitional level, every single person in the comments of this post are more qualified to be CEO of Starbucks than Brian Niccol
Brian Niccol was the CEO of Chipotle, a position he no longer holds because he was bad at it
Seeing as none of us have yet proven to be bad at being CEOs, we are by definition more qualified to be CEO of any company than someone who has already proven he’s bad at the job
If you’ve ever worked as a barista, especially if it was at Starbucks, you’re far more capable of doing this job than Brian Niccol. To me this is the obvious solution to get a much cheaper, better pick: Literally don’t even bother interviewing, just do a random lottery of baristas. Are there better methods? Probably, but it’s still a significant improvement than finding one of ~15 dudes in the country as specifically unqualified for this job as this man is.
He was a union buster, that’s why they brought him in. He’s qualified to either break the unionization or destroy the company trying, and they are perfectly willing to destroy the company to stop the union. Why should they care? If they can’t bust the union, sell off Starbucks to some private equity firm and liquidate the whole thing.
I really really hate living in the “strip the copper out of the walls” stage of capitalism this shit sucks ass
And also is he?? I would think if he successfully busted the union at Chipotle and it went great Chipotle wouldn’t have kicked him out for being so shit at his job. It sounds more like he tries to be a union buster but again, is bad at his job.
He shut down the stores that unionized and killed unionization momentum for years. Sure, Chipotle had to pay a pittance when the NLRB fined them but the company came out ahead there.
Why is he not still CEO of Chipotle then? That’s why I’m confused. If he did a good job, I would think he would still be in that position. But he got removed from that position, presumably because he did a “bad job” according to whatever metrics they’re using.
I would think if he did a successful job killing the union effort and Chipotle was doing great with him in charge he would still be in charge of Chipotle. I think I’ve heard Chipotle’s been on an upswing but that’s since he left which confirms to me that he was bad at it and that’s why they fired him.
His job was done. Now they bring in the nice and friendly CEO to tell workers “you don’t need a union now that the mean CEO is gone!”
i think the corporate world literally sees these guys as “hatchet men” or “operators” or whatever buzzword. they exist only to destroy and move on.
thus they fit in somewhere in the ecosystem even though they are shit managers and executives.
He wasn’t fired from his job as Chipotle CEO, he was hired away by Starbucks basically by giving him a shitload of power. He’s generally seen as one of the best CEOs right now (best here meaning most bloodless ofc).
I have such strong Deja vu from when the university I worked for until recently hired a new president.
They selected a former Republican US senator who had previously been president of a small private college for one (1) year, before being fired for being so shitty at it.
In order to make this selection, they broke Florida law which lays out a particular process for selecting a president, which involves publishing a public shortlist of 5 candidates. They claimed at the time that they were unable to do this as they couldn’t find 5 candidates willing to have their name published unless they got the job.
Which, to me that sounds like something that specifically disqualifies you for the job. There are no technical requirements for the position; You can pick anyone. Literally the only requirement is being okay with your name being on that published list during the interview process.
If you selected 5 random undergrads, 5 random grad students, 5 random staff members, or even 5 random alumni every single one of those people would’ve been more qualified for the job than the man they went so far out of their way to select. There are only like 10 guys in the country who have failed at being a university president, and seemingly they only looked at the people on that list when trying to select someone. Random lots would’ve had a higher chance of a successful outcome
He quit after a little over a year, and is now under investigation because he tripled the budget of his office, and spent it on travel and giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to random Republican cronies who were never even in the state. What a great choice!
I think this shit might piss me off more than anything else about the dictatorship of the bourgeois. We’re constantly told we live in a meritocracy and while I don’t even think meritocracy is good (everyone should have their needs taken care of regardless of their ability) it drives me fucking crazy to see that it’s not even a meritocracy, because if you’re rich and powerful you can literally only keep failing upwards. They will search out the people with the least merit to fill these positions, to the point where drawing lots looks like an incredibly reasonable alternative.
Idk if it’s just my autism being like “It’s not fair!” or what but it pisses me off