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Their company has some sort of corporate policy prohibition on "give aways" so their management decided to up the employee freebies and then vigorously encourage them to send that to our deployed forces as a workaround.



That's simply not true. I could care less where people buy or drink their coffee, but my wife has worked for Starbucks for 12 years. They are one of the most generous corporations I have ever seen. Having worked for several different corporations, I am constantly shocked at the amount of community support and donations made by Starbucks. My wife personally authorized a huge box of goods for deployed troops, and partners could add their weekly pound of coffee if they wanted. She donates large cambros of brewed coffee for events almost weekly. They match partner donations to charities, send workers on habitat for humanity, pledge money for things like walk for the cure. I did a charity walk with my wife, and they paid her hourly wage per mile for her, me, and our 1yr old daughter! There was a group of @ 250 just from local stores, and their families. That's a pretty big give away just for showing up and walking 3 miles.

Another thing that is rarely seen is their support of part time workers. Not only in higher wages, they pay medical benefits, give them stock and vacation too. Usually if you are 20hrs a week...you get an hourly wage, period.

Now this is coming from someone who sits in an independently owned coffee shop every morning, but Starbucks bashing is just cliche. All Triumphs leak oil, Sportsters are girls bikes...