Starbucks Coffee Mission statement: To establish Starbucks as the premier purveyor of the finest coffees in the works while maintaining our UNCOMPROMISING PRINCIPLES as we grow.

Uncompromising principles:
To maintain a great work environment and treat each other with respect and dignity

Embrace diversity as an essential component of the way we do business

Apply the highest standards of excellence to the purchasing, roasting, and fresh delivery of our coffee

Develop enthusiastically satisfied customers all of the time

Contribute positively to our communities and our environment

Recognize that profitability is essential to our future success

On February 21st Starbucks laid off over 250 employees they call “partners” in an effort to control costs. Not a single executive took any kind of pay cut and the new CEO Howard Schultz even gets paid more than the previous CEO Jim Donald. They created a new CCO position with a six figure salary, yet they cut over 250 “partners” who need to feed families and have benefits. This coming from a company that claims to be different and “people focused.” Starbucks violated its very own mission statement to save upper executives and board members from having to lose a small portion of their income. There was no “great work environment” on February 21st and there hasn’t been one since. Ever since Mr. Schultz took over the “partners” working in the SSC in Seattle have been walking on egg shells.

I was told I could take a lower position with a significant pay cut or look for another job. I was given a small amount of time to decide. I am forced to work there due to needing medical benefits. This is coming from a person who used to vehemently defend Starbucks because I believed it to be special. I guess I was wrong. It’s just another big greedy corporation, except it claims to be something it’s not. This needs to stop.

It seems that Starbucks only follows its mission when the stock price is favorable.