Comments on: Powerful User Created Video Against Starbucks http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/12/21/powerful-user-created-video-against-starbucks/ C.C. Chapman gives you and your business real world advice and tactics to start leveraging social media in your daily life Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:12:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: MrFrans http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/12/21/powerful-user-created-video-against-starbucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1765 MrFrans Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:52:46 +0000 http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/12/21/powerful-user-created-video-against-starbucks/#comment-1765 Sure there are succes stories. http://www.fairtrade.net http://www.oxfam.org/en/programs/campaigns/maketradefair/index.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichting_Max_Havelaar http://www.maxhavelaar.ch/en/maxhavelaar/index.php Offcourse there are allways people why try to profit unfairly, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't make a effort to imporve the situation. Sure there are succes stories.
http://www.fairtrade.net
http://www.oxfam.org/en/programs/campaigns/maketradefair/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichting_Max_Havelaar
http://www.maxhavelaar.ch/en/maxhavelaar/index.php

Offcourse there are allways people why try to profit unfairly, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make a effort to imporve the situation.

]]> By: John Wall http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/12/21/powerful-user-created-video-against-starbucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1759 John Wall Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:53:45 +0000 http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/12/21/powerful-user-created-video-against-starbucks/#comment-1759 MrFrans that's not bull, that's how the market works. I challenge you to find any case where throwing more money at a vendor has ever provided any lasting social change in a political situation. There's case after case of organizations throwing money at social problems, only to have the funds stolen by the political corruption or social graft that is causing the problem in the first place. I fully agree that CEO compensation is absurd in many cases, but I've got no solution to that. There's no one with the power or motivation to walk into a boardroom and say "nobody deserves a cash bonus over $20 million dollars, that's as much an atrocity as paying someone 3 cents". MrFrans that’s not bull, that’s how the market works. I challenge you to find any case where throwing more money at a vendor has ever provided any lasting social change in a political situation. There’s case after case of organizations throwing money at social problems, only to have the funds stolen by the political corruption or social graft that is causing the problem in the first place.

I fully agree that CEO compensation is absurd in many cases, but I’ve got no solution to that. There’s no one with the power or motivation to walk into a boardroom and say “nobody deserves a cash bonus over $20 million dollars, that’s as much an atrocity as paying someone 3 cents”.

]]> By: Neil Ford http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/12/21/powerful-user-created-video-against-starbucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1750 Neil Ford Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:47:13 +0000 http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/12/21/powerful-user-created-video-against-starbucks/#comment-1750 The response from Starbucks can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dteTrEM7mlM&NR though it looks like it might be a different one to the one John found. - Neil. The response from Starbucks can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dteTrEM7mlM&NR though it looks like it might be a different one to the one John found.

- Neil.

]]> By: MrFrans http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/12/21/powerful-user-created-video-against-starbucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1742 MrFrans Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:11:00 +0000 http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/12/21/powerful-user-created-video-against-starbucks/#comment-1742 John that is bull. As long as they can pay the bosses millions of dollars every year, there is room to make the difference smaller. If you want to improve the world, it is right there. It is interresting that so far only 5500 people has seen that clip, and wonder if you truly are reaching the world John that is bull. As long as they can pay the bosses millions of dollars every year, there is room to make the difference smaller. If you want to improve the world, it is right there.

It is interresting that so far only 5500 people has seen that clip, and wonder if you truly are reaching the world

]]> By: John Wall http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/12/21/powerful-user-created-video-against-starbucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1728 John Wall Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:32:23 +0000 http://www.managingthegray.com/2006/12/21/powerful-user-created-video-against-starbucks/#comment-1728 Yeah, I can see the Starbucks video now... "We just decide to pay some of our suppliers more than the asking price because that's the way a good business is run. It's ok, people are fine paying $4 for a coffee, they won't notice us adding another buck and making the cup smaller so that vendors who are unable to negotiate for themselves can get a premium." How do I get my salary calculated that way? Yeah, I can see the Starbucks video now… “We just decide to pay some of our suppliers more than the asking price because that’s the way a good business is run. It’s ok, people are fine paying $4 for a coffee, they won’t notice us adding another buck and making the cup smaller so that vendors who are unable to negotiate for themselves can get a premium.”

How do I get my salary calculated that way?

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