I haven’t said anything about my job in awhile, which if you look at my old blog you will see a lot of Starbucks news especially about a year ago. I bring it up now because of a recent employ being fired from the company. Starbucks was her life, she knew it, and I could understand because Starbucks was my life for a long time. When you don’t have anything else you can truly enjoy or excel at you learn to love your job. I think her “let go” had just reason and maybe it wasn’t handled in the right way, I’m not sure, I don’t know all the details but I do know that we were all shocked by the suddenness of it.
What I am really trying to say is about her reaction. I get a “boycott Starbucks” invitation on Facebook. I read over the page and I totally understand, everything she says is true. The company talks about taking care of their employs and create a positive work environment and blah blah blah… Starbucks is wasteful and half the employs don’t care about the quality which the company claims. These are all things that drive me crazy as well. Then I just go through every other company in my head… This fallen world. People continue to strive and demand perfection that they will never have in this setting. Corruption is everywhere. This can be looked at as a downer or a pessimistic attitude but I see it as a wake up call. A wake up call to looking in the wrong places. Boycotting something is threatening to take away jobs, jobs from people like me and my co-workers and the people who spend time in an office. It is not as though everyone has hypocritical desires in the company, we are just trying to make a little money that is necessary to live. I just think of how many jobs Starbucks is providing, including health insurance, and I am pleased.
We don’t have control of the situations around us, we only have control over ourselves and stop trying to find peace in this world. Peace of this world is artificial…. True peace, peace that comes from God, is internal and shines through even in the trenches of war.
