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Starbucks says Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks' head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet

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[–] AstroGnomeical@mander.xyz 337 points 1 year ago (9 children)

How do you boycott a company you already weren't buying anything from?

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[–] painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 204 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, if you aren't willing to relocate, you are not a good fit for the company.

I heard this in a job interview and the position was disclosed as remote.

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand why can't the CEO be remote. They can buy all their important staff Apple Vision Pros if they'd like and it'll still be cheaper than this

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

That’s not how you write off a corporate jet from your taxes.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 185 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Next time Starbucks does a greenwashing campaign just think of this asshole drinking champagne while commuting on a private jet.

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 98 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Calling it "supercommute" is such a stupid thing. It should be called "stupidcommute" or maybe "commoronute".

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 24 points 1 year ago

Cuntycommuting

There ya go

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I have to dry my clothes between 12am and 3pm and this m'fer gets to fly a jet to work. Private jets along with luxury yachts are things humanity shouldn't have.

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 74 points 1 year ago

Well fuck you and your co² farting anus, Brian Niccol!

[–] Threeme2189@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (4 children)

supercommute

I think the word they're looking for is 'travel'.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Real "Meetings that could have been Emails" energy on this executive level decision.

Honestly, doing the big Star Wars Emperor hologram head would have made this guy look less evil.

[–] bacon_saber@fedia.io 70 points 1 year ago
[–] spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do we have the FAA registration number for the aforementioned jet yet?

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Didn't they change the law so you can't track private flights anymore? Or was Melon Husk just trying to get that done? Or was that just me imagining things again? 🤔

[–] spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know, you can still track Elon's flights. It's not illegal since it was all publicly available information to begin with.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

It's also not something that you can really stop people from doing.

You might be able to stop people sharing the information freely, but, the transponders that people track and the protocols and standards for the communication are well known internationally. It doesn't take more than $50 in parts to set up your own receiver and connect it to a computer.

I'd consider any law prohibiting the observation of air traffic by the public to be impossible to enforce. How can you stop someone from listening by law?

Sharing the information, however, that's a bit different.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They can't prevent tracking because aircraft are required to broadcast their information when in flight.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The FAA reauthorization act slipped in that ownership of private jets could remain anonymous. So you can still track them, because all flight plans are public and need to be for safety reasons, but they no longer have to tell you who owns what tail number. A dedicated tracker can figure out what plane belongs to who, either by showing up at the airport, or by comparing flight logs with other information about celebrity locations.

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[–] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Just stop buying their coffee. You don't need it.

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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’ head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet

Replace all the Taylor Swift memes with this fucking guy.

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[–] kfchan@fedia.io 44 points 1 year ago

Bro should one way supercommute into the sun

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 42 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I think there should be tax on flights, and the tax rate should double every time you fly in a year.

Nobody needs to be this cunty.

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[–] subignition@fedia.io 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The fucker should fly business class with everybody else

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember kids, climate change is your fault specifically, and only you can make things better by making your own life harder!

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[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

We need to return to the office though.

[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Lucky him. Other corporations are designating hub cities and forcing remote employees to move or find a new job.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be glad he's not hypercommuting

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