Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating

i doubt that there's a bigger outward sign of a gap between the rich and the rest of us when you treat a jet like it's a commuter car.

the icing on this cake is that he's never fully aware of it and will be rewarded no matter what.

It's sad to say, but there are people that work at Amazon (IC's, not even senior or middle management) that commute by plane.

They were hired on the basis that being 100's of miles away wasn't a problem, and were then told to commute to their nearest office 3x a week (now 5x). For many, spending their money on a commute is preferable to being unemployed, so some employees spend 3+ hours a day commuting, or fly in and get a taxi/train to the office.

It's obviously not to this level, but RTO initiatives make people do stupid shit in order to stay employed...

CEO must be the fucking easier job over there, given that they are a lot of people that are CEO's of multiple companies at the same time.

It says he's taking the corporate jet and he has to be in Seattle at least 3 days a week

This fucking asshole

Of course not. They've chartered a private plane for him to fly to the office three times a week.

Y'all would be surprised at how common this has become. I have worked for or with several startups and medium-sized businesses where the company was paying for flights from the other side of the country every week and a corporate apartment or hotel for executives to stay at before flying home for the weekend.

Where does $25M come from? ~260 work days in a year, and using the full 18k each way, is a little under $10M: $18,000×2×260 = $9,360,000

Still a ridiculous transportation bill, of course...

Edit: I think you increased the 18k by a factor of two instead of decreased, and used all 360 days instead of weekdays: $18,000×2×2×360 =$25.92M

You're assuming he's going to the office everyday. He's going to work from home 4 days a week some weeks maybe all the 5 days.

Add to that, a charter jet company quotes the price for that flight at ~$18,000 each way. Maybe reduce the cost of that flight in half, but the yearly bill for transportation alone is going to be in the range $25,000,000+ per year. No CEO is that valuable.

That is sort of like arguing that "no medieval Duke or Baron is that valuable." Guys as rich as him are part of the owning class. They live in a completely different world than the rest of us and most of those positions are decided by nepotism. The MBAs working under the C-suite do all the real work of managing the company while the C-suite types fly around the world, play golf, party on yachts, etc.

@technocrit

Oh... and Starbucks is master of tax avoidance

Simple. 1. They have to show up to keep up the illusion that the company needs them. 2. They get off to bossing people around. How are they supposed to feel big and powerful if they can't see us grovel and jump up to please their every whim?

Sounds like she made the mistake of trying to do her job herself rather than delegating all the work to her underlings like most execs do.

He'll superpollute

Might as well use Zoom instead