Howard Shultz, former CEO of Starbucks,
is considering a run for President in 2020. He is a piece of work.
Back in the day, before Starbucks really
took off, he had a house in Mercer Island, WA. A house with a nearly flat roof
with a mansard elevation (formed a 36” wall around the exterior). Flat roof in
an area with 3’ average rainfall in a nine month period might not be the best
roof solution, IMO.
In 1984 I was managing the skylight
division of my employer (a wonderful operation, things were always looking up)
when we received a complaint that one of our installed skylights was leaking,
badly. The skylight was a 4°6° size. The
home owner, Howard Shultz along with the contractor, joined me on the roof to conduct an inspection.
After pointing out the scum marks ¾ of the way up on the exterior of the
skylight, and the clogged drains at all point on the roof to Mr. Shultz, I declined
on behalf of my employer to do “one damned thing” about any warranty claim. The
skylight wasn’t designed to work submerged in a lake created by neglected
maintenance.
Perhaps you get to be rich by bullying
people as he started shouting and threatening both the contractor and me. I
just shrugged, took about twenty pictures and started down my ladder. Not being
a total jerk, I allowed him to descend before loading the ladder on the truck rack.
Moving on, and not involving me, was
Shultz’s encroachment on a Seattle City Park to make a driveway to a home he
and his wife had built along with using part of the park for staging materials
and equipment to build said home. Numerous lawsuits ensued.
Around that time, Starbucks got the
coffee concession on the Washington State ferry system. That bit of business
never passed the “smell test”, IMO.
When my sister runs out of current events
in which to torment me, she likes to remind me of my lack of business acumen
regarding coffee. When the espresso
craze started I was living in the Seattle area. Using my highly developed business analysis
skills, I investigated this trend as an investment. Couldn’t make it “pencil”
and concluded it was a fad. No long term prospects for $1.25 cup of coffee.
Lots of potential presidential hopefuls on
the Democrat side for 2020 including Colorado’s own Governor Wishy-washy. Would
I vote for Asshat Shultz? Only is he was running against Shillary.
8 comments:
Polis registered "jaredpolis4president" or some similar name for his 2020 bid.
He hasn't even screwed up being Governor of Colorado yet, and he wants to be President?
He ain't no Obama, and won't get any support.....
He sounds like a demorat. I don't buy from Starbucks. I can get all the good coffee I want from Waffle House for a buck
Schultz should join the other 40 other Democrats who want to be President in 2020. He can stand between Crooked Hillary, The Creepy Porn Lawyer, Spartacus, Slow Joe Biden, Bloomberg, Poke-a-haunt-us, and the rest of the freaks and misfits that will be part of that circus. I'm sure that he'll fit right in.
drjim
Yep.
Coffeypot
Not many Waffle Houses around here. Like my own brew and often take a thermos with me.
LL
Glad those aren't my monkeys and hope come 2021 that isn't my circus.
I had a similar flat roof issue when I was a manager of a modular building concern. Customer had a similar roof on a 5-wide modular structure; flat roof, mansard to purty it up, skinny little drains and downspouts near Niles, IL (Chicago). In the middle of a brutal winter, customer (a former Annapolis grad, ex-Navy commander, then project developer to turn a former military base into a private community) called screaming and yelling (all good military officers do this....no they don't). His roof was leaking, with around 24" of snow on his roof. After climbing up there, we found all drains were clogged with ice, and his air supply vents were under the snow levels (about 12" high), and the snow was melting into his vents, and leaking into the building. We told him this; remove the snow (roof was his design) in the short term, heat tape the down spouts, and raise the supply vent caps to above the snow line, maybe 36" or more.
Nope, he didn't want to hear this, this snow was all MY fault, and his response was more yelling, screaming, lawsuits were coming, his lawyers were going to tear the meat off of our bones (a direct quote). We did the same as you, Fool. We took pictures, climbed down the ladder and left. We were waiting to hear from those cannibal attorneys of his, but never did.
Moral of the story: you can't reason with idiots. Shultz for President, 2020. Campaign slogan: 'vote for me, you dumb shits.' Or something like that.
'vote for me, you dumb shits.'
I like that!
Around 1972 we built and shipped a modular home to Kanab, UT. The customer selected a rustic red with cream trim and white shingles. We double checked their selection before production. On site, the colors made the house disappear against the red sandstone and white alkali terrain. The customer wasn't pleased. It wasn't until we took the exact color chips our dealer had shown them out to the house where they matched what we delivered to shut the dumb shits up.
Yeah, money DOES turn some people into flamers... And they go high order when you point out THEIR f**kups to them.
Encountered hundreds in the car biz. Massive upside down in their trade, and it is our fault?
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