Hark the herald angels sing! M has gotten a job! Yes, Starbucks actually decided that she would benefit their “team’! I am as shocked as you. It just must have been those Hallmark cards that she mailed out to them after her interview.
She told me the great news via text message. Apparently she starts training in about 2 weeks. I congratulated her, of course, but I didn’t ask any questions. I really hate showing interest in her because I fear she might regard that as friendship.
M has described Starbucks as “putting all her eggs in one basket.” I just don’t get it. This job was the be all and end all for her. She felt that if only she could get this job (which pays about 3 dollars more an hour than her previous day job), everything will be fine! She sees being a Starbucks barista as a career. These are her words.
M works at a gas station and Starbucks. What do these two things have in common? Besides hiring skids like M, they also both happen to be, as I consider them, pit stops of life. These are two places that people go when they are on their way to their real job. People aren’t supposed to be at these pit stops long term. There is a reason that gas station attendants and coffee baristas are often young and work part time. They are students. These people are working towards something other than being full-time manager of Petro-Canada.
Have SOME ambition, M.
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