Comments on: How Starbucks Saved My Life

Sunday Morning: A Riches-To-Rags Story Takes A Fortuitous Turn At A Coffee Shop

[poopusbuttus]

Wow! Talk about an AWESOME story! This is a stupid story.....

[gew6463]

So if you approve of cheating on your wife and having babies out of wedlock (guess there wasn''t too much child support going on there) does that make you a liberal? Some people just believe in being responsible...I agree, it''s not always the popular thing.

[iceman_1960]

Never mind...

Windows Vista can"t copy multiple lines the way XP could. The links are OK.

[iceman_1960]

That last URL didn"t work for some reason.

Maybe this one will...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NBvW2Uuph9g

[iceman_1960]

"Why"d he get fired? Does he say in his book?"
- Posted by usakousagi at 10:20 PM : Dec 23, 2007


He wasn"t fired. Just downsized.

Here he is on Youtube. Perhaps the title of the book should have been "How writing and publishing a successful book saved my life."

Don"t knock it. Art is salvation, according to Marcel Proust. And writing is a form of art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6bhkNJOsrs

[dadlucas]

to paris1969 i am neither just tired of people who find out what middleamerica has known being hold up as rolemodels. i really don''t know how my comments got repeated 3 times?

[paris1969]

"dadlucas" ... you judge so harshly ... you must be a Christian Republican ...

[dadlucas]

blow all your money-cheat on your wife-have a baby out of wedlock and CBS will make you a hero!this mike gill is not someone i want my boys to look up to so why have some selfrightous creep as a story on your best newscast? many people have lost jobs and had to make do but not having to cheat on thier wife. if this is your idea of a good man then i have been watching the wrong network!

[dadlucas]

blow all your money-cheat on your wife-have a baby out of wedlock and CBS will make you a hero!this mike gill is not someone i want my boys to look up to so why have some selfrightous creep as a story on your best newscast? many people have lost jobs and had to make do but not having to cheat on thier wife. if this is your idea of a good man then i have been watching the wrong network!

[dadlucas]

welcome to the real world gill!most people i know will never feel sorry for you. cheat on your wife-can''t manage money- i wouldn''t hire a person like this on a bet. cbs used poor judment to have a story like this!! o let''s feel sorry for the poor man. bull!!!

[dadlucas]

welcome to the real world gill!most people i know will never feel sorry for you. cheat on your wife-can''t manage money- i wouldn''t hire a person like this on a bet. cbs used poor judment to have a story like this!! o let''s feel sorry for the poor man. bull!!!

[usakousagi]

Why''d he get fired? Does he say in his book?

I''m an ex-JWT employee, like the subject of this story. Twenty years, increasing responsibility, international assignments, the biggest clients, etc. One day, called into the HR director''s office ... thanks, you''re done. Don''t feel sorry for me, or anyone who loses their job to corporate downsizing. We all need a plan B - a second career, what we''re going to do when a corporation wants to reduce cost, get younger, etc. Starbucks, consulting, something totally different, whatever. My children will not have the luxury that many others had - a pension, lifetime employment, loyalty. Only a few in the ad business have anything besides a small severance package - a month salary per year of service and pay your own health care costs. I admire Mr Gill. I also found a job/career where I can use my skills to give. My pay has gone from six figures to an amount that necessitates draining the 401(k) to pay the mortgage, college, and put food on the table. I look forward to the downsizing/simplification so I can be more of the person I want to be.

[iceman_1960]

"I just checked Snopes.com and while Starbucks said they do support the Marines they could not donate coffee due to company policy."
- Posted by The_Snitch at 03:31 PM : Dec 23, 2007


What does that have to do with the price of tea in China ?

[iceman_1960]

"Oh SPARE us!!! So fu(king what??? How about stories of people who survive ALL OF THEIR LIVES working at jobs like Satrbucks, and make it just fine and never screw around on their wives either."
- Posted by wonder25SUX at 06:41 PM : Dec 23, 2007

There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

[adillen-2009]

After seeing this story, I went out today and bought the last book on the shelf. This story was an inspiration as I, at 46, have recently left my creative job. When you look around one day and realize no one has your back, then what? I don''t know what has happened to the world today, it''s sad the way we have become such a "me" society. I chose to look at the world around me - and pay it forward. I believe as the song goes, in the end, only kindness matters.

[jeff-fla]

herewego1966 I keep hearing about how starbucks don''t care about our troops. What is it. I know the starbucks here in town donate allot of coffee to the troops. There are letters all over the walls with photos.

Tell me the story I have never heard?

[slplatt]

I found the story of interest and decided to order the book to read more about his life prior to being a barista at the corner coffee shop.

[uvarnov]

yaaawwwnnn, what a real-life cheating, rich-bred, mooching, give-me-everything, i-am-the-greatest ******. All I was expecting was that he won some $250Million Lottery and donated it to Starbucks "Save the Millionaires" club, at the end of the fish-tale.
uvarnov

[wonder25sux]

Oh SPARE us!!! So fu(king what??? How about stories of people who survive ALL OF THEIR LIVES working at jobs like Satrbucks, and make it just fine and never screw around on their wives either.