Confession: I love Amazon. It is so easy for me to order something and have it at my door in one

[Ms. Toad]

45. That's not universal.

My daughter also worked at Starbucks had insurance as soon as she hit 3 months. Their benefits, aside from education, were slightly better than Amazon - and they treated their employees extremely well during COVID and in the immediate aftermath when they had to adjust staffing (these were national programs, not local). They treated my slightly-better-than-minimum-wage daughter better than the University I worked as an assistang dean treated me during the last budget cuts . . . I had to read about my significant pay cut in the newspaper; my daughter was given 3 options - each of which had some benefits, two paid sessions to make sure she understood heroptions before she ranked her choice, and most workers got the option they chose.

She doesn't like interacting with people, but otherwise didn't have any real complaints about Starbucks.