There’s an entire set of photos lovingly posted to Flickr by employees at the 87th & Sunset Starbucks location in Miami Florida. Here’s a sample:

The reason for the photos of customers? (view them here) To quote the poster:

We get a lot of skanky hoe types around these parts; it is Miami.

The rest of the photo set isn’t much better. Beneath a photo of a badly-parked SUV:

I took this photo for all the people who think the stereotype of SUV-driving soccermoms who have no regard for their fellow human is a stereotype at all. Believe me, I work at Starbucks. I see them every day.

Classy move, Starbucks.

Starbucks has a bunch of Twitter followers but very little in the way of an aggressively vibrant social media presence. Searching major social media platforms and solving issues that tarnish your brand is one of the most important parts of a corporate social media effort.

Starbucks fails at this.

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The knife pictured below was walked through a metal detector at Jackson International Airport (JAN) this afternoon. The blade is just over 3 inches long. Memphis (MEM) and Boston-Logan (BOS) didn’t catch the knife either because my friend didn’t leave the secured area in Memphis and there’s really no reason to check people on the way out of an airport.

I want to make it very clear that my friend did not intend to bring a knife on board with him. Like many of the techies I know, he’s forgetful and didn’t realize he had the knife with him. Intentions aside, sloppy security at Jackson Int’l Airport allowed a weapon onto a plane.

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