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starbucks drinkers is certainly a new way to describe people, though i'm not sure what image that's supposed to invoke

From context in parent, I'm reading as the sort of person who looks more competent than they are and skates from job to job quickly enough that no one notices.

Maybe they mean the kind of biz dev that uses small bribes (a free drink at Starbucks) to help get customers to take their call.

Of all the images I imagined, it's not this one.

BDev can be good or bad. Bad ones tend to not follow up, and Starbucks here represents they have poor decision making skills (reinforced by going on PTO for three months and not following up on commitments).

Thought the same. I mean I don’t drink it because I can make my own far cheaper but I don’t look on with scorn at those who do. It says a lot more about the person making the judgment than those who drink the coffee.

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