Starbucks, Facebook, and Pristina

Unless you have been living in a cave, the following story should sound familiar…

Someone walks into Starbucks and the line is long. The line will cost them an extra 3 minutes of their precious time. An outrage! They decide to go on Facebook through their mobile application and update their status with “I hate standing in long lines at Starbucks.”

Within minutes that person whose name they can’t remember that sat behind them in High School has liked their status. Then their annoying cousin who keeps instant messaging them posts a comment recalling a similar experience.

Here is a twist. The friend from High School works at a US Corporation in Tanzania and the cousin is currently an exchange student in Japan.

Facebook has shown how a single medium can not only contribute to both political uprisings and be an outlet for petty complaints, but it can unite the world with a universal appeal like nothing we have seen since Michael Jordan and the Muppet movies.

As a company that prides itself in keeping up with the times, Euro Jet developed a Facebook page (shameless plug: www.facebook.com/eurojet) with the hopes of creating a forum where we could create an interaction between our clients, vendors, and staff in a single electronic medium (and offer a trip to Italy…).

Recently we did a promotion of our Bishkek support station on all our different social media outlets, including Facebook. This led to a brief discussion of something we have all wondered, but been too afraid to ask.

Do people in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan tell Kazakhstani jokes?

We actually did some research on this by checking with our station in Bishkek only to find this sarcastic comment was indeed the truth. People in Bishkek make fun of the Kazakhstanis. Who knew?

Over the past couple of weeks we have been promoting our Pristina, Kosovo station. Which of course begs the question? So who do people from Kosovo tell jokes about?

Join our Facebook page and you will soon find out!

Only on Facebook can you start a discussion that links our staff, vendors, and clients in Prague, Bishkek, Almaty, Pristina, Zagreb, Budapest, Sofia and Bucharest. Throw in staff in places called Poprad, Tivat, Rijeka, Burgas, and Dushanbe and you have created what is arguably the biggest collection of employees from the world’s most obscure major cities working for one company.

Euro Jet is the only company in the world that makes sure the handling you get in Tivat and Poprad is the same as Prague and Warsaw.

So next time you are going into a Starbucks and the line is too long. Could you please do me favor?

Have someone take a picture of you.

Then upload it, make sure you tag yourself, write a really long comment using lots of three letter acronyms, post it and wait for the likes and comments.

The people in Bishkek tell me that the Kazakhstanis do this all the time.