Brick Lane Coffee make total twats of themselves with vile sign

[editor]

Yeah, way to go hipster douchebags



And then:




"We've got three shops scattered about the lowbrow areas (where all the action is) of the big smoke. "

 

[Belushi]

Twats

 

[Boycey]

proper nasty.

 

[maomao]

How do you 'delete' a chalk sign? You just rub it out don't you?

 

[editor]

How do you 'delete' a chalk sign? You just rub it out don't you?

They only talk nu-language. Rubbing out chalk is so 1996.

 

[Idaho]

At least they acknowledged their mistake and apologised.

 

[editor]

At least they acknowledged their mistake and apologised.

They only "realised" their "mistake" and apologised when people kicked off a Twitterstorm.

How do you 'mistakenly' post up such deeply offensive drivel in the first place, anyway?

 

[Citizen66]

At least they acknowledged their mistake and apologised.

Whilst getting everyone's attention.

 

[Favelado]

One thing that I thought was disgusting about the "Cereal Killer" thing a bit ago was that they thought it was alright to have pictures of Myra Hindley et al up on the walls. Cool knows no boundaries does it?

 

[superfly101]

Was it written by a Canadian?

crackie
[krak-ee]
IPA Syllables

• Word Origin

noun, Canadian (chiefly Atlantic Provinces) .
1.
a small noisy dog.

OriginExpand
1890-1895
1890-95; apparently crack + -ie; compare dial. (Devonshire) cracky wren, any small creature

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/crackies

 

[marshall]

Crass it may be, but it's the work of an individual, not a company.

 

[Citizen66]

Crass it may be, but it's the work of an individual, not a company.

Well it's whoever they've entrusted to deal with PR. So it is kinda the work of the company.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Crass it may be, but it's the work of an individual, not a company.

Yes but it says something about the company ethos if that individual or the group that decided to put the sign out felt that it was a suitable or funny thing to do

 

[marshall]

PR? It's hardly a fully-fledged advertising campaign, just what someone scrawled on the board outside.

 

[bi0boy]

PR? It's hardly a fully-fledged advertising campaign, just what someone scrawled on the board outside.

The company obviously decided that they should give a person or persons within the company leeway to write whatever witty messages they thought were appropriate. You'd think they'd set some rule like "don't write anything offensive or twatish". However it seems they didn't. This leads me to suspect it was written by or with the consent of a manager or owner within the company who thought it was well funny.

 

[marshall]

Nah, don't big it up, someone just scrawled it on the board, might have showed it to a couple of colleagues who might have shrugged and said 'whatever'. Yeh, it's the work of a dickhead, but wouldn't be surprised if the first time management/owner saw it was on twitter.

 

[Ted Striker]

FFS it was a very misjudged Wrong Thing To Do (and (arguably?) the work of a lone chalker), though the massive dickheadery and righteous twitter furore reflects worse on those all taking great pride in declaring how outraged they are IMO.

When's the Open Letter and Online Petition getting sorted?

(Unless Crackies is anything else than a rather shite shorthand for fans of crack cocaine or they have form for being nasty pieces of work!?)

I think they recovered quite well tbf.

 

[tufty79]

There was a delightful poster in Forbidden Planet up here a few months back - photo of a bloke, with 'thieving junkie scum'* plastered across the top. Not quite the same thing, but a bit 'wtf'.

*actually it might've been 'thieving smackhead scum'

 

[Citizen66]

Nah, don't big it up, someone just scrawled it on the board, might have showed it to a couple of colleagues who might have shrugged and said 'whatever'. Yeh, it's the work of a dickhead, but wouldn't be surprised if the first time management/owner saw it was on twitter.

Given things can go viral pretty quickly you'd think they'd get a grasp on this. It is PR.

 

[harpo]

Given things can go viral pretty quickly you'd think they'd get a grasp on this. It is PR.

Unless doing it on purpose was the PR.

 

[passenger]

Now you know how the pigeons feel

 

[editor]

Yes but it says something about the company ethos if that individual or the group that decided to put the sign out felt that it was a suitable or funny thing to do

And there's been no talk of the person responsible being reprimanded or sacked.

 

[editor]

Gosh. They are so blooming edgy.

 

[Pickman's model]

And there's been no talk of the person responsible being reprimanded or sacked.

the p45 does of course have to wend its way through the royal mail.

 

[Pickman's model]

Gosh. They are so blooming edgy.

more like come happy leave angry

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Calling for someone to be sacked?

Hmmm.

 

[editor]

Calling for someone to be sacked?

Hmmm.

Exactly where was that call made?

 

[Pickman's model]

Calling for someone to be sacked?

Hmmm.

i'm not calling for anyone to be sacked.

not yet, anyway.

 

[Citizen66]

The fact there's been no "employee reprimanded, etc" suggests the person who does the sacking and the person who wrote the sign might be one and the same. Or it's done with their consent.

 

[Favelado]

The fact there's been no "employee reprimanded, etc" suggests the person who does the sacking and the person who wrote the sign might be one and the same. Or it's done with their consent.

Or they don't publicise disciplinary action.