BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff

[DaphneM]

I just saw this on the Beeb and came here to read the ensuing bunfight, but it seems it hasn’t been posted yet so I’ll get the ball rolling…

Brewdog boss James Watt plans to give staff 20% of his stake

James Watt owns a quarter of the fast-growing Aberdeenshire-based beer maker.

www.bbc.co.uk

what a despicable scumbag

 

[two sheds]

yeh - only 20%

 

[nastyned]

He's offering a discount and a free badge to ex-staff. Though if he really wants to improve relations with ex-staff I would have thought that stopping paying people to spy on them would be a better starting point.

 

[Spymaster]

He's offering a discount and a free badge to ex-staff. Though if he really wants to improve relations with ex-staff I would have thought that stopping paying people to spy on them would be a better starting point.

Fuck the ex-staff. They're gone already. It's the current ones that this is aimed at.

 

[brogdale]

Fuck the ex-staff. They're gone already. It's the current ones that this is aimed at.

Non-remuneration retention attempt?

Maybe they're shedding staff too quickly.

 

[PR1Berske]

"Fuck the ex-staff"

 

[Spymaster]

"Fuck the ex-staff"

 

[editor]

It's also worth noting that the article states that the sleazy bully is 'planning' to give 20% of the stake.

It's worth recalling that he also planned to give away canned water to the NHS (nope), open up his bars as vaccination centres (nope), give away 'solid gold cans' (nope) and a host of other PR lies.

So perhaps the fans boys should hold back on getting all creamed up over their hero until we see what his words actually mean.

 

[friedaweed]

Craft beer means the final filtration was done through a wad of Fuzzy Felt.

To be truly authentic craft beer the label should also be stuck on with Copydex

 

[friedaweed]

Craft beer means that it has a name that is based on a pun of some kind.

No that's Craic Beer

 

[Dystopiary]

"James Watt promised something so it's guaranteed to happen! Stupid workers' rights people - middle class "me, me, me" tossers.



If you find sexual harassment funny, you're an arsehole.

 

[billy_bob]

Craft beer means the final filtration was done through a wad of Fuzzy Felt.

Filtration? Get out, you shandy-drinking ponce - I want mine to have the consistency of split pea soup! I want bloody great yeast floaters like bits of ear wax in it or I'm not touching it!

 

[friedaweed]

Filtration? Get out, you shandy-drinking ponce - I want mine to have the consistency of split pea soup! I want bloody great yeast floaters like bits of ear wax in it or I'm not touching it!

Spoken like a true CAMRA man.

 

[nastyned]

I don't think this aimed at current or ex-staff. Brewdog desperately want to have their IPO so the boss has to be seen to do something about the ongoing PR train wreck about how awfully they treat their staff.

 

[billy_bob]

Spoken like a true CAMRA man.

Indeed. I'm one of their biggest fans.

 

[kenny g]

He is taking out a private prosecution against an employee. Next hearing is at Southwark crown court on 1st June. BrewDog CEO brings prosecution against a woman for ‘dishonesty’

 

[brogdale]

He is taking out a private prosecution against an employee. Next hearing is at Southwark crown court on 1st June. BrewDog CEO brings prosecution against a woman for ‘dishonesty’

Woof

 

[hitmouse]

Woof

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Hopefully the charges won't stick?

 

[Spymaster]

She could be in for a ruff time.

 

[teuchter]

He is taking out a private prosecution against an employee. Next hearing is at Southwark crown court on 1st June. BrewDog CEO brings prosecution against a woman for ‘dishonesty’

Not sure she's an employee.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Not sure she's an employee.

She's the director of a news agency.

 

[teuchter]

She's the director of a news agency.

Where have you got that from?

 

[DaveCinzano]

She's the director of a news agency.

Or an international model, influencer and COVID vaccine-developing bioprocess engineer

 

[DaphneM]

He is taking out a private prosecution against an employee. Next hearing is at Southwark crown court on 1st June. BrewDog CEO brings prosecution against a woman for ‘dishonesty’

Definitely not an employee

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Or an international model, influencer and COVID vaccine-developing bioprocess engineer

Quite the multi-tasker.

 

[two sheds]

Is she not an employee then?

 

[editor]

Or an international model, influencer and COVID vaccine-developing bioprocess engineer

It's possible to be all those things, you know.

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[DaveCinzano]

It's possible to be all those things, you know.

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Almost as though... That's exactly what my post said?

 

[editor]

Almost as though... That's exactly what my post said?

Sorry, I thought you were implying that she was making up jobs as a way to discredit her.

Apols, but I imagine they'll be plenty of Brewdog fanboys doing just that, probably with a bit of casual misogyny thrown in the mix, in homage to their hero.

 

[billy_bob]

Well, the Brewdog fanboys are in the minority under the Guardian posts on Twitter so far. Plenty of judicious and factual criticisms of Watt and the company, but this was the comment I enjoyed the most