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

[hitmouse]

went to the new Waterloo branch last night cos they had the Futureheads on for an opening event party.
sadly the band did not enter via the infamous slide, despite it actually being in position to exit directly onto the stage.

Fucking hell, first BUPA and now this?

The original “reporter” doesn’t exactly instill confidence tbh

What do you instill?

 

[Spymaster]

"Brewdog reports..." "...applications are up by more than 75%..."

Depending on the timeframe chosen, (pandemic starting point?), there'd be many businesses who could conjure up such figures that BD are using as evidence of the success of their 'punk' concept of paying staff for the work they do.

Keep clutching, Broggers, you're running out of straws though!

 

[SpookyFrank]

The point here is really the deficit in critical thinking skills that allows people to read one anonymous person's tweet, and be completely happy to accept the explanation that he was asked to leave purely because he was "holding a leaflet".

Factor in the huge amount of prior knowledge of how shit they are as a company and the claim becomes a lot more credible though doesn't it.

 

[SpookyFrank]

So why exactly has the slide been put out of order, does anyone know?

Because having a slide that sends people shooting across a floor where people holding glasses and bottles will be walking is obviously a safety hazard?

 

[teuchter]

Factor in the huge amount of prior knowledge of how shit they are as a company and the claim becomes a lot more credible though doesn't it.

Of course, prior knowledge and beliefs over-rode a reasonable assessment of the information provided. Avoiding this is exactly what critical thinking is all about.

 

[NoXion]

The troll is lecturing the rest of us about critical thinking

 

[Spymaster]

The troll is lecturing the rest of us about critical thinking

I'm not sure why people respond like this to Teuchter.

Myself aside, he is by far the most sensible and intelligent poster on this thread. I realise that's quite a low bar, but the fact remains ...

 

[equationgirl]

Because having a slide that sends people shooting across a floor where people holding glasses and bottles will be walking is obviously a safety hazard?

True, but if anybody was paying attention it wouldn't have been installed in the first place. So did somebody vomit in it?

 

[brogdale]

Keep clutching, Broggers, you're running out of straws though!

No, you're right; it's probably best just to believe the corporate tosh pumped out to the client (sectoral) press.

 

[brogdale]

True, but if anybody was paying attention it wouldn't have been installed in the first place. So did somebody vomit in it?

It is one of those what could possibly go wrong scenarios, isn't it?
A (deliberate) slide in a boozer.

 

[DaphneM]

Fucking hell, first BUPA and now this?


What do you instill?

Sorry I being an idiot. I meant inspire

 

[PR1Berske]

So Urban Christmas meetup at the Brewdog Waterloo then yeah?

 

[hitmouse]

Sorry I being an idiot. I meant inspire

Oh yeah, more than the word choice I just meant it seemed a bit funny to me that a pseduonymous internet poster would be saying that someone's not credible cos they're a pseudonymous internet poster. Fwiw, I've been aware of that person for a while, I think he's interesting on some things, a bit of an annoying dick sometimes, but I haven't seen anything that would suggest he's a fantasist given to making up easily-debunked falsehoods to smear the good name of Brewdog. It doesn't seem that far-fetched to me that an anarchist would happen to walk into a pub that some union people were giving out leaflets outside, although I admit the idea that someone might voluntarily want to drink in a Brewdog pub does sound a bit implausible.

 

[dessiato]

So Urban Christmas meetup at the Brewdog Waterloo then yeah?

Or Edinburgh for those of us up here.

 

[Dystopiary]

Bet someone pissed in the slide or shat in it.

 

[billy_bob]

Oh, this is a step too fucking far.




Geet fuckin shan, man

 

[pogofish]

In Brewdog 2 right now, because I needed a sugary drink or have a hypo.

Fierce Beer's staff from an event have just come in for a drink!

 

[teuchter]

I don't know anything about Fierce Beer but now we know that all their staff are right wing Brewdog fanboys who condone sexism and workplace bullying I trust no one reading this will ever give them custom.

 

[pogofish]

I don't know anything about Fierce Beer but now we know that all their staff are right wing Brewdog fanboys who condone sexism and workplace bullying I trust no one reading this will ever give them custom.

One of my colleagues is very pally with Fierce’s founders..!

He’s not a cunt.

And the reason I chose Brewdog over a number of other pubs is because one is a longstanding “Police Pub”, another was mobbed, the third is a haunt for far-right types and the fourth is a Wetherspoons.

Least worst of a bad lot etc.

 

[equationgirl]

One of my colleagues is very pally with Fierce’s founders..!

He’s not a cunt.

And the reason I chose Brewdog over a number of other pubs is because one is a longstanding “Police Pub”, another was mobbed, the third is a haunt for far-right types and the fourth is a Wetherspoons.

Least worst of a bad lot etc.

Yeah, can't fault you for your logic here, especially because of potentially imminent hypo. Hope you are ok.

 

[pogofish]

Yeah, can't fault you for your logic here, especially because of potentially imminent hypo. Hope you are ok.

Yes thanks. I'd been working a parade and it had gone from cool to very hot just as we set-off. I should have eaten a bit more to offset my morning insulin.

 

[DaphneM]

BrewDog to close six pubs due to spiralling costs and 'no prospect of help from clueless government'


Doubtlessly there will be much rejoicing over all the job losses…

 

[billy_bob]

BrewDog to close six pubs due to spiralling costs and 'no prospect of help from clueless government'


Doubtlessly there will be much rejoicing over all the job losses…

You're an idiot.

Or more likely, a disingenuous shill.

All of the people who've spent all this time on this thread explaining why they think BrewDog are a bunch of cunts have done so in large part because their staffing practice is appalling. So, blatantly obviously, we're not going to celebrate people losing their jobs, even if that job involves working for a bunch of cunts. For the record and FWIW, I know what it's like to work for cunts but desperately need to carry on doing so, and I'm genuinely sorry if anyone who wanted or needed to keep working there has lost a job there.

The people on your 'no, they're great, and who cares anyway as long as people like their beer' side of the equation are far more likely to be callously unconcerned about job losses.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Apparently none of the Brewdog staff are going to lose thir jobs. They've been offered jobs in other, nearby Brewdog pubs.

 

[hitmouse]

And the reason I chose Brewdog over a number of other pubs is because one is a longstanding “Police Pub”, another was mobbed, the third is a haunt for far-right types and the fourth is a Wetherspoons.

Least worst of a bad lot etc.

Choosing to drink in a Brewdog pub when there's a Wetherspoons available right there? It truly does take all sorts to make a world.

 

[pogofish]

Choosing to drink in a Brewdog pub when there's a Wetherspoons available right there? It truly does take all sorts to make a world.

I take it you've not been in that particular Spoons then..?

If it was the one at the other end of town, then yes I might well have but the saying "Warehouse for pissheads" could have been coined for it!

 

[brogdale]

Apparently none of the Brewdog staff are going to lose thir jobs. They've been offered jobs in other, nearby Brewdog pubs.

Although the staff at the six premises shutting may be redeployed (in the short-term) regrettably, along with many other hospitality workers, those working in BD pubs will soon be losing their jobs for the reasons that Watt is correct to point out.

 

[PR1Berske]

All I know is, and if this thread is any guide, if you support Brewdog, then you're wrong.

 

[DaphneM]

Choosing to drink in a Brewdog pub when there's a Wetherspoons available right there? It truly does take all sorts to make a world.

I’d take the BrewDog owners over Tim Martin any day of the week

 

[hitmouse]

I’d take the BrewDog owners over Tim Martin any day of the week

How much is a pint of Ruddles or Doom Bar in Brewdog though?