dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
My response is simple, I don’t drink in pubs, except on very rare occasions when I’m invited out for pre event drinks. I haven’t been in a BD pub for well over a year.
BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
hash tag
Reaching out
I wont drink in Spoons nor Brew Dog, occasionally Nicholsons but will always choose a free house over a chain and hope the staff
get treated better.
This is also why I use certain shops and not others; in the hope and expectation that the staff get looked after better.
editor
hiraethified
Wherever I'm DJing, I do my bit for the staff by giving them free shots all night from my 'backstage bar.'
AverageJoe
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souljacker
innit
That website lists my local Barclays and Nationwide branches. Both of which closed about 5 years ago. So forgive me for not trusting it.I'd recommend that everyone look up the pubs they go to here. You can set it as a map view. If your favourite pub is not shown, then boycott it, if you are serious.
Accredited Living Wage Employers | Living Wage Foundation
www.livingwage.org.uk
If someone else makes a claim about a particular pub you can check it there.
It's interesting to see how few pubs in Brixton show up: in fact almost none.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Barclays and Nationwide are both accredited employers so I guess that the details of open branches is not up to date.
I don't see how this affects anyone's ability to look up their favourite pub.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Oh well, I suppose that's good enough.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I think we can forgive the LWF for that.
I'd be willing to bet that nobody who is posting on this thread, aside from those who drink in Brewdog, has ever knowingly frequented a RLW paying public house.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
According to that website the only place around here that pays RLW is the car supermarket where I have bought my last three cars (though of course teuchter doesn't appove of people buying cars), so I imagine that none of the local pubs do. Adding together that means I've spent about £50K over about 15 years at a RLW employer whilst I certainly haven't spent £50K on booze in that time. So that does that put me in the good column for supporting RLW employers or the bad column for supporting non-RLW ones?
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
No, it probably just means your local pubs cannot be arsed to get accredited, whether they pay the RLW or not.
souljacker
innit
Well, the local Brewdog isn't on it so it's either nonsense or they updated it this week.
There's no pubs in the whole Reading area that pay the living wage according to that site. I think it may be shit.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I don't drink in pubs.
Personal Attacks
Thank goodness krtek is taking a break. Does he have to come back?
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Your post is unnecessary.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Do you ever pay to get your car washed?
Ask if they pay their staff at all, let alone the RLW?
Ask if they pay their staff at all, let alone the RLW?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
That's completely unsurprising.
BD was among a vanishingly small number of RLW pubs in the country. This proves the point that for all the bluster about workers rights on here, nobody really gives a toss.
It's a fake vendetta that impressionable fools have allowed themselves to be dragged into.
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
No need for that. Krtek is a member I always enjoy reading, they're much needed around here.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Let's be honest, we all use businesses that underpay staff don't we, and we don't bother to check. Anyone claiming different is a liar.
That's not to point fingers because we can't realistically control for that in the modern world. Judging anyone going to Brewdog or making out they're some sort of particular evil in this respect is a bit silly though.
That's not to point fingers because we can't realistically control for that in the modern world. Judging anyone going to Brewdog or making out they're some sort of particular evil in this respect is a bit silly though.
hash tag
Reaching out
Last time I paid, it was a little place owne and run by two brothers. The detailing and under sealing cost me more than you would ever believe.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
As was the silly uproar about them withdrawing for the RLW program.
Lots of egg on faces over that one!
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Looking at that website, there appears to be one shop on Oxford Street registered. Richer Sounds are registered. They've always had a rep for treating staff well. But yeah, most retail staff are treated appallingly. TBH my default assumption in any shop or pub I'm buying from is that the staff are probably treated like shit, as I was when I worked in retail/hospitality.
That list is far from comprehensive, of course. I see Lidl aren't registered. They pay better than the likes of Tesco or Sainsbury's.
That list is far from comprehensive, of course. I see Lidl aren't registered. They pay better than the likes of Tesco or Sainsbury's.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
also a snide little attempt at call-out trolling that adds nothing to the discussion and sails very close to breaching the T&R in FAQ
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Of course. Anyone who expects us to believe that they know what all the bar staff are being paid at the hostelries they frequent, how that compares with BD salaries, and how it stacks up to the RLW, is going to get a massive Jimmy Hill!
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
It's the smaller traders who can be the dodgiest, let's face it. I worked in a video library in Brockley in the 1990s, which gave off the vibe of a trendy place with a good world cinema section staffed by people who knew about film. Some of the customers assumed that the people working there owned it. I was paid £3 an hour cash in hand.
editor
hiraethified
I get free beer but I buy my own large bottle of Jagermeister to share with the staff. I've been doing it for years, at all the venues I play at.
And I don't hire a PR company to make sure everyone knows about my small act of kindness.
editor
hiraethified
For a 'new' poster you've sure got some unpleasant opinions to share about a poster who has been here long before you. Wind it in or get banned.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
Fuck off you unpleasant little turd.
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