teuchter
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Is Aberdeen going for wind turbine business in a big way? I know that some of the old construction/maintenance yards like Nigg are.
BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff
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Railway - Closed to passengers post-Beeching. Line remained for freight till 1978, despite it being obvious that Peterhead was going to be expanding by then.
Its a really very small Farmers Market, possibly the smallest in Aberdeenshire.
Secondary school/community campus opened in 2015 - This was maybe the most obvious sign that Aberdeenshire were taking Ellon seriously again and they have done a good job with it. Previous school/pool/community facilities were dumps even when I worked in them back in the late 1980s - at best they were the councils most parsimonious possible response to the expansion of the town in the 1970s.
The only reason Ellon got a new health centre/dental surgery in the late 1980s/90s was because the developers who wanted to put-in a new row of shops financed it as 'planning gain'
The Hospital was run-down from the late 1960s eventually becoming just an old folks home.
Bus services have always been absolutely shite - Although if you include the services to Peterhead/Fraserburgh, you can get to and from Ellon up to 10pm most days but really you need your own transport if you live North of the city.
The Park and Ride opened @2000 - When they put-in the new bridge over the Ythan/Eastern bypass and started to join-up the relief road that finally took heavy traffic out of the town itself. It has actually become be best used P&R in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, despite being some distance outside the town itself.
This was the main road north until then! The old Park and Ride was down there too but it was a joke - they just moved the town square bus stop to beside the riverside car park and rebranded it!
True there are a reasonable number of restaurants - most are family businesses from the town's expansion in the seventies and very much part of the community.
Tesco was Ellon's first modern supermarket - Opened on the bypass @2009/10 IIRC. Aldi in 2015 on the site of the former Co-Op which was flooded-out and demolished. Since then, the only Co-Op presence is a small food shop on the Esselmont housing estate.
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Not really - Apart from the EOWDC, which seems to be progressing in fits and starts and SCORE at Peterhead chasing construction contracts, there isn't much else. All the talk about the 'Energetica Corridor' and moving to renewables seems to amount to a big new and vaguely-purposed industrial estate straddling the new Ellon Road to just short of Trump. All the real money, planning and work seems to be going into decommissioning projects. Similarly, all the talk about cruise ships and tourism for the new harbour at Nigg Bay seems totally at odds with the acres of yard space in the plan and size of the new docks - most top-end modern cruise ships simply won't fit. Also one of the Harbour Board engineers let slip last year that they have a simulator set-up in London and are already training their staff for barge/towing operations and the like. Which again fits more with decommissioning than a cruise port. Anyone else working on that project seems to be sworn to secrecy on a death or deportation basis - and yes, virtually all of them have been brought-in specially for the work.
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equationgirl
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Yeah, think this latest campaign misses the point somewhat. Just them jumping on the gender pay gap bandwagon as it rolls into town.
They sell beer. They just want to sell more beer. If they gave a shit about women and equal pay they wouldn't use terrible sexist marketing.
They sell beer. They just want to sell more beer. If they gave a shit about women and equal pay they wouldn't use terrible sexist marketing.
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So many particulars. So many questions.
physician heal thyself
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My first thought was 'was what are they trying to promote now?'. Clearly they are just trying for shock value and choosing such loaded terms just speaks to their white privilege.
Dickheads.
Dickheads.
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Less than usual by the looks of things.
They sell Punk IPA in ‘spoons nowadays, although way pricier then the rotating guest ales.
maomao
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It's yuck too. Overhopped so much it tastes like licking metal cutlery.
They are pricks but I'm struggling to find 'chain gang' offensive. There was a courier company called that (cause bikes) in the nineties and I don't remember it being out of order then.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Chain gang is a commonly used phrase in cycling. If people are so desperate to get offended by a brewery they really need to try a bit harder.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Another reason to not like Brewdog:
BrewDog fined £12,000 after sacking worker who faced turning blind
BrewDog fined £12,000 after sacking worker who faced turning blind
That is piss poor.
Morning Advertiser can be a good source, landlord at our local has shown it me a few times. It's a trade paper with reliable, often very critical reporting on the pub and brewery scene. I'd missed this story though ....
I'm glad he won that tribunal, it's the least he deserved, but 12 grand isn't all that much when you've been sacked from a job
Piss poor indeed 
I'm glad he won that tribunal, it's the least he deserved, but 12 grand isn't all that much when you've been sacked from a job
Piss poor indeed 
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Just when you couldn't hate the fake punk capitalists any more. Utter cunts.
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I read a case summary about it. There wasn't a shred of apology or sympathy expressed by brewdog for their worker. They basically refused to consider the suggested reasonable adjustments for him, and pretty much gave nil fucks.
Ie totally deliberate, or totally incompetent.
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Totally ignorant with deliberate intent to ignore. Refused any adjustments despite legal obligation to do so. The judge described their ignorance of equality laws as 'astonishing'.
Expert advisers, including one from the RNIB, said he could continue working with some adjustments, which was ignored by brewdog. They offered him a computing job instead which would have aggravated his condition.
Wish the payout had been more, to be honest.
editor
hiraethified
I wish it had broken the company and their cunty bosses, with all their staff finding work in a non wanker-filled, sexist, bullshit fake punk brewery.
Well, I can dream.
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One day, Ed, one day...
I'd like an old-school mob with flaming torches and pitchforks to descend upon their HQ and burn it to the ground, seeing as we're sharing dreams
editor
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I like the cut of your jib, ma'amOne day, Ed, one day...
I'd like an old-school mob with flaming torches and pitchforks to descend upon their HQ and burn it to the ground, seeing as we're sharing dreams
Yes - totally incompetent - they can’t have had any idea what their obligations were.
Alex
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And I don't think they wanted to.
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And a dragon breathing fire. I like dragons.I like the cut of your jib, ma'am
understanding obligations under employment law should be literally the first line on the job spec.
I can’t image that the hr director had any idea what was going on, losing in a employment tribunal is completely humiliating.
A) the incident happened in the first place
B) your pre tribunal advice is so poor, that you thought going to the tribunal and suffering the reputational damage was a good idea
In my experience someone somewhere (lawyers or senior hr) in the process says “what the fuck have you done ? Pay them off today”
Alex
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