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

[pogofish]

Has anyone mentioned that they seem to have their sights on entry to the coffee shop market? Planning is in for a couple of cafes in Aberdeenshire but not yet under the Brewdog name/brand, so it's likely a test exercise and they seem to have taken over a small live music/art venue in the city but whilst all admin goes to Brewdog it still operates under its old name/image (twee/foody/arty).

 

[BusLanes]

Has anyone mentioned that they seem to have their sights on entry to the coffee shop market? Planning is in for a couple of cafes in Aberdeenshire but not yet under the Brewdog name/brand, so it's likely a test exercise and they seem to have taken over a small live music/art venue in the city but whilst all admin goes to Brewdog it still operates under its old name/image (twee/foody/arty).

Interesting

 

[alcopop]

Staff Benefits

Looks reasonable

 

[equationgirl]

Staff Benefits

Looks reasonable

Forgive my cynicism but this is a company that has just been taken to Employment Tribunal (and lost) for refusing reasonable accommodations to an employee who was losing his sight. That's not the hallmark of a caring employer.

Plus at least one of those benefits is only available to staff at the Ellon HQ. Would not be surprised if others are limited.

These guys are rapacious. They give no fucks about staff loyalty, women or those with disabilities.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm sure city boys will be demanding cheap pints of old wizard's knob any day now.

As far as I'm concerned, "city boys" can go suck hard on the old wizard's knob.

 

[alex_]

Plus at least one of those benefits is only available to staff at the Ellon HQ. Would not be surprised if others are limited.

It’s the use of the gym - at the ellon hq, it’s pretty reasonable that this can only be used at the Ellon hq.

Alex

 

[editor]

It's so depressing how these forums have become populated with constant pro-corporate apologists and cheerleaders.

Fuck Brewdog and their pathetic claims to have any sort of connection to punk.

 

[editor]

Staff Benefits

Looks reasonable

Oh look, they actively support Private Health Care.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's so depressing how these forums have become populated with constant pro-corporate apologists and cheerleaders.

Fuck Brewdog and their pathetic claims to have any sort of connection to punk.

There's a whiner on your buzz thread, too.

 

[Dogsauce]

Nowhere is safe. Surprised it has taken them this long, given the hipster vibrancy of Brixton.

Brewdog isn’t really a hipster thing, it’s for the works night out crowd/students, people who don’t do much politics. The only people I know who are vaguely enthusiastic about Brewdog are shit metaller/commercial punk pop kids, the sort that think having a flesh tunnel or some tats is sticking it to the man, painted rebellion.

Hipster twats are too into ‘authenticity’ to go near this sort of chain pub.

 

[Favelado]

Heartbreaking - Brewdog coming to Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

It had its downside, but the days when Coldharbour Lane was a 24 hour open drugs market were preferable to this shit.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Has anyone mentioned that they seem to have their sights on entry to the coffee shop market? Planning is in for a couple of cafes in Aberdeenshire but not yet under the Brewdog name/brand, so it's likely a test exercise and they seem to have taken over a small live music/art venue in the city but whilst all admin goes to Brewdog it still operates under its old name/image (twee/foody/arty).

Thank god. It's murder trying to find a cup of coffee these days

 

[equationgirl]

It’s the use of the gym - at the ellon hq, it’s pretty reasonable that this can only be used at the Ellon hq.

Alex

There's a gym at the HQ because the that's the site the founders work out of. It suits them to have a gym there - if they didn't want one, but the rest of the workforce did, it wouldn't matter, there would be no gym.

They don't offer subsidised gym memberships to their pub staff, do they?

I reiterate, they got taken to tribunal for not following the law for a worker who was losing his sight. They give nils fucks about any of the workforce, and if you think a few words on a website makes them a great employer, you are respectfully deluded.

 

[alex_]

I reiterate, they got taken to tribunal for not following the law for a worker who was losing his sight. They give nils fucks about any of the workforce, and if you think a few words on a website makes them a great employer, you are respectfully deluded.

Sure someone in their hr massively fucked up the tribunal thing is epically incompetent, but paying living wage, 6% pension contributions, and above statutory maternity is a very expensive way of giving “nil fucks” about their workforce and probably makes them have the best staff t’s and c’s of any retailer in Brixton.

To be very clear, I don’t like their beer or their pubs - but I find the daily mail style headlines about any change in Brixton equally boring.

Alex

 

[alcopop]

Fuck Brewdog and their pathetic claims to have any sort of connection to punk.

You realise it’s just advertising?

 

[Johnny Doe]

It's so depressing how these forums have become populated with constant pro-corporate apologists and cheerleaders.

U75 has been gentrified!

 

[mwgdrwg]

U75 has been gentrified!

More freemasons than anarchists here these days.

 

[editor]

U75 has been gentrified!

It's not even gentrification. It's more about the slow drift to selfish Tory beliefs and the total lack of interest in supporting the community and workers, but when another corporate bar, global chain or expensive restaurant rolls into town, they're lining up to defend them. It's really quite depressing.

 

[editor]

To be very clear, I don’t like their beer or their pubs - but I find the daily mail style headlines about any change in Brixton equally boring.

Which Daily Mail style headline was that?

 

[Pickman's model]

seems unfair to offer this but not to do the same for people getting a new three- or even four-legged cat

 

[alcopop]

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seems unfair to offer this but not to do the same for people getting a new three- or even four-legged cat

This is what I take issue with too

 

[alex_]

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seems unfair to offer this but not to do the same for people getting a new three- or even four-legged cat

Pawstards

 

[MickiQ]

They don't offer subsidised gym memberships to their pub staff, do they?

According to the website they do :-
At BrewDog, we are committed to promoting the health and wellbeing of our crew. For those based up at our HQ in Ellon, we have recently installed a brand new, state of the art, shiny employee gym. For those based in one of our other offices, remotely or in one of our bars, we offer discounts on gym memberships too!

More details would be interesting if it saved 50% it would be a decent perk, on the other hand my former employer offered discounts on gym memberships too, it saved me £1 a month at my preferred gym after I showed my ID badge, there was an unexpected benefit in that it gave Mrs MickiQ a major fit of the giggles.

 

[editor]

So is everyone OK with Brewdog actively supporting and financing private health care?

 

[MickiQ]

So is everyone OK with Brewdog actively supporting and financing private health care?

Yes why not? what I have an issue with is the Govt using availability of private healthcare as an excuse to run down public health care and indeed just running it down anyway.

 

[alex_]

So is everyone OK with Brewdog actively supporting and financing private health care?

It’s not clear if they pay or just have a group plan someone could pay to opt into, the wording is ambiguous.

Most decent employers offer healthcare.

Alex

 

[alex_]

I have an issue with is the Govt using availability of private healthcare as an excuse to run down public health care

I can’t see this being a vote winner with most of the population.

Alex

 

[editor]

I think I should maybe rename these boards FreeMarket75. Or Thatch75.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...res-whats-wrong-with-private-health-insurance
Americans! This is what it's like to use the NHS, Britain's universal healthcare system that Trump thinks is 'going broke and not working'

 

[MickiQ]

So is everyone OK with Brewdog actively supporting and financing private health care?

You obviously think this is a bad thing why?

 

[Spymaster]

More freemasons than anarchists here these days.

And rightly so.