Brixton news, rumour and general chat - April 2015

[elmpp]

So being a member and posting means you have blood on your hands too?

Yes. I've said many times before that gentrification is a phenomenon in which we all play a part to varying degrees. Running a listings site featuring the places in the village etc i would say plays no small role. Worst part is, there is benefits gained from doing so which is far worse than wearing a stupid hat or whatever earns the vilification heard daily

 

[CH1]

the pop up box village thing in shoreditch is nearly always empty when i pass it on thursday evenings, but there is always a load of footfall walking past it.

i give the brixton one a year.

It hasn't got a polytunnel!

 

[Nanker Phelge]

What a bizarre argument. Just like anyone else, I'm perfectly entitled to have an opinion on the businesses moving in to my area regardless of whether I have run a business myself.

You'll be going around making your own mind up about all sorts before you know it.

Then where will we be?

 

[editor]

Yes. I've said many times before that gentrification is a phenomenon in which we all play a part to varying degrees. Running a listings site featuring the places in the village etc i would say plays no small role. Worst part is, there is benefits gained from doing so which is far worse than wearing a stupid hat or whatever earns the vilification heard daily

Brixton Buzz started looooong after the Village opened and the area had been gentrified silly, and if you bothered to read the site you'd see the vast majority of articles are concerned with local issues, many of them linked to the negative aspects of gentrification.

 

[editor]

It hasn't got a polytunnel!

God job Pop Brixton is looking for unpaid volunteers to get theirs going.

 

[Ms T]

That's how the Village started out and I supported it. Locals were given a chance to start up their own businesses. But then the big money came in and the locals were turfed out, as businesses that didn't give a shit about Brixton ten years smelt money and waved their wads around accordingly.

Not quite true. A lot of those businesses are still there - Circus, Snugg, Wild Caper, Cornercopia, even Franco Manca.

 

[editor]

Not quite true. A lot of those businesses are still there - Circus, Snugg, Wild Caper, Cornercopia, even Franco Manca.

Well, not every single one was priced out, but a lot have been and from what I've heard, there's more to come soon. I don't know who Snugg are.

*edit: ah they're relatively new.

 

[DietCokeGirl]

Honest Burgers advertising for a marketing intern - reimbursment: weekly travel card (z1-3) and 7 quid lunch expenses.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Honest Burgers advertising for a marketing intern - reimbursment: weekly travel card (z1-3) and 7 quid lunch expenses.

Wow....free travel and free dinner...and all the glamor of a burger bar! What's not to jump at!!!

 

[editor]

Honest Burgers advertising for a marketing intern - reimbursment: weekly travel card (z1-3) and 7 quid lunch expenses.

How mighty fucking generous of them:

How Honest Burgers became the latest chain to tap into the burger boom
The fast-growing burger business has landed a £7m funding deal and will open more restaurants in London this year
The chain is about to get even bigger. The company has just raised £7m from Active Private Investment, the private equity firm that also owns stakes in Evans cycle shops and Leon cafes. The plan is to open five new restaurants in the next year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...latest-chain-to-tap-into-the-burger-boom.html

Have you got a link for their advert, btw?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

How mighty fucking generous of them:

Have you got a link for their advert, btw?

http://www.honestburgers.co.uk/news/2015/03/marketing-internship/

 

[Black Halo]

http://www.honestburgers.co.uk/news/2015/03/marketing-internship/

Though they now have changed their minds and are offering £7.25 an hour now?

EDIT:
They are suggesting a weekly zone 1-3 travel card + two lunches is = £7.25 an hour?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

7 million quid investment....first move, get some people to work for fuck all...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Though they now have changed their minds and are offering £7.25 an hour now?

So instead of travel card and dinner money....they just give you the same amount of cash to sort you're own travel card and dinner...?

 

[elmpp]

How mighty fucking generous of them:

Have you got a link for their advert, btw?

How much does Tricky_Skills and others receive for creating content for you??

 

[Black Halo]

So instead of travel card and dinner money....they just give you the same amount of cash to sort you're own travel card and dinner...?

But travel card is £37.70 and lunch is max. £10 a day (I'd say) which for 16 hours work is £3.61 an hour, even with £20 a day for lunch that's only £4.86 (or are my maths way off?)

 

[editor]

How much does Tricky_Skills and others receive for creating content for you??

They don't create content for 'me' - they create it because they want to and I'm happy to distribute it to a wider audience - and they get paid exactly the same amount as me: nothing.

We don't have any investment, we don't take any advertising, we don't accept any grants, and we give away all the money that Brixton Buzz generates (via the beer we sell) to local charities like the Soup Kitchen and to campaign groups.

All of which leaves you looking rather silly.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

But travel card is £37.70 and lunch is max. £10 a day (I'd say) which for 16 hours work is £3.61 an hour, even with £20 a day for lunch that's only £4.86 (or are my maths way off?)

zone 1-3 has to be more than that a week. I pay £144 for a monthly.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

zone 1-3 has to be more than that a week. I pay £144 for a monthly.

Ignore that...It is 37.70

 

[elmpp]

They don't create content for 'me' - they create it because they want to and I'm happy to distribute it to a wider audience - and they get paid exactly the same amount as me: nothing.

We don't have any investment, we don't take any advertising, we don't accept any grants, and we give away all the money that Brixton Buzz generates (via the beer we sell) to local charities like the Soup Kitchen and to campaign groups.

All of which leaves you looking rather silly.

Not really. Media sites (and all outlets really) such as there rarely make money anyway but what is valuable are the readerships and the twitter followers etc. All of which increase somewhat off the back of other's work and in the case of the listings sections of the site, the gentrification. These are things you benefit from.

 

[299 old timer]

"Remuneration: weekly zones 1-3 travelcard and lunch allowance (or £7.25 per hour)"

I read that as either or. So it's £7.25 ph. Do editor's preferential Brixton eateries pay their staff more or less than £7.25 ph?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Updated add reads:

The internship:
6 weeks, 2x days per week. Start date: ASAP
Remuneration: weekly zones 1-3 travelcard and lunch allowance (or £7.25 per hour)

Doesn't say the hours....

Original add was offering £7 a day lunch allowance.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

"Remuneration: weekly zones 1-3 travelcard and lunch allowance (or £7.25 per hour)"

I read that as either or. So it's £7.25 ph. Does editor's preferential Brixton eateries pay their staff more or less?

The original ad did not offer either/or - they just updated it in the last 30mins

 

[editor]

Not really. Media sites (and all outlets really) such as there rarely make money anyway but what is valuable are the readerships and the twitter followers etc. All of which increase somewhat off the back of other's work and in the case of the listings sections of the site, the gentrification. These are things you benefit from.

What clueless, uninformed, spiteful drivel are you spouting now?

 

[299 old timer]

The original ad did not offer either/or - they just updated it in the last 30mins

Perhaps they realised there was an error too late. Proofreader required before letting out into the wide world.

 

[editor]

Perhaps they realised there was an error to late. Proofreader required before letting out into the wide world.

Perhaps. Or perhaps they're just following the now-standard industry practice of exploiting young workers with internships while maximising profits for themselves, but then realised that they were heading for a PR disaster.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I suspect the latter.

 

[299 old timer]

Perhaps. Or perhaps they're just following the now-standard industry practice of exploiting young workers with internships while maximising profits for themselves, but then realised that they were heading for a PR disaster.

What a devious cynical mind you have. If they wanted someone to work for free I'm sure they would have gone ahead anyway. £7.25 seems very reasonable.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

£7.25 seems very reasonable.

Really?!? You come cheap!

 

[elmpp]

What clueless, uninformed, spiteful drivel are you spouting now?

You own a site that is benefitting from gentrification and unpaid work