On that basis they are but they have fallen very short in other areas.
Ministers target July 4th for reopening of England’s pubs and restaurants
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There's plenty of awful reviews from Brewdog staff on sites like glassdoor, and despite the company being owned by a complete fucking tosser, it seems that Wetherspoons has a good reputation as an employer.
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon named as one of Britain’s Top Employers for 2019 -
It has been recognised for achieving the highest standards in the field of human resources management -
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Spoons are a pig sty cunt of an employer (speaking as a former zero hours, minimum wage employee)
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hiraethified
I don't doubt that individuals will have absolutely terrible experiences of working there.
Certainly every single person I worked with and all that I have spoken to since.
muscovyduck
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I have never heard of anyone who didn't have an appalling time working at spoons
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hiraethified
Maybe that award is a fix then.
littlebabyjesus
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Brewdog are also shit in lots of ways, and get particular flak, I think, because they claim to be better. Martin seems proud to be a total cunt. But the living wage is more than the minimum wage. And they have also abolished zero-hour contracts.There's plenty of awful reviews from Brewdog staff on sites like glassdoor, and despite the company being owned by a complete fucking tosser, it seems that Wetherspoons has a good reputation as an employer.
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon named as one of Britain’s Top Employers for 2019 -
It has been recognised for achieving the highest standards in the field of human resources management -This page has been removed | The Guardian
https://www.livingwage.org.uk/sites/default/files/Brewdog Casestudy - ToolKit_0_2.pdf
While the above is no doubt an overly rosy picture, and 'Better than spoons' is an extremely low bar, Brewdog does pass that bar.
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That sort of thing is all bollocks.
Shocker
You don't say?
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hiraethified
They're both vile companies, each with lots of reasons to hate them and avoid them entirely. Which I do.
I find them equally repugnant but at least Spoons has food and drink prices that many poorer members of a community can afford and enjoy, unlike Brewdog and their overpriced, exclusive hipster shit.
littlebabyjesus
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I don't boycott either fwiw. I kind of assume all bar staff are treated like shit in pubs. Most are.
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hiraethified
I've been involved with award schemes. Some are honest, most are bullshit but you have to dig a bit to find out how credible they are. Tell us more about this one.
The suppliers are over the moon
Wetherspoon to withhold supplier payments
JD Wetherspoon has said it does not intend to pay money owed to its suppliers until after its pubs reopen following the coronavirus crisis. In an email sent to suppliers and seen by Footprint, the pub chain said: “We are asking for a moratorium on payments, until the pubs reopen, at which point...
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Another reason why I don't drink in Wetherspoons. How about you?The suppliers are over the moon
Wetherspoon to withhold supplier payments
JD Wetherspoon has said it does not intend to pay money owed to its suppliers until after its pubs reopen following the coronavirus crisis. In an email sent to suppliers and seen by Footprint, the pub chain said: “We are asking for a moratorium on payments, until the pubs reopen, at which point...
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The suppliers are over the moon
Wetherspoon to withhold supplier payments
JD Wetherspoon has said it does not intend to pay money owed to its suppliers until after its pubs reopen following the coronavirus crisis. In an email sent to suppliers and seen by Footprint, the pub chain said: “We are asking for a moratorium on payments, until the pubs reopen, at which point...
Will Wetherspoons celebrate reopening - Hospitality & Catering News
Will Wetherspoons celebrate reopening: It seems from twitter that JD Wetherspoons treatment of their staff and suppliers has been remembered by many.
Wetherspoons boss suggests 40,000 workers consider work at Tesco instead
Tim Martin, who is reportedly worth over £40million, has been accused of trying to dodge paying his staff after suggesting they consider work elsewhere, after hundreds of branch closures
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He backtracked on this to avoid bad PR of course
I don't now.
Nor do I defend them
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Starry Wisdom
i am surprised you even pose the question after everything he's posted
FFS!
Can you please not do the some-other-poster-style
needling please? 
[over-belated edit there 
]And have you not caught my recent updates?
One of our two Spoons here in (central) Swansea has closed down -- they ended the 2021-ending lease a few months early, once they closed anyway for lockdown.
(It's a rare Wetherspoons where the company isn't the freeholder).
The remaining one here in town was always inferior (beer-choice wise
) than the closing one.And the two others, well out of town were always a bit meh.
So goodbye to them all!!
All this, plus the shite-company reasons, plus how horribly busy they'll be anyway, makes it very easy for us to actually stick with our now fully-intended boycott.
And as I posted before, we'll (eventually
) want to support our friends who run the independent places here, all 5 or so 
of the decent ones anyway ...... that is, support the trade properly, once we're allowed to in Wales! 
As for Brewdog, we boycott them (especially the ones in Cardiff and Bristol
) purely on the grounds of sheer rip-offery -- their prices are bonkers! We even have a Brewdog in Swansea now, but when our friend made us go there for her 40th very early this year, we didn't stay long, and we won't be back!
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There's a Brewdog is shit thread elsewhere. Just saying.
So you would have been boycotting the one with the superior beer choice?The remaining one here in town was always inferior (beer-choice wise
And the two others, well out of town were always a bit meh.
So goodbye to them all!!
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
is she still a friend?
I am aware of that, but Brewdog prices are still rip-off, and you can get much better beer (IMO) elsewhere.
Yes -- can you please fuck off now?
I only meant the places's closure makes a boycott easier, is all.
Just stop channelling the poster I mentioned -- he was a real nasty arsehole to me on here over this, earlier in lockdown, and I'd rather someone as normally sensible and sound as you wasn't
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hiraethified
Why? There's plenty of people (including myself) who find themselves sometimes having to use businesses or services they don't like, so maybe let him speak for himself.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Aaanyhoo, perhaps this is a time when we can all afford to be a little more selective in our pub choices. It will be the difference for some between staying in business and closing.
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