Companies to Boycott once this is over
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ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
awww, won't someone think of WoW and his beer choicesWe've boycotted Amazon for almost a year now, but boycotting Wetherspoons here would be ...... personally harder for us to stick to ...
Easy right now mind
I know why we should boycott them, but try living in an absolute beer desert of a city where two out of the four ale-friendly pubs in the city centre (that's very near where we live) are Spoons
I guess we can focus on the other two decent pubs for the time being, once some sort of normality returns, those two, the non-Spoons ones, are both Free Houses at least
I'm honest enough to admit though that for us, a permanent Spoons boycott is unlikely to happen ...... we're not that hard up ourselves, but a fair few of our friends are.
<ETA : I've now just edited part of the above to clarify>
nice solidarity and principles there!
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
What's he done now?
Gordon Ramsay 'treated staff like s**t' as he lays off people over coronavirus
He was forced to briefly shut restaurants over the health scare.
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weltweit
Well-Known Member
Most of these examples above are blatant opportunism by bosses who are basically ruthless, and they are rightly facing public backlash, and in many cases are doing an about turn.
For many companies it is quite hard to decide what the correct action is, right now. Many UK companies are staying open, despite that large percentages of their employees can't work from home and despite that they couldn't be described as essential. Even in Italy, many companies are continuing to work, yet it must be true that workforces are more likely to become infected in the workplace than they are at home.
And UK government is being intentionally unclear in its advice, saying travel to work only if essential and only if your work cannot be done from home. So we continue to work.
For many companies it is quite hard to decide what the correct action is, right now. Many UK companies are staying open, despite that large percentages of their employees can't work from home and despite that they couldn't be described as essential. Even in Italy, many companies are continuing to work, yet it must be true that workforces are more likely to become infected in the workplace than they are at home.
And UK government is being intentionally unclear in its advice, saying travel to work only if essential and only if your work cannot be done from home. So we continue to work.
The Wetherspoons workers have just won what they were fully entitled toawww, won't someone think of WoW and his beer choices
nice solidarity and principles there!
, FFS 
.But no, won't someone think about ddraig 's need to have a pop at me now and again
More seriously, I admitted in my previous post (and another one) that I knew perfectly well I was hardly being any kind of model
So your need to have a pop is superfluous and unnecessary.
Tim Martin's always been a knob, and we know a couple of his workers locally quite well, who have nothing good to say about him and the shift patterns, poor wages, etc.
But they know perfectly well why we come in -- decent beer (sometimes excellent) at decent prices, and reasonable food (no more than that, tbh) when you're feeling skint ....
I'm not the only leftie on here who often goes in, nor the only one who'll continue to (we'll reduce, but being honest won't stop, as I admitted before), but that'll apply to a fair few other Urbans I expect.
Does that mean that everything else they or I post on here, or do IRL, is invalidated? I think not.
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Only to stop the bad PR
Not denying that at all, in fact I nearly mentioned it above!
Well as I said, I'm not the only one, and I admit all the criticisms.
Just got a bit needled about ddraig having a pop is all, really.
We go for CAMRA-related reasons tbh -- we live in a beer desert here.
A few of their staff volunteer at our beer festival -- one said that we pay them better in beer and food than Martin pays them in wages.
Not an excuse, or even very relevant, but just saying for beer-related context ...
Just got a bit needled about ddraig having a pop is all, really.
We go for CAMRA-related reasons tbh -- we live in a beer desert here.
A few of their staff volunteer at our beer festival -- one said that we pay them better in beer and food than Martin pays them in wages.
Not an excuse, or even very relevant, but just saying for beer-related context ...
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Fair enough
This'll be the last
On this though :
Because all CAMRA beer festivals are volunteer run!
I'm guessing you may? have been to one or two in the past, do you not remember that from your days of going?
(Not criticising really, just wondering -- most of the official CAMRA ones have always had big banners emphasing that they're volunteer-led events)
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
This has got a bit more interesting ...
According to beeb - design work done, but going to build the 10,000 order for the NHS in WW2 parachute (brolly) packing hangers in Wiltshire ...
will be a couple of weeks doing final testing and ramping up production
Coronavirus: Government orders 10,000 ventilators from Dyson
The engineering firm developed a new type of ventilator in response to calls on behalf of the NHS.
www.bbc.co.uk
skyscraper101
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Lest they forget, Chiddingfold has form when it comes to collective action...
Chiddingfold - Wikipedia
Down the drain?
When our fest lost money big-style after a couple of years' events, and we had to chuck unsold beer away, then yes, literally
... and no, there weren't enough of us to drink more than a little bit of the unsold! -- such a waste Where do any profits go?
A designated amount (fairly small) to our branch for campaigning -- and we need that round here!
The bulk goes back to CAMRA HQ, which can be annoying.
But it goes to a dedicated beer-festival related account, out of which they lend us all the equipment, and give us a fair bit of other logistical and campaigning support.
And if we lose money, see above, HQ and not us cover the losses.
"Thank fuck" said festivaldeb (then festival chair), when she was tearing her hair out about having to throw beer away in the worst year.
But the profit shot up the next year and for a couple after that, we arranged more exciting beer lists and publicised the event better ... and over time, we've got better at predicting footfall and tailoring beer-order size accordingly.
</hugely OT
, but not about Spoons! >
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phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
Another hypocritical cunt (from the Mail so won't link). Hopefully he will now get the Martin Treatment. Bet Jamie Oliver is glad his empire collapsed before all this kicked off but he's still a cunt.
Rick Stein refuses to pay staff wages while his restaurants are closed due to coronavirus... just days after praising his workers on social media
The UK chef and TV personality told staff they won't be paid for over a month
Fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay yesterday laid off more than 500 workers
Workers criticised Stein, 73 – whose restaurant empire started in Cornwall and now stretches across the country – had talked publicly about their importance
Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should you see a doctor?
Rick Stein is refusing to pay his workers’ wages despite speaking publicly of the importance of looking after them.
The seafood king told staff they will not be paid for over a month while his restaurants are closed. Fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay yesterday laid off more than 500 of his staff after temporarily closing his restaurants.
Those employed by Stein and his former wife Jill, with whom he still runs the company, will get no money until the end of April, when the Government is expected to pay wage subsidies to businesses that have shut down.
Rick Stein refuses to pay staff wages while his restaurants are closed due to coronavirus... just days after praising his workers on social media
The UK chef and TV personality told staff they won't be paid for over a month
Fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay yesterday laid off more than 500 workers
Workers criticised Stein, 73 – whose restaurant empire started in Cornwall and now stretches across the country – had talked publicly about their importance
Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should you see a doctor?
Rick Stein is refusing to pay his workers’ wages despite speaking publicly of the importance of looking after them.
The seafood king told staff they will not be paid for over a month while his restaurants are closed. Fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay yesterday laid off more than 500 of his staff after temporarily closing his restaurants.
Those employed by Stein and his former wife Jill, with whom he still runs the company, will get no money until the end of April, when the Government is expected to pay wage subsidies to businesses that have shut down.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Probably a good time to remind people to continue boycotting Byron Burgers regardless.
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Byron Burgers in collaboration with UK Immigration police set up undocumented workers
Dissidents Yesterday at 08:14 · Tdlr: Byron burgers gets dozens of its own employees deported. On the 4th of July, workers across 15 Byron restaurants were called in for a training at 9.30. 5 minutes after start, 2 immigration enforcement officers for the Home Office arrived, carrying lists of...
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Hopefully this will be the end for them.Probably a good time to remind people to continue boycotting Byron Burgers regardless.
Byron Burgers in collaboration with UK Immigration police set up undocumented workers
Dissidents Yesterday at 08:14 · Tdlr: Byron burgers gets dozens of its own employees deported. On the 4th of July, workers across 15 Byron restaurants were called in for a training at 9.30. 5 minutes after start, 2 immigration enforcement officers for the Home Office arrived, carrying lists of...
Their restaurants were pretty empty for some time after that shitshow so this might be the coffin nail.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
let's hope so
phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
If it wasn't for the fact of the lockdown, CCTV cameras and the fact that I'm a coward then the Weatherspoon's Treatment could stand in place of the virtual boycott you suggest. I 'm conflicted about virtually boycotting Dyson's though offshoring Brexit loving Cunt that he is but unlike Branson et al he is making ventilators. Probably time for Bansky to spray his oar in.
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Bahnhof Strasse
Let's av ya fuckin' dancin'!
Lest they forget, Chiddingfold has form when it comes to collective action...
Chiddingfold - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Good stuff! Their bonfire is a corker, so worth fighting over.
Bahnhof Strasse
Let's av ya fuckin' dancin'!
These people are such shits; if they pay their staff now they can claim 80% of it back in a month. Most staff would be happy to get 80% now, so it would cost Stein and his fellow greedy bastards absolutely nothing to do this.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Just spent half an hour remotely helping elderly parents to 'pause' payment for the now content-free Sky sports package.
Fact this has to be opt-in rather than blanket hold on subscribers suggests that the bastards hope that a good number won't have the time/knowledge/wherewithall to actually do this....and they'll carry on paying for fuck all.
Fact this has to be opt-in rather than blanket hold on subscribers suggests that the bastards hope that a good number won't have the time/knowledge/wherewithall to actually do this....and they'll carry on paying for fuck all.
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phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
They must be pig shit ignorant from the PR point of view as well. They will lose more in the long run in trashed reputations than stumping it now and getting it back later.
