BrewDog getting their arse handed to them; another brand to avoid.

staff can donate to whoever they want

As it should be. Not staff made to donate their tips to charities. Which is how it appears. No way are all the (low paid) staff willing to hand over a chunk of their wage to make the company look woke. Big boss man/woman can hand over his/her own cash surely? Not other peoples..

If individual staff have a choice and can keep their tips they are misleading the public and this seems like false advertising.

Yes I agree and will reply with that.

I've never been in a brewdiog bar, but I've been in thousands of others and I've never tipped bar staff, never even seen a tips box. The exception is food service and surely that goes to the server or the tronc? If not it's misrepresentation unless clearly states no tips but you can donate to our charity of the month

staff can donate to whoever they want

This is like that other thread where Robin made the women's-only (eyeroll) fitness instructor ask everybody personally if they objected to Robin joining the class.

All that's missing is an angle-poise spotlight to shine in staff's faces when they ask if they voluntarily want to give their tips to the company endorsed charity that they've tweeted about and if they support their beloved colleague. Or not. Completely up to you of course...

staff can donate to whoever they want

So why are they telling punters that tips will be donated to a particular charity?

If individual staff have a choice and can keep their tips they are misleading the public and this seems like false advertising.

I got a reply from them... something about not knowing enough, staff can donate to whoever they want and that they’ll look into the word T* and don’t support any personal comments made by staff..,,

Nothing wrong with also having a charity collection box on the bar, but expecting all staff to hand over all tips for a month, to a charity they may or may not personally wish to support? That’s utterly wank behaviour.

Exactly. Doesn't matter which charity they donate to, forcing low paid workers to donate their income is morally wrong. Plenty of ways for a business to fund raise or donate that don't involve docking staff wages.

(So, in the circumstances really not surprising that they haven't checked out the charity)

Cowards as well as child abuse enablers.

Weird I can’t see any of the replies to the original tweet. I even logged out and same deal. Do I need to follow them to see the conversation?

Yes- all the replies have gone.

Why do they keep saying “top surgery”?

It’s a double mastectomy - tell the truth, ffs.

Weird I can’t see any of the replies to the original tweet. I even logged out and same deal. Do I need to follow them to see the conversation?

I think the staff member who suggested this is the same person who caused a kerfuffle when the cafe they previously worked for promoted their top surgery crowd funder:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-48990119

Anyway, didn’t Gillette’s recent woke campaign cost them £8bn.

And that was for promoting the fairly uncontroversial message of not being an arsehole.

I thought staff were taxed on tips?

If anybody does think sterilising kids is a worthy cause wouldn’t it make more sense to donate directly?

I know my DD's would be furious to lose a month's tips. They make nearly half as much again over their basic pay in tips. No way would they give up that for a month.

Companies giving staff tips to charity and bragging about it for PR is not a good look

No. It's theft.

...in their pinned tweet.

The person credited with this idea is a member of staff, heavily into Queer Theory and has a link for a fund raiser for someone's (possibly their own?) "top surgery".

I think it is just one local pub, Cardiff, doing this, not the whole company.

Aside from their chosen ‘charity’, how do they not see that the optics of ‘donating’ someone else’s money are horrible? This is costing them nothing (well, except a good few GC customers in the own goal kinda way) therefore just an empty virtue-signaling gesture of the most cynical kind. It’s the same as companies here who ‘donate’ staff time and wages to various causes, sure, it’s technically supposed to be voluntary but who’s telling their boss ‘no I don’t want to work for no pay just so you can look good’? Massively dick move on two counts here.

I’ve emailed a complaint re their staff member using the slur T*

Staff tips are for fucking staff, not lobby groups. I would bet that the staff are not impressed by this, possibly bar a couple of ultra woe ones, but even then, I would think they want their own money, rather than it being given away.

Much fairer, if they really wish to support mermaids, would be donating like..5% of the profits from the day or something, not staffs money..

It might be just a local pub decision. I think it's a stupid decision and likely to stop people tipping if tips are seen as donations not fees for service but if they had a sign stating that was what they were doing in the bar I would just not tip. It's better than telling customers after they tip.
When I tip people they could choose to donate it to mermaids or UKIP party funds anyway. At least a sign or public email means people are warned in advance and can choose to hang on to their money.

Welk that’s a group of @70 people who won’t be using their Tower hill pub for our meet up in November.

Ahh, bollocks. They were one of the few producers of alcohol-free beer that was actually palatable.

The pink beer thing was patronising af and this is worse.