Mr Wetherspoon - otherwise known as Mr Leave UK - wants his EU workers back.

[longwayoff]

AIBU to be laughing,. A lot. What is he to do? He's lost his supply of cheap labour having voted and campaigned for it to happen.

Oh dear, what a shame

@Milesbennettdyson

I think the solution is to make going to work and all round the year and hours childcare provision much better, so people who already live here are much more attracted to this line of work.

We really don’t respect our hospitality workers here compared to other countries.

And Mr Martin is a champion at not showing his work force respect so haha

I worked in a Wetherspoons as a student in the 90s and remember this twat basically saying back then that he was doing his staff a favour by paying us a pittance since so many of us were students and this would teach us an important life lesson about the value of money.

@Arbadacarba

Wetherspoons pubs are awful. Grubby and soulless places.

Sums up Brexit for me!

There we are. Thank you @EerieSilence for being the first to recommend what we should be expecting. Force the lazy Brit bastards to work for Wetherspoons. I don't think you go far enough. Why pay them at all? They should be grateful for.the experience. I hope you continue to enjoy your Brexit.

@LegoCaltrops

I have nothing to say except HAHAHAHAHAAA that he got exactly what he voted for, the foolish man, & that DH & I don’t go in their grotty pubs anyway. Dirty, substandard & overpriced.

Again, good description of Brexit for me :)

@MustardRose

Oh well, tough ain't it?

If employers like him ditched zero-hours contracts, awful wages and stopped manipulating shift patterns so employee hours fall just below the minimum for enrolling their employees in a works pension scheme, then perhaps there wouldn't be this problem.

When you offer your employees decent terms and conditions, a secure job, regular shifts and a proper contract with holiday pay, pension etc, then people will want to work for you.

Until then, hard cheese, serves you right.

Self indulgent fb.watch/5Tm1KuBUFP/

He has form for behaving appallingly then performing a U-turn: he sacked staff then reinstated them when the furlough scheme was brought in iirc.

We've got to improve the training and the wages given to hospitality staff in the UK. It's a job you do until something better comes along in very many cases. As a result it's poorly paid and regarded. There are lots of good staff out there, but there is also a lot of poor service too. In some other countries it's a profession and better regarded.

Apologies - just the Terry Thomas bit!

I can’t take any pleasure in something that I find too heartbreaking. Brexit has delivered nothing good, not one good news story. Since the mail et al like to spin stories there has never been anything close enough to be mildly positive to spin as there hasn’t even been a hint of positive stories about Brexit. Yet brexiteers will still smugly say ‘they won’. It’s like winning a slow painful death.

@EerieSilence

I don't get it. I thought that Brexit happened because foreigners were taking British jobs. I also saw several posts here meanwhile celebrating the positive impact of Brexit as they saw postings for jobs left by the foreigners who returned to their home countries and the salary was better. Without impacting the prices of services offered by the employers, of course. How come there's a shortage of the staff then? I assumed that Wetherspoons were only employing foreigners because there were too many of them and they were some kind of a free positions mafia, not allowing for the Brits to apply. Considering Mr. Wetherspoon was so pro-Brexit, one would assume he couldn't wait to see the backs of the foreign workers to finally start employing the Brits. Or is the job situation in Britain so fantastic that they don't want to work in hospitality sector? I honestly do believe that Brexit should be followed by a serious reconsideration of social benefits. There must be plenty of positions open so the unemployed people should be simply told that they will either take them, relocate, if necessary or have their benefits cut.

Oh don't be ridiculous. So ridiculous that it would literally take to long to point out the full extent of the dim-wittery in this post.

@longwayoff - my post was very strongly tongue in cheek. Unfortunately some people are so stupid (I actually rephrased the drivel of some Tory Brexiters there) that sarcasm comes across as true statement.

too long, natch!

Ah ok EeirieSilence. That's a relief. I feared you might need some schooling in how not to be a fascistic gammon worshipping little UKIPper

@KaptainKaveman .
One of my highlights was arguing with a guy who came with the idea that illegal workers are in Britain to get the social benefits.
When I asked how come an illegal can claim benefits, he came up with some really interesting plots on how this would be possible. I was just comfortably arguing one point after another and he still managed to come up with new crap. Mind boggling.

#TeamNeverspoons

He is actually as dopey as I suspected. The idiot didn't see this coming 🤣🤣🤣.

@longwayoff - I still believe though, unfortunately, that the destruction of the social welfare system is firmly on Torys' plan, especially as the Labour managed to argue themselves into irrelevance.
NHS will be gone within the next two to five years, I assume and there will an enormous pressure on the unemployed to take any job.
Nothing can shake BJ's position, I mean if voters were ready to let him get away with having his apartment renovations financed by a private person who expected goodies in return, it means that the Brits have no issues with corruption as long as they hear from the politicians what they want to.

I'll work for him.

Oh wait - they completely ignored my application form.

(mind you, that was pre-covid so maybe I'll have a better chance now?)

Fuckwit gammon.
I live in a town that had two Wetherspoons. One less awful than the other.
The better of the two was sold a couple of years ago and reopened as an independent.
I have only been back to grim ‘spoons twice and that was work related

...and frequently go to the independent which to be honest isn’t much more expensive than sticky carpet pub

[quote EerieSilence]@KaptainKaveman .
One of my highlights was arguing with a guy who came with the idea that illegal workers are in Britain to get the social benefits.
When I asked how come an illegal can claim benefits, he came up with some really interesting plots on how this would be possible. I was just comfortably arguing one point after another and he still managed to come up with new crap. Mind boggling.[/quote]
I know someone like this. I asked them whetlre can I get that free house they keep mentioning because no one told me about it when I arrived!

Some seriously make it sound like you get a stamp in a passport and keys to a house on arrival😂 Bloody wish😂

Same with jobs. We are stealing all the jobs while simultaneously being here so we can sit on our arses and steal all the benefits. 😁 Multitasking, foreign level

Oh dear,Karma is working then.

Ouch, @EerieSilence. My apologies to you. I agree with your summation of the politics, was thinking the same this morning. Plenty of disaffected Labour voters, ditto Tories and the only choice is no choice and nowhere to go. It's a very dangerous situation and profoundly depressing which is why Wetherspoon has distracted me with something to laugh at. That and The Wedding of course. And the wallpaper. Bloody hell.

Maybe pay well and reasonable hrs offered , we have unemployed people in the uk who could work, but why would they for less
Its wrong to expect people from other countries to do these poorly paid long hour jobs, if british people don't want them or won't , why should we expect others to just because they come from another country?
I knew eu staff who worked but were sharing a 3 bed house with 9/10 others as the only way they could afford , is that right ? I don't think so