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

[MrsSnippyPants]

twitter.com/BrewDogCardiff/status/1158447597025206272?s=20
Do any of these 'woke' companies do even the tiniest bit of research before jumping on the transwagon? Staff tips to Mermaids; how generous of them. Wonder if they asked the staff?

Actually this could be hugely useful.

Although there are a few possitive comments, including from the "quack", most are negative. Many of the anti Mermaids comments have fantastic links. This could actually get GC views to a different audience.

Thanks brewdog for spreadibg the word about how dodgy mermaids really are

That's a shame.

Thankfully they are getting schooled on Twitter, lots of people commenting against it.

Oh and don't get me started on their really dodgy share scheme which is all about letting fans take the risk whilst the owners have offshore the valuable part of the business where the money actually is.

That was just another marketing ploy. Collectively those in the share scheme own an insignificant amount of the business.

Dr Helen Webberley's local according to her tweet.....

Must be a fun crowd in there.

Well, if the outcome of the Pink IPA fiasco was a decent donation to Women in Engineering, that's somewhat mollified me on that one - so maybe for this they can redress the balance by donating to transgender trend or (if such a thing exists) an organisation supporting L&G people?

If my tip for service isn't going to the person providing the service then I wouldn't give it. It's an optional charity donation not a tip

Whoops sorry for multiple post
I was trying to send some screenshots.

Bravo Dr Fond of Beetles putting Helen Webberly in her place.

twitter.com/fondofbeetles/status/1158628265768169474?s=12

This may backfire on the staff who obviously aren't bothered about their tips if they are happy to all donate them to the same dodgy charity. I'm not a fan of tipping anyway. People should just be paid properly by their employers and good service should be expected not an optional extra.

Bravo Dr Fond of Beetles putting Helen Webberly in her place.

twitter.com/fondofbeetles/status/1158628265768169474?s=12

Exactly that, Rebecca.

I used to manage a bar, pre babies, one not unlike BrewDog in customer base. Good bar staff develop relationships with the customers, and when customers tip, it’s because they want the staff to have the money.

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.

Most bar staff are on minimum wage or not much more, working antisocial hours (and some subsequently have to shell out for taxis to get home safely). Let the fucking company donate, but leave the staff’s tips alone.

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.

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

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.

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..

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

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

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".

...in their pinned tweet.

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

No. It's theft.

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.

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?

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 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