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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Love their breakfasts  The large breakfasts, how do people even manage to eat those? Not a chance  "
Looking at your bum I don’t think you’ve ever eaten one lol, perfect x |
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over a year ago
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Wetherspoons leaves me torn between two opinions...
The boss is an exploitative cnut who treats his staff like dogshit.
It's full of chavy cnuts and fucktards.
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"Just remember tho how much of an epic tw*t the owner is and how he treated his staff during the lockdown and the job retention scheme!
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Been epic twats everywhere during this pandemic why should people cut their nose off to spite their face? People need to get over it the guys a buisness man at the end of the day |
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
That'll help the war on obesity.
And it concerns me that a pub offering clear loss leading promotions to get people in will want to keep people there as long as possible while other pubs seem to be limiting the time people can stay |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??"
Laid off and told Tesco's are hiring basically.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Any publicity is publicity especially for the fucktard of an owner and unfortunately as it’s hit the tabloid press,as someone had already pointed out ,every one of their premises will be ram stacked with grade a prime fucktards and cock wombles,will I be frequenting said shit hole with the lovely princess ,will I bollox ,two factors really -he’s an obnoxious self serving staff fucker and I don’t fancy either Covid or a punch up ! The end  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Any publicity is publicity especially for the fucktard of an owner and unfortunately as it’s hit the tabloid press,as someone had already pointed out ,every one of their premises will be ram stacked with grade a prime fucktards and cock wombles,will I be frequenting said shit hole with the lovely princess ,will I bollox ,two factors really -he’s an obnoxious self serving staff fucker and I don’t fancy either Covid or a punch up ! The end "
Can't beat spoons for a punchup to be fair, cheapest door staff, one town link radio between em, usually at least two doors. |
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Why would people even eat and drink in them places even if the guy is a twat
it’s just slop and pig swill
Warm beer and rancid food we will never darken one of his door steps ever he will make other goods pubs close there doors as who would. Want to even try and compete with him selling his cheap puke food but Yr average English pissheads will help him do it
Sad day for all others in pub trade
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??"
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick. "
Have a snickers darling |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We should should remember all the companies like Wren and Wetherspoons that treated staff in such a ruthless and despicable way. Bear in mind these sort of companies put good employers out of business by undercutting them. |
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick. "
I  you |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Also breakfasts £3.49. Priced reduced, have we gone back to the 1980s? They get some stick, some love them, some hate them. But for value you can’t beat them "
I’d rather put shit in my hands and clap than se foot in those places. The way Tim Martin has treated his suppliers is shocking |
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Have spoken to Wetherspoons staff during the lockdown after (actually know a few people who work for them)the managers were paid in full and the staff were furloughed......all happy bunnies 
Many people haven’t checked all the facts or choose to ignore them after all the media doesn’t always portray reality!!! |
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"We should should remember all the companies like Wren and Wetherspoons that treated staff in such a ruthless and despicable way. Bear in mind these sort of companies put good employers out of business by undercutting them. "
Exactly what he's doing now. Kicking his competition |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
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"Also breakfasts £3.49. Priced reduced, have we gone back to the 1980s? They get some stick, some love them, some hate them. But for value you can’t beat them "
That’s insane love spoons.
At the weekend I paid £9.50 for a double g&t and £7.20 for a pint of IPA by the river , plastic glasses too....
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There buying platform is stack high knock it out cheap ,end of ,zero quality control ,food is vile if you could call it food and the 19 year old cook picking his nose is a not my cup of tea ,I’ve heard of people finding all sorts on the plate not food related ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Just remember tho how much of an epic tw*t the owner is and how he treated his staff during the lockdown and the job retention scheme!
Been epic twats everywhere during this pandemic why should people cut their nose off to spite their face? People need to get over it the guys a buisness man at the end of the day "
My ex used to have a saying...
" Be careful who you crap on, when youre on the way up. Because its a long way down" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling "
Only if they’re soiled  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
I you"
I you morerer |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"Have spoken to Wetherspoons staff during the lockdown after (actually know a few people who work for them)the managers were paid in full and the staff were furloughed......all happy bunnies
Many people haven’t checked all the facts or choose to ignore them after all the media doesn’t always portray reality!!!"
Exactly , sheeple just read some nonsense made up headline on Facebook or daily fail and choose to believe it because it’s easier than thinking |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling
Only if they’re soiled "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling
Only if they’re soiled "
Damp would of done ffs soiled no just no  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling
Only if they’re soiled
Damp would of done ffs soiled no just no "
Dam was he actually after a skid?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling
Only if they’re soiled
Damp would of done ffs soiled no just no
Dam was he actually after a skid? "
Image I had was runway one Heathrow ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The sheeple will flock their tho because they read it on facecrack ,spread around some more Covid and eventually get pubs shut again ! "
My kitchen breakfast bar is way more exclusive. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling
Only if they’re soiled
Damp would of done ffs soiled no just no
Dam was he actually after a skid?
Image I had was runway one Heathrow ! "
Not a mars bar? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well my lunch is now on hold after the ‘soiled alans’ comment ! Maybe because of the topic of weatherspoons food it creates images of backdraft and hitting cloth |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pre covid I wouldn’t go in one ,seen the state of the clientele sat outside with a roll up hanging out of their mouth and a bum bag ! And that’s the better looking lasses |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Pre covid I wouldn’t go in one ,seen the state of the clientele sat outside with a roll up hanging out of their mouth and a bum bag ! And that’s the better looking lasses "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling
Only if they’re soiled
Damp would of done ffs soiled no just no
Dam was he actually after a skid?
Image I had was runway one Heathrow !
Not a mars bar? "
Hey, don’t kink shame me. I love to smell nutty fudge in a ladies knick knacks |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling
Only if they’re soiled
Damp would of done ffs soiled no just no
Dam was he actually after a skid?
Image I had was runway one Heathrow !
Not a mars bar?
Hey, don’t kink shame me. I love to smell nutty fudge in a ladies knick knacks "
So your going with a marathon bar in there |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"British obsessions of the price of beer and the cost of a full cooked breakfast. Have we left Europe yet?"
Apparently so ,but Boris n co are on top of it just like they were when covid arrived at our shores !
So get your bunting out for the 31st December sing rule Britannia as we sink lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling
Only if they’re soiled
Damp would of done ffs soiled no just no
Dam was he actually after a skid?
Image I had was runway one Heathrow !
Not a mars bar?
Hey, don’t kink shame me. I love to smell nutty fudge in a ladies knick knacks
So your going with a marathon bar in there "
Nah it’s gone picnic the wrongen  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling
Only if they’re soiled
Damp would of done ffs soiled no just no
Dam was he actually after a skid?
Image I had was runway one Heathrow !
Not a mars bar?
Hey, don’t kink shame me. I love to smell nutty fudge in a ladies knick knacks
So your going with a marathon bar in there
Nah it’s gone picnic the wrongen "
Nutella? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling
Only if they’re soiled
Damp would of done ffs soiled no just no
Dam was he actually after a skid?
Image I had was runway one Heathrow !
Not a mars bar?
Hey, don’t kink shame me. I love to smell nutty fudge in a ladies knick knacks
So your going with a marathon bar in there
Nah it’s gone picnic the wrongen
Nutella? "
No, just a slight smudge of a malteaser |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months. "
The owners behaviour towards his staff during lockdown has been appalling - he is a vile cocktruffling spaffbadger. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"British obsessions of the price of beer and the cost of a full cooked breakfast. Have we left Europe yet?
Apparently so ,but Boris n co are on top of it just like they were when covid arrived at our shores !
So get your bunting out for the 31st December sing rule Britannia as we sink lol "
Don’t blame me............... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
The owners behaviour towards his staff during lockdown has been appalling - he is a vile cocktruffling spaffbadger. "
Stop messing about get to the point! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Have spoken to Wetherspoons staff during the lockdown after (actually know a few people who work for them)the managers were paid in full and the staff were furloughed......all happy bunnies
Many people haven’t checked all the facts or choose to ignore them after all the media doesn’t always portray reality!!!
Exactly , sheeple just read some nonsense made up headline on Facebook or daily fail and choose to believe it because it’s easier than thinking "
You don’t know the facts, he initially refused to pay his staff until he was pressurised and the government introduced furlough. He also refused to close his shit hole pubs until it was made law and stated that you couldn’t catch COVID in them . He is a tit |
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
The owners behaviour towards his staff during lockdown has been appalling - he is a vile cocktruffling spaffbadger. "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I used to work for Wetherspoons & have friends who work at Spoons, don't believe everything you read!
Also with the VAT change food will be cheaper to eat out |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick.
Have my knickers darling
Only if they’re soiled
Damp would of done ffs soiled no just no
Dam was he actually after a skid?
Image I had was runway one Heathrow !
Not a mars bar?
Hey, don’t kink shame me. I love to smell nutty fudge in a ladies knick knacks
So your going with a marathon bar in there
Nah it’s gone picnic the wrongen
Nutella?
No, just a slight smudge of a malteaser "
Chunk of toblerone? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I used to work for Wetherspoons & have friends who work at Spoons, don't believe everything you read!
Also with the VAT change food will be cheaper to eat out "
Yes everywhere.
So everywhere can serve cheaper food.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
That's good. He can then lay off all the rest of his staff when he goes out of business. "
It's ok Tesco's are hiring |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Just remember tho how much of an epic tw*t the owner is and how he treated his staff during the lockdown and the job retention scheme!
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I won't be giving him any of my money again. |
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
Agreed.
I'm happy to pay a bit more for a decent beer and to support an independent pub. "
This! |
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By *rjimMan
over a year ago
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https://www.retailsector.co.uk/51842-wetherspoons-boss-was-right-to-withhold-wages/
I guess none of you have every ran a business in your lives.
So you want him to go bust ?
Well that's 40,000 without jobs.
How many of his numerous local suppliers will also lay off people.
Will you all top up the loses of revenue to the UK from your own pockets ?
https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/tims-viewpoint/tim-martin-responds-to-journalist-owen-jones-of-the-guardian.
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"https://www.retailsector.co.uk/51842-wetherspoons-boss-was-right-to-withhold-wages/
I guess none of you have every ran a business in your lives.
So you want him to go bust ?
Well that's 40,000 without jobs.
How many of his numerous local suppliers will also lay off people.
Will you all top up the loses of revenue to the UK from your own pockets ?
https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/tims-viewpoint/tim-martin-responds-to-journalist-owen-jones-of-the-guardian.
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I'll spend my money how I want to, and if that's by not going to a business that I consider to have acted poorly, that's my prerogative.
Maybe if Wetherspoons don't undercut their competition, more businesses with a better track record with suppliers will survive, and the job situation will be better. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months. "
They will be getting my money before il pay more or go out of my way to find somewhere else.
Whatever happend with the staff isn't anyone else's problem. Why make it hard on yourself or for the people who need the jobs there again. |
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
Agreed.
I'm happy to pay a bit more for a decent beer and to support an independent pub.
This! "
This again
I very rarely go into pubs these days, but if I do it’ll be to an independent. |
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
They will be getting my money before il pay more or go out of my way to find somewhere else.
Whatever happend with the staff isn't anyone else's problem. Why make it hard on yourself or for the people who need the jobs there again. "
Finding an independent isn't hard.
Just grap the Neverspoons app.
Weatherspoons is big enough and has enough of a loyal customer base, that it won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
However the UK was loosing loads of better independent pubs every week even before lockdown.
I'd prefer to support these businesses and the staff they employ. |
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Well this is capitalism at its best, consumers choice. Some companies acted morally in lockdown and others didn't, or at least didn't until they realised people were outraged by their behaviour. So I'll choose to give my money to someone else. Tim can fuck right off. |
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"Well this is capitalism at its best, consumers choice. Some companies acted morally in lockdown and others didn't, or at least didn't until they realised people were outraged by their behaviour. So I'll choose to give my money to someone else. Tim can fuck right off."
Quite. Consumerist choice includes making moral or ethical choices. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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i am sorry... the way they treat their staff is of more concern to me that the price of a pint or a breakfast.....
i suppose at the end of the day its interesting to see where people draw their moral and ethical lines, and thread like this are great for seeing those insights.... |
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"Also breakfasts £3.49. Priced reduced, have we gone back to the 1980s? They get some stick, some love them, some hate them. But for value you can’t beat them "
Suits me perfecrly. Cheap and cheerful. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"i am sorry... the way they treat their staff is of more concern to me that the price of a pint or a breakfast.....
i suppose at the end of the day its interesting to see where people draw their moral and ethical lines, and thread like this are great for seeing those insights.... "
Coz someone might have a breakfast at spoons?!!! Oh my . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Also breakfasts £3.49. Priced reduced, have we gone back to the 1980s? They get some stick, some love them, some hate them. But for value you can’t beat them
Suits me perfecrly. Cheap and cheerful."
You look a lot classier ......... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Also breakfasts £3.49. Priced reduced, have we gone back to the 1980s? They get some stick, some love them, some hate them. But for value you can’t beat them "
They’re using what they’re getting from the government to price out the competition.
Please boycott Wetherspoons and go to your independent local  |
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Then where do you draw the line? Will you buy from fast fashion places who have had recent poor publicity over their factories in Leicester
Tesco have just squeezed suppliers yet again but my farmer friend has a contract with Morrison’s and he says they are the best supermarket he’s ever supplied - fair prices very prompt payments
Do you follow food miles? - something I really like As I don’t feel the need to buy green beans from half way round the world |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Love all this moral high ground bullshit, while you're all sat on your Apple phones, using Microsoft products, probably eating Nestle goods, shopping at H&M and New Look, while slurping your coffees in Starbucks |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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No go where the price is right and them prices are spot on
Every supermarket rips the farmers off for cheap milk and other produce are we going to avoid them?
If you want a cheap anything then someone down the line is getting pittance..... that’s our fault.... so what do we do? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Love all this moral high ground bullshit, while you're all sat on your Apple phones, using Microsoft products, probably eating Nestle goods, shopping at H&M and New Look, while slurping your coffees in Starbucks "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Love all this moral high ground bullshit, while you're all sat on your Apple phones, using Microsoft products, probably eating Nestle goods, shopping at H&M and New Look, while slurping your coffees in Starbucks
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Exactly darling |
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"Then where do you draw the line? Will you buy from fast fashion places who have had recent poor publicity over their factories in Leicester
Tesco have just squeezed suppliers yet again but my farmer friend has a contract with Morrison’s and he says they are the best supermarket he’s ever supplied - fair prices very prompt payments
Do you follow food miles? - something I really like As I don’t feel the need to buy green beans from half way round the world "
We all have limits to what actions we can take, and how much energy we can expend. But we're told that we're allowed free choice living in capitalism. Why not on moral grounds?
We'll all draw lines in different places and for different reasons. I don't know why that's so objectionable |
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Yep you can go to a high class restaurant and pay through the nose for your food and drinks and do the staff earn any more money for your top dollar..... probably not |
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There’s we’re lots of bad press.
I watched his video (it’s on the Internet) he put out just after the announcement on 20th March.
It seems he was misquoted and lots of people got on the bandwagon of the press.
Staff seem to be happy with their furlough pay and looking forward to earning again.
I’ll still go to wetherspoons as often as I did before (once I actually pluck up the courage to leave the house more than I do!!)
Mrs J x |
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"There’s we’re lots of bad press.
I watched his video (it’s on the Internet) he put out just after the announcement on 20th March.
It seems he was misquoted and lots of people got on the bandwagon of the press.
Staff seem to be happy with their furlough pay and looking forward to earning again.
I’ll still go to wetherspoons as often as I did before (once I actually pluck up the courage to leave the house more than I do!!)
Mrs J x"
In one now . Why pay through the eyes and nose for food and drink? Some stand by there morals good for them but i dont find it moraly right pubs over inflating prices and charging silly money for food and drink |
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"There’s we’re lots of bad press.
I watched his video (it’s on the Internet) he put out just after the announcement on 20th March.
It seems he was misquoted and lots of people got on the bandwagon of the press.
Staff seem to be happy with their furlough pay and looking forward to earning again.
I’ll still go to wetherspoons as often as I did before (once I actually pluck up the courage to leave the house more than I do!!)
Mrs J x
In one now . Why pay through the eyes and nose for food and drink? Some stand by there morals good for them but i dont find it moraly right pubs over inflating prices and charging silly money for food and drink "
For me it's less about morals and more about supporting local independent businesses over massive chains, and keeping more pubs alive. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Whilst I'm not a fan of the owner for some of his views, particularly on Brexit - and nor am I particularly a fan of the brand, there's been a lot of misreporting of his actions around lockdown and treatment of his staff - he didn't treat them poorly at all, he actually treated them incredibly fairly!!
If you bothered to follow the facts rather than the tabloids and social media memes, what he actually said was that staff would be laid off/furloughed so that they could continue to work and earn full wages (rather than none or reduced) if they wanted to at places like Tesco that were hiring massively at the time in order to meet the rise in demand for home deliveries etc.
As for his pricing policies, they're no different from any number of other chain retailers, ultimately it's the consumers choice whether they want to pay cheap as chips prices and possibly accept a reduced quality (although it's arguable whether a £1.50 pint of lager tastes any different from a £5 one) or pay more and get a better quality. |
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I think the interesting thing about Wetherspoons is the staff and Union love that people are protesting and willing to help them, they are asking for customers to continue to use the pubs. Boycotting the pub will hurt the staff long before Martin and his board are affected. They are asking those who support them to sign their petition for better, safer working conditions as they return to work.
Quality PPE available
Door security at all times
Unsafe kitchens closed
No loss of earnings due to Covid
No penalties for not reaching revenue targets
No skeleton staffing
Cashless payment
Full sick pay from day one
Changing the way Martin goes about his business is more their aim. Boycotting them just affects the thousands that are employed by Spoons.
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
Totally agree"
I 3rd that sentiment..... maybe he can get his drink from testosterone after his old staff have stacked the shelves |
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It is also now accepted that Martin actually said if employees were offered a job in a supermarket, he would understand if they wanted to take it. He also did not tell staff that they would not be paid. It is accepted Wetherspoons employees were paid in the usual way for work done up to March 22/23. Furlough payments began on April 3 and continued thereafter. |
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"There’s we’re lots of bad press.
I watched his video (it’s on the Internet) he put out just after the announcement on 20th March.
It seems he was misquoted and lots of people got on the bandwagon of the press.
Staff seem to be happy with their furlough pay and looking forward to earning again.
I’ll still go to wetherspoons as often as I did before (once I actually pluck up the courage to leave the house more than I do!!)
Mrs J x
In one now . Why pay through the eyes and nose for food and drink? Some stand by there morals good for them but i dont find it moraly right pubs over inflating prices and charging silly money for food and drink
For me it's less about morals and more about supporting local independent businesses over massive chains, and keeping more pubs alive. "
Well remember that next time your shopping at asda or aldi amd tescos etc . Im sure you dont go to mr patels on the corner for your weekly shop because hes twice the price but needs your support |
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"Have spoken to Wetherspoons staff during the lockdown after (actually know a few people who work for them)the managers were paid in full and the staff were furloughed......all happy bunnies
Many people haven’t checked all the facts or choose to ignore them after all the media doesn’t always portray reality!!!"
I've here the same, all the staff at my local were paid and are all back working now. |
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"Love all this moral high ground bullshit, while you're all sat on your Apple phones, using Microsoft products, probably eating Nestle goods, shopping at H&M and New Look, while slurping your coffees in Starbucks "
That’s bollocks. I can’t go and but my phone from my local phone manufacturer. My local software programmer can’t write my operating system either.
Really crap analogies. |
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"https://www.retailsector.co.uk/51842-wetherspoons-boss-was-right-to-withhold-wages/
I guess none of you have every ran a business in your lives.
So you want him to go bust ?
Well that's 40,000 without jobs.
How many of his numerous local suppliers will also lay off people.
Will you all top up the loses of revenue to the UK from your own pockets ?
https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/tims-viewpoint/tim-martin-responds-to-journalist-owen-jones-of-the-guardian.
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Aa is the way with Capitalism. Wherever there is sufficient demand, another business will fill the void.
Hopefully with a less selfish owner. |
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People are sheep. I see it time and time again they see something in the media and they take that as the total truth without delving any further into it. |
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I've written this before about Tim Martin.
I basically approve of him. There so many cunts out there that look like normal reasonable people, it's nice to see one that looks like a cunt too. |
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"There’s we’re lots of bad press.
I watched his video (it’s on the Internet) he put out just after the announcement on 20th March.
It seems he was misquoted and lots of people got on the bandwagon of the press.
Staff seem to be happy with their furlough pay and looking forward to earning again.
I’ll still go to wetherspoons as often as I did before (once I actually pluck up the courage to leave the house more than I do!!)
Mrs J x
In one now . Why pay through the eyes and nose for food and drink? Some stand by there morals good for them but i dont find it moraly right pubs over inflating prices and charging silly money for food and drink
For me it's less about morals and more about supporting local independent businesses over massive chains, and keeping more pubs alive.
Well remember that next time your shopping at asda or aldi amd tescos etc . Im sure you dont go to mr patels on the corner for your weekly shop because hes twice the price but needs your support "
I would if there were a corner shop nearby that actually sold all the things I wanted. |
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"The sheeple will flock their tho because they read it on facecrack ,spread around some more Covid and eventually get pubs shut again ! "
It's feasible that enough people dislike him, including some staff, that reports will be made of individuals that got infected and some of his branches will be closed very quickly. |
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"People are sheep. I see it time and time again they see something in the media and they take that as the total truth without delving any further into it. "
Preach!! |
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Brexshit looool is that still a thing ,I suppose the goons in no 10 were hoping Covid would of surpassed that in terms of snuffing it out ,oh well one thing for sure there’s going to be a whole heap of bullshit coming about it shortly ,on a plus note let’s hope the price of lamb chops and cod go down when the EU tell the uk to poke it up our arses |
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"Have spoken to Wetherspoons staff during the lockdown after (actually know a few people who work for them)the managers were paid in full and the staff were furloughed......all happy bunnies
Many people haven’t checked all the facts or choose to ignore them after all the media doesn’t always portray reality!!!"
Reposting this early post because it's shocking how so many people are misinformed in this thread  |
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Pretty cool to see all the 'sheep/sheeple' comments from people talking in favour of Wetherspoons.
Especially when Wetherspoons is the place sheep go when they want to go to a pub but don't actually know any pubs.
F Wetherspoons: this year, last year, every year. |
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"Have spoken to Wetherspoons staff during the lockdown after (actually know a few people who work for them)the managers were paid in full and the staff were furloughed......all happy bunnies
Many people haven’t checked all the facts or choose to ignore them after all the media doesn’t always portray reality!!!
Reposting this early post because it's shocking how so many people are misinformed in this thread "
As someone that works for the company I can confirm we were treated very well throughout the lockdown. It was some misquoted words that were taken by the press and spun massively out of proportion by the media.
As for a pint for £1.29! God help me as its going to be carnage!
Enjoy your day everyone |
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Exactly. I know two people that work in Wetherspoons and both were shocked how negative the press were.
It's scary how people are so easily misled by the media, and in particular on social media articles. |
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I don't think he'll ever be popular, but that isn't the point. The point is the thread opened with the popular misguided opinion of Wetherspoons staff were mistreated, when that isn't true.
There are reasons not to visit Wetherspoons, but the people that work there are telling everyone that the treatment of the staff during covid is not one of them. |
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"Have spoken to Wetherspoons staff during the lockdown after (actually know a few people who work for them)the managers were paid in full and the staff were furloughed......all happy bunnies
Many people haven’t checked all the facts or choose to ignore them after all the media doesn’t always portray reality!!!"
Good to know some established facts.
I went in a local Wetherspoons yesterday and all the staff there, except one, were new. So what's happened to the pre lockdown ones goodness knows.
On the point of Tim Martin himself, hes been a leading industry campaigner for tax reductions on food and beers plus pushed hard for Brexit. Also the majority of his pubs are refurbished/repurposed buildings, not new builds. One of the main things they're famous for is helping folks get indoor exercise - most of his pubs bogs are up a few flights of stairs!!!
I've always found the grub in there alright, and most ales are good as well.
I'm not a great fan of his at all but I try to get a balanced viewpoint on his efforts in the hospitality industry. I dont know anything about how Wetherspoons suppliers are treated so cant comment, but as a major employer and food/beverage outlet I'm sure all suppliers benefit do eventually from Wetherspoons being their customer.
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"Have spoken to Wetherspoons staff during the lockdown after (actually know a few people who work for them)the managers were paid in full and the staff were furloughed......all happy bunnies
Many people haven’t checked all the facts or choose to ignore them after all the media doesn’t always portray reality!!!
Reposting this early post because it's shocking how so many people are misinformed in this thread "
Oh dear The bloke has been captured on camera telling his staff to leave. How is this misinformation?? He said this well before the introduction of the furlough program.
People really will do anything for a cheap pint |
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Be nice to see pubs regulated on booze prices so they would compete for trade on quality of service ambience etc and home cooked pub grub ! Just my tuppence worth |
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"Love all this moral high ground bullshit, while you're all sat on your Apple phones, using Microsoft products, probably eating Nestle goods, shopping at H&M and New Look, while slurping your coffees in Starbucks
That’s bollocks. I can’t go and but my phone from my local phone manufacturer. My local software programmer can’t write my operating system either.
Really crap analogies. "
So you're happy to preach about Whetherspoon but the other companies mentioned are fine? Don't make me piss!
Google is your friend if you need to check them out on how moral they all are, no doubt you don't have a problem with them though? |
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There are some crap spoons and some good ones. I have no time for pretentious twats who think they are too good to go to spoons and happy to pay over the odds to drink in a snobby, over priced plastic palace. |
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"Love all this moral high ground bullshit, while you're all sat on your Apple phones, using Microsoft products, probably eating Nestle goods, shopping at H&M and New Look, while slurping your coffees in Starbucks
That’s bollocks. I can’t go and but my phone from my local phone manufacturer. My local software programmer can’t write my operating system either.
Really crap analogies.
So you're happy to preach about Whetherspoon but the other companies mentioned are fine? Don't make me piss!
Google is your friend if you need to check them out on how moral they all are, no doubt you don't have a problem with them though?"
We’re talking local business here being affected by Wetherspoons slashing prices because they’re being helped by the government. It has nothing to do with some of the biggest companies in the world. Unless you go an live of berries in the woods, we’re stuck with them.
Is your chalkboard linked to the internet so you can reply? You obviously have no bother with the morals of big business either? Absolute nonsense. |
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This guy is pond scum no regard to staff or local economic issues just pure capitalism I for one won't be going in to a weatherspoons again there shit anyway food microwaved rubbish and no music boring lacking atmosphere for me |
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By *rjimMan
over a year ago
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PMSL.
Looks like a lot of people on here do not understand how business and economics work.
(try looking at 'sir' Philip Green if you want to see what a turd looks like and the numerous people/ organisations who pay no UK tax.)
What democracy is.
How referendums work.
Realise how the MSM works pumping out bullshite... to the sheeple.
So can we all assume all you people taking the moral high ground will be avoiding these companies ?
https://realbusiness.co.uk/six-companies-that-avoid-paying-their-taxes/
I very much doubt it.
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By *KMaxMan
over a year ago
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"Won’t be getting any of my money ever again after the way he treated his staff the last few months.
How have they been treated ??
Basically told to knob off and get a job elsewhere. All from the comfort from his offshore tax haven. Fucking prick. "
He may be a prick, but this just isnt true.
My son works there, they were furloughed , he did say in a video presentation that he would understand if staff members applied for other jobs and that supermarkets were hiring. For once, he was being truthful and honest with his staff. |
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"There are some crap spoons and some good ones. I have no time for pretentious twats who think they are too good to go to spoons and happy to pay over the odds to drink in a snobby, over priced plastic palace. "
This
There is an awful lot of snobbery about Spoons. Nearly every retail or leisure purchase you make will be from a major chain these days ( Including the beer you buy in other pubs) |
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"There are some crap spoons and some good ones. I have no time for pretentious twats who think they are too good to go to spoons and happy to pay over the odds to drink in a snobby, over priced plastic palace. "
Well said |
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"Frankie Boyle said "No one in Wetherspoons has anything to celebrate anyway." and I think he's right on the money!
It's the pub for alcoholics and elderly racists."
I use weatherspoons regular as i spend time away from home i am not an alcoholic, or a racist, elderly ? Thats up for debate. I have very rarely seen people d*unk in them ,never seen anyone being racist and there is always a good mix of young and old . I dont understand people slagging them off. Basically they offer good value for money and are well run establishments with an high turnover of customers .!!!! some people can be so up there own ass they can lick their own tonsils , be great if we all had the money to go to the ritz and drink champaigne every night hey ? Get off your high horse and in the real world |
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