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chez_jay-
You are such a wind-up merchant! Of course I'm not, no.
My view on this is that Boycotting something is kinda serious, advertising your boycott on the internet more so, and you need some pretty good, water tight reasons to do so.
That the BD owners are described as pricks or something to me isn't a good enough reason on its own to consciously stop drinking their beer. So I wanted to know the detail, and to be fair, there's a list of reasons, some of which if viewed uncharitably might get BD on to some folks' 'Boycott' list - if not necessarily mine.
Howard
They made one - yea, rather distasteful - video right? Or is there more to the history?
Which apparently they sold at an 18% discount to Women to reflect the inequality pay gap. Misjudged I guess.
Now this one is on the face of it is shit, yes. Seems to come down to them no being able / willing to make the adjustments to the workplace needed to accommodate him, so they offered another position instead on a computer (on which assistive technology is readily available and easy to procure), that he declined. Fuck knows why they didn't do a proper job here - I'm putting it down to incompetence as opposed to evil.
They wrote them a letter saying don't use the name. The bar agreed to use another name. BrewDog then agreed to let them use the name. The bar declined.
They didn't try, they actually own the trademark for Punk in reference to beer, because they make a beer called Punk. If you sell it under a name, you pretty much have to trademark the name, and then you have to defend it. Yeah it sounds shit, but hate the game, not the player.
Kinda debatable. The 'pitch' was on made on Retainer, it wasn't previously uncontracted / engaged agency providing spec work. Apparently.
Dunno, never had the misfortune of having to send them an invoice.
Kinda feel this is probably down to small company becomes mid-sized makes dumb fuck ups along the way rather than an indicator of the level of actual unpleasantness that deserve a boycott, but I guess we all have our standards.