From the Cherry Partners:
On Sunday 22 February we first became aware of a post our partner James Young made on the Cherry socials by reading it online ourselves.
We immediately were aghast as many were, and demanded the post be taken down.
The views in that post do not represent the views of Cherry, the other partners, our staff, or associates.
Rock n roll has protest in its DNA. Its tradition platforms outsiders, amplifies rage, and turns noise into community, reminding us all that rebellion can be not just loud and creative, but hopeful too.
Our priority is the safety and wellbeing of our incredible team who have had a difficult few days. We request that members of the public please keep in mind that they are blameless in this.
We have met with James Young in person today. He has expressed his sincere remorse and understands the harm of his actions.
At our request he has agreed to step away from the company for the time being.
NJ, DS, & JB
Cherry Bar Partners
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36 Comments
lol
They lost money and this is a band aid.
Silly people – all those protestors could’ve done with a drink and some tocknroll after their protests but instead … this.
RIP Cherry Bar
– Notes app statement ✅
– “Safety and wellbeing” to court sympathy ✅
– Something no sane person could care less about ✅
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Damn, guess I’ll have to stop looking to an Elvis impersonating bar owner as the source of my political opinions going forward
What he say?
…. context? What did he say?
Well good to see some people associated with Cherry have a brain.
Back to raging against the machine, then.
Good. I dislike a lot of the protests going on right now, but they have absolutely every right to protest. Attackint hat right in the name of profit was just ick.
“Step away” = weasel words. Doesn’t mean anything. He could simply not be going to the premises or attending meetings for a while. There will almost certainly be no change whatsoever to the ownership structure. Make no mistake: if you go to Cherry, you still support James Young.
The way they actually should’ve handled this:
Protest Special – Anytime a protest is on in Melbourne, pints are buy 2 get 1 free
That way you’ve got zero chance of offending anyone and the people get more beer, which is always a good thing
All hat, no cowboy
[Whatareya] (https://youtu.be/5muqhUsnqqE?si=6VBV8cj-4PWjoNSn) ? /u/fridayonmymind2 aka James Young
If he didn’t call them illegal, he probs would’ve been fine as he was just expressing his own opinion, as the protesters do each time they protest, and in a free-country, both of those things are completely fair!
Extremely poor choice of words, he probs should’ve just not said anything ESPECIALLY on the business account.
He doesn’t feel remorse. He had every chance to remove the post, instead of constantly editing it when people started leaving comments. Then deleted it and went silent for days only to have this be the apology on his behalf? This isn’t it.
Still a trump supporter though…
Wasn’t he just upset about the disruption to trade, I don’t recall much else
Was the origional post the one complaining about protests in the cbd which they said impacted their Sundays?
Yee Haw pal, was it worth it?
The sound of a fake small business marketing strategy imploding 🤯, it’s not covid anymore, there’s no government handouts for ‘too many people in the CBD’ lol.
Alwata happyn when FO follows FA.
Okay, seeing as some of you guys don’t know this — you can’t just get rid of an owner.
It’s a process.
What they’ve done is remove him from his role as an employee, which is really all they can do within a week of that post going live.
If he’s nice, he may decide to sell his share. But it’s really not an easy process to just remove someone’s ownership over a business. It would take months at the least.
What they’ve actually done is deal with this in a prompt, ethically and legally sound way that protects this from hitting back on a business that is a cherished part of this city.
Give Cherry the benefit of the doubt before you shit on the owners — and remember that it’s real life.
“…Step away for the time being.”
Rubbish.
He stated his opinion, expressing remorse via your words means nothing, Cherry Partners.
Mixed bag. Leave the staff alone=Yes. Step away= Yes. For the time being= Spineless
He doesn’t regret shit.
I worked for James back in the day, he doesn’t regret shit
Why were the owners happy about the oasis post but not this one? Both complained about the protests
“…for the time being” I won’t be patronising your bar.
Definitely not the business losing customers due to relocating to the corporate end of the city. Definitely not, it’s those pesky protestors.
If anything I reckon those protests brought more customers into city considering it ended around the time cherry would have just opened up.
Sounds like smooth sailing at cherry bar
Reasons the Cherry Bar is long doing well.
~~Covid~~
~~Netflix~~
~~Young People~~
~~Phones~~
~~Protests~~
Him
‘Safety and well being of our incredible team’
Are they snowflakes upset that their boss has had enough of the endless protests?
Or have protestors been targeting hospo staff members?
Because if it’s the latter the management shouldn’t carve to demands of a self entitled mob.
God i hate the world we live in.
Damage control
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