UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder – as he slams obsession with ‘work-life balance’
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/brewdog-boss-james-watt-georgia-toffolo-work-life-balance/
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UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder – as he slams obsession with ‘work-life balance’
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/brewdog-boss-james-watt-georgia-toffolo-work-life-balance/
Posted by SlySquire
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This guy is such a turbocunt. Has he considered that his public track record of narcissism and acting like a complete prick to employees and suppliers isn’t the biggest motivator for his staff?
“How dare the plebs not want to work themselves to death so I can buy a new mansion, how inconsiderate and lazy of them!”
>*“I think the whole concept of work-life balance was invented by people who hate the work that they do. If you love what you do, you don’t need work-life balance, you need work-life integration,” Watt shared in a now-deleted Instagram post, accompanied by his fiancée, actor and businesswoman Georgia Toffolo.*
>*Toffolo chimed in, saying, “It’s so true, when I met James I was quite taken aback at how aligned we are in the important stuff and one of those things was a lack of work-life balance in a really beautiful way.”*
>*“Work knows no bounds. Constantly in our home, we are working but we do things we find incredibly fulfilling and we also have a supportive other half that loves that high-octane obsession with what we do,” she continued.*
>*“I’ve always known I would end up with someone like James because it wouldn’t work otherwise.*
>*”If someone was saying ‘you need to knock off now,’ I would be thinking ‘what, do you not like my business? Do you not believe in me? Are we not striving towards the same thing?’”*
How dare they want to go see their kids play at school don’t they know they love my business
He’s such a fucking banger it’s actually impressive. Any time he’s in the news he’s just making a cunt of himself
Boss wants to work every hour to make money for his next range rover, wonders why staff don’t want to help him do that.
Fuck off Brewdog.
“When he left the company, he mentioned plans to “take a bit of time off, to travel, to spend more time with my family and friends,”
Direct quote…
Hypocrite
> I think the whole concept of work-life balance was invented by people who hate the work that they do.
This is such a self own. He’s basically just saying that he is a really shit employer and his staff hate their jobs.
The shelf stackers are supposed to be passionate about their careers, are they?
Was this the same guy who was accused of sexualy harassing his employees? Either way he sounds like a right charmer. How dare people want to see their children or use their limited time on earth for activities other than making him rich.
I actually like their beer. Which is a shame, because everytime this guy opens his mouth something shite comes out.
No one on their death bed said that they wished they worked more. What a cock
Man whose wealth comes from expropriating the surplus labour of his employees wonders why those employees aren’t putting in more effort to make him even richer at great cost to themselves. Goes to show that intelligence and compassion are not pre-requisites for running a successful business which says a lot about where the collective values of society are.
He is a massive cunt and his missus is unbearable. He has really always been holier than thou but these days he seems to really lean into it but to also he oblivious to it
the slaves have realised the won’t be exploited by a millionaire boss didums dickhead
I get roughly 50% of my pay taxed, then on absolutely everything else I do under the sun after that.
Probably (and expectedly) won’t see my state pension. The road system is a mess – trains too. I now have to book in advance to visit the tip. Have to fight investment firms and prospective landlords (foreign or otherwise) going well beyond asking price for homes. Blah blah blah….
And he wonders why we simply can’t be fucked with work? Its a means to an end for most of the planet.
His quote makes me proud to be British.
Who gives a toss if as a nation we don’t want to work ourselves to death when the cost of living means we can’t even afford to buy our self a decent home
Top ten tips for UK workers:
Don’t take advice from people who sexually harass others.
That’s it.
He is right in the sense that if you love your work then a need for a “work life balance” does alter.
What he seems to ignore though is that A) most people don’t have the same incentives to work as he does and B) there are loads of jobs that need doing that realistic nobody is going to love enough to not want time off.
Honestly when I was setting up a business I worked crazy hours and had no life outside it really. Things worked out and I sold it for plenty of money. The staff had equity and the more they had the more willing they were to commit in similar fashion.
Outside of that any employer I’ve had has gotten what they’ve paid for. It’s simple. They give me money I exchange it for a specified amount of my labour.
In other words “why don’t plebs work longer,harder for less money so I can spend more time talking to the media being a complete wanker”
No job is worth being miserable over. Irony is that i loved working in a pub – a solid group of staff anywhere can make all the difference.
Does he not realise the UK work more than most other large European nations? Basically only the US work more and that’s because of their archaic laws.
Why are most F1 teams in the UK? Because it’s well known within the paddock that if the teams were based elsewhere in Europe (ignoring the fact the skill base is here) that worker laws would mean they would have to hire more people to spread the load.
In a world where he gets his wish, no-one would then have the time off to drink his product, and he’d be whinging about that.
Work harder peasants says member of the ownership class.
‘Dumb right winger, notorious for stealing applicants ideas, trying to trick the public into bullying a council to sell land way under value and having a LinkedIn poll on whether he should delay his marriage for tax reasons, says another dumb thing.’
Fixed that headline for you.
‘Brewdog founder outed as supporter of zero life / work balance. Says he got inspiration from the Nazi death camps’.
/s
Good. We should not live to feed a beast that does not actually benefit us. There is more to life than work as we know it and it is time we admitted that. I want more time for hobbies and volunteering, however working a 24/7 rota does not make that easy, especially as I lose a day feeling drained after a night shift.
We are obsessed with GDP and productivity in the UK, except we have increasing poverty (including working poverty) and a very low productivity level. A proper work/life balance would actually do more to redress both of those. Happier and healthier workers are going to be more productive; people not wasting their time on pointless busy work are also going to feel that the work they do do is worthwhile.
Working people to the bone for the promise of a pittance, thus twat’s dream scenario, is only working against him in the long run.
His opinion is about as valid as that plumber fella who wants to look like Rod Stewart
He and his Tory wife are a prime example of why there is an need for such a work-life balance.
Fucking Imbecile.
Never once have I even tried a BrewDog beer, specifically because of this guy and how he treats his staff. I’d sooner drink nothing than put money in his pocket.
I swear this guy is on a mission to out-cunt himself. Wouldn’t piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire.
The “life” part of “work/life balance” is the bit where people do pretty much all of their alcohol drinking. He’d have made no money if people went from their work desks straight to bed.
Ahh yes, this guy and his own workers toxic culture of fear.
Seem like the sort we should take advice from.
Always remember the rich broke the social contract not us, if they want hard work and loyalty there has to be a reward to it, they wanted it for free so we took it away, if they want it back then its up to them to put there money where there mouth is.
People should stop drinking his beer then so they can work longer hours and/or be sharper for the next day.
Fuck me this guy has to be the biggest cunt on earth. Treats his staff like absolute shit. Bellend
I never understood this grindset idea that wanting a work-life balance is some kind of lazy moral failing, and that if you don’t want to work 70+ hour weeks and never take holidays that you are some kind of inferior weakling.
The thought of doing that for the rest of my life depresses me so much. I couldn’t imagine sacrificing family, holidays, etc. all to “help the company” or whatever. You will realise how short life is, and life is for living.
He’s a turbocunt, and she’s just a complete non-entity.
He’s a symbol of everything that’s wrong with the country. Multi-millionaire who made his millions exploiting other people’s hard work, with what turned out to be an absolute grift (by punks, for punks?, if he turned up at an actual punk gig he’d have his shitty beer poured over him). Now feels the need to tell everyone we aren’t working hard enough.
Get to fuck.
If everything this man has created vanished tomorrow, most people would barely notice.
This guy’s entire career has been based around copying American beers for the UK market. Which is fine, but not critical or even important.
“I’ve made a killing off of selling disappointing craft beer to people who don’t like craft beer, and now I’m making that your problem”.
Bellend.
Rich twat wants to exploit workers further.
Goes hand in hand with their decision not to pay a real living wage.
[BrewDog drops pledge to pay all staff the UK living wage](https://archive.ph/20240129084530/https://on.ft.com/3Hy7u8R)
Aren’t they the company who asked for sample pitch ideas from perspective marketing employees then didn’t hire them but stole the ideas?
Oh shut up. So we all want to actually have time to do stuff for ourselves is supposed to be bad? No, people are sick of wasting our life for poor wages to build your bank balance
We may be obsessed with the work life balance, mainly as most people don’t have it balanced – most people are grinding full time to barely keep their head above water.