This would be the same Brewdog that since its inception has been plagued by: accusations of a toxic work environment, inadequate health and safety, inappropriate behaviour towards staff, misleading advertising, failing to pay the living wage, intimidating former employees and breaching US federal law. Why should I care about this man's opinion again?
For an assistant manager role in his restaurant, the salary he pays is around £6,000 per annual, less than a normal salary rate as an assistant manager in a restaurant for the same hours of work. Do not listen to him
@LeftAndProud The average salary for an assistant manager of a restaurant or a food led pub outside of London is between £30,000-£32,000 per year. It is advertised that this company pays £24,000-£26,000 per year for that job.
No mention of the fact that he came from a wealthy family (his father ran a successful fishing company and had assets of 10-12 million.) That's a substantial leg up on business knowledge, and also knowing that whatever happens, he'd still have a massive inheritance to fall back on. Most people have the streets to look forward to if an enterprise like that fails. So to say he went 'all in' is disingenuous at best.
Exactly. If you look at any of these mouthy prats - Musk, Trump, any of them, they had vast family wealth. They still think they did it all themselves.
The French are more productive because they work fewer hours and investment more technology and infrastructure. Americans are not something to be aspired to.
I don’t think paying most people £30k, £40k, £50k would make people work harder. People would be happy and excited for 6 months and then once that wears off they will be comparing themselves to others who have more and then say the £40-£50k per year is peanuts. There is a mentality issue and job snobbery in this country.
@mjl2904 many British people have the wrong attitude. They don't want to strive to be the best or be entrepreneurs & create businesses or wealth. The UK government don't help as they have a socialist tax system which doesn't incentivise business.
The thing with the UK work ethic, I find is that it doesn't matter how hard you work, there is rarely any real reward. This is especially true at the lower end of the wage scale. That you end up just doing the basics rather than really trying to do a job to a high quality.
Interpretation of these increasingly popular attacks on British workers: 'work for the least amount of money while we fill our pockets, work more, do more than one person's job for that money, no rights, no entitlements, work more, no striking, be quiet about it all, work more, give us the whole set of strings so that we are in charge completely.' There I fixed it for you.
British workers are still far better off than the vast majority of those in the world. If we want to maintain and improve that, we need a reason for people to hire and invest here. That's not all down to the workers themselves; smart govt. plays a big part too, but blaming businesses isn't going to get you anywhere - they'll just say, 'ok if you don't want me I'll listen and leave'. Wages are a lot higher in the US, so there are benefits for everyone, we just have to figure out what bits work for our society and what don't.
@PJH13 Yes but that reason always seems to be endless perks at the expense of workers' pay and conditions and unlimited lack of accountability for big bosses.
There are lots of businesses that treat staff with respect and still do well. Saying that businesses will leave is daft, all they'll leave is a vacuum that someone else will fill. It would be a bad business leader that leaves such a large economy out of spite and greed.
& he's the problem no work ethic - how about showing initiative & showing you can excel & then look to progressing your career? "Doing the minimum" will never make you successful & this is the view of many of the British
Brewdog has been plagued with scandal and allegations and hostile practices against their workers. How dare he complain about work ethics, when his own personal work practices are not in order...
i know this isn’t the place for it, but i kept seeing Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane mentioned over and over in comments, and curiosity finally got the better of me. i read the book, and honestly, it’s one of the most practical guides to understanding manifestation i’ve ever seen. it’s not about instant results, but you can feel the difference as you apply what it teaches. seeing how people respond to me now, i totally get why it’s all over the comments.
Given what James Watt has said about his own "work-life integration" viewpoint it could be argued that he has some personal issues that he could do with addressing with qualified health professionals rather than railing on the work ethic of the British workforce
Productivity in an economic sense isn't related to people being lazy, there are plenty of reasons that GDP is low in the UK that isn't the fault of the workers efficiency and work ethic that are out of our control.
Exactly. Infrastructure for example: If it takes you two hours to get to work on the train because of delays or cancelled services that's two hours of productivity lost...
The UK is just so…. unbearably depressing. Where do these ghoulish people come from yapping about how people need to work harder. The UK is a smoldering heap - how is that workers fault ?
I might need to look at the same data he did because productivity of a country isn't really down to individuals beings lazy it's based on your GDP, and we hardly produce anything anymore. If you have a piece of land/building and you use it to grow and sell starberries with 20 workers, and those sales yearly are £2m, but in Taiwan you have the same piece of land and 20 workers making microchips earning £200m a year, that's productivity. It's got very little to do with laziness and more down to the fact we're extremely bad as a nation at actually producing things.
This is the problem with the UK. The top job in cyber security was listed a few weeks ago for a base pay of 65k a year. If we want to copy the Americans so badly, let's normalise people earning over 100k a year. Wage growth in the UK is shockingly low.
Bosses love saying we’re not efficient and need to do more with less. Yet tell said bosses to do more with less salary for themselves and you’ll see how they react. They want you to work harder so they can do more with more salary that they’ll get from you
This comment section is sad, the problem with the UK is you collectively do not believe in yourselves you don’t think you can achieve ‘the great British dream’ and therefore you hate and tear down anyone who has. Believe in yourselves.
We are not slaves, we have been told thaf slavery doesn’t exist in western society but travel the world and you see literal slaves - we are the same but in corp world.
Especially when you are talking about American workers they have no choice but to grind as hard as possible. Their minimum wage is insanely low, they get less leave and have to pay huge prices for healthcare. They literally HAVE to work harder than a lot of other countries based on that alone.
"Watt stepped down from the day-to-day running of the beer-brewing company last year after 17 years, though he retains his shareholding in the organisation and has a non-executive role of “captain and co-founder”. At the time of his departure, he said he planned to “take a bit of time off, to travel, to spend more time with my family and friends”, while adding that he was aiming to “dedicate some more time to my other business interests”.
this isn’t really related to the video, but i have to say-i kept seeing people talk about Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane in comment sections everywhere. after weeks of wondering, i finally decided to read the book, and i get it now. it’s not just about wishful thinking; it’s about learning how to truly focus your energy and align it with your intentions. it’s made me rethink so many things about how i approach life.
Whilst I agree with him, I have worked excessively without reward, unjustly so. I have a skilled job, where moving to US would see me earn quadruple pay day one Combine that with living costs, house prices etc whilst seeing the services / country fall apart If you're self-employed, it's a different story (partly) of course, and I congratulate them There needs to be reward for doing so, and the UK struggles to provide this
Yeah he 'a got a point and he is consistent in his messaging with the people he associates with. I mean his fiancé Toffolo works really really hard doing ummm, well she works as ummm a, I mean she sort of does you know ummm, like she does you know that thingy, well she puts a shift in ok. And she worked extremely hard to get there, I mean she did have the foresight and take the initiative to get born into a wealthy family. You slackers reading this could learn a thing or two from her!
Don't people want to become entrepreneurs - think of ideas & USP & create something!?? "Doing the minimum" won't get you very far. Look up to the US work ethic
No evidence on who works harder. When visiting America; like I have; with American friends they tell me this is just not true at all. There were adverts everywhere and this was way before Covid. Brewdog don't follow company law properly so I doubt this will be successful. He talks a lot but doesn't walk the game. Just look at 'Lost' forest as a perfect example.
In my working days here in Netherlands I had a lot of US colleagues. They work long hours but at a slow pace. I and my Dutch team members did in half a day what our US colleagues took a whole day. They are kind of slow.
James Watt's analysis of the UK vs the US is spot on. Here in the US, success is respected and admired not the target of envy as it is in the UK. I left the UK for the US within days of graduating with my PhD, never looked back and now a US citizen, it's a totally different world here.
So you never had an employer whilst having a PhD? How do you know success is more respected in the US if you never worked for anyone after gaining success?
This would be the same Brewdog that since its inception has been plagued by: accusations of a toxic work environment, inadequate health and safety, inappropriate behaviour towards staff, misleading advertising, failing to pay the living wage, intimidating former employees and breaching US federal law. Why should I care about this man's opinion again?
Because he's rich and 'successful' us peasants are meant to look up to him in awe and grind everyday and believe it's possible to get in his position.
Not to mention his worst crime, that terrible beer he makes 🤢🤮
"Sure I'm rich, but I'd be a lot richer if you plebs worked a bit harder"
That’s all I’m hearing too , as the saying goes “you pay peanuts you get monkeys”
For an assistant manager role in his restaurant, the salary he pays is around £6,000 per annual, less than a normal salary rate as an assistant manager in a restaurant for the same hours of work. Do not listen to him
£6000?
No wonder American prefer tips.
@LeftAndProud The average salary for an assistant manager of a restaurant or a food led pub outside of London is between £30,000-£32,000 per year. It is advertised that this company pays £24,000-£26,000 per year for that job.
@@Sam88-l4k got it
@@Sam88-l4kno point even saying 22-26k, might as well just say minimum wage at that point
I mean, he’s clearly a pr*ck - let’s leave it at that
This show sounds 💩
Well said
No mention of the fact that he came from a wealthy family (his father ran a successful fishing company and had assets of 10-12 million.) That's a substantial leg up on business knowledge, and also knowing that whatever happens, he'd still have a massive inheritance to fall back on. Most people have the streets to look forward to if an enterprise like that fails. So to say he went 'all in' is disingenuous at best.
Exactly. If you look at any of these mouthy prats - Musk, Trump, any of them, they had vast family wealth. They still think they did it all themselves.
The French are more productive because they work fewer hours and investment more technology and infrastructure. Americans are not something to be aspired to.
No disrespect, but if you want to make money, you go to the USA, not France..
@ and we won’t miss you.
If you pay minimum wage (or close to it), you'll probably get minimum effort. Doesn't take a genius to understand this.
Can you give an example?
@@MCDONALD6969 Pay peanuts and you get monkeys.... what more of an example could you need?
I don’t think paying most people £30k, £40k, £50k would make people work harder. People would be happy and excited for 6 months and then once that wears off they will be comparing themselves to others who have more and then say the £40-£50k per year is peanuts. There is a mentality issue and job snobbery in this country.
@mjl2904 many British people have the wrong attitude. They don't want to strive to be the best or be entrepreneurs & create businesses or wealth. The UK government don't help as they have a socialist tax system which doesn't incentivise business.
@@mjl2904can you blame people? Nothing is as affordable now compared to 30/40 years ago despite a better educated workforce
The thing with the UK work ethic, I find is that it doesn't matter how hard you work, there is rarely any real reward. This is especially true at the lower end of the wage scale. That you end up just doing the basics rather than really trying to do a job to a high quality.
Interpretation of these increasingly popular attacks on British workers: 'work for the least amount of money while we fill our pockets, work more, do more than one person's job for that money, no rights, no entitlements, work more, no striking, be quiet about it all, work more, give us the whole set of strings so that we are in charge completely.' There I fixed it for you.
British workers are still far better off than the vast majority of those in the world. If we want to maintain and improve that, we need a reason for people to hire and invest here. That's not all down to the workers themselves; smart govt. plays a big part too, but blaming businesses isn't going to get you anywhere - they'll just say, 'ok if you don't want me I'll listen and leave'. Wages are a lot higher in the US, so there are benefits for everyone, we just have to figure out what bits work for our society and what don't.
@PJH13 Yes but that reason always seems to be endless perks at the expense of workers' pay and conditions and unlimited lack of accountability for big bosses.
There are lots of businesses that treat staff with respect and still do well. Saying that businesses will leave is daft, all they'll leave is a vacuum that someone else will fill. It would be a bad business leader that leaves such a large economy out of spite and greed.
Live to work, not work to live. What a life.
Because he doesn’t pay his staff properly.
"We can't exploit our workers as easily as they do over there"
Fixed that for you.
You gotta love the grift
Probably because our healthcare isn't dependent on our employer, so keeping your job isn’t literally life or death...
But if i work my fingers to the bone, I will still get paid exactly the same 🤔
Yes and as an added bonus you wont be able to pick up your cheque as you fingers are ruined 🙂
& he's the problem no work ethic - how about showing initiative & showing you can excel & then look to progressing your career?
"Doing the minimum" will never make you successful & this is the view of many of the British
Yes because Brits aren't fools!
The uk is literally one of the poorest nations in the developed world..
WOW…He says he doesn't find slaves in the UK like you find in poor countries.😢😢
Brewdog has been plagued with scandal and allegations and hostile practices against their workers. How dare he complain about work ethics, when his own personal work practices are not in order...
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 honestly…. The audacity
Who cares what this guy says. He ran a micro brewery in Aberdeenshire, did a bit of hard work and then got lucky. Whoopty do!
i know this isn’t the place for it, but i kept seeing Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane mentioned over and over in comments, and curiosity finally got the better of me. i read the book, and honestly, it’s one of the most practical guides to understanding manifestation i’ve ever seen. it’s not about instant results, but you can feel the difference as you apply what it teaches. seeing how people respond to me now, i totally get why it’s all over the comments.
Given what James Watt has said about his own "work-life integration" viewpoint it could be argued that he has some personal issues that he could do with addressing with qualified health professionals rather than railing on the work ethic of the British workforce
Grifters gonna grift
Productivity in an economic sense isn't related to people being lazy, there are plenty of reasons that GDP is low in the UK that isn't the fault of the workers efficiency and work ethic that are out of our control.
exactly what I was thinking - how was it even measured in the study he quotes - did he even dig into the detail (doubt it).
Exactly. Infrastructure for example: If it takes you two hours to get to work on the train because of delays or cancelled services that's two hours of productivity lost...
Guess I won't be buying any more brewdog beers
I know alot in america who have two, three jobs as they cannot afford one job. Yes that will make them productive alright…😅.
The UK is just so…. unbearably depressing. Where do these ghoulish people come from yapping about how people need to work harder. The UK is a smoldering heap - how is that workers fault ?
Man thought if he got rich people would like him…
I might need to look at the same data he did because productivity of a country isn't really down to individuals beings lazy it's based on your GDP, and we hardly produce anything anymore.
If you have a piece of land/building and you use it to grow and sell starberries with 20 workers, and those sales yearly are £2m, but in Taiwan you have the same piece of land and 20 workers making microchips earning £200m a year, that's productivity.
It's got very little to do with laziness and more down to the fact we're extremely bad as a nation at actually producing things.
Insufferable nonsense.
I got visions of Harry endfield screaming loads a money.
Ah... That guy
This is the problem with the UK. The top job in cyber security was listed a few weeks ago for a base pay of 65k a year. If we want to copy the Americans so badly, let's normalise people earning over 100k a year. Wage growth in the UK is shockingly low.
You don’t want American worth ethic. Trust me. You’d prefer a European work ethic. Don’t be suckers.
James Watt would prefer an American work ethic
Brewdog has ripped off the work of design creatives without paying them for it, for years. Expect this brand to go the same way as Bud Light.....
Brewdog is probably the worst craft beer I've ever tried, every single one is fkin trash 😂
I agree with you. But have you tried Mr President? It's a strong double Ipa at 9.2% and it's actually quite nice for a brewdog beer.
Why even talk to people like this?
Those who work hard sadly in most cases don’t get the pay to match their skill or dedication. I’ll never buy anything from Brewdog.
Ill pass on working to make someone rich thanks.
Not buying brewdog again! To be honest we should of figured out how to be working less by now anyway. Sick of the rich hoarding the wealth!
Bosses love saying we’re not efficient and need to do more with less. Yet tell said bosses to do more with less salary for themselves and you’ll see how they react.
They want you to work harder so they can do more with more salary that they’ll get from you
He won't pay the real living wage and he thinks his staff aren't tenacious enough.
Americans work harder and longer hours because the minimum wage is a paltry $7.25 per hour.
I hate to quote an American, but... "If he diesn't like it, maybe he should leave!"
This comment section is sad, the problem with the UK is you collectively do not believe in yourselves you don’t think you can achieve ‘the great British dream’ and therefore you hate and tear down anyone who has. Believe in yourselves.
We are not slaves, we have been told thaf slavery doesn’t exist in western society but travel the world and you see literal slaves - we are the same but in corp world.
Especially when you are talking about American workers they have no choice but to grind as hard as possible. Their minimum wage is insanely low, they get less leave and have to pay huge prices for healthcare. They literally HAVE to work harder than a lot of other countries based on that alone.
Probably a lot more tenacity because their health relies on their employment and they have no rights
That's why I've had 7 managers all located in the States.
Companies dont reward hard work here. So there is no incentive to go out of your way.
What an absolute whopper
Wouldnt invest or work with this guy if you paid me a fortune. His staff hated him at brewdog
Humanity existed and prospered before his company, we will continue without them.
yet strangely they seem to have worked hard enough to make him millions.......
"Watt stepped down from the day-to-day running of the beer-brewing company last year after 17 years, though he retains his shareholding in the organisation and has a non-executive role of “captain and co-founder”.
At the time of his departure, he said he planned to “take a bit of time off, to travel, to spend more time with my family and friends”, while adding that he was aiming to “dedicate some more time to my other business interests”.
this isn’t really related to the video, but i have to say-i kept seeing people talk about Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane in comment sections everywhere. after weeks of wondering, i finally decided to read the book, and i get it now. it’s not just about wishful thinking; it’s about learning how to truly focus your energy and align it with your intentions. it’s made me rethink so many things about how i approach life.
What a crock - failed to ask him about all his company controversies (mind you, he probably only agreed to be interviewed on that condition).
40% TAX, there’s your motivation.
Not so American workers dislike Brit immigrants because Brits work much harder.
Dude is insufferable.
This guy seems incapable of distinguishing between a business owner and an employee
So many Americans at the bottom scale have 2 jobs. Is that what we should be doing master ?
Whilst I agree with him, I have worked excessively without reward, unjustly so.
I have a skilled job, where moving to US would see me earn quadruple pay day one
Combine that with living costs, house prices etc whilst seeing the services / country fall apart
If you're self-employed, it's a different story (partly) of course, and I congratulate them
There needs to be reward for doing so, and the UK struggles to provide this
His teeth cost more than he pays one of his typical workers in annual salary.
Yeah he 'a got a point and he is consistent in his messaging with the people he associates with. I mean his fiancé Toffolo works really really hard doing ummm, well she works as ummm a, I mean she sort of does you know ummm, like she does you know that thingy, well she puts a shift in ok. And she worked extremely hard to get there, I mean she did have the foresight and take the initiative to get born into a wealthy family. You slackers reading this could learn a thing or two from her!
Isn't he known for not paying living wage ?
2 idiots on the screen this time!
Is this a show for UK viewers? Way to sell it.
9:18 glad he wants more wealth inequality
Who wants to work for someone so uninspiring.
Working hards for suckers
Another rich person attacking workers and the UK, everywhere we look it is this message, BORING!
Hard work? Is this man joking?
HAS TO BE A TRUMPIST
Don't people want to become entrepreneurs - think of ideas & USP & create something!??
"Doing the minimum" won't get you very far.
Look up to the US work ethic
No evidence on who works harder. When visiting America; like I have; with American friends they tell me this is just not true at all. There were adverts everywhere and this was way before Covid. Brewdog don't follow company law properly so I doubt this will be successful. He talks a lot but doesn't walk the game. Just look at 'Lost' forest as a perfect example.
In my working days here in Netherlands I had a lot of US colleagues. They work long hours but at a slow pace. I and my Dutch team members did in half a day what our US colleagues took a whole day. They are kind of slow.
As if working hard is a flex. All I hear is "Americans run faster on the hamster wheel"
Ok...I guess lol
He looks more like a ballet dancer
Isnt he from inherited wealth?
R.O.A.S.T.E.R.
Buy a global index fund dont listen to this wazzack
lol who is he classing as a Brit? A Welsh boy from Cardiff?
He was from Cardiff not Southport. He is British as you. You seem to be I some difficulty grasping that.
@stevewhittle7163 lol he's really not
Total misquoted him
James Watt's analysis of the UK vs the US is spot on.
Here in the US, success is respected and admired not the target of envy as it is in the UK.
I left the UK for the US within days of graduating with my PhD, never looked back and now a US citizen, it's a totally different world here.
You aint missed duck, stay there 😘
@@andrewcoulson2375 Deal!
Cheers from Texas😎
@ubik372 when u lose ur job, and medical insurance won't pay. Then 😂.
So you never had an employer whilst having a PhD? How do you know success is more respected in the US if you never worked for anyone after gaining success?
@@RustyWalker Had several job offers lined up from the US before I graduated so got to pick the best one😁
Take a look at who he's marrying, says it all.
Isn't he known for not paying living wage ?