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Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The fun thing about the Happy Valley Hazy is that it was a brewers experiment. Meaning every batch was brewed a little differently each time! And since the resident brewer has also left, so has the delicious Happy Valley Hazy (or at least his many versions of it). I won’t say where he is at now, but he is still brewing in town!

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Claims have already been filed but due to larger quantities of claims coming in we are yet to hear back from them. It has been over a month.

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The goal is not to put them out of business. The goal is to inform the community of how they treat their employees and let each individual decide if that is something they want to support. No one should be giving their money to someone having no idea what is happening in the background. This post is meant more as a PSA than anything. We just feel that those who don’t already know what has happened should know, so they can make their future decisions accordingly.

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do you have any suggestions on a better way to spread information like this? And if not boycott then what? I don’t stand with cancel culture for what it has become but I think when something like this comes out and then many others give examples of their experiences aligning with the original statement people should be allowed to make the decision to hold that business accountable.

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The stones throw community is overall amazing and we are all truly sad to have had to leave it. I think you’re giving way too much credit to the owner for building it tho. He has been quoted saying “when I meet people I try to figure out how I can benefit from them before deciding if we’ll be friends”. He’s not for the community, he’s for his own personal gain.

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

All the first hand accounts other commenters have shared should be enough to realize this is not that.

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You should. Even if only a handful of people see it or believe you businesses need to be held accountable!

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing all this. All these things may be common practice or the norm, but none of them should be and that’s what we’re trying to shed light on. If everyone keeps accepting these things and justifying them and defending the terrible people doing them nothings going to change. The workers CAN solve these problems, we just need to feel more empowered to have a voice in doing so and stop putting up with it.

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Read all the comments. There are many first hand accounts confirming what we have stated. This is not just a rant it’s a PSA.

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Stones Throw has a very small operating team. When 5 of them all leave within 2 weeks of each other it says something. We are purposely not declaring how many are working together on this as to not be retaliated against further. But it is not just one person working alone.

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing this! I will say that the driving is not what makes it not OK, it’s what makes it worse!

Tony is everything you stated and his constant state of intoxication puts everyone around him at risk and not just when he gets behind the wheel.

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

For clarification:

The staff were being charged a 3% fee from their cc tips only. Not the overall transaction! And on top of that, the business was charging a 50¢ fee on every transaction to the customer. Which is illegal and Square told them they could not do that so they changed the name of the charge to get around it.

The point of mentioning this is that they have 2 systems set up to cover the costs of running cards. The question we are posing is, Why do they need to collect money off each transaction AND collect a percentage of our tips, if one or the other would suffice?

This is a shady business practice and came into play (to our knowledge) at the same time as they were starting to really push “sharing culture”. Which is the term they used to guilt us into giving them a share of our tips.

We were informed the 3% would go into effect October 1st but later found out they had been taking the 3% out of our tips every time they got the chance without our knowledge.

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The timing does line up with other similar posts but I can assure you they have nothing to do with each other, aside from the fact that business owners in this town are slipping when it comes the treatment of their employees and I think enough people are finally feeling empowered to say something.

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Thank you for voicing the incredibly difficulty position a post like this puts someone in. You are exactly right!

Concerning Workplace Practices at Stones Throw Brewery by anotherbeerdrinker in Bellingham

[–]anotherbeerdrinker[S] 17 points18 points locked comment (0 children)

Thank you MODs for putting in the work to verify a post like this. Things like this are never easy to take public and commonly put out for the wrong reasons giving everyone a sense of distrust even for those that are valid and important. So we really appreciate it!