Finch Bakery

Status
Thread locked. We start a new thread when they have over 1000 posts, click the blue button to see all threads for this topic and find the latest open thread.
New to Tattle Life? Click "Order Thread by Most Liked Posts" button below to get an idea of what the site is about:
Honestly so weird! £50 Tesco and Asda voucher give them all a bonus so they can spend it how they like ffs. Asda voucher
whats wrong with supermarket chained vouchers? How materialistic, that is someone’s food shop for the week which you wouldn’t know if their staff would want or need. I’d absolutely love my food shop paid for (and a bottle of gin!!) You’re also missing off the other vouchers- amazon, local shop, voucher of their choice, I think you’re being slightly unfair even if they are slightly showing off they “treat” their staff.
 
Reactions: 21
As you said you don’t know what your staff want or need. So give them the cash and don’t make that decision for them by giving them a bloody Asda voucher. They’re adults, they have agency, they can choose how to spend their money. Why are they being given supermarket vouchers as a gift? I find that very weird.

Not to mention these are their own staff - if they think they’re struggling to pay for a food shop on the minimum wage they pay them, that says a lot about them as employers.
 
Reactions: 8
Im
A lot of their staffs members are older though as you said. and maybe a missguided voucher wouldn’t be versatile enough don’t understand your point, surely they don’t have to give any incentives out so anything is just a nice gesture. Vouchers aren’t taxed and £ is maybe I dont no
 
Reactions: 9
I haven’t said anywhere to give them a Missguided voucher? I don’t get what’s not to understand about my point...I said it would be better to give them a bonus or cash so the employees can decide themselves how to spend it, you’re limited in what you can choose at Asda and I don’t think ‘buying soneone a good shop’ is a nice gesture at all. If they are paid fairly they shouldn’t need to be bought a food shop, what if they’d rather have the money to buy Christmas gifts for their kids? It’s weird and paternalistic to say ‘here’s some money but I choose how you spend it’. Extremely odd behaviour.
 
Reactions: 8

Vouchers under £50 aren’t taxable for the employee regardless of their salary as a pp mentioned, it’s a trivial benefit. A bonus of £50 in their wages would be taxed so their staff are actually better off for receiving the voucher than a monetary equivalent.
My employer gives love2shop vouchers and we all love receiving them and most people do spend them at a supermarket for their Christmas treats.

I think the advent calendar is a nice idea tbh.

A voucher to spend £50 on your weekly shop then gives you the ability to use the £50 you’d normally spend on something else such as a gift from another store.
Swings and roundabouts in a tax efficient way
 
Reactions: 6
Can we go back to moaning about how this advent clearly is a way of showing everyone that they really do treat their employees well
 
Reactions: 10
Can we go back to moaning about how this advent clearly is a way of showing everyone that they really do treat their employees well
Yes!

These staff wouldn’t even accept a coffee from the girls the other day
 
Reactions: 6
Every other story is to address stuff said on here now. Over 30s in clubs I think someone mentioned, then why Isabakes left...they can’t stay away
 
Reactions: 8
Havent they just reposted those posts from their staffs instagrams. So even their staff are talking about here too now!
 
Reactions: 6
Oh wow literally posting whatever is mentioned here absolute cringe.
hi huns hehehe xox

In all seriousness I like the advent - nice idea. But such a humble brag.
I get posting the raffle = more donations but to keep re hashing how ‘amazing’ they are to work for/with is clearly to justify thing written here.

Wish them all the best in their new location & well done for raising money for age uk.

But the over hype is too much for me. Finally unfollowed.
 
Reactions: 8
The only issue with that advent calendar is that if most the girls are under 21 then they won’t have their own place. I know I wouldn’t have appreciated a voucher for marks and Spencer’s at 18 cause it was just irrelevant then. Would love it now!

I never used to mind finch bakery, wasn’t mad on the stuff they sold but I found them quite funny. Gone off them a lot though, tried their blondies again over lockdown and I just don’t get the hype at all! Ive recently ordered from Alanahs bakes (ABC) and they were so much better!! She’s in Accrington and seems lovely on social media. I think they’ll really start suffering with other bakers coming through now doing postal and having shops
 
Reactions: 14
See they’re still posting videos with Isabel, obviously got a point to prove girls! Same with the private instagrams! Must be really butthurt knowing your social media followers see through your shit, imagine moaning on Twitter about paying your own workers £10 an hour Greedy gits
 
Reactions: 5
Do you think isobelle was forced into posting that nice post about them the other day She clearly left because she could make more money on her own (like a hairdresser setting up on there own) and Iv seen nothing but FB/ other staff reposting her since she left. Mayb they are actually friends?
 
Reactions: 6
I don’t think this is unreasonable, my workplace do the supermarket vouchers at Christmas, usually get a discount through the supplier if you order over a certain amount too.


 
Reactions: 1
I don’t think this is unreasonable, my workplace do the supermarket vouchers at Christmas, usually get a discount through the supplier if you order over a certain amount too.
You do know you can buy a different voucher in asda with your voucher. i used to get an Asda one each year and go in store & buy an Asos voucher, you don't have to buy your turkey with it. Of all the problematic things they do at times, the vouchers aren't one of them i think. bragging about it is unnecessary.

BTW i think whichever's daughter Alba is so cute, i actually want her saying 'oh you look beautiful' as my alarm tone for an early morning boost of confidence!
 
Reactions: 8
... i'm from the RIbble Valley ... that cut deep! .... in fairness we have one of the countries lowest infection rates we're just surrounded by the highest so we're stuck in with them! Not defending ANY flouting or breaking of the rules i've been stuck in my house since March & been very strict. Daddy let me use the summer house in lockdown (that bit is a joke)
 
Reactions: 18
Also what is with the black interior.... terrible and will not age well
 
Reactions: 7
Status
Thread locked. We start a new thread when they have over 1000 posts, click the blue button to see all threads for this topic and find the latest open thread.
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn more…