Jack Monroe #441 Congratulations on dispatching items you sold

[CabalofBolorneaise]

It does seem bizarre and certainly poorly executed but tbh I don’t agree with others that it’s mean and cruel. Or at least I interpreted it differently. We have to remember that the Grocers loyalty is to their subscribers and advertisers, not to Jack Monroe. If they’ve had major blowback from a lot of subscribers or advertisers for choosing JM, then it’s not a bad move to seek feedback on a public forum, although I concede that a Twitter poll isn’t a great way of doing it.

Maybe they’ve caught the ShootMyselfInTheFootVia TwitterPoll virus from Elon.

I think the main reason it seems cruel to me is the way they’ve done it. If they’re getting blowback then that’s on them for not doing due diligence, there’s no need to do a poll and basically encourage people to pile on Jack knowing she’ll be tagged in the replies. If they wanted feedback from their audience, they could have published an article asking if people agreed with it with moderated comments (or asking for emailed feedback). Most of the people who pile on on Twitter will not be the grocers target audience at all.


It’s encouraging a pile on the same way she does, and while there’s an element of her reaping what she sows, I think it’s cruel when she does it to other people and so I think it’s cruel when it’s done to her too.

 

[jenny2603]

There’s accounts who dislike Jack, the lady in red is one who jumps in to most Jack discussions to drag her. Even the lady in red, fervent disliker of Jack, is commenting saying the poll is cruel and should be taken down!

I bet she still had a cheeky vote, though.

 

[Onestorytoomany]

something smells and for once its not her famous sticky brown poo. I do feel a bit bad for her this is a crappy thing to do.

 

[ForgettyBetty]

Now the provvy has gone as well as hamper companies, most people I know round here start xmas shopping as soon as the school uniforms are paid for, a bit at a time over the 3 months. December money is NOT available for xmas (aside from the slightly higher than normal fresh food shop) as it's all in the meter for winter bills.

 

[Snotbuster]

T2 costs between £6.17-£9.00 per 100g box on Amazon right now.

Oooh. That's a deal. In USD it is $13-29. I know that the dollar-pound conversion favored the dollar (last I heard-I don't keep up) and that is a lot for random boxes of tea. But Jack seems to like a lot of random boxes of stuff in her home so it all fits, no?

 

[ForgettyBetty]

The Grocer have a poll on their Twitter asking if people agree with their decision to give Jack their Hero of the Year award.
Seems an odd thing to have a poll about.

eta - it has already been found by one of her detractors.

Sounds like "We made this decision earlier in the year before tit happened. Please don't hate us.."

 

[Snotbuster]

At the risk of sounding like I don’t believe Jack is lying ( because she almost certainly is) but the letting agent my last landlord used would communicate via text predominately because it’s the easiest way to prove that the information has been sent , received and read. (Particularly if the person you were communicating with regularly tweeted about their thousands of unread email and unopened letters )

Lots of LLs use text and email over here, too. It's just that some types of official correspondence has to be on paper, mailed--depending on the city, state, etc. Didn't know what UK law was like.

 

[WoolyMammoth]

Now the provvy has gone as well as hamper companies, most people I know round here start xmas shopping as soon as the school uniforms are paid for, a bit at a time over the 3 months. December money is NOT available for xmas (aside from the slightly higher than normal fresh food shop) as it's all in the meter for winter bills.

I remember I used to use Oct, Nov and Dec money to do Christmas. Sainsburys half price toy sale used to be a big part.

Not actually a bad memory of Christmas shopping as such. Got what was needed and cut our cloth as I needed to. Just needed more precision and counting and having this instead of that.

 

[MediaMonkey]

There’s accounts who dislike Jack, the lady in red is one who jumps in to most Jack discussions to drag her. Even the lady in red, fervent disliker of Jack, is commenting saying the poll is cruel and should be taken down!

I've never seen you looking so cancelled as you did tonight,
I've never seen critics look so right,
I've never seen so many social media managers in a trance,
They're looking for a little revenge, given half a chance,
And I have never seen that award you're losing,
Or the highlights in your wig that catch your lies,
I have been blind

 

[Captainmouse]

Sandi's a Frau, Sandi's a frau
she said eye of Sauron

 

[HotesTilaire]

Sandi's a Frau, Sandi's a frau
she said eye of Sauron

Is Sandi well again now?

Ok so the misguided poll links to the blog article. My reading of the blog article is that it’s praising Jack, without overstating her role in the ONS or Asda’s essentials. duck. This was posted at 8pm at night. They thought it was a shoe-in. What if they don’t check twitter until tomorrow?

 

[Whaa?]

Sounds like "We made this decision earlier in the year before tit happened. Please don't hate us.."

Maybe they don't want to look like eejits due to the non appearance of the VBI.

 

[Clovis]

 

[HotesTilaire]

Maybe they don't want to look like eejits due to the non appearance of the VBI.

No it’s 100% naïve, big mistake, huge.

 

[Lucky Escape]

For added romance, make sure you collect the water downstream from the nearest sewage outfall...

 

[ChickenPorridge]

She's such a boring buller. If we're to believe the garbage she comes off with, her friends and family are incredibly generous in the gifts they shower her with. Look at all the expensive tit in her house. 10 years of receiving homemade house burner-downers and rit pairs of socks from Jack would make me think twice about getting her a set of bespoke designer curtains for her living room, or Tiffany earrings.

 

[Captainmouse]

Now Sandi is talking about spoon licker, doorway sniffer, sausage swiper and meat hook
and and, Josh’s buzzer is 'the snow'

 

[jenny2603]

Sounds like "We made this decision earlier in the year before tit happened. Please don't hate us.."

"Look, her old agent bought the prize in the before times and now everything has gone bits up and we're stuck with it"

 

[Candytuft]

There's an article praising Jack on the Grocer website, out on the 21st of December. I don't know how to do links. I'm sorry.
Ugh. Too late. Ignore me.

 

[Onestorytoomany]





For added romance, make sure you collect the water downstream from the nearest sewage outfall...

Good, shes not bothered about the poll, phew!