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    Join Date: Oct 2012

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    I've just been barred from my local wetherspoons for fuck all reason... basically making a sarky remark to a rude "jobs-worth" barmaid! It's been my local for about 5 years! Apparently (after checking on the interweb thingy) they are renowned for such behaviour (they barred a pensioner for complaining that there was a hair in his food!!) also, apparently, I have no come back or complaints procedure to follow. That's that! I checked their website and their policy is that if a local pub bars someone they will ALWAYS, no matter what the circumstances, back up the decision of the local pub and refuse to enter into any discussion of whether or not there was a legitimate reason. I have been told I can take it up with the manager when he is in tomorrow but to expect to be told that the barring stands and that he won't even enter into a conversation about why I was barred and whether or not it was justified...
    So what more can I say but BOYCOTT THEM FOLKS!
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    The problem here is that you enter a pub at the landlords discretion, and if you are refused entry or subsequently thrown out they aren't obliged by law to give you an explanation. Having not been there when the incident occurred it would be pointless of me to comment as it wouldn't be fair to either yourself, the barmaid or Wetherspoons. You don't have to look too hard on the net to find negative press about all and sundry.

    I have been 'invited to leave the premises' on the rare occasion in the past, usually because I was behaving like an arse or I was with a group who were. On one particular occasion (it was a warm summers day after work) I was sitting at the bar quietly drinking a pint and reading the paper when some eejit walked up behind me and decided I needed a lager shower. Obviously I wasn't expecting it and therefore reacted on instinct. A scuffle broke out and even though the landlord, who I knew well incidentally, had witnessed the entire incident, he threw us both out, me for retaliating. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't pissed about it but arguing the point would have lead to me being barred permanently and perhaps even to a wee chat with the boys in blue. As it happens I had that 'wee chat' with my new found friend outside, who came around to my way of thinking eventually. In my experience being abrupt with bar staff, regardless of the issue, will only ever end up in one scenario...

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    Only ever been in one

    Not impressed, the place was dirty and depressing

    Not for me !
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    I already avoid them whenever I can anyway so my take on this is that you've been provided with a great opportunity to find a better local (maybe even one that's not owned by a corporate business).

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    I've been boycotting them for years. The McDonald's of pubs. Absolute shite.
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    Blimey jez that's awful surely there's a self help group for those banned from their local weatherspoons. The decision you have to make is do you want to suck it up, apologize for whatever you didn't do that they say you did and drink in the pub or hold your ground and be barred. I doubt there is a middle ground...
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    Ive never had a problem i go in three of the sheffield ones because i drink real ales.. I have given them some grief in the past regarding pulling beer but they take it on the chin no probs..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rare Bird View Post
    Ive never had a problem i go in three of the sheffield ones because i drink real ales.. I have given them some grief in the past regarding pulling beer but they take it on the chin no probs..
    Yep, I agree with Andre. Our local "beardy wierdy" pub as my missus calls it is actually not bad at all and they respect CAMRA's rule of topping up your pint!
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    all the weatherspoons in my area re populated by the scum of the earth anyway

    last time I ventured in I was also asked to leave as some mental tattooed battleaxe randomly went off at me and the landlord didn't appreciate me telling his regular to go fuck herself

    its hardly a loss being evicted from a witherspoons

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    Quote Originally Posted by Markiii View Post
    .......its hardly a loss being evicted from a witherspoons
    A blessing disguise surely ?

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