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https://news.sky.com/story/row-over-new-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls-heats-up-11597679

A heated row has broken out over a move by Britain's largest bakery chain to launch a vegan sausage roll.

The pastry, which is filled with a meat substitute and encased in 96 pastry layers, is available in 950 Greggs stores across the country.

It was promised after 20,000 people signed a petition calling for the snack to be launched to accommodate plant-based diet eaters.


But the vegan sausage roll's launch has been greeted by a mixed reaction: Some consumers welcomed it, while others voiced their objections.

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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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Cook and food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe declared she was "frantically googling to see what time my nearest opens tomorrow morning because I will be outside".

While TV writer Brydie Lee-Kennedy called herself "very pro the Greggs vegan sausage roll because anything that wrenches veganism back from the 'clean eating' wellness folk is a good thing".

One Twitter user wrote that finding vegan sausage rolls missing from a store in Corby had "ruined my morning".

Another said: "My son is allergic to dairy products which means I can't really go to Greggs when he's with me. Now I can. Thank you vegans."

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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary


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TV presenter Piers Morgan led the charge of those outraged by the new roll.

"Nobody was waiting for a vegan bloody sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr Morgan later complained at receiving "howling abuse from vegans", adding: "I get it, you're all hangry. I would be too if I only ate plants and gruel."

Another Twitter user said: "I really struggle to believe that 20,000 vegans are that desperate to eat in a Greggs."

"You don't paint a mustach (sic) on the Mona Lisa and you don't mess with the perfect sausage roll," one quipped.

Journalist Nooruddean Choudry suggested Greggs introduce a halal steak bake to "crank the fume levels right up to 11".

The bakery chain told concerned customers that "change is good" and that there would "always be a classic sausage roll".

It comes on the same day McDonald's launched its first vegetarian "Happy Meal", designed for children.

The new dish comes with a "veggie wrap", instead of the usual chicken or beef option.

It should be noted that Piers Morgan and Greggs share the same PR firm, so I'm thinking this is some serious faux outrage and South Park KKK gambiting here.

 

[BongoMongo]

I will say this, I do enjoy how the spackers who pushed for 100% WFH have seen their jobs get cut out completely, as naturally if you don't need to be in the office at all, why not just offshore the work to Kuwait or some run down shithole?

Absolutely yes. That said my other half has been wfh for over a decade now,long before le coof and working from home being the norm. However this is because, the level he is at within the company, it's a perk and a benefit afforded to him and other really senior level staff.

If that changed then that's cool. We'd deal with it.

But Tracey from HR who thinks wfh is her god given right, then acting shocked when her employer bins her off is peak hilarity.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Work from home is useful because it allows for a more flexible work day. 100% WFH was a retarded idea.

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

I will say this, I do enjoy how the spackers who pushed for 100% WFH have seen their jobs get cut out completely, as naturally if you don't need to be in the office at all, why not just offshore the work to Kuwait or some run down shithole?

I don't understand the hate for WFH.
I'm way more productive not having to listen to incessant nattering all day. I can also be comfortable and concentrate because all the equipment at my house is better quality and set up correctly. The only people who seem to like people coming into the office are management, and that's because their jobs are redundant when they're not forcing us all to do retard shit like "team building days"

Offshoring jobs means you end up with jeet level work, scams, and cybersecurity problems.

 

[FedPostalService]

I don't understand the hate for WFH.
I'm way more productive not having to listen to incessant nattering all day. I can also be comfortable and concentrate because all the equipment at my house is better quality and set up correctly. The only people who seem to like people coming into the office are management, and that's because their jobs are redundant when they're not forcing us all to do retard shit like "team building days"

Offshoring jobs means you end up with jeet level work, scams, and cybersecurity problems.

Because people tell you the work a lot more a home and they fucking lie because they spend half their day doing fucking washing. It was an a panic move during COVID but now everyone thinks it's a god given right.

If we could all scrap offices we would, we don't want people back in the office because we're paying rent for an office, we want it because they're lazy fuckwits.

I know one or two firms who have successfully moved to full WFH but they're 100% small FS firms that has a remarkable amount of good management to keep an eye on people ad stamp down on laziness with a sledge hammer.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I don't understand the hate for WFH.
I'm way more productive not having to listen to incessant nattering all day. I can also be comfortable and concentrate because all the equipment at my house is better quality and set up correctly. The only people who seem to like people coming into the office are management, and that's because their jobs are redundant when they're not forcing us all to do retard shit like "team building days"

Offshoring jobs means you end up with jeet level work, scams, and cybersecurity problems.

Working from home when the need calls due to flexibility, like having the gas man over or waiting for an important parcel? Totally fine! You're still doing work. Working from home 100% means that your employer can now employ anyone from the Scottish highlands to Penzance, so you have zero job security. There's plenty of jobs that physically cannot be offshored (like government or nhs posts) but that also means that the dream office that's a five minute walk from your house is never considering you over the thousands of qualified candidates from other major cities.

100% working from home has the perk from the employers perspective that you can get someone to do the work of three people, as they'd do anything for that post. If their workload means they only do the job of 2.6 people then they can fuck off as there's 20,000 people waiting for them to fail so they have a chance at the post.

 

[BongoMongo]

Because people tell you the work a lot more a home and they fucking lie because they spend half their day doing fucking washing. It was an a panic move during COVID but now everyone thinks it's a god given right.

If we could all scrap offices we would, we don't want people back in the office because we're paying rent for an office, we want it because they're lazy fuckwits.

I know one or two firms who have successfully moved to full WFH but they're 100% small FS firms that has a remarkable amount of good management to keep an eye on people ad stamp down on laziness with a sledge hammer.

I'd always wondered how people get away with it. Even partners and people on the level where his nibs works have key logging software (i think that's what it's called? Where it tracks your work and what you're doing). They had one guy go quiet for 3 hours once and knew, as they could see it. Called his wife, she rushed home, it turned out he'd had a seizure and smacked his head in going down. Poor bastard was okay but shaken up.

I go to work for 4x12 hour night shifts, in the office. I go there and I *work*. I don't skive off to do chores or errands. I get there, make a brew, get settled and do the job I'm paid well to do for 11 hours. I don't nip to the shops, or go picking up the kids or go take my work device to a cafe.

We don't allow any wfh at my employer, in any of our subsidiaries, at any level of staff. It's fucking excellent and weeds out some complete fucking dreck.

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

If we could all scrap offices we would, we don't want people back in the office because we're paying rent for an office, we want it because they're lazy fuckwits.

The people who are lazy at home are lazy at the office. The same people who always seem to be unavailable/take ages to respond when at home are the same people who float around the office chatting and grabbing coffees all day.

If I can finish my work in 4 hours because I'm not having to listen to constant mongs, then whatever I do for the other 4 hours of my shift is my business.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I fucking guarantee you if the Civil Service and council scrapped ALL WFH overnight you'd see productivity go through the fucking roof. All the retards saying they'd quit if they were forced back into the office? Good for you, now they can finally hire people who want to do WORK you task avoiding spackers!

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

I fucking guarantee you if the Civil Service and council scrapped ALL WFH overnight you'd see productivity go through the fucking roof. All the retards saying they'd quit if they were forced back into the office? Good for you, now they can finally hire people who want to do WORK you task avoiding spackers!

Nah, you'd end up with the dregs who can't get jobs elsewhere.

A data area in the Australian Public Service mandated 5 day a week in office and all the good data analysts left to go work for Pricewaterhouse Coopers and KPMG. Job security not as good as public service but the pay is infinitely better and the private sector let them WFH.
All that remained were Jeets who weren't able to produce anything of value.

 

[FedPostalService]

I fucking guarantee you if the Civil Service and council scrapped ALL WFH overnight you'd see productivity go through the fucking roof. All the retards saying they'd quit if they were forced back into the office? Good for you, now they can finally hire people who want to do WORK you task avoiding spackers!

One word: unions. They demand their workers are lazy because less productive workers in their minds means more people need to be hired thus they get more members and more subs.

Fun fact: there are a lot of job cuts at unions at the moment because the economy is in the shitter but you have to hunt to find news for it, like all the bullying tribunals that happen for people who work directly for the unions or high level members being arrested for corruption.

 

[BongoMongo]

I can do my BAU in about 6 hours in a heavy, busy night. Guess what I do in the remaining 5 working hours I have? I'm putting together a run book on how to do my job for when I'm off. I'm doing SOPs on the processes and I'm compiling a lost of client contacts and special instructions because my predecessor was a lazy cunt who never bothered to do shit

People with this "I'm gonna bust out my workload then do fuck all" types: tell me you never did a job that needed showering after without saying those words.

I'd argue the epitome of laziness is never looking to help or improve on anything and focusing solely on doing as little as possible as fast as possible.

Sooner we take that away from those people the better off everything will be.

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

You sound big mad that other people don't write documents that no one else ever reads.

SOPs? What a waste of time. No one reads those in office jobs.

If you need to rely on a cheatsheet for an office job, you're too retarded to function in society.

 

[FedPostalService]

You sound big mad that other people don't write documents that no one else ever reads.

SOPs? What a waste of time. No one reads those in office jobs.

If you need to rely on a cheatsheet for an office job, you're too retarded to function in society.

Just put the fries in the bag.

 

[BongoMongo]

You sound big mad that other people don't write documents that no one else ever reads.

SOPs? What a waste of time. No one reads those in office jobs.

If you need to rely on a cheatsheet for an office job, you're too retarded to function in society.

I work in engineering you spastic. Everything I do is highly technical and specialized. We don't have a surplus of staff knocking about because most retards used to wfh haven't got the balls to work there, so having a run sheet means when I'm off, I'm not walking back into a shit show.

You sound like you work an easy job in marketing, recruitment, HR or the public sector. Enjoy it while it lasts, you're fucked when AI really takes off.

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

I work in engineering you spastic. Everything I do is highly technical and specialized. We don't have a surplus of staff knocking about because most retards used to wfh haven't got the balls to work there, so having a run sheet means when I'm off, I'm not walking back into a shit show.

You sound like you work an easy job in marketing, recruitment, HR or the public sector. Enjoy it while is lasts, you're fucked when AI really takes off.

Yeah I was right, big mad.
I'm a registered nurse, fuckbucket.
You'll be automated or replaced by a jeet before I am.

 

[BongoMongo]

Yeah I was right, big mad.
I'm a registered nurse, fuckbucket.
You'll be automated or replaced by a jeet before I am.

Hahah you're so full of shit.

Registered nurse but wfh and does their workload in 4 hours.

Hahahaha what a pile of horseshit, you're such a fucking liar.

Rope yourself faggot.


Haha even better a Skippy fucker. Opinion disregarded then. Off you fuck

God I bet you work for centre link assessing petrol guzzling abboes dont you?

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Yeah I was right, big mad.
I'm a registered nurse, fuckbucket.
You'll be automated or replaced by a jeet before I am.

Fat lass or homosexual?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

My job can't be done fully from home sadly. The government would frown on me storing so many chemicals.

 

[BongoMongo]

My job can't be done fully from home sadly. The government would frown on me storing so many chemicals.

I mean that sounds like a challenge to be overcome. Love big, achieve your dreams, stockpile all the dangerous things. I believe in you.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I mean that sounds like a challenge to be overcome. Love big, achieve your dreams, stockpile all the dangerous things. I believe in you.

"Local neighbourhood found gassed."