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DaGaffer said:
Where the fuck were you working, Dante's Inferno Ltd? I did an apprenticeship in the 80s and it wasn't anything like that. If we got caught fighting, sacked, end of story, and Health & Safety was a big thing even back then, employer's liability came in the late 70s.
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An asylum? Would explain the shit at least.
 
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We can only summarise that where you lived was the birthplace of liability.
 
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"surmise"

No, he probably just lived in reality rather than some bad 80s sitcom.
 
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If i ended up working in a place like that i would leave asap

It sounds exhausting
 
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We should all be fearful of attacks from work.

Infact, they should reserve the right to routinely come to your house and beat the shit out of you.
 
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Meh, it was a celebrity hissy fit, no idea why people are so keen to throw around words like bullying and assault - a quick 5 minutes on Google will throw up countless occasions where similar things have happened, and countless names that didn't appear to have any employment issues around it (Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Naomi Campbell, etc etc) - not entirely sure why we are judging Clarkson by the same rules you'd judge an Accounting Assistant or Photocopier Salesman. I won't even go there on footballers and other professional sportsmen.

Yes, he was in the wrong, and admitted as such and has shown plenty of contrition since. Yes he deserved to be heavily punished - but to effectively kill off a well loved show he had spent countless years building up from ruins into a global, money spinning brand for the BBC? Silly decision, and this latest non-compete clause (which is completely unenforceable afaik) kind of proves that to me.
 
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A customer came up to me at work a few years ago, he said (and this is all true) "are you the manager? "

I said yes. He said " I want to make a complaint, one of your staff just told me to fuck off and get out of the shop, what are you going to do about it?"

I asked who it was, he pointed out a member of staff. I told him that was the boss and owner of the shop. "Oh" he said "well what are you going to do about it then"

I said - nothing, you'd better fuck off out the shop hadn't you?

Happy days :)
 
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Bodhi said:
to effectively kill off a well loved show he had spent countless years building up from ruins into a global, money spinning brand for the BBC?
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I thought it had been decided that he engineered the whole thing because he knew what would happen and he wanted to take the show (in whatever guise that may be) elsewhere.
 
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Bodhi said:
Meh, it was a celebrity hissy fit, no idea why people are so keen to throw around words like bullying and assault - a quick 5 minutes on Google will throw up countless occasions where similar things have happened, and countless names that didn't appear to have any employment issues around it (Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Naomi Campbell, etc etc) - not entirely sure why we are judging Clarkson by the same rules you'd judge an Accounting Assistant or Photocopier Salesman. I won't even go there on footballers and other professional sportsmen.

Yes, he was in the wrong, and admitted as such and has shown plenty of contrition since. Yes he deserved to be heavily punished - but to effectively kill off a well loved show he had spent countless years building up from ruins into a global, money spinning brand for the BBC? Silly decision, and this latest non-compete clause (which is completely unenforceable afaik) kind of proves that to me.
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That's because they live by different rules, the BBC is a company that MUST represent what it is to be British and down-to-earth, and not live on cuckoo land with the likes of Hollywood.
 
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Only recently though, Michael Grade said that wouldn't have got past the tea lady in his day.
They were after him for PC reasons and the left got their kill, but they'll pay, oh they'll pay.
 
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Gwadien said:
That's because they live by different rules, the BBC is a company that MUST represent what it is to be British and down-to-earth, and not live on cuckoo land with the likes of Hollywood.
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So it's typically British to compare someone who had a bit of a scuffle to a serial paedophile is it? If that's the case, I'd rather they moved to cloud cuckoo land.
 
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Bodhi said:
Meh, it was a celebrity hissy fit, no idea why people are so keen to throw around words like bullying and assault - a quick 5 minutes on Google will throw up countless occasions where similar things have happened, and countless names that didn't appear to have any employment issues around it (Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Naomi Campbell, etc etc) - not entirely sure why we are judging Clarkson by the same rules you'd judge an Accounting Assistant or Photocopier Salesman. I won't even go there on footballers and other professional sportsmen.

Yes, he was in the wrong, and admitted as such and has shown plenty of contrition since. Yes he deserved to be heavily punished - but to effectively kill off a well loved show he had spent countless years building up from ruins into a global, money spinning brand for the BBC? Silly decision, and this latest non-compete clause (which is completely unenforceable afaik) kind of proves that to me.
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Television is a pretty small world, it doesn't take long to find out what's going on. For instance, I heard about John Leslie several years before his career ended. I must have heard rumours about Rolf Harris at least 15 years ago. I won't tell you what I've heard about a certain celebrity music "judge". Clarkson is a fantastic broadcaster but there are lots of people in TV who think he's a cock. I've never met him so I have no opinion to offer.

The difference between him and the actors you mentioned are that Clarkson is effectively a BBC employee (contractor or not) who assaulted another BBC employee. This after repeated public warnings. If anyone killed off Top Gear, he did.
 
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Seems Clarkson and Co have found the loop hole that was already mentioned "They can get around BBC on ITV screens by making it with an American company which can then broadcast it to ITV" stick that in your pipe and smoke it BBC.
 
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BloodOmen said:
Seems Clarkson and Co have found the loop hole that was already mentioned "They can get around BBC on ITV screens by making it with an American company which can then broadcast it to ITV" stick that in your pipe and smoke it BBC.
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"Get around" what?
 
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DaGaffer said:
"Get around" what?
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The BBC were apparently blocking Clarkson/Hammond and May from broadcasting on ITV until 2017 as there was a clause in their contracts saying they cannot join/compete with rival companies until XXXX year, apparently it was still valid despite their contracts being over BUT they can get around it by making the new show with a US production company then selling it to ITV.
 
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BloodOmen said:
The BBC were apparently blocking Clarkson/Hammond and May from broadcasting on ITV until 2017 as there was a clause in their contracts saying they cannot join/compete with rival companies until XXXX year, apparently it was still valid despite their contracts being over BUT they can get around it by making the new show with a US production company then selling it to ITV.
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Non-competes are largely worthless in the UK anyway unless there's financial compensation.
 
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Being a twitter user must be horrible, having to get offended so often can't be good for you.
 
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Richard made the same post. Dont see them saying anything about him.

I saw both and thought it quite funny.
 
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I had a mate who worked at a fudge factory over one summer. It never got old.
 
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*sigh*

*Opens Sonarr*
*Adds show*


The crap i have to put up with!
 
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