Jeremy Clarkson suspended from BBC

Delvis · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:40

ElliottJames said:
It's all over, hope the producer never finds a job again.

lolno

cu3ed said:
Also..are we not actually gong to get the details and circumstance of what actually happened?

Why should you? :confused:

TheLegendOfMart said:
I don't understand, why would someone go to A&E if they were punched?

If it was serious enough then surely the police would have been involved.

I find this whole situation bizarre.

Oh I don't know, maybe he got punched and there was no first aid on site and it didn't stop bleeding? Maybe he wanted to actually tell Clarkson 'you know what buddy? This is it this time'.

You'll never know

robgmun · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:40

Whats more telling is the people who are happy in this thread that hate him, most of them are the usual suspects of wet librealists and closet Marxists.

cheesyboy · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:40

BuffetSlayer said:
Rubbish. He went too far and he knows it. It is the right call and he is lucky he hasn't been done for assault.

But I guess fan boys are gonna fan boy

Hardly a fan boy, I've watched about 6 episodes across the past 3 or 4 series.

I just don't think that one-off blow-ups are a reason to dispense with the services of valuable employees. Crap or easily replaceable employees - fine get rid of those, but don't treat special employees the same.

Steedie · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:41

Kreeeee said:
Am I the only one who thinks this is good news?

Clarkson and his gang continue their show elsewhere while the BBC try to create something in its place.

It's a win-win for me as we will have two similar competing shows now.

To have a show like Top Gear in the format it's in now, you need Clarkson. Without Clarkson, it's just Fifth Gear...and we all know how successful that was

balky12 · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:41

BuffetSlayer said:
I think you will find that almost every company in the land will have a clause that says physical attacks on colleagues, customers or the general public qualify as gross misconduct and therefore grounds for immediate dismissal.

You're not reading what I am saying.

Grounds for dismissal yes. Dismissal no.

If an admin was out for a long lunch things got boozy and in the heat of a moment he hit a colleague there is a high chance he would be sacked.

If an underwriter did the same his chances of being sacked would not be as high.

Delvis · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:42

ElliottJames said:
Be careful, u might get called a pathetic troll.

My opinion, awful attack, not condoned, final warning at most. Producer overreacted majorly.

Final warning? Figured that was already issued

cheesyboy · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:42

Kreeeee said:
Am I the only one who thinks this is good news?

Clarkson and his gang continue their show elsewhere while the BBC try to create something in its place.

It's a win-win for me as we will have two similar competing shows now.

I strongly doubt we'll see all three on the same show again. Charity specials aside.

gothic_hobbit · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:42

Steedie said:
To have a show like Top Gear in the format it's in now, you need Clarkson. Without Clarkson, it's just Fifth Gear...and we all know how successful that was

Fifth Gear still exists.

MrMoonX · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:42

Hit someone at work= sack

I cannot believe people here are saying this isn't dismissal, go on then go hit one of your colleagues and report back :rolleyes:

Deep · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:42

cheesyboy said:
Hardly a fan boy, I've watched about 6 episodes across the past 3 or 4 series.

I just don't think that one-off blow-ups are a reason to dispense with the services of valuable employees. Crap or easily replaceable employees - fine get rid of those, but don't treat special employees the same.

All employees should be treated equal under instances of misconduct, it's that simple

VoG · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:43

cheesyboy said:
I just don't think that one-off blow-ups are a reason to dispense with the services of valuable employees. Crap or easily replaceable employees - fine get rid of those, but don't treat special employees the same.

So how many times do you let the "special ones" have their temper tantrums, where are you going to draw the line?.

Steedie · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:43

gothic_hobbit said:
Fifth Gear still exists.

On the Discovery channel...with hardly any viewers. A bit different to Top Gear

Delvis · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:43

gothic_hobbit said:
Fifth Gear still exists.

Yes....And its a load of tripe

Wizzfizz · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:43

Lets not forget that other peoples jobs could be lost because of this

cheesyboy · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:43

Deep said:
All employees should be treated equal under instances of misconduct, it's that simple

It's simple if that's how you see business, yes.

In reality, it's not that simple.

balky12 · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:44

Deep said:
All employees should be treated equal under instances of misconduct, it's that simple

Should be.

In reality it doesn't work like this.

Is life fair?

Xordium · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:44

There was a good call I read yesterday to get Sabine Schmitt to replace him. I think he'd rather like the irony of being replaced by a German woman who could drive better than him.

The Dread Pirate · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:44

Trifid said:
I'm looking forward to seeing what James May would work on in the future.

WTH is he wearing on his head?

TheLegendOfMart · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:44

MrMoonX said:
Hit someone at work= sack

I cannot believe people here are saying this isn't dismissal, go on then go hit one of your colleagues and report back

He had been drinking in the pub which is also gross misconduct in what is no doubt every contract, it was the end of the working day. If you go out to a pub and punch your supervisor should you get sacked for it if it wasn't actually at work?

smr · 25 Mar 2015 at 14:44

"The BBC must now look to renew Top Gear for 2016. This will be a big challenge and there is no point in pretending otherwise. I have asked Kim Shillinglaw [Controller of BBC Two] to look at how best we might take this forward over the coming months. I have also asked her to look at how we put out the last programmes in the current series."

Good luck with that, there's a reason I don't watch Fifth Gear and it's because I cannot stand the presenters. Simple as that. JC is one in a million when it comes to presenting a car show, and I can safely predict that whoever they try to replace him with will grate, making it unbearable to watch.