Jeremy Clarkson suspended from BBC
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The fact you omitted Alf Garnet in your objection shows you don't get his.
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Like many other on here, I think it's a real shame the show has ended like this - whether you liked every segment of it or not, (in my opinion) the majority of it was very entertaining.
And while smacking someone at work is always likely to get you into bother, I don't think the BBC helped itself by creating a "final warning" situation for things that were dubious. The "slope" incident was probably the worst, but almost impossible to prove whether he meant it or not. The out-take nursery rhyme? Mumbled at worse, and never broadcast anyway. The Falklands? Hardly think JC went out and bought the car himself.
But due to the howls from the "offended", they got him to a last warning position, and then something serious did happen, and they had no option. Whereas if they'd have shrugged off the other complaints, they could've ended up with a genuine no more after this incident, and have managed the situation.
Shame all round, as whatever the BBC might think, I can't see Top Gear continuing, so the entire production team will have suffered. Messrs Clarkson and Tymon might have thought about that before whatever went on got to the level it did.
And while smacking someone at work is always likely to get you into bother, I don't think the BBC helped itself by creating a "final warning" situation for things that were dubious. The "slope" incident was probably the worst, but almost impossible to prove whether he meant it or not. The out-take nursery rhyme? Mumbled at worse, and never broadcast anyway. The Falklands? Hardly think JC went out and bought the car himself.
But due to the howls from the "offended", they got him to a last warning position, and then something serious did happen, and they had no option. Whereas if they'd have shrugged off the other complaints, they could've ended up with a genuine no more after this incident, and have managed the situation.
Shame all round, as whatever the BBC might think, I can't see Top Gear continuing, so the entire production team will have suffered. Messrs Clarkson and Tymon might have thought about that before whatever went on got to the level it did.
I have nothing against Clarkson et al. They're all well travelled guys, and I'd be genuinely stunned if any of their controversial comments were actually believed by them.
However, I won't be sad to see them go. It's turned into a lazy show, with lazy humour and cheap jokes and stunts. The scripting has become worse and worse, and it's starting to play up to the worst of "lad culture".
For me, the show had come to its natural conclusion. The punch was a convenient way for all concerned to end it, and rightly so. Clarkson deserved to go for hitting somebody in the workplace, and the other two will walk, I imagine, and go on to do other things.
An employer can't put someone on a final warning after they hit someone, it would cause far too many issues across the entire corporation.
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No, he means 'not'. Clarkson was an external contractor effectively so cannot be sacked as he isn't an employee. Instead they have declined to renew his contract which whilst it has the same effect isn't quite the same thing.
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I think C4 should have the guys from the Last Leg do a motoring programme.
'Thug gets sacked after violent assault on work colleague' usually results in shouts of 'prison!' 'hang him' and 'send him back' in GD, but because it's someone they like to watch on telly the reaction is a bit different.
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You don't get a warning and you don't give your employer any option when you hit someone. You get sacked no matter what. This was alway going to be the outcome. As it is he's got off lightly, he only has days left on his contract, so the easy option was not to renew his contract.
Really, but when a BBC employ bites a producer and victim files a disciplinary. The victim is sent abroad on a project and disciplinary procedures dropped.
Lots of people get away with such things, basic economics unfortunately. When it's media/sports etc you generally don't sack the person bringing in millions.
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I work in the public sector, and apparently, one Christmas party, one employee thumped another. Came close to the sack, but both still there. In different parts of the business, not working together like these two, but nevertheless, it sometimes doesn't result in dismissal.....
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Could James May be indicating he might leave? saying all three of them are a package, and saying he does "not want to talk about it too much" about his future at top gear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvJg7KlLGmQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvJg7KlLGmQ
Too be fair I doubt he has even had time to properly process it. It's like like he is going to say "yes I quit, were all going to Sky1 with a new series starting in Jan" is it?
What do you really expect him to say?
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