Poll: POLL: Do you agree with Jeremy Clarkson's Sacking?

Do you agree with Jeremy Clarkson's sacking?

  • Yes

    Votes: 778 70.1%

  • No

    Votes: 332 29.9%
  • Total voters
    1,110
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Yes, you can't behave like that in the workplace, whoever you are.


I am dissapointed he wont be fronting Top Gear though.
 
OhEsEcks said:
Yes. He assaulted someone. He threw a bitch fit over not getting a hot meal and assaulted someone. Let that sink in for a few before the same lot who defended him in the other thread chime in. Had it been anyone else, they'd be singing a different tune.
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Separate the persona on TV and the person in the work place.

Now if someone smacked you in the face for missing the coffee run when it was your turn perhaps due to something that may not have been your fault - I think you'd want to have a job where you're not subjected to violence.

There's a line. He crossed it.

I think his TV persona is great. However I cannot condone violence in the work place.

I can see he will be put on an anger management course.. then aunty BBC attempting to reinstate him..
 
steve45 said:
Castiels logic is sound, i dont see any contradiction.
His issue lies with the wording of the question.
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He made his point he's not happy with the wording and to be fair he does have a point but at the same time he knows what Easyrider is saying/implying but Castiel being Castiel has to feel he's won the argument so makes a bigger deal out of it than it actually is.

In response to the original question, I honestly don't see how anyone can defend him after he's physically assaulted someone over a cold meal instead of a warm meal.
 
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Freefaller said:
Has anyone actually ever been in a fight either in or outside of work?
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Outside of work yes and that was after being attacked first but inside of work? No, I'd like to think we've evolved and can sort out our personal differences or professional differences without having the need to punch each others lights out.
 
I think it's right that his contract wasn't renewed but agree that the wording of the question is iffy.

I'm surprised at how many people in the other thread are okay with him punching a colleague. Is it because he punched a 'lowly' producer? What if it was a Commissioning Editor, etc?
 
FARGO said:
I think it's right that his contract wasn't renewed but agree that the wording of the question is iffy.

I'm surprised at how many people in the other thread are okay with him punching a colleague. Is it because he punched a 'lowly' producer? What if it was a Commissioning Editor, etc?
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Keyboard warriors. Would they do the same themselves? No they wouldn't because they know the consequences but it's ok to act hard behind a monitor.
 
Freefaller said:
Has anyone actually ever been in a fight either in or outside of work?
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Outside of work yes, at work no, every where i've worked assaulting someone has been a sackable offence, unless of course it's been self defence.

As much as it pains me to agree with the decision, I think it was the right thing to do, other wise from a management point of view your just storing up all manner of problems for the future.
 
Yes, he verbally and physically assaulted somebody in the workplace. He also has a history of being a nob which has landed him with a couple of strikes with the BBC.
 
ICEx21 said:
Outside of work yes and that was after being attacked first but inside of work? No, I'd like to think we've evolved and can sort out our personal differences or professional differences without having the need to punch each others lights out.
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I agree with your latter point - however, let us just say something/someone snapped and you either received or issued a punch, the other person involved was happy to dust themselves off and go for a pint afterwards to "get over it" - would you accept that or would you want either the aggressor or victim to go through disciplinary procedures?

No one should have to receive physical or verbal violence at work or be subject to it at all, so I'm not condoning it at all. However, it can happen for whatever reasons. It's happened to me but I was being a **** as was the other person, and it all came to a head - he had a bit of a dust up, but then everything was "over" and we went back to our lives and actually ended up working better together in the future. I'm not saying this is the right thing to do or should be acceptable, but neither of us would have ever thought to have taken it to our superiors.

When you had your fight what did you do afterwards? Hope you were not badly injured :(

VoG said:
Outside of work yes, at work no, every where i've worked assaulting someone has been a sackable offence, unless of course it's self defence.

As much as it pains me to agree with the decision, I think it was the right thing to do, other wise from a management point of view your just storing up all manner of problems for the future.
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I completely agree that from what we've been told it is the right thing to do.

Having been on the receiving end of it as I explained above we handled it differently. I just can't help but think this could have been handled better.

I repeat, no one should be subject to physical or verbal abuse at work.
 
Evangelion said:
Droopy faced bigoted self-absorbed mincing prima donna drama queen with a violent streak.

Good riddance.

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easyrider or Castiel?

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Gotten too big for his boots, you cant just go around punching people and expecting nothing to happen.
 
Freefaller said:
Has anyone actually ever been in a fight either in or outside of work?
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Not really sure what your point is. I had 3 physical fights with 2 of the bosses of a previous company I worked for and wasn't sacked...in fact I generally got pay rises after :p

But that was a shambles of a company and they were bullies who pushed all the staff around and I used to stand up to them, which they didn't like.

But then, the people I work for now are normal respectful people who do everything by the book and if anything like that occured now (which it wouldn't) then I would be sacked.

This incident made full media attention though, something any incident involving us non-famous people wouldn't do, so then the BBC had no choice but to follow procedure.

And generally people in a position of public responsibility/media icon/general role model are held to a higher account than others.

JC had been given plenty of latitude over the years, because he was popular and good at his job, but this was one step far to far over the line, and he had to go. I really don't see how there can be any discussion about that.
 
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