Disagree. He brings the company into disrepute with an idiotic statement like that. PR nightmare unless they sack him.
I totally agree. It does. No one stands up for their employees anymore though. No one says, hey know what, he's a ****ing idiot, his thoughts don't reflect our view, and he's there to be shot at, but we're not going to sack him for it.
Not the age we live in. Someone says something and it goes ****ing viral. You can't get away from it. Companies need to act before people get up in arms about it. I think it's better this way to be honest. His job is a dream come true for a lot of decent people who wouldn't say the vile she he said. He should be accountable and he shouldn't have his voice heard by a wide audience because he's a thick, dinosaur twat.
I don't know why Bristow felt the urge to put his thoughts out into the public domain. I can understand why he thought it, because there's people I would have liked to meet up with once I'd grown up (older bully types, nothing sexual) . But why shoot your mouth off when you know nothing good can come of it? And how does he know what those lads went through? Twat...
Thing is, He's a representative of Sky, sky need to show definitively he wasn't speaking for them. He was going to get sacked the second he said it. It's his own fault. Doesn't have the brains to separate his personal opinion from what's required professionally. The bloke is clearly a liability ans Sky needed to get shot, the quicker the better for their brand to avoid a PR nightmare.
I know Bri. I had the same comeback from Disco above. I think my beef is more with global corporatism, where the radical, independent or unilateral thought is either mollified or strangled at birth. The freedom to be against, to be righteous, to be wrong, to be ignorant, to be downright ****ing stupid, is being taken away. From all of us. That's what annoys me about Sky dropping him like a leper. I'm pretty much middle of the road, in thought and deed. After 3 marriages, a quiet accommodating attitude to all around me is now paying off. Took me a long time to learn that life, in general, abhors extremes. But I still want to hear those voices from the wings, from the extremes, the rebels, those that rage against the dying of the light. Without them, the liberal moderate wing will lose direction, focus, or the will to fight on. And that's why we should, in my view, fight for the right of the likes of Bristow to be right, wrong, ignorant, abusive or just plain bloody stupid! So that the rest of us, Joe Public have those same rights!
Agree to an extent. I understand your gripe but it doesn't aply to the Bristow thing for me. When People take it upon themselves to use their employer as platform to promote their social media accounts, then make controversial comments, then a clear line has been crossed. It's not Just sky , there's policies against this sort of thing across the board His twitter account will have referenced his employment sky 100%. Sky's hand was forced imo If i have on my twitter account the name of the company I work for, then make a bunch of politically incorrect comments and my employer finds out, I'd get sacked. This isn't a new thing, just become more common due to the social media. Go back years ago before social media, you cause trouble while wearing your company logo and they find out, you're for the high jump. That's not for famous people, that applied to the common man. This is on a massive scale in the spotlight. He had to go. It's gross misconducted without a shadow of doubt imo. And he must know this, because his Twitter Acc no longer features any affiliates and he has a disclaimer on it.
Totally agree with every word. I realise how naive my post sounded Bri. Just raging against my own dying of the light I guess. To a simpler, less sense of immediacy, when everybody lives and dies by their latest exhale of breath.
I agree with your basic principle though fella. Free speech only applies in this country if it's what the precious people want to hear. Of course there is the line of openly attacking minorities and what have you but it was a wreckless comment not an attack and I think that line is too often muffled. I like risky comedy, it would be dead if the pc lot had their way.
But in our democracy opinions also come with some responsibility and a massive role model in the sporting world should not say such ignorant things like Bristow - absolutely not. SKY got it right imo. I was a kid in 70's and local football was a murky world and I can easily see this abuse going on in a massive way
