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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Locke, I've never had a job where I wouldn't be fired immediately for striking a colleague.
Look at it from a Human Resources perspective or frankly, ANY kind of management perspective. He got his last warning. He was told he would be fired without question if he did something that crossed the line again. Then he punched some guy he works with in the face, reportedly over a meal that wasn't served hot.
The BBC is so much bigger than top gear and Clarkson.
He's absolutely more trouble than he's worth and it looks like the BBC has reached that conclusion as well. Frankly, buying him out last year is with hindsight a move from the BBC to distance themselves from him.
I get where you're coming from, Locke, but it's just not acceptable behaviour to punch a work colleague, even if the puncher is exceedingly likeable.
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I agree, but at the same time I also understand that compromises can and likely will be made.
Sure, any job I've had I'd be fired for striking a colleague as well, but I'm not in show business. From what I understand the crew tend to take a ton of abuse from 'the talent' as a general premise, so industry standard has to be taken into account as well, for better or for worse.
And I think we have to acknowledge that Jeremy Clarkson is simply the best in the world at what he does and he receives leeway because of it, which also happens in any industry in the world.
You're the greatest football/soccer/hockey/baseball/etc player in the world, transgressions will be overlooked.