Andy Gray phone hacking payout

[joeluke]

.......a small victory for him over his former employer after the pathetic way they sacked him over a bit of sexist banter

Sexist banter that goes on in many workplaces countrywide, why can't women just have a laugh about it and give as good back?


http://uk.news.yahoo....20-000-123439446.html

[jackthehat]

Were they hanged ?............blimey!

[Sqad]

JTH....right.

[cazzz1975]

hanging really?? who suggested that?

[joeluke]

redhelen.......you forgot about the ironing and washing-up love!

[Sqad]

cazz...........very droll.......very droll.

[Zeuhl]

Errrr....

Isn't the original question confused about events here?

The link says that the payout is from News International (NoW) for hacking his phone messages.

It has nothing to do with previous employers, his dismissal or his stupid behaviour at work.

"This concludes the action Andy Gray was taking over voicemail interception in relation to the News of the World."

[Sqad]

Zeuhl.....ah!....thanks ....that makes sense now.

[emmie]

for some there is no line, naughty, stupid more like, outdated attitudes, and i don't believe that this was the first time they had made these sorts of comments.

[paddywak]

In a way I can see this from the other side as when I finished at the pit I went to work in a factory producing frozen cakes etc and when I first started I was one of only a handfull men who actually went onto the factory and believe me the when you're the only bloke on a factory floor manned by 6oo women you soon grow a thick skin or get another job

[jackthehat]

Zeuhl - It may well be, but it is a way for the OP to link back to the earlier 'stoopid' sacking, etc.....

[Davethedog]

Joe I don't disagree, but there men who over step it, normaly those who mistake banter for something else or some with a form of misoganistic agenda.

I'm all for flirting and people can't stop being attarcted to each other just because they are at work.

[joeluke]

Gray and Keys were sacked by Sky for offending women with their sexist banter

Anton du Beke kept his job with the BBC despite calling his Strictly Come Dancing partner a '***'

I would've thought du Beke's comment was far more offensive than womens knowledge of the offside rule being criticised?

The difference is Gray and Keys were disliked at Sky and were dispensible, whereas du Beke is one of the stars of SCD so the Beeb obviously didn't want to lose him

[joeluke]

^ p a k i

[joeluke]

Zeuhl......News International and Sky are both owned by Rupert Murdoch - Grays former employer

[Zeuhl]

That's true joeluke

they were disliked because they frequently behaved like oafs on and off camera.

true to form they eventually hanged themselves!

His payout from NoW is quite proper and in line with previous payments to Sienna Miller etc

[emmie]

whats OP>

[dave50]

Jackthehat
Just go to the Labour party conference or TUC conference and have a look around, you will know what I'm talking about.

[Sqad]

Zeuhl

<<<<<true to form they eventually hanged themselves! >>>

You will have to explain that phrase to JTH,cazz and redhelen ;-)