[TV] Greg Wallace

[Birdie Boy]

Are you sure?

Yes but bare in mind the department he was in was 99% men.

 

[The Clamp]

Yes but bear in mind the department he was in was 99% men.

Oh. It’s just the women he did it to didn’t seem to think it was just his way and he meant no harm.

 

[southstandandy]

Not condoning his behaviour but most blokes in my office years ago would have been shown the door for the rude jokes and innuendos regularly spoken.

I'm NOT saying what he has said is right but sadly this has been common place in many workplaces for years. It's interesting that all of a sudden now we're looking to make examples of people. My grandson works on a building site and says the language and topics of discussion (by the Greg Wallace standards) would see them all sacked before even laying a brick (and there are quite a few women on site too) - no innuendo meant!

 

[Bold Seagull]

My 2p worth, whole thing is absolutely absurd, yes, it is a little weird what he said and did, and yes, he should probably have gone a while ago as it isn’t acceptable doing that at work, however, was it really that bad?! probably not. It just feels like yet another which hunt and for once, I feel sorry for the hunted. ALOT of people banter this way, and most aren’t really fussed by it. It might not be entirely acceptable now, but that’s because people are wet flannels today.

We are coming to a point where you really cannot laugh and joke anymore.

If they didn’t like it, then just say, if they felt intimidated, then is that really him or should there be better safeguards?

I'm 50, and I wouldn't have bantered like that in my first place of work 30 years ago, let alone with people who might be the equivalent of guests and contestants. Just a matter of taste and manners.

If you think that kind of banter signifies having a 'laugh and a joke' then it says more about your own sense of humour. Lewd sexist behaviour hasn't been funny in my entire lifetime.

In any kind of professional environment people don't banter in this way and haven't done for years. For some reason celebrity status has kept certain people out of it, probably because they hold the cards of who is going to be believed in the 'he said, she said' stakes.

Ricky Gervais did all this with the 'Office' 20 odd years ago. Being a twat isn't funny and never has been!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Not condoning his behaviour but most blokes in my office years ago would have been shown the door for the rude jokes and innuendos regularly spoken.

I'm NOT saying what he has said is right but sadly this has been common place in many workplaces for years. It's interesting that all of a sudden now we're looking to make examples of people. My grandson works on a building site and says the language and topics of discussion (by the Greg Wallace standards) would see them all sacked before even laying a brick (and there are quite a few women on site too) - no innuendo meant!

Humiliating people is still common place?

 

[The Clamp]

If I’d have walked into the office I worked in in the mid 90’s and said to someone who had a visitor badge on “hey guess what me and the Mrs did in bed this morning…”

I’d have been out the door quicker than my legs could carry me and quite right too.

 

[Bold Seagull]

If I’d have walked into the office I worked in in the mid 90’s and said to someone who had a visitor badge on “hey guess what me and the Mrs did in bed this morning…”

I’d have been out the door quicker than my legs could carry me and quite right too.

It's a bit nuts all this, 'back in my day', 'can't say anything anymore', - decent people never said this shite period!

 

[The Clamp]

It's a bit nuts all this, 'back in my day', 'can't say anything anymore', - decent people never said this shite period!

Exactly.

As far back as I can remember, anyone who said off things to people at work were given their marching orders.

I worked at Legal & General in the 90’s.

I’m just thinking how bizarre it would be if our line manager had come into the office, topless, saying what he’d done to his wife that morning.

This kind of behaviour has never been normal.

 

[Birdie Boy]

Oh. It’s just the women he did it to didn’t seem to think it was just his way and he meant no harm.

I didn't ask everyone...

 

[The Clamp]

I didn't ask everyone...

Yet you claim most people said it was just how he is.

Most reports seem to be along the lines of everyone on set or in the offices just fell silent when he did these alleged things.

Which strikes me as more that they knew he was out of order but too afraid to speak up.

 

[Papak]

Definitely but at the time everyone said he meant nothing by it and it was just his way.... I never met him so no idea

I think the post you quoted was a joke related to being in a lift unless I've been whooshed...

 

[nicko31]

Humiliating people is still common place?

Does seem that some people revel in making others feel uncomfortable, putting people down and making them feel small. Other celebs can usually move on but for contestants such incidents leave a horrible stain, it must be devastating .

Many on the set knew what was going on, but getting such jobs in media are very difficult to secure. Breaking cover could literally be career ending

 

[Pavilionaire]

Non-news: Gregg Wallace. What a waste of time this story is.

Real news that gets scant coverage: Trump appoints billionaire investment banker Warren Stephens as US Ambassador to the UK, a 40% stakeholder in a dodgy payday loan company and big party donor guilty of making illegal party donations. He has no previous government experience.

Trump also appoints Charles Kushner - his son-in-law's dad - as ambassador to France when that guy has previously served time in jail for tax evasion and has been guilty of witness tampering. The bloke hired a prostitute and set a honey trap for his own brother-in-law.

These guys are not diplomats or experienced government officials, they are crooked businessmen.

 

[pb21]

Exactly.

As far back as I can remember, anyone who said off things to people at work were given their marching orders.

I worked at Legal & General in the 90’s.

I’m just thinking how bizarre it would be if our line manager had come into the office, topless, saying what he’d done to his wife that morning.

This kind of behaviour has never been normal.

The woke brigade, stopping normal people having a bit of bantz since at least the 90s.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Knew this would get the reaction it did on here.

It’s just my take on it. Love how some get personal and try to judge my character because of an opinion based on something we all don’t know the exact facts about. Classic.

Classic social media flannel brigade.

Never said what he did is right, I said its weird, shouldn’t have said it etc..but should we ruin someones life over it? No.

 

[The Clamp]

The woke brigade, stopping normal people having a bit of bantz since at least the 90s.

It wouldn’t have been that woke. Anyone acting like that to women in the 90’s would have likely got a smack in the face for their troubles before being sacked.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

I'm 50, and I wouldn't have bantered like that in my first place of work 30 years ago, let alone with people who might be the equivalent of guests and contestants. Just a matter of taste and manners.

If you think that kind of banter signifies having a 'laugh and a joke' then it says more about your own sense of humour. Lewd sexist behaviour hasn't been funny in my entire lifetime.

In any kind of professional environment people don't banter in this way and haven't done for years. For some reason celebrity status has kept certain people out of it, probably because they hold the cards of who is going to be believed in the 'he said, she said' stakes.

Ricky Gervais did all this with the 'Office' 20 odd years ago. Being a twat isn't funny and never has been!

The office is f***ing excellent comedy.

 

[The Clamp]

Knew this would get the reaction it did on here.

It’s just my take on it. Love how some get personal and try to judge my character because of an opinion based on something we all don’t know the exact facts about. Classic.

Classic social media flannel brigade.

Never said what he did is right, I said its weird, shouldn’t have said it etc..but should we ruin someones life over it? No.

What should be done about it?

Genuine question.

 

[Questions]

If I any of us acted in the same way in our place of work then we’d be sacked. It’s not about being cancelled, it’s not about a media circus it’s about behaviours that are unacceptable in the work place.

No we wouldn’t.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

what did he do and say?

Plenty of information and links in this thread...