Walsh in trouble again!

[Big J]

Oh dear...

http://www.planet-rugby.com/Story/0,18259,3943_4648826,00.html

 

[KML1]

Oh dear. This would never happen at our Panel Conference!!

 

[Dickie E]

surely enough is enough

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=eVkFVgqhYlk

 

[Simon Thomas]

It did happen to a RFU Group Referee at a 'Next Steps' conference and no surprises that he didn't make Panel selection.

Steve Walsh (and others) needs to get his act together. He is a professional referee and as such cannot live the old amateur rugby lifestyle.

If I appeared at a corporate conference drunk or even bady hungover my career (quite rightly) could be on the line.

 

[Gareth-Lee Smith]

Silly Steve, that's what post-season dinners are for :bday:

 

[Phil E]

It did happen to a RFU Group Referee at a 'Next Steps' conference and no surprises that he didn't make Panel selection.

Steve Walsh (and others) needs to get his act together. He is a professional referee and as such cannot live the old amateur rugby lifestyle.

If I appeared at a corporate conference drunk or even bady hungover my career (quite rightly) could be on the line.

Your in advertising aren't you?

Shouldnt that read:

If I appeared at a corporate conference sober or even barely hungover my career (quite rightly) could be on the line :biggrin: :bday:

 

[Simon Thomas]

Phil - 10-15 years ago you would have been right, but now we are part of a global 'leader' Times 100 blue-chip blah blah blah we have to be squeekier than Rob Andrew !

 

[Phil E]

we have to be squeekier than Rob Andrew !

You mean you get paid a huge amount of money to not be seen? :bday:

 

[Scarlet Al]

Uh oh - Doesn't look great for him.

 

[Gareth-Lee Smith]

He doesn't look great in that picture, to be honest.

 

[Dinks]

Turning up in the morning drunk (as opposed to badly hungover) could well point to SW having more of a problem with the booze.I agree with GLS that he doesn't look great in that pic...a bit bloated (but then again, I'm not one to throw stones at the moment!)

 

[Davet]

Simon

The corporate world doesn't care if you are drunk, sober or on drugs - so long as
A) You do your job
B) You appear to be sober and upright

 

[Simon Thomas]

If only that were the case DaveT ! Getting a reputation as a drinker or drug user would affect my relationships with clients and suppliers, especially US based ones (moral majority) and the Chinese & Indians in particular.

I am afraid these days, we are expected to be totally transparent and without sin in our wonderful corporate world. Hence my CEO had such a hard time last year regarding an alleged affair with an Italian colleague, which resulted in a major libel case after certain items were published, and a very expensive divorce.

We have annual medicals (where attention is given to alcohol levels) and we have random drugs tests at work (they even takes wipes in showers / conveniences, as well as offices / desks for illegal substances).

 

[TheBFG]

If only that were the case DaveT ! Getting a reputation as a drinker or drug user would affect my relationships with clients and suppliers, especially US based ones (moral majority) and the Chinese & Indians in particular.

I am afraid these days, we are expected to be totally transparent and without sin in our wonderful corporate world. Hence my CEO had such a hard time last year regarding an alleged affair with an Italian colleague, which resulted in a major libel case after certain items were published, and a very expensive divorce.

We have annual medicals (where attention is given to alcohol levels) and we have random drugs tests at work (they even takes wipes in showers / conveniences, as well as offices / desks for illegal substances).

OMG ST is a SPOOK!:wow: :wow: :wow:

 

[Simon Thomas]

OMG ST is a SPOOK!:wow: :wow: :wow:

Funny you say that as my wife said the same the other week after watching Spooks on TV !

I did have the 'civil service' interview at my Cambridge college with my tutor and a nice chap from London over a glass of sherry in 1977.

Geographer by academic training, spoke French & German, sporting hearty public-school type, and in the OTC - classic recuitment material I suppose.

I wasn't interested, never did proper Civil Service exams, and went into advertising eventually, where I still am 25 years later, as a European strategic systems director of the world' largest agency group.

 

[Davet]

OK Simon - times change.

Life can be difficult.

 

[Dixie]

OK Simon - times change.

Life can be difficult.

About 5 years ago, we tried to hire a fantastic temporary PA onto the permanent staff. The medical questionnaire included the question: have you ever taken drugs? She admitted to having tried cannabis at university some 12 years earlier - triggering automatic rejection. We now advise people to lie, and rely on the blood and urine tests to sort out the users from the rest.

 

[didds]

The medical questionnaire included the question: have you ever taken drugs? She admitted to having tried cannabis at university some 12 years earlier - triggering automatic rejection. We now advise people to lie, and rely on the blood and urine tests to sort out the users from the rest.

what a ridiculous scenario.

so yiu could be 50 years old and be honest about something that happened 30+years earlier abd get rejected, but it would be "OK" to lie about it?

what a stupid world we live in.

didds

 

[Deeps]

We now advise people to lie...

While at university, my best man's son applied to join up and fly Harrier jump jets . The system could not get hold of him fast enough and although he was 2 years into a 4 year engineering degree they pleaded with him to drop it and join up now. Sensibly he declined until he had completed his studies.

On joining up he submitted to a flying medical during which he admitted having been concussed during a game of school rugby while a 14 year old. He was shown the door instantly as apparently flying medical standards are quite exacting and it seems that their Lordships are unwilling to take anything other than perfect specimens.

Several years earlier, I underwent the preliminaries for flight training too to fly helicopters; square pegs in round holes, pat yer head and rub yer tummy at the same time but then admitted to having had hay fever. The actual remark made to me was 'Oh well, never mind, try again next year.' So when I eventually joined up I became a clearance diver and somehow failed to mention anything about hay fever, my theory being that although grass might grow on aircraft carriers, it certainly doesn't grow underwater. I had the last laugh because specialist diving pay was higher than flying pay.

 

[Bryan]

Jaysus Effin Murphy,

He's been away from refereeing for, by his own admission, a poor run of form and a lack of fitness post-RWC. He was TBC'd to referee in the final weekend of the 6 Nations.

Nobody is enjoying this at all. I really, really hope he turns this around and 2009 is his best year. I would rather see referees perform at their best on the pitch than get attention for incidents such as this...