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It was basically hyperbole - most tv companies will have HR, but when it comes to complaints against their "biggest stars", they may as well not be there.
So just like hr in a lot of big companies then, and smaller ones tbh, I’ve only recently realised that hr is effectively more for the employers than employees 🤯😭
 
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It is but as a father I would never let my daughter go to the US at 15 to follow a singer before starting work in a newspaper at 16 as she did.
I left home at 16, because home was unsafe in 1000 ways, but I had no idea how dangerous it is to be 16 and without supportive parents or guidance, every predatory mf sniffed me out, and not just the types you would think either.
I was hugely naive and vulnerable 😭
 
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So just like hr in a lot of big companies then, and smaller ones tbh, I’ve only recently realised that hr is effectively more for the employers than employees 🤯😭
That’s literally what it is, I don’t know why people don’t realise this. Workers have trade unions.
 
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Oh yes, it was ever thus, in my opinion and in my experience.
Yes I wish someone had told me this earlier in my career. And if you’re in a service industry (ie you don’t make something to sell, you’re selling your time, skills, experience), never forgot that you are the product. And product lines can be dropped if they’re no longer profitable or align with the brand strategy. Except for the entertainment industry where the talent is protected, everyone is expendable/replaceable.

Capitalism doesn’t reward loyalty.
 
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Huw Edwards had a fair amount of people he worked with who either knew or speculated about his behaviour. Whether HR knew or not, or whether they cast a blind eye to their overpaid employee. Edwards has even refused to give back the £200k pay he received during which he was suspended until his resignation.

Still don't understand the balance of justice, when Brand has got 9 years for his crimes, justified, but Huw Edwards walked free with a suspended sentence, for possessing pictures of child abuse of children aged as young as 7. He is an enabler of the people who abuse children and that is a crime that is so heinous it is beyond belief how he walked free. Every picture he possesses of those children, there is a child whose life has been ruined .... but he walks free. 😡

Where is there justice? For the children.
Did he plead guilty? Would that give him a lesser punishment?
 
@Tabitha D, thank you for posting the article about Johnny Vegas. I won't recopy it iinto this post, because it is quite a distressing read. Entertainment, whether it be film or television or on stage, should be enjoyable and fun to watch, not something to be repulsed by.

I've read some pretty appalling content over the last few weeks, this is one of the most vile things I've read. I sincerely hope that times really are changing, and these people are held accountable
 
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Threatening to commit suicide is one of the oldest manipulation tactics there is. He hoped that would keep the gagging order in place and it didn't work. Few people who actually threaten suicide go through with it, time will tell if there's any truth to that reddit post...
 
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The BBC, a state owned broadcaster which we are forced to pay for, spent decades enabling and covering up for one of the worst individual pedalos in recorded world history*.

Can you imagine if GB News did that? Sky? The Sun? A premier league football club? They'd be shut down pronto and the enablers arrested.

Not having a go at you @duskwithoutdawn but honestly anyone who thinks the BBC still deserves to exist after enabling one of the worst individual pedalos in recorded world history* can absolutely get the fuk out of here, I mean come on, put it in it's correct perspective, it's horrifying, get the fuk outta here, gimme a break.

*Credible estimates put his total number of victims in the thousands. In addition, Savile was a necrophile. Furthermore, in the 1990s a whistleblower from what is now West Yorkshire Constabulary reported that in the 1980s police had wanted to investigate Savile for his links to the Yorkshire Ripper but were dissuaded by bosses from doing so. He was questioned and one senior officer, John Stainthorpe, felt he should be looked at more closely, as he told The Guardian years later.

As everyone knows (or should), Ripper victim Marguerite Walls' body was found in Savile's back garden of his house in Leeds. About 5 of Sutcliffe's victims were killed in Leeds which police felt was strange as it was not his 'home turf'. It was, of course, Savile's, and the scene for many of his early attacks when he was a DJ there. As we also know, Savile was a regular visitor of Sutcliffe's in Broadmoor.
Saville is obviously the worst and most depraved example, but its way more than Saville when it comes to BBC’s history of protecting and enabling sex offenders: off the top there is also: Tim Westwood, John Peel, Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris, Russell Brand, David Walliam’s, Huw Edward’s, Dave Lee Travis, Chris Denning, plus DOZENS more that worked in a regional capacity rather than national. And think about all the BBC executives and staff that worked to protect these people! 🐍 We the public were told after Saville that they were cleaning up their act but they very clearly haven’t learned lessons behind the scenes to genuinely clean up their culture and have many dodgy characters still working there.

This article is from a decade ago 🙁

 
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Did he plead guilty? Would that give him a lesser punishment?

He did plead guilty. However the prosecution had clear evidence that he was guilty that he possessed these images. It wasn't a balance of probability or a he said, they said, blah blah.

A guilty plea in cases does give the judge cause to reduce a sentence. In this case it sends absolutely no message to these abusers that they will have a harsh sentence or indeed a custodial one.
 
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So just like hr in a lot of big companies then, and smaller ones tbh, I’ve only recently realised that hr is effectively more for the employers than employees 🤯😭
HR isn't there for the employees. HR is there a a buffer between the management and the workers. You are told to report issues to HR, that's like tipping them the wink. They will work to save the company at the expense often of the vulnerable.
 
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I've just come here to post that I saw on Reddit that he tried to castrate himself in hospital thinking it was probarly alot of rit but now seeing the post saying he's commited... maybe theres something that has happened.
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heres a screenshot
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Not surprised it's been removed. Anyone can post any old rubbish online. He's somewhere for his mental health. Maybe the Priory. He's not in an everyday hospital.

Also I have seen a few people use the word "commit" or "committed" to do with suicide. This is why the term isn't used no more and why language matters.

 
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Not surprised it's been removed. Anyone can post any old rubbish online. He's somewhere for his mental health. Maybe the Priory. He's not in an everyday hospital.

Also I have seen a few people use the word "commit" or "committed" to do with suicide. This is why the term isn't used no more and why language matters.

very true. thanks for sharing that article, never heard that the term isnt used anymore.
 
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