It's looking like Richard Scudamore may lose his job over the current sexism furore:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/premier-league-boss-richard-scudamore-3524857

 

Full context of the emails:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scudamore#Personal_life

 

Seems to me like he's being hung out to dry a little. Certainly big shoes to fill if he leaves his position.

Edited May 18, 201412 yr by Fatty_Speeding

A bit unfair if you ask me. Everyone has banter with friends and that should not effect your job.

The world is going crazy with you having to watch everything you say because you may upset some idiot who is sticking their nose in or doesnt get the joke.

Also if it was two women making a joke about a guy nothing would be said. It seems its only sexist if its a man making a comment about a woman.

Take the Diet coke adverts for example. A guy walking around without a shirt on and a group of women perving over him. Now if it was a beer advert with a topless women and a bunch of men perving there would be outrage and the advert would be banned.

Looks like he's survived for now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27479048

 

I'm thinking of becoming a PA, the pay doesn't seem to be too bad if you do it right.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/exposed-richard-scudamore-sexist-emails-premier-league-chief-executive

A bit unfair if you ask me. Everyone has banter with friends and that should not effect your job.

The world is going crazy with you having to watch everything you say because you may upset some idiot who is sticking their nose in or doesnt get the joke.

Also if it was two women making a joke about a guy nothing would be said. It seems its only sexist if its a man making a comment about a woman.

Take the Diet coke adverts for example. A guy walking around without a shirt on and a group of women perving over him. Now if it was a beer advert with a topless women and a bunch of men perving there would be outrage and the advert would be banned.

 

Exactly this

 

If we read the text or emails of anyone in a position of power or recorded them on our phone during a drunken conversation when they were amongst friends in a pub there would be a lot of things we wouldn't want to hear.

 

There are a lot of things I say in front of my friends that I would never say in front of anyone else

But if you read the article thoroughly you will see that all his emails were sent to his P.A. (a woman) who was supposed to deal with all his correspondence.  Had he sent them privately to the recipients it would not have been a problem.

 

Though at the same time I have to say I would be very surprised if any of my three sons had sent emails like this since the age of 16.  And I would be equally surprised if any of my male friends of any adult age sent emails like these to each other.

I'd like to say the same moi but being in Australia I get almost daily reminders that not everyone thinks that way. One of the latest from our "beloved" prime minister Tony Abbott (who also made himself minister for women after winning the election)

Edited May 21, 201412 yr by Hitsu

I'd like to say the same moi but being in Australia I get almost daily reminders that not everyone thinks that way. One of the latest from our "beloved" prime minister Tony Abbott (who also made himself minister for women after winning the election)

 

 

Oh dear, Hitsu!  I don't hold you responsible for your Prime Minister.  But what a nauseating video!

What I want to know is, did they let him off finding him innocent on the "balance of probabilities". 

Apparently context is "irrelevant". Funny that they yet again, change the rules to suit them.

There is something sadly pathetic about a 54 year old man who thinks his friends will be impressed by pubescent remarks about shafts and back door entries.  Grow the f**k up, Scudamore!

I'd like to say the same moi but being in Australia I get almost daily reminders that not everyone thinks that way. One of the latest from our "beloved" prime minister Tony Abbott (who also made himself minister for women after winning the election)

 

I don't know why people get offended by this, what has he done wrong exactly?

 

Would people be more or less offended if he looked horrified and condemned her chosen profession? I think people would then be up in arms over that as well.

 

So what is the acceptable reaction? No reaction at all? Judging by the video he's probably looking at someone else who may have been pulling a face to the lady saying she works for a sex-line.

 

Personally if some old lady told me over the phone she works for a sex line i'd probably smirk as well, can you explain to me what is wrong with that? Or is it ok because i'm not Tony Abbott and there is no need to scrutinize every single thing I do to aid the ALP propaganda machine?

There is something sadly pathetic about a 54 year old man who thinks his friends will be impressed by pubescent remarks about shafts and back door entries. Grow the f**k up, Scudamore!

Yep!

But if you read the article thoroughly you will see that all his emails were sent to his P.A. (a woman) who was supposed to deal with all his correspondence.  Had he sent them privately to the recipients it would not have been a problem.

 

Though at the same time I have to say I would be very surprised if any of my three sons had sent emails like this since the age of 16.  And I would be equally surprised if any of my male friends of any adult age sent emails like these to each other.

Premier League: PA "was not exposed to them in the course of her duties but had to search for them in a private email account which she was not authorised to access". So either the Premier League are lying and are in fact a bunch of moronic tools who didn't manage to foresee the risks of giving a temporary PA access to hugely damaging emails, or the PA is lying to sell a better story and in doing so make more £ for herself.

She got on his machine and was snooping, probably.

I thought she had access to all his email accounts to enable her to manage his diary. 

 

He's a knob for writing what he did but there is something slightly suspect about the fact it took the PA 3 months to act on this and feeling that going to the papers was more productive than the Premier League's HR department who she thought would "cover it up". 

I haven't followed this closely, but the emails were sent from his work email address.  I always thought that made a huge difference to whether you could (or should) regard them as personal correspondence no matter who they were addressed to.  I am always wary of saying anything controversial from my work email address just in case.   I regard it as my account only for work matters and nothing else - there's too much scope for misaddresses, reply to all etc by mistake!  I'm sure "ordinary" people have been sacked for similar.

 

 

Edit - says she, posting this from work!!!

Edited May 22, 201412 yr by Beerqueen

He had a private email account at work, and didn't have it Password protected?  He's a bit stupid as well as being an adolescent twat then!  Or are they claiming his PA hacked into his private email account?

Here's what the PA said "The point is that the Premier League chief executive had used his work account – the same email inbox that appeared on my computer that I look at as part of my job. He felt comfortable sending those messages, which included vulgar and sexist conversations about female colleagues, and he didn't censor his language even though he knew I'd see them"  so no, it wasn't a private email account but his work one, and his messages automatically appeared in his PAs inbox.  What a stupid man!

Here's what the PA said "The point is that the Premier League chief executive had used his work account – the same email inbox that appeared on my computer that I look at as part of my job. He felt comfortable sending those messages, which included vulgar and sexist conversations about female colleagues, and he didn't censor his language even though he knew I'd see them" so no, it wasn't a private email account but his work one, and his messages automatically appeared in his PAs inbox. What a stupid man!

Yeah he's an idiot, as is anybody who says/writes that kind of stuff (let alone at work) under any circumstances. I'm glad that his idiocy was exposed in public as public humiliation seems like quite an apt punishment.

Here's what the PA said "The point is that the Premier League chief executive had used his work account – the same email inbox that appeared on my computer that I look at as part of my job. He felt comfortable sending those messages, which included vulgar and sexist conversations about female colleagues, and he didn't censor his language even though he knew I'd see them"  so no, it wasn't a private email account but his work one, and his messages automatically appeared in his PAs inbox.  What a stupid man!

I know that's what she said. You're wrong in saying they automatically appeared in her inbox in any case, she herself says she found them in his inbox which she was supposed(?) to search through during the course of her job, and then forwarded the emails to herself.

 

Regarding the comments themselves, I agree the one about women's rationality versus amount of children is in poor taste, but the other two I have no problems with whatsoever. The "shaft" comments were just a continuation of an in-joke from a golfing day, as explained by the female subject of the comments herself, and the "Male Fairy Tale" is genuinely funny.

 

Worth noting the male/female double standards in sexism jokes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1350829/Sky-sexism-row-Why-right-women-sexist-MEN.html

Edited May 22, 201412 yr by Fatty_Speeding

Tomorrows Headline

 

Scudamore was Emailing John Terry in latest scandal.

 

You just know they hate us enough to try twist it haha.

There is something sadly pathetic about a 54 year old man who thinks his friends will be impressed by pubescent remarks about shafts and back door entries.  Grow the f**k up, Scudamore!

 youre right - he should wait until hes at least 58

 youre right - he should wait until hes at least 58

 

 

Is that your age?