Noses on the payroll

[Ian.]

Doesn't bother me who he supports but it does bother me that he so openly hates Aston Villa and I assume Aston Villa supporters. It is quite staggering that somebody applying for a position such as his either didn't think to either delete his Twitter account or anybody tasked with selecting applicants for interview didn't look on his social media activity. It's simple enough.

I was going to put this. Then Chris did it for me.

This. :-)

Delighted to announce I now handle all social media for CT.

And me please?

[clash city rocker]

I was a manager for a company for a number of years and did discriminate when it came to football. Well it wasn't illegal. If I had a short list of 2 and one happened to support the villa...well they got the job. It will come of no suprise that after a few years nearly everyone at work was a villa fan. Great place to work !!!

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Burn him

Burn him with fire!

This isnt the dark ages . Chop off his Goolies !

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

So people want the poor bloke to lose his job.
Has he proved unable to do it? No.
Has he been caught nicking socks from the club shop? No.
Has he used his position to undermine what's left of Aston Villa FC? No!

Some people have the same obsession with BCFC as they accuse them of having with us!

Put it another way, would the RSPCA employ someone that hates animals to interact with the public on social media?
For me its gross misconduct and I want him gone.

Reminds me of an independent report on the RSPCA AGM several years ago (my other half was secretary of a local branch and attended) which said something like:
"In the morning the executive committee discussed the welfare of animals; at lunch time they sat at table and ate them."

[nuninho]

I visited the offices of the RSPCA today. It's tiny: you couldn't swing a cat in there.  I'm also against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

[LeeB]

I visited the offices of the RSPCA today. It's tiny: you couldn't swing a cat in there.  I'm also against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

For my holidays, I like to Club 18-30 seals a day.

[wince]

Matters as he is slandering the company he works for but, if I am a nose who hated the villa I simply wouldn't work for the villa. In short, I don't care as much as if it was a player doing same.

[LeeB]

To be fair, I work at the Sty regularly as a contractor and carry out my duties professionally as I would for any other client, there's a lad in the ticket office who is Villa fan and another girl in admin that I know of.

But this is back office stuff. I'd say the role he's undertaking is a fair bit more sensitive, and given the shit he's displayed to all and sundry, it really should put him to the back of the pile of candidates in the first place.

I don't blame him, a job is a job and everyone has to work, but you have to ask questions of the recruitment. It's the kind of appointment Trump would make, giving the job to someone diametrically opposed its existence.

[McGraths Dry Cleaning]

The relevant point for me is someone at Aston Villa employed someone to "do" social media without checking into their social media history and profile. That person who made the decision to employ the person with no basic checks is terrible at their job. Not only are they terrible at their job, the club has defended employing the person. The club believes it is more important to justify a mistake in hiring the person in the first place rather than disciplining the person who fu**ed up. This is what failing organisations do.

If this is typical and acceptable behaviour at Villa then its all starting to make sense. If some office bod can't be bothered to do a job at a rudimentary level and gets away with it what's happening on the training pitch?

Forget noses on the payroll - its the incompetents on the payroll that are killing our club.

[LeeB]

The relevant point for me is someone at Aston Villa employed someone to "do" social media without checking into their social media history and profile. That person who made the decision to employ the person with no basic checks is terrible at their job. Not only are they terrible at their job, the club has defended employing the person. The club believes it is more important to justify a mistake in hiring the person in the first place rather than disciplining the person who fu**ed up. This is what failing organisations do.

If this is typical and acceptable behaviour at Villa then its all starting to make sense. If some office bod can't be bothered to do a job at a rudimentary level and gets away with it what's happening on the training pitch?

Forget noses on the payroll - its the incompetents on the payroll that are killing our club.

And the tea lady. If the way we start the 2nd half is anything to go by, she's dropping arsenic in the half time brew.

[class-of-82]

If only you knew

[robbo1874]

Difficult to comment on this one. It leaves a nasty taste in the mouth knowing we have a nose running our social media, especially after seeing some of the stuff he's posted as recently as he has.

But if we sack him now it will quite rightly look a bit small time, as the club clearly didn't do the necessary background checks on him (you'd have to assume they wouldn't have employed him if they had done their homework)

He's had his warning, let's just hope he trips himself up and does something similar again soon, so they can say: right you've had your chance, now cheerio Jeavons.

It's a minor issue in the current scheme of things to be honest, but I can fully understand why so many are pissed off about it. There's enough things going wrong at the club at the minute and we could fully do without this shit.

[frank black]

Burn him

Burn him with fire!

This isnt the dark ages . Chop off his Goolies !

And burn them!

[wince]

Fair does LeeB. Work is work. In fairness, it is just that. However in this instance it is an odd choice. Might be a better idea to employ a villa fan?

[KevinGage]

The relevant point for me is someone at Aston Villa employed someone to "do" social media without checking into their social media history and profile. That person who made the decision to employ the person with no basic checks is terrible at their job. Not only are they terrible at their job, the club has defended employing the person.

Aye. Bad enough that they didn't carry out a basic check initially, but all this bobbins about 'it happened years ago' when it happened less than 12 months ago makes them look even more shoddy.