Someone who thinks the general public who have to work all the hours god sends to get about 1% of what he probably earns would think it pretty stuck up of Chris Moyles to spend nearly an hour of his show expecting people to sympathise about his pay being a bit late when he gets paid 20x the amount he deserves anyway. Plus, the money is paid by the public aswell.

Fair enough. But the way I see that is if he could have the show as his 'hobby' then he would. But obviously it's his job, he doesn't have any other job and so thus he needs to make money somehow. If you have a job you expect to get paid. If he did it for free and had a job on the side then fine, but it's his real job and so thus he is entitled to moan about his pay - afterall it is his job and he is doing a job to earn money.

That's how I see it anyway.

Where did I say that people had to 'sympathise' with him? I just said he had every right to be furious, that's all. Which he does.

I only personally sympathise with him in the sense that he's evidently had a hard time with his relationship that has just recently ended, he was 'ill' for a week at the end of August where apparently he went to stay with his parents in Leeds, and now this. He looks very rough at the minute too. Doesn't look well at all.

Yes it does. Because he went to management and they didn't seem to care, and told him 'it doesn't matter'. So the only way he was going to get them off their arses was to let nine million people know about their total incompetence live on the radio. It's the last resort. And evidently he had to go there.

Again - where have I said people HAVE to sympathise with him? All I'm trying to say is that he has every right to be furious.

Pretty clueless, it seems. He left her, actually. So evidently you shouldn't be commenting on things you know absolutely nothing about.

Your own personal feelings for the guy are irrelevant here, and you really shouldn't use this event as an excuse to have a few digs at him, especially over the wage he earns. Look, I'm not a big fan of the chap but it's ridiculous that he hasn't been paid.

Who said he wanted people to sympathise with him either? He has always been like this. If he's annoyed or something is bothering him, he will rant about it on-air. Hence why it's called The Chris Moyles Show, because, surprise ****ing surprise, the show is about him and his life. In this instance he was probably moaning about it on-air because the bosses clearly weren't listening to his personal and private discussions. By telling nine million viewers the BBC and Radio 1 are incompetent that's surely going to give them a kick up the arse? It makes sense.

I doubt even a pound of your licence fee goes towards Chris Moyles' wages, FFS.

Exactly. Thank **** there's someone with some sense on this forum, I was beginning to get a little worried reading this thread [though I should've come to expect it really, this is TiBB].

OP said he had a rant on the air, yet is defending him.

That's his style though, and I'm sure his avid listeners tune in for that kinda thing... it's what he's paid for.

Perhaps you didn't say that, but this debate began originally after you slated me for saying "my heart bleeds".

All I'm saying is that he should gain some perspective. Of course, the BBC should have paid him, but he would do well to remember that he is considerably well off and earns a fortune compared to most people. In the grand scheme of things it probably affects him very little and yet the way he was talking you'd think he'd been made homeless! Personally, I think he's just throwing his toys out the pram.

His comments are pretty ill-judged if you ask me, considering that the country is still cautiously recovering from a severe recession and many people have gone through hard times, and then you switch on the radio and have to listen to Moyles' ranting on about how his £50,000 is arriving a little late.

Let's say a salesman has his pay cheque delayed (probably not unusual, Moyles' is hardly the first person not to be paid), should they go and have a rant at customers about it? That's effectively what he's doing here. It was completely inappropiate imo..

God forbid there be two sides to an argument :rolleyes:

See this:

Exactly.

Omen, do you even know what you're talking about? Because it seems like you've just jumped in here and used this as another opportunity to condemn someone that you evidently hate. Pathetic, really. Like those commenters on the Daily Mail/Guardian websites. It's what his listeners tune in for, it's what he does, and in this instance especially, he had every right to be furious.

Just...think about what you're saying. Because not a lot of it makes sense.

There isn't two sides to this particular argument though. It's simple - he does a job and therefore entitled to his wage. Just like the rest of us.

If he doesn't get his wage on time [like his contract would state], he has every right to moan. If he moans personally and privately to his management and they do nothing about it, he then has every right to moan on-air in order to try and get their arses into gear.

There is no two sides to this whatsoever. He is entitled to his wage and is entitled to moan about this. How anyone could dispute that is just beyond me.

Whatever he's entitled to he's not entitled to any sympathy, not from me.

See those Portsmouth players last year not get paid for months!

The trouble with you Jack is that you like to argue, but you dont like to debate.

Take a look at the comments in the article you linked in the op, Moyle's is getting very little sympathy from most people. I'm not saying he's not entitled to a wage, I'm just saying he should gain some prespective. And I'm not saying that he shouldn't moan about it, I'm just saying that there's a time and a place.

I've done my best to clearly show that there is a contrasting opinion to yours, if you refuse to acknowledge the other side to this argument (a side being advocated by many from what it looks like) then I wont bother continuing :shrug:

Yeah, they should have gone and ranted at their fans.

He should have withdrawn his services not dump his woes on his listeners.

Ah, that's a silly tangent to be going off on really. Their club was in bits at the time and they were well aware of what was going on, plus they hardly pull in the same amount of punters as Moyle's. Look, I don't like the guy either, but come on.

Tis the nature of talk radio, I suppose, to waffle on and on about whatever's on your mind.

The man is a bellend, simple as that, as for 'comedy dave' what on earth is that about, the sad ***** aren't funny at all. Great to see that Moyles has shown himself up for the arrogant bastard that he really is.

What an idiot.

Moyles has done a bit of back tracking today claiming he can be a bit grumpy in the morning.

LINK

I would like to thank the BBC for wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds on an overweight, obnoxious bully.

The untalented, fat ****** should just do everyone a favour and retire. He doesn't deserve a penny.