Other fuckwittism - Part 1

It's not just our Jacqui that's a fuckwit.  The media, the public eye, your favourite watering hole and every single university is home to a plethora of fuckwits.

Most are of the harmless "Ah don't mind him, he's just a bit of a fuckwit" variety.

Others are dangerous fuckwits in the way they express their fuckwittism.  Five minutes on the Hume Highway at Easter will convince you of this.

Then there is sport.  Oh, if ever there was a rich breeding ground for the fuckwit, it lies in sport.  

And the really big news for the last couple of days has been Kurtley Beale, who 'just does stupid things'.  True dat.

And on the surface, the whole Kurtley Beale saga looks like a simple case of footy player fuckwit with a phone.

But I think there is more.

KB's idiotic texting  happens in business in the workplace all the time and make no mistake, Australian Rugby Union is a business with its workplace being both on and off the field. 

ARU has a code of conduct - most businesses do - and will act according to that code of conduct. And good on them.

KB will be answering questions - I'm guessing - related to Paragraphs 3(h), 3(k) & 3(m) of the ARU CoC. 

I suspect there is more to it though than we are seeing through the filter of the media. 

I suspect that, if Di Patston didnt report behaviour that was contrary to their code of conduct straight away, then she'll have to answer to Para 5(b) of the CoC.  Which is probably why she has fucked off already.  Nerr nerr, can't get me.

No matter her sob-filled texts with KB, her desire to look after it in house and her 'I'll keep it under the carpet but make *one* more mistake laddie and I'll tell the boss' thing.

You see, while many bleeding hearts out there will defend this action of hers, even if it is contrary to the CoC she was obliged to uphold, in essence what she has done is blackmail the poor thicky footy player.  Blackmail, pure and simple.  Do one thing I don't like KB, and it's career over time for you pal.

This is exactly why we need transparency in the workplace with CoC's - it keeps the fuckers - that's you and me folks - honest.

And worse still, if the CEO knew about it and didnt act on it, then he's going to have to answer to Para 5(b) of the CoC.  He looks like a shifty-eyed fucker as it is.

And as for Di rooting coachy-boy, who gives a fuck - so long as it does not affect the game or the team.  Or that's what a lot of people will no doubt think.  Thing is, unless a workplace rooting relationship is between direct peers in widely separated areas, it cannot help but steer itself toward nepotism.

What of KB then?

There is no doubt at all that he's something of a train wreck.  But really, at the end of the day, what is it that he is hired to do?  Deliver eloquent speeches?  Uphold the highest of virtues?  

He's a fucking footy player for fucks sake - a good one, true - but just another athlete on the short but spectacular career arc of his kind that in 98% of cases ends in a blown knee and a job selling carpet, or pool accessories.  Exceptions exist - but not a lot.  The poor cunts.  We urge them to go out there and play their hardest, throw money at them and then turn our backs when they fall apart physically, or fail to live up to the highest of standards.

You fucked up KB, you thick cunt, with the texting and other shit.  But on that flight, when you called a spade a spade with your team falling apart at the seams, shitty leadership dragging you all down, you paid a high price for your open honesty.  Wish I could have been a fly on the wall.  It says a lot about the others in the team that nobody is talking - staunch lads - I like it.

Look after your mate boys - he may survive yet and surprise us all.  But even if he - almost inevitably - does not survive it, I'm sure if he is quick and sharp on his feet he'll find himself a berth in an NRL side and if he's a smarter man from then on, the future should be rosy - until that blown knee - then he's fucked.