So Disappointed in Gordon Ramsey

[Nanalisa60]

Just heard the he has laid off all his 500 staff in the uk !! He has paid them until the end of April!! Why could he just not put them In forlough for 80 % of there wages which will be paid by the government. We don’t know how long this will last , people need to have hope that they have a job to go back to when this madness ends.

I really thought the Gordon was better then this !! Just so so disappointed in him!!

So who exactly are these companies who are bending over backwards for their staff? And for how long?

My company is doing quite well so far. CEO has taken a voluntary 50% pay cut, the board I think have taken a 30% cut and they are topping up our salaries, not to 100% but they are topping us up above the government cap to 80%.

How long for though; who knows. Who knows how long this will last and how long the service industry, which is also fairly reliant on the tourist industry, will take to recover.

Google alerts won't bring this thread to his attention because nobody's spelled his name correctly yet

Let's keep it that way

I am slightly laughing that he’d care what a tiny minority of Mumsnetters who have never met him think 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm not convinced the economy will bounce back either.

I'm going to be making tough choices after this with my personal finances. Plus business was folding daily on my high street before this.

I cant see anything immediately bouncing back.

GR wise In my experience only areseholes make it to the top. Maybe that's true for him? Who knows

DS is at university with his son... and isn't impressed!

The business may not have enough cash flow to furlough the employees. There will be a gap between paying 80% to employees now and the government actually paying it to the employer.

Also, although the government have announced the furlough worker scheme, they have meant given any advice to payroll providers or businesses on how this will work, it is taking a few weeks for this to trickle down. Perhaps the wait is too long for businesses with no income, and high over heads.

DS is at university with his son... and isn't impressed!

Ffs

I've met him. Nothing like his TV persona and the food at Hospital Rd is ambrosial.

I hope he's able to re-hire very soon when this is all over.

These grants are not free money you know. You need to listen carefully the the Chancellor. This money will have to be paid back at some point.

I like him. He is gentle with the kids on his shows

Houses are mortgaged, businesses typically have massive loans already.
Famous people do not have £20m sitting in the bank

Do not necessarily have £20m in the bank.
Some might have

The furlough money is not immediate. My dh (self employed, but furloughed one vulnerable employee)) has had to cover the weeks until it kicks in.

DS is at university with his son... and isn't impressed!

How is this in any way relevant to this thread? You don’t sound too impressive yourself - repeating your son’s opinion of the child of a TV chef.

DS is at university with his son... and isn't impressed
I have a friend who met him on a social occasion, didnt really even know who he was, other than a chef on the tv in programmes she doesnt watch and said he was really lovely.

I never liked the foul mouthed Rangers reject, and this just adds another reason to the list.

AA Gill was an odious little man who took every opportunity to look down on those who weren’t his kind. With 62 complaints to the PCC in 5 years, he was the kind of “controversial” writer who knew how to keep himself in the public eye and didn’t care who he used in that.

He was an exceptionally amusing writer with a poet's love of the language. I find it asinine to dismiss a critic because of the number of complaints his work attracted, but you do you.

I find it asinine to dismiss a critic because of the number of complaints his work attracted

It is equally asinine to dismiss the number of complaints just because he phrased things poetically.

Nope. If someone's an honest critic, feathers will be ruffled.

And of course the quality of his writing mattered.

Goodness I accidentally started a rumour on here he was dead once but had to get it pulled myself.

I want to see the deletion message too

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I also want to see the deletion message.

I also think he is not a nice man.

He came across as a nasty piece of work on Ant and Dec last night.

I personally can't respect a man with such a limited vocabulary.

Yes he never comes across as very intelligent. Street smart, wonderful cook but he’s not bright.

Yes he never comes across as very intelligent. Street smart, wonderful cook but he’s not bright.

Not bright? Yet a world famous multi millionaire?