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meatpie
05-07-2007, 02:19 PM
This man should lose his job. My husband knows him through work, said he is a complete bastard. If he's not fired, something is seriously wrong with the world.

LAS VEGAS — The chairman and chief executive of HBO was arrested early Sunday on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend outside the MGM Grand casino hours after a boxing match aired by his company, authorities said.

Chris Albrecht was in Las Vegas for Saturday night's fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr., held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and broadcast on pay-per-view by Home Box Office, Inc., a division of Time Warner Inc.

Officers assigned to the fight reported seeing Albrecht fighting with a woman identified only as his girlfriend in the MGM Grand's valet parking lot shortly after 3 a.m., said Las Vegas police spokesman Officer Bill Cassell.

"Some of our guys observed a domestic dispute between him and his girlfriend," Cassell told the Los Angeles Times. "It was a physical confrontation."



More here http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/celebrities/4781934.html

meatpie
05-10-2007, 11:36 AM
He did lose his job - thank goodness. This man has a long history of battering women...

lml41981
05-10-2007, 12:18 PM
Eh...Sucks what he did, but if his assault and arrest didn't interfere with his job or violate terms of his employment contract, then I don't think he should be fired. His personal life is his personal life.

meatpie
05-10-2007, 01:04 PM
It did violate terms of his contract. This was a "working weekend" for him.

You don't think it's bad for HBO when he's kickin his girlfriend's ass outside the arena of the boxing match that his company just aired? If that does not reflect badly on HBO I don't know what does...

lml41981
05-10-2007, 01:27 PM
It did violate terms of his contract. This was a "working weekend" for him.

You don't think it's bad for HBO when he's kickin his girlfriend's ass outside the arena of the boxing match that his company just aired? If that does not reflect badly on HBO I don't know what does...
If it violated the terms of his contract, then fine...fire him.

By and large, I don't think companies should fire people for whatever is going on in their personal life if it doesn't affect work. Personally, I wouldn't look down on HBO if they had kept this guy...HBO didn't kick his girlfriend's ass, he did. He's the asshole for it, not them...so no, I don't think it reflects badly on HBO...I think it reflects badly on him.

wendalah
05-10-2007, 01:32 PM
If you're a high-level or high-visibility exec for a company you carry the responsibility of representing the company in public, especially at events in which your company is involved...so I think it's completely within reason to take punitive action on this sort of thing.

dionysia
05-10-2007, 01:38 PM
ITA, wendalah.

Di

meatpie
05-10-2007, 05:52 PM
Also agreed, Wendalah. Thank you for saying what I was attempting to say in the first place.