brahmanApr 21st, 2008 - 22:54:42

If you're such a loser as to get fired, why should anyone else hire you?

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NoBugsM'LadyApr 26th, 2008 - 08:30:40

I have seen this episode twice. It is possible that the show was edited in a way that reveals the least flattering facts about Mr. Hyde, however, I find it very hard to believe that they 'manufactured' a cockroach ridden basement, and spoilt food everywhere.
I suppose the production crew brought trained flies with them, in multiple, to hover around the dining room and land on Ramsay and then other diners?
He was supposedly the most senior manager there and there appeared to be no reason to have him as the restaurant was filthy and empty.
The way the piece is edited intensifies the feeling of the creeps at how dirty it was, but I'm having trouble believing they stitched him up by bringing in bad food, vermin, and roaches. That is any manager's highest duty in a restaurant: to make sure the food is safe. True they have shots of him getting his head massaged by the head waitress and other clips of him appearing to do nothing, but the evidence that matters is no customers, stupid menu, and filthy restaurant. He went nuts on Ramsay on camera, too. Doesn't help his case.

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DavidApr 26th, 2008 - 08:38:22

He's going to have a heck of a time trying to prove they faked bugs and years worth of filth. The tape they have is not just what you see. There will be tape of their pre-shoot visit on file, as well as additional footage of all the gross stuff they saw that they didn't have time to put in, as well as longer take of scenes of him doing nothing while others worked. If they have that, he's got no case.

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StanApr 28th, 2008 - 00:45:01

According to a woman who worked there around the time of the shooting, yes the bugs and flies were real, the spoiled meat was not. Ramsay's show is not a documentary, it's entertainment. Also according to her, Martin was not the manager of the restaurant, he managed the theater there where about 70% of the profits were made. That's why he was on the phone so much, he was taking ticket orders. That's what that big electronic sign was about, they advertised upcoming shows on it. The person in charge of the restaurant left days before shooting began because they knew they would look bad. So the producers needed a new scapegoat and Martin for whatever reasons agreed to go along with it. That owner and those other managers knew damn well about the problems with that place and the blame should have been on them.

Do I feel sorry for Martin? Yes and no. If you don't want to look like a fool on TV, don't let yourself be filmed acting like one. Do I blame Gordon Ramsay? No, the directors and the producers and Fox decide how the show will be formatted, Gordon's just another actor filling a role like Martin was.

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SoleilSep 30th, 2008 - 05:53:03

If this episode was supposedly just a publicity stint for Gordon Ramsay, then the case becomes even more lopsided. Mr. Ramsay is already rich and popular. It is like suing Donald Trump for finding one of his employees too lazy.

As to Mr. Hyde being a fall guy, I cannot even feel a drop of sympathy. Regardless of whether Mr. Hyde was just a stand in for the former GM, or if he really was the GM during filming, the point is, Mr. Hyde just isn't competent to say the least. Even if Mr. Hyde was just a 'ticket-sller', he was promoted to be GM at that time, and he simply did not step up. At the rate he went, I doubt he could even book those tickets. Even if he was just a manager for the shows, roaches and vermin should not be welcome in that establishment. Even as a ticket manager, he should have at least seen to that. Maybe Mr. Hyde felt a kinship with the vermin; after all, he acted (and still does) like one. When Mr. Ramsay said he'd get rid of the vermin, he was right in including Mr. Hyde along with his kind.

Mr. Hyde has sued Mr. Ramsay for damages. Yet it was Mr. Hyde's very own actions and attitude that brought him down in the first place. If he had stepped up, even for the sake of the episode, he would have gained 'market value'. Obviously, the lawsuit is just another one of Mr. Hyde's half-cocked ideas to make easy (and big) money, without doing any real work. No one wants to hire Mr. Hyde, and no one should. Unless some stupid employer wants bleed thousands of dollars when sued for firing Mr. Hyde for his laziness not too later on.

The next time Dr. Jekyll experiments on an alter ego, perhaps he should develop an industrious cahracter, not this rampaging monster known as Mr. Martin Hyde.

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