July 20, 2009
Has anyone watched ITV's latest comedy drama Monday Monday, which follows the 'hilarious' antics of head of HR Christine Frances at fictional retailer Butterworths?
My God, is there a worse programme on TV? The phrase 'comedy drama' should already get alarm bells ringing and confirms that Guru's boycott of ITV on the grounds of the utter tripe that it pumps out, is the correct stance.
According to the website, tonight's episode sees head of HR Christine "hopelessly out of her depth when Steven is charged with sexually harassing two women in the office". And guess what? Christine is a borderline alcoholic - wow, what absolute comedy gold.
Actress Fay Ripley, who plays Christine, describes her character in an interview on the ITV website: "People ask how this woman has kept her job but it's like a lot of offices, she has been there a long time, probably from a junior and probably wasn't too bad originally."
Hang on a minute, that does sound like a familiar career path for some HR directors Guru has come across.
It's fair to say that HR is not well portrayed by broadcasters or film makers. Who can forget Clint Eastwood muttering the immortal line as tough cop Dirty Harry: "Personnel? That's for assholes."
Personnel Today ran a feature last year that looked at HR on TV and concludes that scriptwriters appear to glory in representing HR professionals as evil and manipulative, but others portray them as pointless and sad.
Guru accepts this as an unfortunate consequence of working in HR. Chin up, everyone, and don't switch over to ITV and 9pm tonight.
My God, is there a worse programme on TV? The phrase 'comedy drama' should already get alarm bells ringing and confirms that Guru's boycott of ITV on the grounds of the utter tripe that it pumps out, is the correct stance.
According to the website, tonight's episode sees head of HR Christine "hopelessly out of her depth when Steven is charged with sexually harassing two women in the office". And guess what? Christine is a borderline alcoholic - wow, what absolute comedy gold.
Actress Fay Ripley, who plays Christine, describes her character in an interview on the ITV website: "People ask how this woman has kept her job but it's like a lot of offices, she has been there a long time, probably from a junior and probably wasn't too bad originally."
Hang on a minute, that does sound like a familiar career path for some HR directors Guru has come across.
It's fair to say that HR is not well portrayed by broadcasters or film makers. Who can forget Clint Eastwood muttering the immortal line as tough cop Dirty Harry: "Personnel? That's for assholes."
Personnel Today ran a feature last year that looked at HR on TV and concludes that scriptwriters appear to glory in representing HR professionals as evil and manipulative, but others portray them as pointless and sad.
Guru accepts this as an unfortunate consequence of working in HR. Chin up, everyone, and don't switch over to ITV and 9pm tonight.
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