00:00make you cry. Crystal, this is a story in the mail today. More than half of people have cried.
00:07Don't, don't.
00:08This is after the Rachel Reeves situation.
00:11Don't, Eamon, I feel very attacked. I feel very, I'm having a personal problem, Eamon.
00:14Yes, this is Rachel Reeves.
00:16Get him off.
00:16And basically, a survey has come out today saying actually about half of workers, more
00:23than half, admit they have cried at work at least once.
00:28And, of course, she very famously said it was a personal issue.
00:31Let's just do a quick poll round here. Have you cried at work?
00:34Once, when I was much younger and I left the room, because it's unprofessional the way that
00:38she cried in public, outrageous, I think.
00:40OK, Miriam?
00:42Not that I can remember, and not in public, certainly.
00:44Not in public, no, not at work.
00:46Well, I cried at work. I was 22 years of age. And my sports editor called me in and he said
00:51to me, what's wrong with that script? And I read it. I remember what the script was about.
00:56It was about darts or whatever. And I went, I don't know. I don't know.
01:01And the next minute, he fired a ceramic cup like that, bang, against the wall behind me
01:06and it smashed.
01:07No!
01:07And I went, I went like this. He said, I'll ask you again, what's wrong with that?
01:11And I went, I don't know.
01:14And he then lifted up a telephone, which had a wire on the end of it, and he fired it
01:21and it hit the wall behind me, right? Now I'm beginning to feel my top lip shudder and
01:26I'm going, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry here. And then he said, what is wrong with
01:30that script? And I said, I can't see, there's nothing wrong, I can't see anything wrong with
01:35it. And he lifted his Adler typewriter, metal Adler typewriter, and threw it down at my
01:42feet, which I had to jump for.
01:44And I then started to cry. And I thought, I was 22 years of age, I thought, this is awful.
01:50But as I ran down, my protector in the building, a big producer, a very tall man, Rory Fitzpatrick,
01:57said, young Holmes, what's wrong with you? And I basically told him, he just went up
02:03and he went up into the office of where this guy was. And this guy was a very big sports
02:09guy, you know, very big, big guy. And, and he punched him, which was great.
02:14But what was wrong with the script?
02:16Yeah, what was wrong with the script?
02:17We found out it was about Chucky Wilson, the dark player. I don't, I have no idea what was
02:22wrong. To this day, I don't know what was, what was wrong with it.
02:25If we weren't going to find out, Miriam was about to throw her laptop, if we weren't
02:28going to find out.
02:29I was just about to offer a tissue and see what was wrong with the script.
02:32I think HR policy has changed a little bit.
02:34Isn't it interesting, by the way, the two, the two butch men on the panel, so to speak,
02:39are the ones that have cried at work. And the, the, the two ladies on the panel have
02:43not.
02:43Well, maybe you get treated more harshly than women. I don't know.
02:46Oh, that's a, that's a nice get out.
02:47There you go.
02:48I'll take that.
02:49I've saved your ego.
02:50Yeah, thank you.
02:51But I do laugh at how he got punched.
02:54He was a big guy and the, and this guy just punched him.
02:58Things were often resolved for, I used to work at all.
03:01With a punch, isn't it?
03:02With punch, people being punched.
03:04It's called a Glasgow kiss for a reason.
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