Pot on Links at Golf Channel, Ex-Worker Says

[The Straight Story]

Pot on Links at Golf Channel, Ex-Worker Says


(CN) - A freelance cameraman says he's entitled to a drug-free workplace, but he can't get it at The Golf Channel. He claims that after he reported co-workers for "smoking marijuana on the golf courses during the taping and production of live golf events," he was harassed and fired.

Greg Kochis sued TGC Inc. dba The Golf Channel, of Orlando, and NEP Broadcasting, of Pittsburgh, in Cuyahoga County Court, Cleveland.

Kochis says he's worked as a freelance "videographer" since 2000 for The Golf Channel, but his coworkers made his life miserable after he reported them to two managers for firing up on the links and at a golf show, in April and May 2007.

Kochis says the mangers agreed to stop the problem, but did not stop it. He claims his co-workers ostracized him by refusing to share hotel rooms with him and "writing messages such as 'Kochis is a Rat' and 'Kochis sucks Dick' in and around the workplace."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/02/09/24518.htm

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Don't bogart the pot - where do I apply for this job?

:smoke:
:evilgrin:

[CrownPrinceBandar]

5. I know, it sounds like fun...........

But I've been to events where the GC has been working. Those folks run their asses off. And even though I can't begrudge them a little puff between holes, I have support the dude's right to not be subjected to pressure from the tokers.

He may get his wish though. I'm sure this negative attention will cause GC to start drug-testing and adopting a stricter stance on drug use, as heavy-handed as it is.

[Fumesucker]

6. There wasn't any pressure until he snitched..

Nobody likes or respects a snitch, even people that benefit from the snitching..

[mkultra]

9. or maybe he should mind his own damn business

and focus on his own performance instead of trying to tear his coworkers down.

[tigereye]

16. c'mon now, how many work places allow people to smoke pot on the job?

[Taverner]

2. Well, Kochis is a rat

http://members.madasafish.com/~cj_whitehound/Rats_Nest/artwork/clipart/b+w_rat_sitting_up_with_hands_outstretched.gif

[tridim]

3. Getting shitfaced drunk at the 19th hole is just fine though.

Double standards suck.

[rcrush]

12. ++++++1

Thank you!

[T Wolf]

4. Grass and grass go together very well. Playing barefoot on a nice day, out in nature, is a good

way to deal with the frustration that comes naturally when subjecting oneself to this unique form of tort--, excuse me, enhanced interaction.

Couple this with the existential nature that golf can take for some and you have a great experience. A good way to "be the ball."

Greg - go fuck yourself and don't bring everyone down with your buzzkill bullshit.

[tridim]

7. This is a hybrid. Bluegrass..

Kentucky bluegrass, featherbed bent and northern California sinsemilla. The amazing stuff about this is you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on the stuff.

[T Wolf]

10. Thanks for the laugh. LOVE this movie. Favorite part is when Murray is explaining to

Chevy Chase how to sabotage his opponent by cutting his tendon "so he'll pull everything."

[mkultra]

8. Anyone have an application link?

this guy is a spoon feed prick.

[Upton]

11. What's the world coming to..

when you can't even burn one without being snitched on by some rat of a co-worker?

[Onceuponalife]

13. Wotta tool

Holy Jebus is that Mary Wanna?

'Kochis sucks dick' :rofl:

Burn 'em if ya got 'em I say.

:smoke:

[Iggo]

14. Kochis is a Rat.

Videograph that, Greg.

[Jimbo S]

15. The guy's a rat?

Who the fuck wants a co-worker doing drugs at work?

Anybody hear of a thing called "professionalism"?

[hughee99]

18. The person is considered a rat here because

he reported something that, while against company policy, we all support, or at least accept. If he had reported them doing something we didn't support, like smoking cigarettes on the job, then he'd be a "whistleblower". That's the only difference.

I wonder if anyone would feel different if the guys he reported were the ones who construct those 30 foot temporary TV towers and one of them collapsed?

[Onceuponalife]

19. Who gives a shit? It's golf!!

Gotta do something to cure the boredom.

[Bluzmann57]

17. Well golf is really boring

So they may as well do something to pass the time.