Ed Laurell sacked but Ally kept on for worse
Laurel turns up at work drunk and later making a below the belt comment about Archie. Jai sacked her but Ally has done worse. She phoned the police re Farchie. Number of times she has accused Jai of killing Rachel and he still keeps her. He made her a supervisor because of Rachel's demands.
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Mystery indeed. I don't know if she can now read as that issue is conveniently forgotten. We viewers remember a lot more than the script writers.:D
Lets hope she goes Bobbit on Jai after he has destroyed her life
Why is beyond me since she looks like an addict but Jai married a horse so anything is fair game with him
Ali could have taken Jai to a tribunal if he had sacked her over the Archie thing as it was a personal matter and she was at the end of the day reporting a crime which involved a child. Jai might not like it, but legally he had no grounds for sacking her.
Reporting to work under the influence of alcohol is a breach of most employment contracts and also health and safety regulations. Laurel really doesn't have a leg to stand on in arguing that he has been unfair in sacking her.
I know you both make sense with your well reasoned posts.
Laurel was packing sweets.
Again I know you both make sense but the character Ally gets on my nerves.
I agree with the comment above about Kerry, she is ridiculous and so stereotyped, she isn't the only one by the looks of it, EE with Kat Slater and CS with Beth Whateverhernameis
He bought thst child with no concern for the wellbeing of his mother.
He knows he didn't do the right thing and whether he likes it or not, Ally is family and family can say and do things that random drunk employees can't.
Ali gets on my nerves as well and i'm sure there was some revenge involved in telling the police. But there was also a young child involved who might have been forcibly taken from his real parents, kidnapped or any number of other things. If Jai and Megan wereN't going to contact Social Services or the Police, somebody had to. Therefore Ali was doing the right thing, even if her motives were flawed so if it came to it, any representative of the Law (and solicitors, Mediators, Judges even in Employment cases are) would have to support her rather than the employer that had ended her contract for personal reasons.
Whilst annoying, Ali hasn't actually done anything wrong in a professional sense. Laurel has.
And that really is the crux of the matter.
plus, she has been unreliable, turning up late, taking sick leave due to her drinking too much.
But he was absolutely right to sack the even more annoying Laurel; she has nobody to blame but herself.
You give a more reasoned argument than I do.:) I let my dislike for the character annoy me too much.
You see far too much good in Ali's actions kk.She reported Ja and Megan to the police 100% out of spite. He had explained that they were going to contact social services and Rachel herself was prepared to wait. Ali is an awful woman who cares only for herself, just like Rachel in fact.
Jai has given Ali the benefit of the doubt again and again, even allowing her the supervisor's job though she couldn't even read
As for Laurel I think Jai could have given her one more chance but of course the idea is for her to hit rock bottom and she needs to be without a job for that. On a side note doe anyone else thing she's become a raging alcoholic awfully quickly
I think Laurel has been unreliable for some time. Her drinking was heavy before Christmas, the number of empty bottles was the reason Marlon suggested dry January in the first place. We've seen her wake up with hangovers, ring in sick, be reminded not to be late in to work or take too long a lunch implying that is something that happens quite often. I think she is already meant to have had chances (a lot of employers would have started disciplinary action after her conviction for DUI) even if we haven't seen them all on screen.
It's about 6 months since the DUI isn't it and whilst that was a genuine mistake (she'd only had one when she wasn't expecting to have to drive) I think it is meant to have got much worse since then. Ironically, not having to stay sober because she might need to drive has taken one of the safety barriers away.
I wouldn't say she is a raging alcoholic - she's not drinking meths in the morning or passing out when she's looking after the kids. But, it has started to affect her life and she seems unable to give up completely so it must be considered a problem. As i understand it, having it cause problems at work (colleagues noticing you're hungover reguarly, even if you are not actually still intoxicated) or needing to rind in sick is one of the most common wake up calls.
I think it's been done reasonably well, they are showing how easy it is to cross the line from being a social drinker that using wine to destress or relax after a hard day to one that can't destress or enjoy themselves without alcohol.
She acted correctly calling the police
In all honesty I don't know how Ali and Jai can work together with everything that's happened but that's soaps for you:D
Yes exactly, it may have been for the wrong reasons (wanting to get Jai) but her actions were certainly legally correct and i'd also say morally correct in the end result - which was a young boy being returned to the Authorities so they could find out who he was, contact his parents and find the person that 'sold' him. Yes. Jai was in fact a loving father -of very misguided one and not actually to that child) but the person that sold him could have some kind of ring going, getting children from womewhere and then selling them onto paedophiles. The Police needed to be made aware of the situation and I wouldn't have trusted Jao to do the right thing.