Originally Posted By: Finn
Bigmouth? Complaining? He did not complain. He said to Mr Permane to stop shouting and that's it.
What I mean is that Kimi customarily has little exchanges over the air. I didn't think it was a big deal, Kimi likely didn't either, and I think the media made much more of an issue out of it than anyone else did. Even today, they're still talking about how he gave his engineer heck last year for bothering him on the radio. And yes, the speculation is that PDVSA would follow Pastor, but everyone's speculation over the last few weeks has been incredibly self-serving.
@dparm: That's what I meant. The whole radio exchange thing has been a convenient smokescreen for the real problem here. I didn't hear one mention of the pay issues during P2, even though they mentioned he was late. They sure talked up the radio exchanges, though. Unless someone read an independent report, if you only watched the practice, you'd definitely be under the impression that he showed up late because of their radio remarks last weekend. That paints Kimi in an unfair light because it doesn't tell anything remotely resembling the real story.
I didn't know any better until the link in this thread. I knew there was a pay issue for a while already, but I didn't think it had grown to be such a problem. Not showing up for work because you got heck from management or even a coworker is childish. Not showing up for work because you didn't get paid is normal procedure. The on air personalities have been very disingenuous in this whole issue, and completely unfair to Kimi.
