Orange is the new Burke

Id genuinely believe he’s doing some good work in there. I suspect he was a very good and conscientious teacher unfortunately he’s chucked it all away.

I’d wonder does he ever think to himself ‘possibly could have handled that better’

I don’t think that concept exists in that family - I don’t think they actually have the capacity to reflect and learn from their mistakes. They’re driven by whatever tenets were put in place in their upbringing which was essentially a cult like existence - in their minds they are always “right”.
They have no capacity for forgiveness, or admitting fault - that’s where we see the chinks in their armour - their “righteousness” is blinding their ability to think logically and rationally as a normal human would do.

I’m reminded of the expression “if they had brains they’d be dangerous”- they’re the opposite- they all have serious levels of academic intelligence - but, if they didn’t have this self righteous characteristic that impedes them in real life they’d all still be doing the jobs they loved making plenty of money.

He's to be released

Brian Cregan has authorised it

Enoch Burke to be released from prison, judge orders

I hope so

I figure this will play out like Ammi’s appeal case. It’ll just be thrown out due to their constant disrespect and frustration of the Court process regardless of any valid point that they might have.
That’ll be the end of his appeals against the appeal board and he’ll be dismissed by them/Wilsons and his salary will finally end.
But that won’t be the end of it, of course. They’ll find another way to litigate this. Wilson’s will be celebrating their 300th anniversary before this is over.
Enoch will be back in the Joy before the week is out.

This comment by Justice Cregan summarises the situation EB has created for himself…

Mr Justice Cregan said: "Mr Burke, your ability to shoot yourself in the foot is unparalleled, in my experience." after EB said the court had made an outstanding U-turn and accused it of hypocrisy by choosing to release him from prison.

Edit: As a matter of course, Justice Cregan has given him the opportunity to hold meetings with lawyers on the substantive" and "credible" issues EB has raised about the panel following his release from prison. He's hardly likely to be sitting down with lawyers outside the WHS gates discussing how to make a case against the panel.

He needs to start aiming for his head and put everyone out of their misery.

I’ve worked with some nutters over the years but no one has ever turned up for work after they’ve been let go to ‘report for work’ as they didn’t accept their dismissal.
Whatever personal problems there people had, they had the wherewithal to know that they couldn’t keep turning up and go back to their desk.
And if they were in the situation the EB is in, still being paid, they also would have stayed at home and kept the money and said nothing in case it stopped.

I have seen stories of bonkers Americans doing it, much of the culture of "get out there and hand CVs in to shops and offices with a firm handshake and you'll get a job" 1950s nonsense; thinking that showing up shows you're resilient and they'll hire you back.