HAYLEY SORENSEN

tire country. He reportedly pocketed $50,000 from New Idea for his story and people are lining up to slam him for violating the apparently sacred bond of trust between an Uber driver and a pissed passenger.

In a statement, Nine management said the act by the Uber driver in selling the story was “pretty low”.

Radio presenter Em Rusciano said it was “gross”.

“To the Uber driver: ‘Dude, come on. Your job is to drive, not destroy people’s careers and lives,’” she said.

Comedian Matt Okine tweeted that the driver was a “fkn dog”.

People like Karl – and to a lesser extent Peter – seem like Good Blokes ™.

Australians are willing to overlook just about any failing or transgression by a Good Bloke.

Affable and unpretentious, Karl has built his career on his appeal as a Good Bloke – an everyman you would want to drink a beer with.

Karl and his brother’s Good Bloke statuses aren’t hurt by having a whinge about their colleagues, but they should be by the fact they chose to do so in the setting they did.

Why on earth was the call on loudspeaker? Why would they choose to be so frank and forthright in front of a complete stranger?

The driver was invisible to them, so caught up were they

“I’m barracking for the driver. He has made what could be a life-changing amount of money off people who treated him like dirt “

in their self-important solipsistic sooking.

He wasn’t someone worth censoring themselves in front of.

I’m barracking for the driver. He has made what could be a life-changing amount of money off people who treated him like dirt. Good luck to him.

Hopefully it will mean he no longer has to scrape out a living driving around egotistical twats who think of him as subhuman.

Treating an Uber driver – or a waitress or the guy who empties your office bin – as if they’re less than a person isn’t the act of a Good Bloke, but the act of a Massive Tool.

Hayley Sorensen is a weekly columnist for the