Guy Goma Interviewed Live on BBC TV
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Guy Goma became a minor celebrity overnight as a mistake at the BBC has him go into the studio to be interviewed on live television rather than being interviewed for an IT job, as he had come to the studio to do. What we don't know it, did he get the job? Old one, but still very interesting that this happened and one I had not seen before.
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After this interview he was actually interviewed for the job. It lasted 10 minutes and he didn't get it. At least according to Wikipedia.
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@coliver said:
After this interview he was actually interviewed for the job. It lasted 10 minutes and he didn't get it. At least according to Wikipedia.
One has to wonder if the people who made a mistake of this magnitude were really well prepared to interview someone for IT.
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@coliver said:
After this interview he was actually interviewed for the job. It lasted 10 minutes and he didn't get it. At least according to Wikipedia.
My guess is because he didn't BS the TV time they weren't going to hire him. Having worked around and been interview at TV stations being able to pass BS as real information is a skill they look for and use a lot.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
After this interview he was actually interviewed for the job. It lasted 10 minutes and he didn't get it. At least according to Wikipedia.
One has to wonder if the people who made a mistake of this magnitude were really well prepared to interview someone for IT.
Are you talking the individual or the corporate level? I would question the corporation if the same person is handling both IT and programming then there may be a bigger issue.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@coliver said:
After this interview he was actually interviewed for the job. It lasted 10 minutes and he didn't get it. At least according to Wikipedia.
My guess is because he didn't BS the TV time they weren't going to hire him. Having worked around and been interview at TV stations being able to pass BS as real information is a skill they look for and use a lot.
He was horrible on air. The transcript is barely English. Now it was a pretty high pressure situation. But still.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
After this interview he was actually interviewed for the job. It lasted 10 minutes and he didn't get it. At least according to Wikipedia.
One has to wonder if the people who made a mistake of this magnitude were really well prepared to interview someone for IT.
Are you talking the individual or the corporate level? I would question the corporation if the same person is handling both IT and programming then there may be a bigger issue.
It took a lot of people being sloppy and unprepared for this to happen. It's true that the BBC interviews people constantly. But this is a pretty big screw up.
And one has to wonder if they paid for his time, since they had him work, and if they got the legal releases in place before they broadcast him without his consent.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
After this interview he was actually interviewed for the job. It lasted 10 minutes and he didn't get it. At least according to Wikipedia.
One has to wonder if the people who made a mistake of this magnitude were really well prepared to interview someone for IT.
Are you talking the individual or the corporate level? I would question the corporation if the same person is handling both IT and programming then there may be a bigger issue.
You have to remember news organizations (in America don't know about England) aren't actually owned or related to their affiliate such as NBC rather they just pay to use the license to their logos and broadcast their content. for example a NBC local affiliate might be owned by media general who also owns news papers and is a rather small company and these type companies are normally poorly managed and have little reflection on how NBC is ran.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
After this interview he was actually interviewed for the job. It lasted 10 minutes and he didn't get it. At least according to Wikipedia.
One has to wonder if the people who made a mistake of this magnitude were really well prepared to interview someone for IT.
Are you talking the individual or the corporate level? I would question the corporation if the same person is handling both IT and programming then there may be a bigger issue.
You have to remember news organizations (in America don't know about England) aren't actually owned or related to their affiliate such as NBC rather they just pay to use the license to their logos and broadcast their content. for example a NBC local affiliate might be owned by media general who also owns news papers and is a rather small company and these type companies are normally poorly managed and have little reflection on how NBC is ran.
BBC is part of the government and BBC News is the core, not the fringe, of the business. Very different model than in the US. BBC is paid for from tax dollars.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
After this interview he was actually interviewed for the job. It lasted 10 minutes and he didn't get it. At least according to Wikipedia.
One has to wonder if the people who made a mistake of this magnitude were really well prepared to interview someone for IT.
Are you talking the individual or the corporate level? I would question the corporation if the same person is handling both IT and programming then there may be a bigger issue.
It took a lot of people being sloppy and unprepared for this to happen. It's true that the BBC interviews people constantly. But this is a pretty big screw up.
And one has to wonder if they paid for his time, since they had him work, and if they got the legal releases in place before they broadcast him without his consent.
No argument there. Especially since this wasn't a fluff piece or anything like that. This was huge news at the time.
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I realize that the news team is under a lot of pressure too. But the crew, the cast, the prep people - no one knew who they were supposed to be interviewing. And this suggests poor handling of interview candidates too. Good places that I've interviewed (for a job) know why you are there and have a process for you, even while waiting. Having you in a possible place to go into a live TV interview or into surgery or to be taking onto a trading floor just doesn't exist.
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@scottalanmiller said:
And one has to wonder if they paid for his time, since they had him work, and if they got the legal releases in place before they broadcast him without his consent.
In many cause they could say consent was assumed, as normal one assumes you are in a studio to be filmed. This is an expectation. However, if they specifically said job interview when he was there and not just interview that would change things.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
And one has to wonder if they paid for his time, since they had him work, and if they got the legal releases in place before they broadcast him without his consent.
In many cause they could say consent was assumed, as normal one assumes you are in a studio to be filmed. This is an expectation. However, if they specifically said job interview when he was there and not just interview that would change things.
Which is the case here. He was asked to interview for a job. So making the assumption that he was there to be on live TV can't be made. He wasn't even brought in from a studio staging area.
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Unless the only reason to be in a studio is to be on television, assuming there are no employees and no support staff and no reason to be doing anything there but be on television, that's a hard assumption to make when no one asks you at the last second if you are accepting being on television - which is itself a release.
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That's kind of like grabbing people out of an administration office in a hospital and putting them in surgery. You can't assume just because someone is "in a hospital" that they are there for surgery. Hospitals are full of staff, people interviewing, people visiting, people who are getting better, doctors, nurses, janitors, IT, etc. It's not like taking someone bleeding in the ER and assuming they are okay for surgery. It's taking someone from a business office.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Unless the only reason to be in a studio is to be on television, assuming there are no employees and no support staff and no reason to be doing anything there but be on television, that's a hard assumption to make when no one asks you at the last second if you are accepting being on television - which is itself a release.
Support staff are assumed to be on release (Grips, Assistants, Teleprompt OPs, Production Asst). Actually they are the few people who will not have a specific likeness release form signed but may still appear on cuts of the live news room before they go live from time to time.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Unless the only reason to be in a studio is to be on television, assuming there are no employees and no support staff and no reason to be doing anything there but be on television, that's a hard assumption to make when no one asks you at the last second if you are accepting being on television - which is itself a release.
Support staff are assumed to be on release (Grips, Assistants, Teleprompt OPs, Production Asst). Actually they are the few people who will not have a specific likeness release form signed but may still appear on cuts of the live news room before they go live from time to time.
Yeah, but not IT or secretaries.
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Pretty sure that BBC, like NBC, commonly has studio tours too. Could easily be random people in that space (which is basically what this was.) I know that many BBC studios have tours and stuff as regular parts of business.
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Meh, Studio tours. TV studios are nothing great. They are the simplest form of a studio. Now Film studio tours that would make more sense. The Hobbit was one of the best film setups I've seen.
