I suppose being with a rather well known/liked entity such as GMTV I can expect to have people wanting to join the staff and get involved. That’s fine and dandy but, when joining someones staff you have to keep in mind that they have every right to reject you. Thus, bringing me to my latest case of discontent.

Recently a GMC user that I will just leave as anonymous sent me a friendly PM basically asking to join the GMTV staff. I did the usual procedure and just simply asked for an audition video so that we could decide if he was worth hiring or not. Give or take a few weeks later his audition showed up on my computer, to say the least it wasn’t very great. I didn’t want to directly tell him he wasn’t hired (he was so enthusiastic about it) so I was going to wait a few weeks and then tell him (I was busy myself) so after two weeks I get a message (via MSN) stating that if I don’t hire him he will start his own show (sounds like a threat, eh?).. long story short I tell him how he isn’t hired, he proceeds to tell me how my show sucksis bad and how his is going to be much better (funny considering he wanted to join).

During the next week I receive messages telling me his progress he has made and he even sent me his intro script, (imo: turns out he is completely copying gmtv even his script was almost identical, he has news and something that’s exactly like our face off). When I confront him of this he tells me about how im copying him and that his show are way better than mine (when there subtle changes between our shows).

He also informed me that his show will be released in three weeks (scary considering he is starting from scratch) he said unlike me he has experience and he knows what he is doing (aren’t I the one with 4 episodes?) so far he has shown me no proof that he can video edit, so I think we can assume he uses WMM. I suppose we can expect another show within a few weeks I can’t say it will be bad until I’ve seen it.