How did we ever miss hiring THIS guy?

[Alan Lloyd]

Amen to that one, Mark.

When I see stuff written as though a four-year-old was at the keyboard I tune out immediately. At that point the content stops mattering.

Writing “u” for “you” and “4” for “for” (among other things) is a great way to end up not being taken seriously.

Yes, I’m a cranky old geezer. What of it? And get off my lawn!

[Grinner Hester]

don’t insult your good interns with lunch. If ya dig em… hire em. If ya don’t, send em home so there is room for somone who wants to impress ya.

[John Cuevas]

We’ve had some good and bad interns along with some interesting stories. Easily the #1 “I can’t believe he did that one” goes to a kid we had a few years ago.

We’re on a shoot with our oldest & one of the largest clients we have. Everything from my end is going well, we’re setup and conducting an interview—basically a time for the intern to stand there and watch now. Get to a point to stop tape and reload when I look around and I can’t find him…bathroom? No. Coffee Bar(we were shooting in their lobby, 30 feet away was a free coffee bar)? Nope not there either.

I start looking around for him and he hadn’t wandered too far…he’d sat down in someone’s cubicle, started up there computer and had gone online to check his email.

He didn’t get the full-time position.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[Mark Suszko]

That ubiquitous access is something the new kids seem to think of as a birthright. I remember conducting a studio tour of roughly college freshman-aged kids, and one of them kept trying to log on to our internal network to go surfing and show his friends some stuff, while the group is standing around listening to me give my spiel. I had to admonish him twice to not touch the computer, the second time I turned the computer all the way off to activate it’s password security, and I threatened to have our security guards escort him out if he couldn’t get a grip on the rules. And they all acted like “I” was the freak.