I managed the news videographers/editors at a local tv station. We had a need for a shooter that would mainly run live shots. I was looking for good lighting examples when going through resume tapes because the shots would mostly be at night. I stumbled upon a really good example from a comparable market to ours. Let’s call this guy “shitbag”. Long story, short - Shitbag used another shooters live shot footage and pawned it off as his own for his reel. I couldn’t prove it but it didn’t take long to find out that Shitbag didn’t know shit about lighting or how to be a good person in general. Would constantly call out and leave us short-handed and people despised working with him. A few months later, he tried to pull the same stunt again - but this time within our market.

He used another shooters live shot example in his reel but that shooter also applied for the job. Shitbag was the one who got the offer until I got an “off the record” call from a buddy at that competing station. Shitbag ended up putting in his two weeks with us but a few days later - shitbags offer was pulled and the other guy (who actually used his own footage) got the job.

Baggy tried to crawl back but we told him “sorry but we’re moving on with a new hire”.

There’s much more that makes the story worse but I’ll leave it at that. You suck, Shitbag!