It was meant to be before the mic went live. It appears he was trying to pronounce the guy's name (thus the "gay"), and then got frustrated and did the cursing as a result.
He should have just messed up the name and rolled with it. Way too nervous. After the fact he was obviously working out the name out loud and cursed in frustration of the pronouncement before realizing he was on air.
Geez, a bunch of you are hard asses. Fired for one mistake? The person above him should be fired? Sheesh. I hope you guys don't supervise anybody.
Kind of funny, but not as funny as this: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0M5RkN-eHj8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Stage fright. You don't know how people will react until they're on the big stage/on air for the first time. If he hadn't said "gay" he might have gotten a second chance.
one thing is cursing while you are alone, or when only your friends can hear it. and one thing is cursing, while you have a costumer, and with the cursing you lost the costumer, and the money he was going to give to the company. If he would have cursed off air, then I think he wouldnt be fired. but yeah I think he deserves other chance, but its not going to be at that news channel.
Forget the cursing. Dude was straight up unqualified. He should have known he was overmatched and gone Royce white on them. Claim protection from ADA and never work a day at the station.
Surprising that he was that bad - how did he get the job. But sucks that he got fired after one bad day. Seems like he'd deserve a bit more time. Don't have to can him.
I would have pronounced it "suh-guy-yey kay-beh-day" So does he at least get paid for the one day worth of work?
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ss8LDBNcsWc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Just discovered this one, but it looks a few years old.
I imagine being an anchorman requires you to handle yourself well in front of an audience along with speaking well and in an unforced manner. He failed at both while offending the dozens of viewers that tuned in that day. It seemed like he came to his first job completely unprepared and figured he'd just wing it. Really, he couldn't have something reasonable practiced when the anchorlady asked him a simple "Tell us about yourself?"....? It's a simple question that was almost guaranteed to be asked on your first broadcast...the dude obviously didn't care enough to prepare for jacksquat. He also.sounds.like.a.5th.grader.reading.the.tele.prompter. Cmon, I can't believe anyone has sympathy for this fool...I would've fired him the first day too. It's obvious he didn't take this job very seriously...I guess those are the type of guys the sypmathetic folks on here like to hire...good luck with your businesses.
I think anyone can get hired as a news anchor in North Dakota. The Asian chick has an accent that makes it hard to understand her. Then you have this AJ dude that wets his pants. Man that was like a college broadcast and the Napoleon Dynamite style graphics...oh boy. Hope the guy's landlord lets him out of his lease without a major penalty.
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all i'm saying is we all slip up. even if you rarely do it, you still do it. and if you happen to do it at the worst time (no matter how careful you are), you should be reprimanded but fired is too much. it's his first day and certainly doesn't look good for him. but it's just a curse word. one that basically everyone hears on a daily basis.
I don't think the guy should have been fired, but it's very obvious he wasn't ready to be on-camera live. That's on the station for throwing an inexperienced guy into the fire.
