Blagging it

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

I suppose we’ve all had the experience of finding ourselves on the spot and having to make it all up. But I don’t know if many of us will be able to match the story of the man mistakenly rushed into a BBC studio the other day. Mistaken for a computer expert in reception the man was actually there for a job interview. Full marks to him for making it through the questioning and for casting, well, a different light on the media we watch. Watch it on youtube.

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