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Last week, I received a voice mail from a major news network wanting to chat with me about a possible interview on\u00a0HR technology<\/a>\u00a0and small business for one of their business shows. Needless to say, I was very excited when I heard the voicemail. Who wouldn\u2019t be? My wife was even more excited about it than I. \u00a0Before returning the voicemail, we decided to go to lunch. Truthfully, I just wanted to calm down a little before making the call.<\/p>\n

Over lunch, I trivialized the whole thing. It was not a big deal because I doubted that many\u00a0HR professionals<\/a>\u00a0would watch the show. Once I began to think rationally about the whole thing, I determined that the only benefit was a boost for my ego, which is not needed. Even if I made an idiot of myself it was doubtful that anyone I knew would actually be watching the show.<\/p>\n

I got back to the office and immediately made the return call. I spoke with the producer of the show who started to tell me a little about the program and then he asked for additional information\u00a0about my background. He said one of his researchers had come across Clay\u2019s Rants and found it interesting. How ironic considering that now they are featured in Clay\u2019s Rants. At one point, he sort of snuck in that there would be money involved with the whole thing. I was honestly wondering how much they were going to pay me.<\/p>\n

Finally, I stopped the guy and asked outright \u201cMoney; how much and to whom?\u201d \u00a0I was told that for $4,900 for 90 seconds my website could be plugged on the show. I would not be interviewed and the script would have to be pre-approved. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? That\u2019s $54.44 per second. Look, I get it that when you watch a movie and someone is slurping a Diet Coke, Coke paid for that advertisement. When the winning QB after the Super Bowl says he\u2019s going to Disney, I get that as well but does this really happen on \u2018news\u2019 programs? Sorry, but I think when news programs work in paid plugs, it destroys their credibility. Oops, what am I saying?\u00a0 Very few of any of today\u2019s news networks appear to have any credibility because of the blatant bias that is reflected.<\/p>\n

So, you are probably wondering why I did not mention the network. Well, let me just say I\u2019m a guy who learns from his mistakes. Earlier this year I was interviewed by\u00a0HR Magazine<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0open source<\/a>\u00a0HRIS<\/a>\u00a0systems. The interviewer told me he was looking for an opposition view and I provided one. Then I was barely quoted in the article and when I was, they misspelled my name and mislabeled my profession. I wrote sort of a nasty Clay\u2019s Rant on the whole matter and have never been asked for an interview since. I was not going to take that chance again so I decided to leave the news network\u2019s name out of this rant. Just in case they might want to interview me some day for my knowledge insight and experience as opposed to $4,900.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I have found sometimes rants have consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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