The interviews factory


The kind girl on the phone says that they have seen our website are interested in interviewing some of us, to talk about our amateur sports club and the ranning.

You said that the interview and the bureaucratic issues (preliminary interview, signature of the modules authorizing the radio and video transmission) would not have taken more than an hour.

The president asks me to accompany him to the radio station for the interview. We arrive on time at 12 a.m. We enter and see 2-3 stations with interviews in progress and many people waiting.

Of course, a kind girl makes us sign the documents and confirms that the wait and the interview will not last more than an hour.

We wait and wait. The wait begins to be long and we ask for explanations. The kind girl tells us that one of the speakers is absent so the interviews are slow: it will take maybe an hour and a half.

We want to leave because we begin to understand the mechanism: the telephonists collect company names, restaurants, shops and offer to interview them. The interview will be broadcast in a time slot after midnight 3-4 weeks later.

They warn of the airing and will provide the video of the interview (after paying a small amount).

The interviewee will be free to publish the video on his social profiles and will be able to notify friends, relatives and customers of the interview on time.

In this way the radio fills hours of its schedule free of charge by having the expenses covered by the respondents who will also make great publicity to the radio station. It is an assembly line: The interviewers pass from one interviewed to the next, without breaks.

After 3 hours of waiting the turn of our interview arrives. We hurry this formality in a few minutes, we are now exhausted and we do not want the video. A few minutes after the end of the interview we are finally out.

We are tired, hungry but also admired for the one who invented this business: surely it is a gold mine.

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