Quote Of The Day: Blinded By Ross Macfadyen’s BS

I nearly choked on my coffee when I read this quote on the Sunday Herald website:

Ross?Macfadyen,?station?manager, said: “The whole point of Insight Radio is to stop sidelining people with sight loss.”

The reason I choked on my coffee is this guy done exactly that to me - sidelined me because of my poor eyesight.

Long story short is after several emails and meetings I was told over and over that I’d been penciled in for a daily music show on Insight Radio and I just needed some studio practice.

After much delay I was invited to go into the studio at Insight Radio one evening to see the set up and let Ross?Macfadyen and his collegue Iain Wilson hear me introduce a few songs and read a few blurbs.

The trouble is that my eye condition is pretty bad and I can’t look at anything straight otherwise my eyes rove back and forth uncontrollably. I also hold any reading materials about six inches from my nose to comfortably read.

At the studio reading as I do was impossible because holding the sheets to read clearly and comfortably meant I blocked the mic. How the hell could I read the weather into a mic I was blocking? There wasn’t a word mentioned about the problem with the sheets - for two guys who work with blind and partially sighted people everyday it would have been glaringly obvious.

I didn’t do well but was still told there was a show and training on offer. I left knowing I hadn’t done well and emailed Iain Wilson first thing in the morning to apologise as I felt I’d let both myself and him down. Here’s his reply:

Michael..no probs and no need for apologies. I think you did OK..it’s a lot to take in just in a short space of time and you did well to master the equipment in the first place.
Be in touch next week..

As you have probably guessed by now next week never came but the excuses did.

Re-fitting, no time, a computer virus and a host of other excuses. It took them four months before they finally had the balls to tell me they had given the show to someone else with ‘more experience’, oh really? Just because somebody does something for a long time doesn’t necessarily mean they are good at it.

It was just more of Ross and Iain’s bullshit.

I never wanted paid for any of this work - I was volunteering my time. I didn’t need or want money from them, just the chance to do a job I’d always dreamt of doing. I’d dj’d for 14 years and had been pretty successful at it, the only aspect of it I never done was present a radio show.

The bottom line is Ross?Macfadyen, the station manager of a charity run radio station for the blind blew me out because of issues caused by my eye condition.

And yeah it bugged me, it bugged me big time because the guy to whom they gave the show is horrendous but that’s okay, he’s got experience.

– ANY READERS WHO RUN A BLOG OR SITE CAN DO ME A FAVOUR AND LINK TO THIS POST USING THE TEXT ‘INSIGHT RADIO’ SO THAT MR MACFADYEN’S BOSSES CAN READ HOW MUCH OF A JACKASS HE IS –