This happened to a friend of a friend who I occasionally see, and I'll try to keep this short.
This person's wedding reception was somewhat ruined by the DJ. He really turned out to be a poor amateur rather than the professional he had claimed to be. Not only did he have a poor selection of tracks, he kept repeating them. There were some gaps / interruptions, the sound quality was poor and on top of it all, he turned out to be a bit of a sleazebag on the mic and also around the room. It sounds like he was a real disaster, but he himself didn't think so.
The story is that they found him through, of all places, a church. Apparently he was doing the AV work for this church. They took him at his word that he'd DJ'd for a long time and of course had some "faith" in him because of the connection with the church, which in hindsight they realize he had played up to them.
They did a bit of investigating afterwards and discovered the church he volunteered at was not that big and that he was really a second choice only called upon reluctantly when the first choice was not available.
They googled his name and found a fishy Linked In profile where he claimed to be a professional full time DJ for a number of years.
They then discovered that his real full time job had been a minor one in some local govt department. He had left that job a couple of years ago. But he was claiming on Linked In that he had been a full time professional DJ for the entire period in which he had the govt job.
The couple were thinking about suing him for misrepresentation and the ruining of the wedding reception.
My viewpoint was to forget about it. With time they would see the funny side and in the meantime they should really pity this person who probably has mental issues and delusions of being something he isn't.
And they should consider themselves lucky that it was the DJ and not their caterer, or even worse, their photographer, who turned out to be a fake.
This person's wedding reception was somewhat ruined by the DJ. He really turned out to be a poor amateur rather than the professional he had claimed to be. Not only did he have a poor selection of tracks, he kept repeating them. There were some gaps / interruptions, the sound quality was poor and on top of it all, he turned out to be a bit of a sleazebag on the mic and also around the room. It sounds like he was a real disaster, but he himself didn't think so.
The story is that they found him through, of all places, a church. Apparently he was doing the AV work for this church. They took him at his word that he'd DJ'd for a long time and of course had some "faith" in him because of the connection with the church, which in hindsight they realize he had played up to them.
They did a bit of investigating afterwards and discovered the church he volunteered at was not that big and that he was really a second choice only called upon reluctantly when the first choice was not available.
They googled his name and found a fishy Linked In profile where he claimed to be a professional full time DJ for a number of years.
They then discovered that his real full time job had been a minor one in some local govt department. He had left that job a couple of years ago. But he was claiming on Linked In that he had been a full time professional DJ for the entire period in which he had the govt job.
The couple were thinking about suing him for misrepresentation and the ruining of the wedding reception.
My viewpoint was to forget about it. With time they would see the funny side and in the meantime they should really pity this person who probably has mental issues and delusions of being something he isn't.
And they should consider themselves lucky that it was the DJ and not their caterer, or even worse, their photographer, who turned out to be a fake.