Meet Mike Rinder,
a featured source in Alex Gibney’s video on the Church of Scientology.
A man expelled long ago for malfeasance, criminal activity,
incompetence, lying, laziness and violence.
But if you want to truly know the measure of the man
just ask his former colleagues.
The ten years that I worked with Mike Rinder were
positively ghastly, is about the nicest thing I can say about them.
He didn't make it, you know, like a nice working relationship.
He was not a very nice person to deal with,
so you didn't want to work with him anyway,
and he didn't want to work with you.
Mike Rinder was the least caring person I ever met.
Never interested, never asked me how I was doing,
never anything. It was just a very, very cold person.
His ability to make you feel inadequate,
stupid, incompetent,
in such a way that you've never felt like that before.
He was constantly putting people in a bad spot,
making them look bad, making them feel awful.
I've never met anyone that I would
compare to Mike Rinder for arrogance and cruelty.
The self-importance that he gave himself
made people think that he was something that he was not,
and we were all fooled.
He just kept getting demoted, demoted, because he didn't do anything.
But he would still walk around as if he was somebody,
but it was just an air, and that was just Mike.
He's one of these guys that comes to the party and it's like,
everybody else is doing the work, everybody else is setting it up,
and he's just sitting there, gleaming off of everybody else.
His contribution was in a negative range.
And the fact that so much compassion was extended to him
to try and help him to be motivated and to have a higher work ethic,
and constant and repeated attempts were made and he still did it;
I guess you would just call it unreformable at that point.
He was creating havoc, and he was doing it in such a cunning way
it was unbelievable.
When he was in the Church, he wasn't on any lines that were
the real workings of the Church. He was on, you know,
one narrow part of external affairs and did it very badly,
so mostly was banned from doing it.
After having basically messed up and not done a good job
or shown any competency at any of the projects he'd been assigned,
it was becoming clear that he really couldn't be trusted.
Towards the end of his time in Scientology,
I think he was like the guy they sent out to get the coffee.
It didn't matter how low he went,
he continued to be this outrageously arrogant person.
Pretty much anything he touched went wrong, so we're quite happy that he's gone.
He never contributed and he's not about to, so it's no loss really.
Nobody ever wants to see him again,
they don't want to have anything to do with him.
Good riddance.
That’s Mike Rinder.
Featured source and “poster boy” for Alex Gibney’s documentary.
Prone to laziness, slothful...
- Ineffective... - A liability...
- Cynical... - Very arrogant...
- Dishonest... - He's a bullshit artist...
- He’s a con man... - Definitely a liar...
Completely self-centered...
Very rude, very demeaning...
- Antagonistic... - A complete coward...
Who wants a co-worker like that? No one.
But you won’t hear that from Alex Gibney.
I think we got the story that we wanted.
It’s not the truth. It’s Alex Gibney. On HBO.