WEBVTT 00:11.130 --> 00:12.570 Meet Mike Rinder, 00:12.670 --> 00:17.400 a featured source in Alex Gibney’s video on the Church of Scientology. 00:17.500 --> 00:21.470 A man expelled long ago for malfeasance, criminal activity, 00:21.570 --> 00:25.730 incompetence, lying, laziness and violence. 00:25.830 --> 00:29.070 But if you want to truly know the measure of the man 00:29.170 --> 00:31.830 just ask his former colleagues. 00:32.430 --> 00:35.400 The ten years that I worked with Mike Rinder were 00:35.500 --> 00:39.500 positively ghastly, is about the nicest thing I can say about them. 00:39.600 --> 00:43.130 He didn't make it, you know, like a nice working relationship. 00:43.300 --> 00:45.930 He was not a very nice person to deal with, 00:46.030 --> 00:48.030 so you didn't want to work with him anyway, 00:48.130 --> 00:49.370 and he didn't want to work with you. 00:49.470 --> 00:52.170 Mike Rinder was the least caring person I ever met. 00:52.270 --> 00:54.430 Never interested, never asked me how I was doing, 00:54.530 --> 00:58.430 never anything. It was just a very, very cold person. 00:58.530 --> 01:03.270 His ability to make you feel inadequate, 01:03.370 --> 01:05.870 stupid, incompetent, 01:05.970 --> 01:08.630 in such a way that you've never felt like that before. 01:08.730 --> 01:11.000 He was constantly putting people in a bad spot, 01:11.100 --> 01:14.600 making them look bad, making them feel awful. 01:14.700 --> 01:17.430 I've never met anyone that I would 01:17.530 --> 01:21.700 compare to Mike Rinder for arrogance and cruelty. 01:21.800 --> 01:25.030 The self-importance that he gave himself 01:25.130 --> 01:28.400 made people think that he was something that he was not, 01:28.500 --> 01:30.570 and we were all fooled. 01:30.670 --> 01:34.270 He just kept getting demoted, demoted, because he didn't do anything. 01:34.370 --> 01:38.300 But he would still walk around as if he was somebody, 01:38.400 --> 01:41.170 but it was just an air, and that was just Mike. 01:41.270 --> 01:44.670 He's one of these guys that comes to the party and it's like, 01:44.770 --> 01:47.700 everybody else is doing the work, everybody else is setting it up, 01:47.800 --> 01:51.370 and he's just sitting there, gleaming off of everybody else. 01:51.570 --> 01:54.600 His contribution was in a negative range. 01:54.700 --> 01:57.600 And the fact that so much compassion was extended to him 01:57.700 --> 02:02.370 to try and help him to be motivated and to have a higher work ethic, 02:02.470 --> 02:05.800 and constant and repeated attempts were made and he still did it; 02:05.900 --> 02:08.530 I guess you would just call it unreformable at that point. 02:08.630 --> 02:11.800 He was creating havoc, and he was doing it in such a cunning way 02:11.900 --> 02:12.930 it was unbelievable. 02:13.030 --> 02:17.970 When he was in the Church, he wasn't on any lines that were 02:18.070 --> 02:21.000 the real workings of the Church. He was on, you know, 02:21.100 --> 02:24.270 one narrow part of external affairs and did it very badly, 02:24.370 --> 02:26.270 so mostly was banned from doing it. 02:26.370 --> 02:31.670 After having basically messed up and not done a good job 02:31.770 --> 02:35.900 or shown any competency at any of the projects he'd been assigned, 02:36.000 --> 02:39.970 it was becoming clear that he really couldn't be trusted. 02:40.070 --> 02:42.200 Towards the end of his time in Scientology, 02:42.300 --> 02:45.470 I think he was like the guy they sent out to get the coffee. 02:45.570 --> 02:47.870 It didn't matter how low he went, 02:47.970 --> 02:51.130 he continued to be this outrageously arrogant person. 02:51.230 --> 02:55.230 Pretty much anything he touched went wrong, so we're quite happy that he's gone. 02:55.330 --> 02:59.530 He never contributed and he's not about to, so it's no loss really. 02:59.630 --> 03:01.370 Nobody ever wants to see him again, 03:01.470 --> 03:03.570 they don't want to have anything to do with him. 03:03.670 --> 03:05.470 Good riddance. 03:06.600 --> 03:08.300 That’s Mike Rinder. 03:08.400 --> 03:12.870 Featured source and “poster boy” for Alex Gibney’s documentary. 03:12.970 --> 03:15.200 Prone to laziness, slothful... 03:15.300 --> 03:16.530 - Ineffective... - A liability... 03:16.630 --> 03:17.630 - Cynical... - Very arrogant... 03:17.730 --> 03:19.200 - Dishonest... - He's a bullshit artist... 03:19.300 --> 03:21.000 - He’s a con man... - Definitely a liar... 03:21.100 --> 03:22.630 Completely self-centered... 03:22.730 --> 03:24.100 Very rude, very demeaning... 03:24.200 --> 03:26.330 - Antagonistic... - A complete coward... 03:26.430 --> 03:29.430 Who wants a co-worker like that? No one. 03:29.530 --> 03:32.430 But you won’t hear that from Alex Gibney. 03:32.530 --> 03:34.870 I think we got the story that we wanted. 03:34.970 --> 03:40.370 It’s not the truth. It’s Alex Gibney. On HBO.