blockerdave
ICC Chairman
there's a story about one of Murdoch's high ups coming over to the Times and going round the office asking people what they did, and firing them if the answer was unsatisfactory. he goes in to one room and finds a load of people who when questioned seem to do nothing, so fires them.
one fella comes back from a trip to the bookies to find all his colleagues gone. just shrugs and carries on and last another few years before he's found out.
almost certainly untrue, though i've seen it in a few places (think Bill Bryson, who worked there at the time mentions it in Notes from a Small island, but IIRC as "almost certainly apocryphal). very funny though.
one fella comes back from a trip to the bookies to find all his colleagues gone. just shrugs and carries on and last another few years before he's found out.
almost certainly untrue, though i've seen it in a few places (think Bill Bryson, who worked there at the time mentions it in Notes from a Small island, but IIRC as "almost certainly apocryphal). very funny though.