Being given your Mooching orders
Anthony Scaramucci’s dismissal after ten days as Donald Trump’s spokesman prompted many of my listeners to share tales of shorter-lived employment.
None, however, managed to lose a job before starting it, as I did in 2001.
Working at Anglia Television in Norwich, we made a pilot for a chat show, which a head honcho at Channel 5 commissioned on the spot.
After vigorous celebrations, I went to bed dreaming of becoming the next Graham Norton but woke up to a phone call telling me that the commissioner had been fired that morning. Any similarities to Alan Partridge are entirely coincidental.