Friday, December 9, 2022

The Apprentice


In the Captain Kirk lookalike section of. the test-pilot screening program we had to let Monty go, on one of the hardest days of my life. When I pointed out he was overweight and that Kirk lacked prosthetics regardless of diversity policies, he photo-bombed our latest PR shoot. I told him that all the tech companies were struggling at the moment, but he didn't take it at all well.

Monty worked his way up from the window at Mothercare to attend the Empire Test-Pilot School before joining us at Teledrone and training at the Baikonaur cosmodrome. As CEO I thanked him for all he'd done for us, and presented him with his belongings in a black bin-liner.