No one has ever asked me to name the most incompetent employee at the Financial Times but, if they ever do, I will be able to answer easily.
The most cretinous oaf by far is a new arrival who has just one job: to take down messages left on our office phones so we can see who has tried to call us without going through the palaver of listening to voicemail.
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