Order of business: some guy called Peter White asked if he could join us. I said: "Do you have ME?"
He said "Oh, definitely. I have a very stressful job and for the last 6 months I've felt tired, really tired."
I said "Buster, that's not ME. You're just in the wrong job and need to do something more suitable."
We went through his skill set and the captain said he could use a man like that to work the bilge pumps so we've taken him on as a cabin boy...Obviously, any Club member can fire staff on the spot, even if we're in the middle of the ocean at the time, in which case they'll have to walk the plank into shark-infested waters and they'll just have to take their chances (the sharks, that is).