A devastating defeat may allow FF to rid itself of shadows of the past

I ONCE had a boss who didn’t believe in departing staff working out their notice.

As soon as he could, once he’d been given a resignation letter or other indication that an employee planned to be gone a month or three months down the line, he handed them their salary for that month or those three months, together with their holiday entitlements plus anything else they were due and gave them instructions about the hand-over of files and computers.

“You won’t need to come back tomorrow or ever,” he would tell them. “And if you’ve sorted everything by lunchtime, you’re welcome to go then.”