Risking Death to Get a Job
Sheesh. We watched Richard Branson's reality TV show last night. It's called something like 'I Would Die For This Job'. I don't know if you've seen it, but some of the things the punters had to do were just insane.
The first challenge, apart from the taxi drive to get to The Manor, was to walk a 3 inch wide plank connecting two hot-air balloons at 10,000 feet above the ground. If you screwed up by touching the safety rope twice, you had to go back to the first balloon and then climb a rope ladder to the top of it, where you would have fictitious tea with Sir R.
It's entertaining stuff, and the prize offered is a high-powered job in the Virgin empire. I wonder how many of Branson's existing execs could or would do some of the stunts these wannabes are doing?
The first challenge, apart from the taxi drive to get to The Manor, was to walk a 3 inch wide plank connecting two hot-air balloons at 10,000 feet above the ground. If you screwed up by touching the safety rope twice, you had to go back to the first balloon and then climb a rope ladder to the top of it, where you would have fictitious tea with Sir R.
It's entertaining stuff, and the prize offered is a high-powered job in the Virgin empire. I wonder how many of Branson's existing execs could or would do some of the stunts these wannabes are doing?
posted by Keef at
4:01 pm
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