'he was pissed off that they had hired someone he hadn't met and instructed the guy who did it to tell me to go. but he didn't,' marot recalled. he was fobbed off for weeks with a 'trickle of excuses' as to why he couldn't start work. frustrated, he eventually just turned up and asked for a telephone. 'about three days later, blackwell summoned me to his office. my living legend was just about to fire me before i'd even started,' marot said.