srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Nor would I. Equally, if I were an investor I wouldn't employ him.
The Apprentice
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Piemaster
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He must make a few £ from the TV series as well.
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My wife "Apprentice is on tonight"
She then starts to tum-te-tum the theme tune, which after a few seconds somehow morphs into the theme from The Archers
She then starts to tum-te-tum the theme tune, which after a few seconds somehow morphs into the theme from The Archers
AndyRM
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They didn't come across quite as mind numbingly stupid last night (other than Kurran) after last weeks doughnut car crash and the comic book episode previous.
That said, their sales efforts were pathetic. Those sales pitches can't come cheap and the guy with the gym equipment would be particularly unimpressed.
That said, their sales efforts were pathetic. Those sales pitches can't come cheap and the guy with the gym equipment would be particularly unimpressed.
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I think the series has suffered in its one-part format. Much better when it was two - it feels like everything is been skated over and there's no depth to each task.
Not much evidence of the promised shaking up of the weekly tasks - apart from a visit to Malta.
LS, Claud & Karen could usefully do with throttling back on the hammy acting and corny one-liners too.
I'll still be watching it until the end though as, unlike some, I have a lot of time for the candidates as it's by no means easy to undertake these tasks under the spotlight. The candidates all come across as bright to very bright, have a fair bit of get up and go and seem to have realised, at a fairly early age, that if you don't get off your butt and plan for your future then (in general) good fortune does not tend to head over in your direction.
Not much evidence of the promised shaking up of the weekly tasks - apart from a visit to Malta.
LS, Claud & Karen could usefully do with throttling back on the hammy acting and corny one-liners too.
I'll still be watching it until the end though as, unlike some, I have a lot of time for the candidates as it's by no means easy to undertake these tasks under the spotlight. The candidates all come across as bright to very bright, have a fair bit of get up and go and seem to have realised, at a fairly early age, that if you don't get off your butt and plan for your future then (in general) good fortune does not tend to head over in your direction.
Racing roadkill
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It’s about as challenging as eating jelly. Lord srallen has done the hard bits for them, they still don’t seem capable of tying their own shoelaces. Fundamental business principles seem to evade most of them. It’s a laugh, but a bit sad to think this bunch of muppets are “the brightest entrepreneurs in the country”. So far they’ve all seemed to have managed to miss the key points to all the tasks. It’s mostly just a T.V. entertainment show though, so there would be little point in it, if they actually weren’t total tosh.
AndyRM
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If it's that easy how come you didn't get past the top 20 stage?
Joey Shabadoo
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It is too heavily sales based and worse, it's only one type of sale. I've been doing sales for about 15 years now, more when you consider my wife and I selling stuff we'd made at craft fairs. Nobody trained me and I had to learn as I went along. In the early days I said some gob-stoppingly stupid things when my mouth was moving faster than my brain during a sales pitch that was going wrong. Those would be picked up on like a shot by tv cameras and it has to be remembered some of these candidates have zero life experience and no sales background. I guarantee if we took 12 CCers at random and threw them into a sales pitch with little time to prepare there would be some hilariously awkward moments.
Worth remembering this show has been going for 13 years now and some of those contestants were in Primary school when it started. They've grown up with it and should be savvy about the tasks. Noticeable that one of the girls recognised how important it was to impress the vendors and absolutely dripped with fake sincerity and enthusiasm when meeting them. Another girl had picked up on the importance of price and discounting but fixated upon it.
Worth remembering this show has been going for 13 years now and some of those contestants were in Primary school when it started. They've grown up with it and should be savvy about the tasks. Noticeable that one of the girls recognised how important it was to impress the vendors and absolutely dripped with fake sincerity and enthusiasm when meeting them. Another girl had picked up on the importance of price and discounting but fixated upon it.
Pale Rider
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I thought the same about him, but he redeemed himself a little by making a quip about Lord Sugar returning to the house to sack him.
He could still be stupid, or just laid back, reminiscent of Dylan on the Magic Roundabout.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Thought his line about not being able to speak and move at the same time when filming the AR comic cover was hilarious
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Yes, that was another one.
There may be a David Beckham element - a sharp cookie who plays dumb to disarm the opposition.
Racing roadkill
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Because I’m not thick, and I don’t have big tits.
Racing roadkill
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They seem to have dumbed the challenges down this year ( if that’s possible ). Forex, the food / manufacturing task used to have an element of business strategy involved, i.e. were they going for cheaper ingredients and relying on volume sales / stack it high, sell it cheap ( the busy fool ) or premium product, with more expensive ingredients, and use their undoubted targeted marketing and sales nous, to get less volume, but higher value sales. This year they all got the same gig, and still screwed it up. It’s not like they had to source most of the ingredients, or arrange the commissary kitchen either. Any sales pitches are set up for them, so they don’t need to be able to knock doors there either. They get primo sites to sell from gifted to them too. You or I couldn’t ‘just pitch up’ and start selling goods in some of the places they’ve been able to. Anyone who can’t sell gym equipment to gym bunnies, at a big gym expo, in a world renowned conference centre needs to take a long hard look at themselves as well.
Slow But Determined
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What I need answering is why does every fired candidate wear a scarf when they get in the taxi?
