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[gingerjon]

Where do they get the candidates from?

Mrs Ginger works with someone who has got through to the 'meeting with the producers' stage of the last two series including this one. Apparently he's a nice guy, reasonably modest and has (because he works on a rolling contract rather than one set job) showed himself to be quite adept at a different number of tasks with different levels of responsibility.

I think we can see why the producers rejected him.

[Millman]

Mrs Ginger works with someone who has got through to the 'meeting with the producers' stage of the last two series including this one. Apparently he's a nice guy, reasonably modest and has (because he works on a rolling contract rather than one set job) showed himself to be quite adept at a different number of tasks with different levels of responsibility.

I think we can see why the producers rejected him.

Because he's sleeping with your wife?

Edited by Millman, 08 October 2010 - 06:48 PM.

[Bulletproof]

I love the show, it's the funniest thing on TV at the moment.

"Stuart Baggs the brand" is only on the show because as an odious little runt he makes things entertaining, but he wont win. Few of these people have any redeeming qualities, although I thought the captain of the women's team this week at least understood the concept of team.

I'm just sad Dan went out. Could have had a few weeks of horrible brilliance and then a great firing.

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

I love the show, it's the funniest thing on TV at the moment.

"Stuart Baggs the brand" is only on the show because as an odious little runt he makes things entertaining, but he wont win. Few of these people have any redeeming qualities, although I thought the captain of the women's team this week at least understood the concept of team.

I'm just sad Dan went out. Could have had a few weeks of horrible brilliance and then a great firing.

Agree with all of that.

Always thought it was meant to be amusing.

Give them enough rope etc.

Maybe I'm not looking at it deeply enough.

[Saint Rich]

Last night's was interesting. Chris the obvious star for being organised, getting a job done and managing to getting the egotistical little squits to do what he says. I'd like to see him as a team lead though.

Frankly, I'd have sacked all three of Shibby, Sandeesh and Paloma.
Shibby - disorganised and didn't make decisions.
Paloma - the worst type of marketing geek who doesn't think that the ability to deliver on promises is her problem
Sandeesh - lippy, lazy, miserable wench who I'm sure would be slapped if she were a man. Does she honestly believe that only the project manager needs to work?

Still, it's humorous viewing. But the "definitely nots" are still vastly outweighing the "I'd think about employing them".

[RP London]

Last night's was interesting. Chris the obvious star for being organised, getting a job done and managing to getting the egotistical little squits to do what he says. I'd like to see him as a team lead though.

Frankly, I'd have sacked all three of Shibby, Sandeesh and Paloma.
Shibby - disorganised and didn't make decisions.
Paloma - the worst type of marketing geek who doesn't think that the ability to deliver on promises is her problem
Sandeesh - lippy, lazy, miserable wench who I'm sure would be slapped if she were a man. Does she honestly believe that only the project manager needs to work?

Still, it's humorous viewing. But the "definitely nots" are still vastly outweighing the "I'd think about employing them".

i dont see a single one i would want in a business.. if they spoke over each other the way they do on there in a meeting there would be hell to pay and new jobs to be found, you just dont get on like that in a real business.

[Kenilworth Tiger]

I worked with one of the contestants from (3?) series ago and to say she was absolutely uselss is an understatement.

She's now out of the industry completely

[Futtocks]

The Baking Challenge. The Chef orders 1,000 rolls, and gets just 16.

Chef: "What shall I tell my clients?"
Shibby: "Go on the Atkins diet?"

The fact that the winner out of these charmless incompetents will end up earning some ludicrous amount can't be doing much for the Spiv Baron's brand image.

[John Drake]

The Baking Challenge. The Chef orders 1,000 rolls, and gets just 16.

Chef: "What shall I tell my clients?"
Shibby: "Go on the Atkins diet?"

The fact that the winner out of these charmless incompetents will end up earning some ludicrous amount can't be doing much for the Spiv Baron's brand image.

It's just panto really though, innit. The tasks are designed to be almost impossible, because it they succeeded at them every week, we wouldn't have anything to laugh at, and Lord Sugar (just doesn't sound as good as Sralan, does it) would have no opportunity to air his one-liners at the hapless and hopeless before firing them.

That Shibby bloke is a surgeon in 'real life' so he's obviously got a bit of the old grey matter upstairs (though not enough to tell him not to appear on a show like this), but if I was presented with the challenge of running a bakery, selling and then fulfilling industrial sized orders for bread products within 48 hours despite never having seen the inside of a bakery before, I'm honest enough to admit I'd be as useless at it as he was.

Not that I'd ever put myself forward for such humiliation in the first place, of course, nor will it stop me enjoying the discomfort of those daft souls who do!

The irony of this particular episode was that his rival project manager claimed she did know what she was doing and did understand the industry, but was even worse at it that him, having her ass saved by the military operation one of her colleagues ran in the bakery itself.

That said, some of the things the candidates say and do are truly cringeworthy. Shibby was lucky not to get punched by that chef after delivering the quip about the Atkins diet instead of the 1000 bread rolls he was expecting.

[Tommy The C5t]

Sandeesh should of gone IMO.

[Bob8]

Sandeesh should of gone IMO.

Should have gone.

Sorry to be a fascist.

[Bulletproof]

The winning team should have been given medals for winning last night. Just for working under that truly clueless, hideous Melissa and still coming out winners. She wont last. First time her team loses she is out.

For some good comedy type in casetteboy apprentice into a video site. Hilarious and well done. Even better than his Nick Griffin one.

[Saint Rich]

That said, some of the things the candidates say and do are truly cringeworthy. Shibby was lucky not to get punched by that chef after delivering the quip about the Atkins diet instead of the 1000 bread rolls he was expecting.

Which is ironic, considering the GMC were particularly unhappy about his communication skills.

[Shadow]

After last night's episode and following the jacuzzi moment in the spa I predict ( using Gav's methodology ) that Liz will win

[Amber Avenger]

After last night's episode and following the jacuzzi moment in the spa I predict ( using Gav's methodology ) that Liz will win

Agreed

[Hornetto]

It's just panto really though, innit. The tasks are designed to be almost impossible, because it they succeeded at them every week, we wouldn't have anything to laugh at, and Lord Sugar (just doesn't sound as good as Sralan, does it) would have no opportunity to air his one-liners at the hapless and hopeless before firing them.

That Shibby bloke is a surgeon in 'real life' so he's obviously got a bit of the old grey matter upstairs (though not enough to tell him not to appear on a show like this), but if I was presented with the challenge of running a bakery, selling and then fulfilling industrial sized orders for bread products within 48 hours despite never having seen the inside of a bakery before, I'm honest enough to admit I'd be as useless at it as he was.

Not that I'd ever put myself forward for such humiliation in the first place, of course, nor will it stop me enjoying the discomfort of those daft souls who do!

The irony of this particular episode was that his rival project manager claimed she did know what she was doing and did understand the industry, but was even worse at it that him, having her ass saved by the military operation one of her colleagues ran in the bakery itself.

That said, some of the things the candidates say and do are truly cringeworthy. Shibby was lucky not to get punched by that chef after delivering the quip about the Atkins diet instead of the 1000 bread rolls he was expecting.

In 'real life' if a client phoned and said they wanted 1,000 bread rolls by tomorrow morning, you'd just hit the phones/web, outsource 'em and mark'em up. You might decant them into your own branded bags/boxes when they arrived. it's what Nike do with T-shirts and it works for them.

The time of the team would be better spent upselling the orders ('want plates to go with those?) or looking for potential new customers.

The bottom line (no pun intended) is that the Apprentice isn't about making business decisions: it's about making fun of idiots on TV.

I work in advertising and we love the episodes where they have to have an idea ('it's a book stand') and then pitch it to a potential client. I must do a dozen pitches a year and the skill levels of the people on The Apprentice is far, far lower than our most junior team members. Though - to be fair - having a day to prepare a pitch isn't a great deal of time.

Haven't seen a great deal of this series, I'm following it on here

[Bulletproof]

Bittersweet episode last Wednesday.

I was waiting for that stupid cow to be sacked but now the show will not be quite as fun. That's the thing with the apprentice - with every passing week the idiots get thinned out. Still plenty left though.

[JohnM]

In every episode of every series we see the same thing.

- someone desperate to be a "project manager" who the appears to have absolutely no idea of how to do it despite having a huge body of previous episodes showing exactly how not to do it!

- in the boardroom, bullshitting, excuses, arguing, blame, backstabbing, lying and a total inability to see the themselves and the situation as it really is. yet again, they have all previous episodes of all previous series to learn from.

Still its great entertainment , a perfect repalcement for Kent Walton, Jack Gutteridge, Geoff Condliffe and Shirley Crabtree!

[RP London]

In 'real life' if a client phoned and said they wanted 1,000 bread rolls by tomorrow morning, you'd just hit the phones/web, outsource 'em and mark'em up. You might decant them into your own branded bags/boxes when they arrived. it's what Nike do with T-shirts and it works for them.

The time of the team would be better spent upselling the orders ('want plates to go with those?) or looking for potential new customers.

The bottom line (no pun intended) is that the Apprentice isn't about making business decisions: it's about making fun of idiots on TV.

I work in advertising and we love the episodes where they have to have an idea ('it's a book stand') and then pitch it to a potential client. I must do a dozen pitches a year and the skill levels of the people on The Apprentice is far, far lower than our most junior team members. Though - to be fair - having a day to prepare a pitch isn't a great deal of time.

Haven't seen a great deal of this series, I'm following it on here

being int he food manufacturing industry i agree.. we get ophone calls from similar companies than ours.. if i send you the recipe can you help us out.. (often its a no as we dont havet he spare capacity but there is a lot of helpign each other out generally).. but also that was guaranteed sales, they should have made less to "try" and sell the next day on the street for christs sake.. the initial reaction "no cant be done" was stupid.. how can we make it.. even if the answer was "you 3 come back and help and dont try to sell any more" then that is what they should have done.. he was refusing orders afterwards anyway so that ws production wasted.

[Millman]

I watched this last night. Sad in a way to see Alex go, he was so bloody useless that he made for good TV. Would have preferred that uselss tart that wanted to "pitch" go.