Reply to: The apprentice - who's gonna go?

[sasguru]

Flip it, I'm changing it back. I don’t want to miss this opportunity to point out his grammatical error.

What a dunce... Where did you go to school?... Is English your first language? etc etc...

Shut it cretin

[MrMark]

Zip, I would imagine. As a business man he identifies the opportunity and puts people into the business who know this stuff. I have the impression he would be a difficult guy to work for.

Well, exactly. I can't see any of this apprentice crowd being able to help him much. Unless he's already got the next best thing already lined up (perhaps an emailer telephone?) and needs a saleswoman for the shopping channel.

[gingerjedi]

The Apprentice is one of those programs that make you confirm your initial instinct that "bizness" is an absolutely vile and communists have a point.

Flip it, I'm changing it back. I don’t want to miss this opportunity to point out his grammatical error.

What a dunce... Where did you go to school?... Is English your first language? etc etc...

[Fred Bloggs]

How much do you think Alan Sugar knew about PCs?

Zip, I would imagine. As a business man he identifies the opportunity and puts people into the business who know this stuff. I have the impression he would be a difficult guy to work for.

[The Lone Gunman]

The point about most of these candidates is they seem to be one-trick ponies - often in sales - with very little else. Yes, they'd probably do ok for you selling bracelets on the shopping channel, but I couldn't see them even marketing a ERP or CRM system. They convey an impression of being innumerate and basically lacking in technical skills. Still, they make good television, innit?

AMS started as a barrow boy flogging car ariels. He moved into home stereos and then computers by employing the right people to design products for his company. He got someone to develope a one piece stereo that looked like seperates (which were popular at the time) to knock out to the lower end of the market. Sold lots. Did similar for PCs. Saw a market and found a strategy to supply to it.

It is not about how technical or managerial you are in business.


I still think he is an arse.

[Fred Bloggs]

It was funny when they read out the nasty bint's references.

Can you imagine anyone actually wanting her in their business? I'd think it would be instant death to good employee and customer relationships.

[expat]

The point about most of these candidates is they seem to be one-trick ponies - often in sales - with very little else. Yes, they'd probably do ok for you selling bracelets on the shopping channel, but I couldn't see them even marketing a ERP or CRM system. They convey an impression of being innumerate and basically lacking in technical skills. Still, they make good television, innit?

How much do you think Alan Sugar knew about PCs?

[Drewster]

Was that a bad edit in the end? We saw where they were sitting he raised his left had and the Yaz was hired...

I thought that... but did he use his right hand later on "You've been fired"....

or was that a quck edit cos they knew they had given the game away.... or don't they actually use the real footage all the time... or is there a conspiracy?

As to Debra.... She gets to pick her references (as does everyone) and she managed to pick:
"She is a love or hate girl... but most people chose HATE"
"She is an unmanageble psycho....."
"No body likes her... and she has Zero people skills....."

Good Job!!!

[MrMark]

The point about most of these candidates is they seem to be one-trick ponies - often in sales - with very little else. Yes, they'd probably do ok for you selling bracelets on the shopping channel, but I couldn't see them even marketing a ERP or CRM system. They convey an impression of being innumerate and basically lacking in technical skills. Still, they make good television, innit?

[SizeZero]

I reckon the vampire woman is unemployable myself. I simply can't imagine who'd want her anywhere near their business.

Tough crowd.... am I the only one who liked her? She was the one who called a spade a spade, although she lost it a little last night by not defining her 'unique' point. She got nervous, at least she's human. Good on her trying to rebuild a career and future for her kids after a messy divorce.

My money's on Yasmina too - I think the Stepford Wife with her false smile unnerves him, and Yasmina plays the 'I didnt want to follow the graduate programme path, I wanted to learn from the bottom up' card.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

It was funny when they read out the nasty bint's references.

[Fred Bloggs]

Nice pair on Yasmina, that's what got her in the final, I reckon. I reckon the vampire woman is unemployable myself. I simply can't imagine who'd want her anywhere near their business.

[expat]

Sir Alan made the right choice of finalists. I usually disagree with who he fires but not tonight.

Most of the time he's making television. At the end he's really making a choice of employee.

[Bagpuss]

The Apprentice is one of those programs that make you confirm your initial instinct that "bizness" is an absolutely vile and communists have a point.

Come again Willis?

Edit: You bugger you changed it!

[Bagpuss]

That shot never lines up, quite often he raises his left hand when later the team on the right had lost