Reply to: Syed from the Apprentice is IT Agent

[chef]

Syed .... your fired

Syed... yuff ired

the game is up, where is IT Agent nowadays????

[DimPrawn]

Sounds like he should get a job at the IR.

[expat]

The term for people like him is Activator. He gets out and makes things happen.

I would have said Parasite. He gets out and comes between those who do and create things (Engineers) and those who make things happen with that work (Businessmen), and makes his living by siphoning off some of the wealth created by others.

[mcquiggd]

The country is full of people like Syed... that is why TV has actually resorted to making programs such as The Apprentice and its siblings. And why Alan Sugar actually makes money.... stupidty and lies are one natural resource that is being nurtured in this country.

[cojak]

Alan Sugar doesn't give a toss about lying to the public ('cos that's how the money's made). What he does give a toss about is lying to Alan Sugar ('cos that's how the money's lost).

That's why he won't hire hire Syed - he can't trust him in words or actions.

[sasguru]

Being an Activator does not prevent anyone from being other things as well.

For example, Tony Blair is a c*** but also an, um, ... actually, he's just a c***.

Tony Blair is a c*** with poor judgement, but he's one of the best communicators I've seen and he CAN drive things, misguided as they are.
He's basically driven rings round the Tories - hopefully till now.
That's what makes him dangerous.

[wendigo100]

No the term for people like him is backstabbing twat.

Being an Activator does not prevent anyone from being other things as well.

For example, Tony Blair is a c*** but also an, um, ... actually, he's just a c***.

[Bagpuss]

The term for people like him is Activator. He gets out and makes things happen. The whole world would be a duller and less developed place if everyone were Technical Tims and no Activators.

No the term for people like him is backstabbing twat.

[sasguru]

Yes, some of you techies need to be a bit more like Sugar/Syed.

I'll get me coat

[wendigo100]

Sugar called Doon a "Technical Tim" a couple of weeks ago, which made me titter.

Thing is, although he would never hire him, Sugar secretly admires people like Syed and, after all, without him the show would be a duller affair.

The term for people like him is Activator. He gets out and makes things happen. The whole world would be a duller and less developed place if everyone were Technical Tims and no Activators.

[xodia]

It transpires he is the same oily sh1t who used to work at Computer Personnel.

Strangly enough I thought he sounded like a IT agent

[The Master]

Sugar called Doon a "Technical Tim" a couple of weeks ago, which made me titter.

Thing is, although he would never hire him, Sugar secretly admires people like Syed and, after all, without him the show would be a duller affair.

[wendigo100]

"Doon, what is it exactly that you do?"

"I plan, Sir Alan. I plan and plan and plan and plan. I refuse to do that nasty selling thing like Syed over there."

[NoddY]

And what does that tell us about Sir Alan?

We've got him sussed around here already:

http://forums.contractoruk.com/thread6283.html

[expat]

A fruit & veg seller, I thought at the time.....He is right at the bottom of the very deep barrel that is IT Recruitment.
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Syed was a complete tosser with absolutely no team skills whatsoever
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Syed is a bulltulipter that should have stuck to being a waiter in the East End. Or at his current job as a recruitment agent.
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syed ... he's a lying git

I enjoy Syed's weasily excuses, his self-promotion, his upsetting the applecart. He won't win because he makes too many mistakes, but I know Alan Sugar likes him.

And what does that tell us about Sir Alan?