Love to watch the Apprentice but do any of you get annoyed to see them come into the board room to face Alan Sugar and the men come through the door before some of the women and take the chairs why the girls are left standing . Bad manners i think
Your would have thought that Alan Sugar could afford enough chairs. ;D
I just get frustrated that they seem to make the same mistakes as the people the year before. Where have they been didn't they watch last year.
Absolutely, I comment on it every week to the family. I find it very discourteous, I wonder if any of the women would complain if they had the door held open for them though as they probably see themselves as equal, however as a female I love having the door held open for me to go through first.
I have always enjoyed watching the Apprentice especially Sir Alan, coming from nowt to what he his today, but like all these programmes it seems to be set up, one of the builders from this weeks programme is also a bloody actor who was in a programme called 'Castaway' (whatever that was about), :)
Quote from: Mr Smith on June 11, 2011, 10:43:55
Sir Alan, coming from nowt to what he his today,
to what he is today..........a completely charmless nurk :)
Quote from: Bugloss2009 on June 11, 2011, 12:48:05
Quote from: Mr Smith on June 11, 2011, 10:43:55
Sir Alan, coming from nowt to what he his today,
to what he is today..........a completely charmless nurk :)
If it means being a 'Complete charmless 'Nurk', and having the life style what Sir Alan has these days through hard graf, thent I'm his buddy (I wish),
he just got lucky. Most of his businesses ended up worth less than they should have been He struck a limitless pot of gold when he started supplying PCs to schools and Universities, or a limitless pot of our money, should I say.
Would like to see him take 15 people who have not had higher education and give them a chance to prove themselves
Quote from: RSJK on June 11, 2011, 20:09:16
Would like to see him take 15 people who have not had higher education and give them a chance to prove themselves
Agreed - it would certainly be better for his business anyway.
I also agree with RSJK
Quote from: Bugloss2009 on June 11, 2011, 18:17:06
he just got lucky. Most of his businesses ended up worth less than they should have been He struck a limitless pot of gold when he started supplying PCs to schools and Universities, or a limitless pot of our money, should I say.
I'm with you - cant stand the smug arrogant twonk.
I think you will find that the majority of successful people in business have benn lucky, the right place at the right time, I was lucky when I won 1.5 million on the lottery, :)
A certain amount of business success comes from recognising an opportunity and making the most of it, and some failures come from not having the mental flexibility to spot good luck when it's on the horizon.
Sometimes in The Apprentice, it's people's egos that prevent them recognising where the opportunities are. They are often just too busy looking over their shoulder for approaching knives! ;D
I'm totally hooked on the programme - it's practically a ritual for my OH and me! ;D
Mr Smith!
You are now top of my list and my very bestest new friend! ;D ;D ;D
I personally can't understand the candidates. They are supposed to be well educated individuals and most are supposed to already be managers or part of a successful organisation. ???
To me, a lot of the time they don't seem to have a brain cell between them. Either that or their egos (as spudbash says) are so big they don't have the capacity left to use their brains in a sensible and logical way.
How Can You Say The Sky's The Limit When There Are Footsteps On The Moon?
Good one! ;D
And so very true, should tell those egotistical apprentices, it might bring them down to earth with a bump! :)
I think that's what one of them came out with earlier on in the series. I'm saving it for when I apply for a job as a road sweeper. It'll knock them out ;D
I think Lord Sugar is great, he makes me laugh!
I always watch but think that the prospective apprentices are getting weaker, not so interesting. What do you think?
I watch this because the OH likes it .
I find it rather sad that people think the way to succeed is to "shoulder climb" that is try to get above your rivals by stamping on them.
Like politicians who spend their time telling us how bad the other parties policies are rather than standing on the merits of their own policies.
and how do they live in the same house with someone they've "stabbed in the back" ? ???
Bugloss! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Are you applying for the road sweeper job in order to get all those fallen leaves free for your compost heap? :)
I thought that the reason that his experience of engineers was poor was simple prejudice and hence was totally unacceptable.
I think the audience should choose. I like the Dara Obriain progamme where the audience give their opinion. This week a large majority though the wrong person had been chosen.
I agree with you Digeroo. What an amazingly stupid comment regarding engineers. Believe someone very quickly came back with 'well what about James Dyson?'
I don't particular like Alan Sugar, I do believe that he did work his little socks off to get where he is, but there was a lot of luck and shear brashness in there on the way too.
I'm an engineer and am always looking for a good investment, only last week I sent £5k to the Govenor of the Bank of Nigeria... apparently that money will be used to release a lump sum of £200,000. I'm rich I tells ya.
Quote from: jonny211 on June 17, 2011, 11:34:55
I'm an engineer and am always looking for a good investment, only last week I sent £5k to the Govenor of the Bank of Nigeria... apparently that money will be used to release a lump sum of £200,000. I'm rich I tells ya.
LOL!! ;D ;D
wasn't there an episode of A Very Peculiar Practice when the University Medical Centre was monitoring an STD epidemic on the campus, and nobody from the Engineering Department caught it? ;D
Isn't that just the fun of the programme that (no disrespect intended just observation) Lord Sugar has the freedom to choose, totally according to his personal prejudice? It is not just the engineer. The portly, slightly older female always goes (remember brummie super Ruth Badger?), the forces person always goes, the accountant always goes. Conversely there is a list of characters, equally predictable, who always stay unscathed for a long time and get second and third chances.
It's good television entertainment, nothing else, and he can well afford to spend the dosh.
I love the aftershow programme, but can't actually watch the apprentice, what I am confused about is - if so many of them own a thriving business what are they doing on this show? it's like committing commercial suicide ::)
I agree it is a bit if a charade. Some of the people who come back to the after show programme seem to be totally different. Their hair and clothes are different and they have a different character all together. I think that the first few out are actors selected to be eccentric, to wear eccentric clothes and a really odd pair of specs and some kind of gimmic. There is always one who wears really weird bright coloured clothes. So the ones who get second chances are the genuine candidates and the rest are there to be picked on.
You could have a valid point there Digeroo!
We have to think TV, validity, watchability, bet you are total right re plants to get the show going and then get thrown out before the end.
Also agree with Gadget. If some of those guys are really real it can only be business suicide for them.