Wot? No Apprentice 2013 Thread?
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weltweit
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The "eye candy" comment
Yes, amazing .. what a plonker
weltweit
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I find the general dress sense of the apprentices strange. First the boys don't shave, and they look awful for it, Natalie goes to a farm in high heels, and Kurt wears a shirt without a tie and not even tucked in to sell expensive caravan equipment to punters at an exhibition, he just looked like a scruff.
paulhackett
voiced by strother martin
sleaterkinney
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Jason is f**ked
paulhackett
voiced by strother martin
I'll guess Alex hasn't won if Lord Sugar tweeted this "Alex is single wonder why he had no success on dating web sites. He looks like a tranvestite witch"
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
would he hell. He might just have been able to take her down with him, but he was a gonna for sure. He should have taken Neil back in, backstabbing so blatantly wont have helped him at all.
Which makes it hard to see beyond Alex for the win now (assuming a half sane business plan). The rest are just shit.
In my personal current order of quality:
- Alex has ideas and structure, but a total inability to recognise that he can be fallible. He probably has the most going for him, but he could also very much crash and burn.
- Neil has a great insight into the underlying necessities of a task. It's hard to find too much fault with the guy, except for a surfeit of hubris.
- Jordan is an excellent planner and manager. You can tell he's a professional business developer. He maintains control over a whole process. However, I'm not sure that there is anything particularly insightful or creative to him. If he has the right business idea, he would be a good person to deliver it.
- Miles is good at connecting with people and has a structured approach to problems that seems to work well. He can also get out of his depth, however, when tasks do not play straight to his strengths.
- Louisa is another good planner (quite a few of them this series) who also has good insight. She has a real lack of empathy, however, and this makes her completely fail to understand when others may be on to something that she has missed.
- Leah sometimes impresses me with her logic and pragmatism, but she too often fails to understand the nature of a problem. She also seems to lack empathy.
- Francesca rarely seems to grasp the fundamentals of a problem. She has been a reasonable enough performer but I think she's the weakest remaining candidate.
gosub
~#
Nick gave him a get out of jail free card with "coz I wos there and she was rude, badgering and hectoring"
Should have said- Resigning was only way to get team back on track, other failures insignificant next to not having a website and then blamed that on her badgering and hectoring.
Bringing either of the others back just undermined his good of the team play. However he was fucked coz throwing 250k at his business idea wouldn't be enough to make it viable.
Agree Alex is one to watch
Remus Harbank
Cake and whipped cream…
That house is a version of Hell on Earth, now that Jason’s gone.
Hire them for what, though?
The biggest weakness of the show has always been that there is no one best "businessperson" for all circumstances. Judging who is the best candidate is dependent on a thorough analysis of the role they are going to fill. That was bad enough when he was looking for an employee for a totally unspecified job. It's even worse now they are defining their own jobs.
The biggest weakness of the show has always been that there is no one best "businessperson" for all circumstances. Judging who is the best candidate is dependent on a thorough analysis of the role they are going to fill. That was bad enough when he was looking for an employee for a totally unspecified job. It's even worse now they are defining their own jobs.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
But he should have been able to deal with her hectoring, especially when it was stopping him from completing what needed to be done (all he needed to do was go 'I'm doing this, can you sit quietly in the corner and come up with stuff to put on three pages of our website). But he didnt, so he was fucked.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Actually, i think it might be slightly better now. If you are in a 100k job you are never going to be selling tat directly to tourists or kids on the street, that kind of brash bullshit is of no value. In your own business you are likely to have to be going to do those kinds of direct public sales, you will have to have at least a clue about every aspect of running a business, sales, marketing, project management, staff management, the lot. It's bullshit either way, of course, but its very slightly less bullshit this way, imo.
As for potential winners - none of the ones who basically just do Project Management (miles, jordan, francesca) seem to have any actual skills. They haven't been particularly good sellers or negotiators, no great ideas have come from them (altho jordan did suggest the ostrich meat, iirr), and, miles apart, they dont seem particularly good with other people. So they'll all have to hope for the others to fuck up big-time.
One of them could sneak through if Karren finds Luisa just too unbearable next week, altho that would more likely just let Leah back in imo (they'll have to have at least one woman in the final). It should be Alex and Neil as the other two, but Alex could fuck up if anyone ever lets him be PM, and Neil has just had his card marked with his backstabbing.
