The Apprentice.

LuttiS

I can only assume people are buying them because it's "the apprentice" and it's for shits and giggles...

Shrews

I've watched The Apprentice right from series one and it's good fun watching big ego's playing up to the TV as wannabe stars.  There is talent amongst them, plus there are some naive types who think they're going to be the next billionaire just because they've got a shop that's doing quite well. Realistically there are probably only a few of them that have a business plan that interests Alan Sugar.

From series one, I don't think he's found the one yet who's done anything extraordinary, perhaps the nearest being the chap who invented male grooming products. 

I have worked for so many bosses who are just like the TV version of Alan Sugar!  But I doubt he's like that in real life, maybe in the past, but in the corporate world of 2018 he would spend most of his working life either in tribunals or defending himself in court!

LuttiS

What annoys me is Karens bitching sessions - When she had a rant about the guy getting input from his team before making a decision..

She has a bitch about someone most episodes, usually for doing what in a normal work environment would be a normal thing to do...

jpttaylor

LuttiS said:

What annoys me is Karens bitching sessions - When she had a rant about the guy getting input from his team before making a decision..

She has a bitch about someone most episodes, usually for doing what in a normal work environment would be a normal thing to do...

Considering her day job is running West Ham United, she has little/no experience of what a normal work environment is. She talks such a big game about improving the status of the club, but delivers so little. The finances are in order, yet two and a half years after promising something as basic as WiFI at the London Stadium, it still isn't in place.

Emp_Fab

Time for this I feel!

Iamnobody

jpttaylor said:

LuttiS said:

What annoys me is Karens bitching sessions - When she had a rant about the guy getting input from his team before making a decision..

She has a bitch about someone most episodes, usually for doing what in a normal work environment would be a normal thing to do...

Considering her day job is running West Ham United, she has little/no experience of what a normal work environment is. She talks such a big game about improving the status of the club, but delivers so little. The finances are in order, yet two and a half years after promising something as basic as WiFI at the London Stadium, it still isn't in place.

If she brings all the knowledge and experience she has from her time at BCFC she’ll be spending most her time in the players’ dressing room.*

*allegedly

Snap

Just what is going on with Lord Sugar's eyelids? Remember when Sean Connery was (oh so convincingly) made up to look Japanese in You Only Live Twice? Well, he looks like that, but with red eyeshadow on too. Some Harley street joker has had a do at him I reckon.

And, Karen Brady's makeup - she looks scaryily colourful.

So far, the show has been pretty poor, no overly stupid people have appeared yet.

hywelg

Is shit. 

57Deluxe

lonestar said:

I think they should pull the plug on the format tbh. I stopped watching it a few years back and even at that I’d only watch the challenge then put it off. 

...an interesting article in press recently  stated that it needs a significant makeover in format. Specifically that thy only get to live on the profit that they generate for that week... No profit = no food etc.

Also  for me - Whoop-whooping a measly win of ~£60 should get them the sack instantly too!

LuttiS

Thing is that's £60 between 6 people... That's working two days flat out for a tenner.. 

That's a total fail in my book.

Handsome_Chris

 Well it has been said that a very few businesses make a profit in their first year.  If that's the case £60 in one week is a win.  It just makes you wonder if they continued in that manner just how much skrilla they could make!  

Iamnobody

LuttiS said:

Thing is that's £60 between 6 people... That's working two days flat out for a tenner.. 

That's a total fail in my book.

Yes the ‘tasks’ they set seem so far removed from the world of real business it’s laughable.

It’s school level stuff...

I made more money in GCSE business studies 25 years ago when I sold popcorn and fizzy drinks to the rest of the school!

Of course they’d fail miserably and it would make shit TV if they had to run around looking for a piece of land to be developed or had to actually make a business decision with real financial consequences.

I’ve never seen a full episode but I’d file it with every other piece of ‘reality’ TV that I’ve never been arsed to watch.