Chris Bates now also offered job with Viglen?
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Despite Stella English winning the Apprentice, it seems that Chris has now been offered a job quietly behind the scenes to work alongside Stella in her new role at Viglen. This hasn't been reporrted elsewhere but presumably this is a reliable source.
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He did hint his door was always open to Chris. I wonder whether his choice was partly down to believing Chris would accept a job offer as runner up while Stella would have said no had she not won.
Yes, he did. At the time I remarked out loud that in effect that meant they *both* had got the job.
Good luck to them!
I think he said something similar to Ruth Badger didn't he, but Ruth chose to set up her own business.
Anyone want to Twitter Sugar and say "what's the point of the Apprentice show if you hire both finalists?"
Love to see him try to answer that.
Also, it was obvious the hardest decision he has ever made on The Apprentice was when choosing between Kate and Yasmina, he emphasised that in every interview and i'm sure he at one point said he wanted to hire both but obviously couldn't.
What he said to Chris on the You're Hired show was what he said to Kate last year, i.e. she has all my contact details and that he would be there for her etc etc..
He'll get bored/frustrated and then just quit
I don't think he'll be hiring Stuart Baggs "The Brand", then
Quickness to bore is usually a sign of superior intelligence which is something that none of the interviewers or panel were in disagreement with when it came to Chris.
All someone like that needs is a challenge.
BTW Is the winners actual salary £100k? In many jobs a "job worth £100k" would have a salary of, perhaps, £70k - as the employers pension costs, NI etc. would bring the package up to the quoted figure.
It's surely no different than Simon Cowell signing up the runner-up on The X Factor. If Sugar thinks someone's worth hiring, then he's entirely entitled to hire them.
yep, lets be honest hearanyone with half of sense would take Chris, he's bright, young and above all else has integrity.
That source appears to be the only one saying it. Hope they aren't getting confused with the pre-final decision working for Sugar period the finalists always do. The article does make a number of other factual and silly errors btw. In fact if you check the source they quote, it says nothing of the sort. :rolleyes:
http://www.microscope.co.uk/news/reseller-news/apprentice-winner-english-to-manage-viglen-managed-services/
Well, if you do twitter/tweet Sugar I doubt you'll get a sensible reply, his tweets read as those from a 12 year old at the moment, sniping at Piers Morgan. In fact anyone would think they could have been written by Stuart Baggs.
On the subject of Stella, I'm a bit disappointed in the role she appears to have been given (according to her interview on BBC Breakfast). I believe the MD of Viglen labelled her an 'admin queen' during the interview process. It would seem that she's been given a PM role but one which focuses on the 'admin' rather than anything creative. If Sugar has also offered Chris a role (and it happens to be in Viglen) I hope he's offered them fairly and not given the sexy creative front office stuff to Chris and the back office dull processing to Stella. That wouldn't be PC in my book.
Can't understand why either of them would want to work there anyway though.