Sir Alan clearly prefers Men over Women...
I can think of many occasions where Sir Alan has made the wrong decision.
All of them are where a man should have been fired rather than a woman. I know this is a comment that brings up generalisation and controversy. But it is quite hard to ignore.
Namely, when he gets down to the last two. I am not saying Saira, Ruth, Kristina and Claire were the best candidates out of the 14/16 (even though IMHO Ruth and Kristina certainly were) but out of the final two SA could definitley be seen as having made the terrible decision.
In 3 out of 4 of hese occasions he chose the men. Basically, every single time a man has reached the last two, he has won.
Other occasions, such as Michael staying over Sara, Lohit remaining over Jadine and in the first series Miriam leaving over another man, always srping to mind. I have never seen a man being fired unfairly is what I am trying to say. (Unless it was clearly down to him and another guy)
I think in terms of driving SA's company forward, and getting on with the job, SA has consistenly made the wrong decision. Maybe in a time of "economic crisis" he will decide he needs someone who is not just his biggest fan.
With the past two winners being Lee and Simon, it seems the show is truning into 'Sir Alan Sugar's British Best Friend'. So Paris Hilton, eat your heart out.
All of them are where a man should have been fired rather than a woman. I know this is a comment that brings up generalisation and controversy. But it is quite hard to ignore.
Namely, when he gets down to the last two. I am not saying Saira, Ruth, Kristina and Claire were the best candidates out of the 14/16 (even though IMHO Ruth and Kristina certainly were) but out of the final two SA could definitley be seen as having made the terrible decision.
In 3 out of 4 of hese occasions he chose the men. Basically, every single time a man has reached the last two, he has won.
Other occasions, such as Michael staying over Sara, Lohit remaining over Jadine and in the first series Miriam leaving over another man, always srping to mind. I have never seen a man being fired unfairly is what I am trying to say. (Unless it was clearly down to him and another guy)
I think in terms of driving SA's company forward, and getting on with the job, SA has consistenly made the wrong decision. Maybe in a time of "economic crisis" he will decide he needs someone who is not just his biggest fan.
With the past two winners being Lee and Simon, it seems the show is truning into 'Sir Alan Sugar's British Best Friend'. So Paris Hilton, eat your heart out.
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Margaret never worked directly for SAS, she was a partner at Herbert Smith managing Amstrad's flotation, then laterly a non-exec Director for Amstrad.
As the official site says:
He picks people because of their ability, and no other reason!
but I think he discrimintes more on class than gender. He says he doesn't care about class and it's for the best candidate, but deep down he has a soft spot for the working class London 'grafters' like himself.
He definitely goes for candidates he can 'see a bit of himself' on.
I firmly believe that Michelle wouldn't have won if she didn't have that tragic, poverty stricken childhood.
And I don't think Raef would have got the most undeserved firing in Apprentice history if he didn't dress all flamboyant and talk posh.
And also, I hate the misconception about Michelle's life story winning for her - she mentioned it vaguely once at the end, when asked by Sir Alan. Its not so much posts in this thread, but I always see that and it bugs me. I think Michelle won because she was sort of silent but deadly, and did a good job without being gobby going on and on about it.
So I disagree on most, and on all the finalists.
This is a good point; I completely agree. Michael made many mistakes yet got away with it for a long time because of the similarities Sir Alan thought they shared - and because he was a "young man". I can't see him letting any woman off with so much even if she too shared similar traits with Sir Alan.
How the heck was Kristina evil?!?! :eek: I personally rate Kristina as the best ever candidate!
Ridiculous. Kristina was evil!?!?
LOL
And Lindi Mngaza was as white as a sheet
* The lollypop thing was very very cheeky, but not evil.
* She brought up Katie's personal life, but against Paul and not Katie, because Paul had let it get in the way of business. Kristina had no place in the boardroom that week, Katie did.
* The conspiring with Adam was hardly evil. They knew they had to work with Katie the next week, and keeping her oblivious was obviously the better scenario.
* Kristina didnt allign with Katie to take down Adam, it just benefitted them to work together because they were both very strong candidates. I also wouldnt call Kristina and Adam allies either, and even if they were, there should be no such thing as allies in the Apprentice.
:mad::mad:
As if:p
It showed she knew what they had done was wrong.
Did you miss the scene in which they toasted his downfall? Kristina played Katie there.
If it helps, I wrote "most evil", not "evil". I can't think of another candidate who was worse. (Katie certainly wasn't - she just mouthed off to camera a bit. Her actual actions were honourable, at least in the show.) (Simon was pretty bad, in that he set up Adam and Andy as fall guys in ep1, and Adam himself was quite bad too - he admitted he was happy to sabotage his own team so long as someone else got the blame. But Kristina was the worst.)
I do have to say mind, whilst Paul came up with most of the ideas in the France task, Katie was 100% on board with them, and was vocal about how she supported Paul. I can remember her mouthing off Kristina and how she wasnt on board actually. And I dont think they did wrong whatsoever. She was in danger of being fired because Paul was doing Katie, I personally would call them out for it everytime, just because Katie would have probably been in serious shit if she had been called in that week. Lol, I like how we're debating this like it matters now!
I do think that he prefers men over women, slightly. But he is fair most of the time. He obviously has a chip on his shoulder about the more highly enducated / middle-class candidates though.
Sara getting fired over Michael was my biggest disapointment of that season.
It's true Katie did everything Paul wanted on the task, and for that reason he couldn't very well bring her into the boardroom. It was nothing to do with their relationship; she just didn't give him any difficulty on the task. Where-as Kristina he apparently found to be a thorn in his side.