Sometimes, when something bad happens, they take something off the tv because it might upset people, like PTSD, where something might trigger a memory of an event, and cause distress. And nowadays, so many people are actually being fired. It does not have to be a close version of what happens in reality - it only has to have the association, for it to be bad.
TBH most people are hearing the words 'you're being laid off or made redundant'. You're fired is very rarely used in the real world - anyone who is facing the sack generally goes through disciplinary procedures and the chair of these does not reach over and point their fingers at the soon to be former employee in a antagonistic fashion. Not in the world of public sector anyway!
Besides it's a great show and most of the contestants are such numpties!
I'm assuming that you're joking... but what's wrong with leadership?
In the context of business/mangement-speak it is the antithesis of what it should be. It's about creating a homogenised manager who attends the right courses, says the right things, and knows which stats to collect.
Leadership is what Napoloen did, not what Alan Sugar does.
In the context of business/mangement-speak it is the antithesis of what it should be. It's about creating a homogenised manager who attends the right courses, says the right things, and knows which stats to collect.
Leadership is what Napoloen did, not what Alan Sugar does.
Well sure, there are a lot of bad managers out there.
However there are some truly great ones as well.
I read a great article called "Level 5 Leadership" (Collins, 2001) which was a real eye-opener.
It's so insensitive and is bound to upset so many people nowadays when Sir Alan Sugar says, "You're fired", when a lot of people are really being sacked in the recession - so it should be banned out of sensitivity.
OP, I find this thread, insulting to my intelligence, boring, and a joke. You've posted a topic with no evidence to back up your claim, no decent source material and made yourself look really silly.
It's on this basis I'm happy to say: "You're Fired!"
PS normally people are laid off or made redundant in a Recession, not sacked.
I think they should ban live football from the telly because I'm currently injured and can't play not to mention the hundreds of people whose careers have been cut short through injury. How insensitive!
Anyway-the credit crunch would make people REDUNDANT not FIRED.
And Suralan doesn't say "You're redundant". So I don't see any kind of a problem at all.
Mind you- he can't really fire them either-as they are not yet employed by him...
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I wouldn't be surprised if there are others on the hit list. We are living in dangerously sensitive times.
Besides it's a great show and most of the contestants are such numpties!
i agree
It's basically Big Brother for MBAs. Which is basically two vapid things combined into one.
Yes, not showing enough of the chutzpah that'd get a job with Sir Alan.
I should go on it actually and ask him where my essays from uni are that I trusted his shitty word processor to keep safe for me.
I might know the words to Candle in the Wind but it doesn't make me Elton John
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There is no comparison at all.
The Apprentice uses a lot of skills that have an important place in the real world.
Leadership, accounting (costing mostly), product/service marketing, etc.
Marketing and leadership are two of the the worst neoliberal myths out there.
LOL.
I'm assuming that you're joking... but what's wrong with leadership?
In the context of business/mangement-speak it is the antithesis of what it should be. It's about creating a homogenised manager who attends the right courses, says the right things, and knows which stats to collect.
Leadership is what Napoloen did, not what Alan Sugar does.
amstrad .
Well sure, there are a lot of bad managers out there.
However there are some truly great ones as well.
I read a great article called "Level 5 Leadership" (Collins, 2001) which was a real eye-opener.
Roger Mellie's various pastiches of the show in Viz were spot-on.
Pick the blonde.
You read The Daily Mail, don't you?
It's on this basis I'm happy to say: "You're Fired!"
PS normally people are laid off or made redundant in a Recession, not sacked.
And Suralan doesn't say "You're redundant". So I don't see any kind of a problem at all.
Mind you- he can't really fire them either-as they are not yet employed by him...
Maybe "You're crap- bog off" would be better.