Don't ban it. I want to see them DESTROYED.
Ban The Apprentice
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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.
Originally Posted by The Mentalist:
“Are you for real?”
“Are you for real?”
Of course they are. The following shows will probably be re-titled:
[LIST][*]Coronation Street, in case the Queen gets worried it's a heavy hint to shift.[/LIST][LIST][*]Top Gear, as drug addicts & dealers might think it's their own personal marketplace.[/LIST][LIST][*]Only Fools And Horses, in case Princess Anne & Zara think someone's having a pop at them.[/LIST][LIST][*]8 Out of 10 Cats, as cats are very sensitive & the other two cats might get upset at being left ignored.[/LIST][LIST][*]Come Dine With Me, out of fear that people think it's an open invite to turn up at the home of whoever's on it.[/LIST]
I wouldn't be surprised if there are others on the hit list. We are living in dangerously sensitive times.
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!
Besides it's a great show and most of the contestants are such numpties!
It's lost appeal with me. I don't give a stuff which one of them gets the job, they're all thoroughly arrogant and nasty people anway.
Originally Posted by Sid_1979:
“Ban The Apprentice?
Over my dead body.
It's one of my favourite shows on telly.
Get a thicker skin
”
“Ban The Apprentice?
Over my dead body.
It's one of my favourite shows on telly.
Get a thicker skin
”
i agree
It's funny how a lot of the viewers of it (well ones I speak to) convince themselves the show is about something.
It's basically Big Brother for MBAs. Which is basically two vapid things combined into one.
It's basically Big Brother for MBAs. Which is basically two vapid things combined into one.
Originally Posted by X-Digit-Xx:
“And you didn't even have the guts to post this in the apprentice forum.”
“And you didn't even have the guts to post this in the apprentice forum.”
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.
Originally Posted by X-Digit-Xx:
“And you didn't even have the guts to post this in the apprentice forum.”
“And you didn't even have the guts to post this in the apprentice forum.”
I might know the words to Candle in the Wind but it doesn't make me Elton John
Originally Posted by Vennegoor:
“It's funny how a lot of the viewers of it (well ones I speak to) convince themselves the show is about something.
It's basically Big Brother for MBAs. Which is basically two vapid things combined into one.”
“It's funny how a lot of the viewers of it (well ones I speak to) convince themselves the show is about something.
It's basically Big Brother for MBAs. Which is basically two vapid things combined into one.”
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.
Originally Posted by Burning Balls:
“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.”
“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.
Originally Posted by Vennegoor:
“Marketing and leadership are two of the the worst neoliberal myths out there.”
“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?
Originally Posted by Burning Balls:
“LOL.
I'm assuming that you're joking... but what's wrong with leadership?”
“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.
I watched it once but the people on it are the types I spend my life trying to avoid so wasn't keen to see it again.
Originally Posted by Vennegoor:
“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.
This programme provides a very important service 'Care in the Community'
I'll be impressed when the winner finds out that the apprentice job is repackaging all the video phone returns in the Amstrad warehouse.
I'll be impressed when the winner finds out that the apprentice job is repackaging all the video phone returns in the Amstrad warehouse.
Originally Posted by vinba:
“This programme provides a very important service 'Care in the Community'
I'll be impressed when the winner finds out that the apprentice job is repackaging all the video phone returns in the Amstrad warehouse.”
“This programme provides a very important service 'Care in the Community'
I'll be impressed when the winner finds out that the apprentice job is repackaging all the video phone returns in the Amstrad warehouse.”
Roger Mellie's various pastiches of the show in Viz were spot-on.
Pick the blonde.
Originally Posted by takeshi:
“I'd do that for £100k a year tbh.”
“I'd do that for £100k a year tbh.”
...and tongue wash Sir Alan's car (and no, that not an euphemism!)
Originally Posted by petertard:
“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.”
“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.”
You read The Daily Mail, don't you?
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.
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.
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