DS Forums

 
 

So, how do you think you'd fare on the Apprentice?


Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 14-11-2010, 01:52
parthy
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 5,010

I'd hate pitching rubbish products I don't believe in, I'd feel bad trying to hawk rubbish products for people's hard earned cash, I'm not particularly good at sticking up for myself even when I'm right, I don't have a business head and I hate talking myself up.

I'd be crap!

You?
parthy is offline   Reply With Quote
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 14-11-2010, 02:00
apprenticeguru
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 326
Probably as good as Noorul was.
apprenticeguru is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 14-11-2010, 02:10
parthy
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 5,010
Refresh my memory!
parthy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 14-11-2010, 02:32
apprenticeguru
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 326
Refresh my memory!
Basically doing little worth the edit, crap leader, novice in business, getting verbally drilled into by Nick every time I'm in the boardroom, etc.

P.S. OK, I know, I slag off the candidates on this forum when I know I'd be crap if I was on TA, but c'mon! I'm only human.
apprenticeguru is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 14-11-2010, 03:15
ea91
Forum Member
 
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 2,275
I reckon I'd be so focused on making a good product I'd lose the team the task by making some horrible miscalculation like the sandalwood oil fiasco.
ea91 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 14-11-2010, 17:24
Alan Smithee
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 251
I'd hate pitching rubbish products I don't believe in, I'd feel bad trying to hawk rubbish products for people's hard earned cash, I'm not particularly good at sticking up for myself even when I'm right, I don't have a business head and I hate talking myself up.

I'd be crap!

You?
I don't have a business head either. Yet I find myself watching these contestants who supposedly do have good business brains making to most awful decisions and being so generally incompetent that I can't help but think to myself "I could scarcely be any worse."
I bet I'm not the only one to think that way.
Alan Smithee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 14-11-2010, 17:50
LuverlyAJ
Inactive Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 624
I would win, I'm brilliant, hardworking, good emotional intelligence, strong willed and principled... but of course I would not get on the show in the first place with all those 'drawbacks'
LuverlyAJ is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 14-11-2010, 17:53
rwebster
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 1,231
I would win, I'm brilliant, hardworking, good emotional intelligence, strong willed and principled... but of course I would not get on the show in the first place with all those 'drawbacks'
Really? I think with that level of extreme overconfidence you'd be a shoo-in.
rwebster is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 14-11-2010, 23:57
Captain Stable
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 2,099
Even though I was in the retail trade for over 20 years, I can't sell something that I don't know.
If that makes sense....

The things i was selling, I knew the ins and outs of, because you need to know about a product to sell it.
I can never do the "here, sell me this item I've randomly handed to you" type thing (I seem to remember one of the interviewers getting one of the apprentices (Possibly Badger?) to sell them their stapler.).
Captain Stable is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-11-2010, 09:08
Metal Mickey
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,479
I'd be really good on the tasks, but quiet and keeping to myself, and I'd be really appalling in the boardroom, so would probably be fired the first week my team lost...

I often resent the programme when it seems to value confident, mouthy underperformers over good steady workers... entirely unlike real-life of course
Metal Mickey is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-11-2010, 14:14
notary
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 197
I seem also to remember one selling their wristwatch. Anselm perhaps. He did a good job. I would have been induced to buy!
notary is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-11-2010, 14:19
apprenticeguru
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 326
I seem also to remember one selling their wristwatch. Anselm perhaps. He did a good job. I would have been induced to buy!
Yeah, Ansell did a hypothetical sell of a watch in the interviews to the now ex-interviewer Paul Kemsley. That was PK's own watch - but Ansell did a good job all the same. PK wasn't impressed with him though.
apprenticeguru is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-11-2010, 14:46
Reggie Rebel
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 629
I'd fundamentally give it 150% on the show. I wouldn't bother if the other candidates liked me or not because they'd have to respect my business skills.

On the off chance that I was called into the boardroom I'd fight my corner and the PM better have a good reason for bringing me in because I know that i would have contributed to the task and LudAl shouldn't fire me.

It will be an emotional journey.............hang on that's when I win X-Factor
Reggie Rebel is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-11-2010, 15:11
meglosmurmurs
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Titan Uranus
Posts: 31,966
I think I'd be good on the creative side, coming up with ideas and maybe selling (talking b*llocks is a gift of mine) Apart from that though, the business statistics, margins and various other facts and figures would probably go completely to pot if I was in control of them.

I'd probably make a Sandalwood/Cedarwood mistake, spending too much time concentrating on making the product and not thinking logically with a business mind.

I'd love a good argument in the boardroom though, but I don't know if I could handle the continuous stress of the contest. I'd probably start losing my marbles by about week 6 or 7. If I lasted that long.
If I reached the interviews I'd probably be ripped apart by them.
meglosmurmurs is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 15-11-2010, 16:51
Damanda
Inactive Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 33,270
I think I'd be good on the creative side, coming up with ideas and maybe selling (talking b*llocks is a gift of mine) Apart from that though, the business statistics, margins and various other facts and figures would probably go completely to pot if I was in control of them.

I'd probably make a Sandalwood/Cedarwood mistake, spending too much time concentrating on making the product and not thinking logically with a business mind.

I'd love a good argument in the boardroom though, but I don't know if I could handle the continuous stress of the contest. I'd probably start losing my marbles by about week 6 or 7. If I lasted that long.
If I reached the interviews I'd probably be ripped apart by them.
I'd be fab.. I'd throw you under the bus in the boardroom
Damanda is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-11-2010, 17:32
meglosmurmurs
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Titan Uranus
Posts: 31,966
I'd be fab.. I'd throw you under the bus in the boardroom
Grrr!
You would have to be ready for a fight though. If all else failed I'd lure you into going all 'Paloma' on me and you'd get fired instead.
meglosmurmurs is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 15-11-2010, 17:32
edEx
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Londres, Tierra del Fuego
Posts: 12,952
Couldn't be arsed. I wear jeans to work
edEx is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-11-2010, 17:43
Damanda
Inactive Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 33,270
Grrr!
You would have to be ready for a fight though. If all else failed I'd lure you into going all 'Paloma' on me and you'd get fired instead.


And I'd go all Manda and throw a hissy

But I'd still get fired then 'cos that battle axe Karen would complain about me being unladylike in business.
I want margaret back
Damanda is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-11-2010, 20:52
Nugget
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 672
those early starts would kill me - so for that reason I'm out ... err have i got the right programme?!
Nugget is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 16-11-2010, 20:45
queen of herts
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 53
Trying to stay focused on the job would kill me with the early starts and late finishes, and as I am pretty thin-skinned, I'd get all emotional and tearful around task two. I also have a lousy business head so that may count against me, but even I would be able to work out the price of a bread roll.

On the plus side, I'm good with words and can stick up for myself and any underdog, so would be able to keep the bullies and big mouths under control (until I cry!).

Oh yeah, I haven't got big blue eyes (this years must-have accessory), and I'm articulate, ethical and polite, so I guess I'd be out on week one.
queen of herts is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 16-11-2010, 23:28
SillyBillyGoat
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 21,530
Abysmal.

I'd totally fly under the radar because of my lack of business knowledge. I might not get brought into the boardroom initially because of my low profile (I'd duck out of arguments, etc), but my lack of contribution would catch up with me and I'd be out on my arse
SillyBillyGoat is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-11-2010, 00:14
flashwilson
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 698
I'd be good at pitching, I hate selling but I can do it, I'm intelligent and persuasive, and I'm not sure I'm the best leader but I'm competent.

But I'm also a wheelchair user. Whenever I watch the Apprentice it's clear that I would not be able to compete and nor would most other physically disabled people.

Even if they gave me a ground floor bedroom and put grab rails in the bathroom, I'd still need 10+ hours of sleep each night in order to function. Plus of course I wouldn't be able to access all the places where they pitch or even all of the rewards!

To that extent I do find it depressing to watch the programme. It's not even slightly inclusive. Disabled people can be good, effective, even inspirational businessmen, but the format of the Apprentice is rather contrived and would only allow people who fit their mould to take part.
flashwilson is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 17-11-2010, 01:58
Robokitten
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,985
Everything I touched would turn to sold! My first words weren't Mummy, they were money! If I was an apple pie, the apples inside would be oranges! I am Robo 'The Brand' Kitten.

I'd be terrible Especially at selling stuff - I cringe just watching them do it. I'd be quite good at the thinking up concepts tasks and creative projects though.
I also don't think I'd be able to stab someone in the back just to save myself if I didn't think they had done anything particularly wrong but had been dragged into the boardroom anyway.
Robokitten is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-11-2010, 11:13
gemma-the-husky
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: UK
Posts: 17,852
I'm sure I would be great. All DS posters would be.

We improvise, adapt, overcome!


Oh. I remember, that was Clint in Heartbreak Ridge.
gemma-the-husky is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-11-2010, 11:45
flashwilson
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 698
Everything I touched would turn to sold! My first words weren't Mummy, they were money! If I was an apple pie, the apples inside would be oranges! I am Robo 'The Brand' Kitten.
*giggle*

That's true. I'd fall down on not having a ridiculous catchphrase.
flashwilson is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
 
Reply




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 01:01.