Zoe was awful to Susan tonight

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CaroUK

11-06-2011

Originally Posted by M@nterik:
“That was her response to Susan's pathetic whining that it was not her fault when it clearly was. Zoe wanted answers and, quite frankly, I do not blame her.

Had Susan taken the blame and admitted her responsibility then it would have been a different matter instead of trying to be sneaky and pass the buck.

There was no ganging up.”

They bought 40 bottles of tanning lotion - and from the products visible in the box as the team left the floor at the end of the day - they had only a few left unsold.

With £80 worth of unsold items - there must have been a LOT of unsold nail polishes (which were Zoe's choice) in there as well.

Susan may have over estimated the number she could sell - but it wasn't the only product they were selling that day - and she wasn't the only person selling it.. She was perfectly right to say that Zoe was being unfair as it wasn't just her choice of product which wasn't selling as well as Zoe would have liked.

alexmax

11-06-2011

Originally Posted by M@nterik:
“Cheryl Cole is far more annoying than anyone in The Apprentice.”

I absolutley agree...if we're talking about whose the most annoying on reality tv, cheryl tweedy and smug simon are right up there!

DavetheScot

12-06-2011

What answers was Susan supposed to give? She'd given her views, very strongly, on how many units they could sell. She'd turned out to be wrong, because the product wasn't selling as well as she'd predicted. Susan clearly had no more idea of why this was than Zoe did; her best answer seemed to be "everybody here is poor". What did Zoe expect to achieve by her conversation with Susan?

Zoe may not have intended it to look like Susan was being ganged up on, but with Helen standing by Zoe and also criticising Susan, and Edna standing beside them, that was the impression conveyed. It's not surprising in the circumstances that Susan became defensive.

brangdon

12-06-2011

Originally Posted by DavetheScot:
“What answers was Susan supposed to give?”

"I don't know" would have been a start. Ideally she'd have taken a step back and reconsidered their sales strategy. My own view is that people don't want anyone to know when they are buying fake tan, so they needed to be more discrete. Giving up and devoting the resources to other products and services would have been reasonable.

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“What did Zoe expect to achieve by her conversation with Susan?”

Apparently their sales went up after that conversation, so Zoe did achieve something.

DavetheScot

13-06-2011

Originally Posted by brangdon:
“"I don't know" would have been a start. Ideally she'd have taken a step back and reconsidered their sales strategy. My own view is that people don't want anyone to know when they are buying fake tan, so they needed to be more discrete. Giving up and devoting the resources to other products and services would have been reasonable.”

She may have thought "I don't know" would have sounded weak, though it would have sounded better than "that's so unfair".

Originally Posted by brangdon:
“Apparently their sales went up after that conversation, so Zoe did achieve something.”

Not necessarily; there may have been other reasons why sales went up. Maybe there was more footfall?

brangdon

13-06-2011

Originally Posted by DavetheScot:
“Not necessarily; there may have been other reasons why sales went up. Maybe there was more footfall?”

Maybe. It's impossible to say.

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