Never understood this show. How the hell can you possibly expect people to work together as a team when everyone is against one another and out to stab each other in the back to win?
How can you expect to work as a team when you're in competition
If the team wins, you avoid being fired for another week. If you don't work as a team, you're more likely to fail, and then you only have yourself to blame when/if you're the one to be fired.
They pretty much get on with what they have to do during the task, but if they lose, most of them end up backstabbing, and saying how they really feel, once in the boardroom.
They pretty much get on with what they have to do during the task, but if they lose, most of them end up backstabbing, and saying how they really feel, once in the boardroom.
I don't really agree or totally understand the sentiment. The teams are all well aware that when it goes to the boardroom the others will do anything in order to survive. There's only one job in the end, so if a candidate is naive enough to expect everyone to play nicely then they really are missing the point of the show.
Most contestants are smart enough to keep what happens in the boardroom outside of the next task. It's in everyone on the teams mutual interest to win the task, so they are expected to put the problems aside because it benefits them in the long run if they can win the next task and make it through to the next round.
Katie and Kristina openly loathed each other in Series 3, but were forced to work together for weeks and agreed a truce to put it aside for the sake of winning the tasks.
Most contestants are smart enough to keep what happens in the boardroom outside of the next task. It's in everyone on the teams mutual interest to win the task, so they are expected to put the problems aside because it benefits them in the long run if they can win the next task and make it through to the next round.
Katie and Kristina openly loathed each other in Series 3, but were forced to work together for weeks and agreed a truce to put it aside for the sake of winning the tasks.
The bit that gets me is when they come out the boardroom and they all go to hug the person who's just been fired like everything is ok after they've just sat slagging you off and got you kicked out the competition. Why don't they tell them to get lost the two faced backstabbers. I would.
Everything is ok until things go wrong. What a wonderful team leader then when they lose it's all what a terrible leader etc etc. Talk about two faced. If this is how office politics works i'm glad I don't work in an office no more.
Everything is ok until things go wrong. What a wonderful team leader then when they lose it's all what a terrible leader etc etc. Talk about two faced. If this is how office politics works i'm glad I don't work in an office no more.
It may be a competition. But the best way to win the competition, is by working well in your given team (while standing out as well, of course). Even the final task between the two remaining finalist at the end involves them working with their team. That's the premise of the show.
Originally Posted by The Wizard:
“The bit that gets me is when they come out the boardroom and they all go to hug the person who's just been fired like everything is ok after they've just sat slagging you off and got you kicked out the competition. Why don't they tell them to get lost the two faced backstabbers. I would.
Everything is ok until things go wrong. What a wonderful team leader then when they lose it's all what a terrible leader etc etc. Talk about two faced. If this is how office politics works i'm glad I don't work in an office no more.”
“The bit that gets me is when they come out the boardroom and they all go to hug the person who's just been fired like everything is ok after they've just sat slagging you off and got you kicked out the competition. Why don't they tell them to get lost the two faced backstabbers. I would.
Everything is ok until things go wrong. What a wonderful team leader then when they lose it's all what a terrible leader etc etc. Talk about two faced. If this is how office politics works i'm glad I don't work in an office no more.”
Bear in mind that there are TV cameras watching your every move. Some people choose to vent their frustrations after getting fired (e.g. Melissa after product selling task in Series 6) but they come across as being sore losers to the public.
Everyone who enters should be aware that once you lose a task you really are alone (unless you have Tim Campbell on your team
) so people shouldn't expect everyone to be all nice once its down to the final three. As LS has said in the past, he isn't employing a team, he's employing a person, so everyone who goes in for the program should be prepared to fight in the boardroom. Otherwise, they haven't got an excuse when they do get fired.
Originally Posted by The Wizard:
“Never understood this show. How the hell can you possibly expect people to work together as a team when everyone is against one another and out to stab each other in the back to win?”
“Never understood this show. How the hell can you possibly expect people to work together as a team when everyone is against one another and out to stab each other in the back to win?”
Because a team win is the only thing that will guarantee that you aren't fired.
I also suspect Lord Sugar is a normal human being who appreciates someone who is personable and can function well and be constructive in a team environment.
Simples really...
The people who can't work as a team or are backstabbers, don't tend to win.
That sort of behaviour has got people to the interview stages where they tend to get ripped apart.
The closest we've had to a nasty winner is Lee McQueen, but even he put in a number of good team player performaces, and he won in a year which had a particularly high proportion of villains and semi-villains amoungst the candidates.
That sort of behaviour has got people to the interview stages where they tend to get ripped apart.
The closest we've had to a nasty winner is Lee McQueen, but even he put in a number of good team player performaces, and he won in a year which had a particularly high proportion of villains and semi-villains amoungst the candidates.
