...but I have to fire someone, and therefore choose the weakest.
To say the project manager lost the plot was ridiculous...Lord Sugar, You're Fired!
To say the project manager lost the plot was ridiculous...Lord Sugar, You're Fired!
Why can't he just say you all did well...
The losing team made 700 quid profit over two days! That's pretty good but the show makes it out to be a failure. It's a bit barmy when you think about it.
Had they made a loss, now that would have been funny!
"You bought tat and made a loss?"
Had they made a loss, now that would have been funny!
"You bought tat and made a loss?"
Originally Posted by floopy123:
“The losing team made 700 quid profit over two days! That's pretty good but the show makes it out to be a failure. It's a bit barmy when you think about it.”
“The losing team made 700 quid profit over two days! That's pretty good but the show makes it out to be a failure. It's a bit barmy when you think about it.”
I'd be gutted if I only made £50 a day!
I bet most of the people buying the stuff were members of the production crew. 
"Hey, let's pretend we're from the public!"
"Hey, let's pretend we're from the public!"
in the matt edmonson "funny bits" clip on the apprentice website it shows a shot of a table with "bought by nick" written on the price tag!
Originally Posted by DrPepper:
“...but I have to fire someone, and therefore choose the weakest.
To say the project manager lost the plot was ridiculous...Lord Sugar, You're Fired!”
“...but I have to fire someone, and therefore choose the weakest.
To say the project manager lost the plot was ridiculous...Lord Sugar, You're Fired!”
Laura had no real control of the team and no real aim apart from fill the shop and upcycle stuff. So she didn't have a winning strategy. In Sugar's terms that's losing the plot.
Originally Posted by floopy123:
“The losing team made 700 quid profit over two days! That's pretty good but the show makes it out to be a failure. It's a bit barmy when you think about it.
Had they made a loss, now that would have been funny! "You bought tat and made a loss?"”
“The losing team made 700 quid profit over two days! That's pretty good but the show makes it out to be a failure. It's a bit barmy when you think about it.
Had they made a loss, now that would have been funny!
"You bought tat and made a loss?"”
£700 isn't that good divided by the number of team members employed and the time taken. Also it would be hard to make a loss on this task, but Laura's team did their best by "upcycling" so much.
One team has to make less profit and therefore fail, by dint of not winning. Happens quite regularly on the show.
Originally Posted by syncage:
“in the matt edmonson "funny bits" clip on the apprentice website it shows a shot of a table with "bought by nick" written on the price tag!”
“in the matt edmonson "funny bits" clip on the apprentice website it shows a shot of a table with "bought by nick" written on the price tag!”
That was shown on the actual show. I was expecting it to come up on 'You're Fired' but it didn't. I then wondered if I'd dreamt it. Glad you saw it too
Alan Sugar let Laura off quite lightly I thought. Usually the project manager gets a much bigger grilling than she did.
I thought Laura or Gabrialle should have been fired, not Jane.
So Jane has gone and Maria also went. Those two have very successful businesses. Was Lord Sugar afraid of them?
I thought Laura or Gabrialle should have been fired, not Jane.
So Jane has gone and Maria also went. Those two have very successful businesses. Was Lord Sugar afraid of them?
Originally Posted by LIZALYNN:
“Alan Sugar let Laura off quite lightly I thought. Usually the project manager gets a much bigger grilling than she did.
I thought Laura or Gabrialle should have been fired, not Jane.
So Jane has gone and Maria also went. Those two have very successful businesses. Was Lord Sugar afraid of them?”
“Alan Sugar let Laura off quite lightly I thought. Usually the project manager gets a much bigger grilling than she did.
I thought Laura or Gabrialle should have been fired, not Jane.
So Jane has gone and Maria also went. Those two have very successful businesses. Was Lord Sugar afraid of them?”
It has nothing to do with performance in the task, Sugar knows who he wants now and as soon as the opportunity arrises he uses it, Jane last night and Jenna as soon as she is up next I would guess. I think that Jane has been rubbish all the way through and deserved to go anyway.
Originally Posted by Miles_T:
“It has nothing to do with performance in the task, Sugar knows who he wants now and as soon as the opportunity arrises he uses it, Jane last night and Jenna as soon as she is up next I would guess. I think that Jane has been rubbish all the way through and deserved to go anyway.”
“It has nothing to do with performance in the task, Sugar knows who he wants now and as soon as the opportunity arrises he uses it, Jane last night and Jenna as soon as she is up next I would guess. I think that Jane has been rubbish all the way through and deserved to go anyway.”
Do you think Lord S genuinely decides early on? I have always wondered. My thought is that he makes a judgement on who he definitely DOESN'T want, but leaves the rest to unfold, but who knows
Originally Posted by LIZALYNN:
“Alan Sugar let Laura off quite lightly I thought. Usually the project manager gets a much bigger grilling than she did.
I thought Laura or Gabrialle should have been fired, not Jane.
So Jane has gone and Maria also went. Those two have very successful businesses. Was Lord Sugar afraid of them?”
“Alan Sugar let Laura off quite lightly I thought. Usually the project manager gets a much bigger grilling than she did.
I thought Laura or Gabrialle should have been fired, not Jane.
So Jane has gone and Maria also went. Those two have very successful businesses. Was Lord Sugar afraid of them?”
I thought he let Laura off lightly, too. He's never liked Jane which was a shame because I think she is a business star but then she was never really going to abandon her food business, was she? I don't think Maria was exactly in the same category with one restaurant! And I don't think Lord S would have been remotely interested in that area.
Originally Posted by penelopesimpson:
“Do you think Lord S genuinely decides early on? I have always wondered. My thought is that he makes a judgement on who he definitely DOESN'T want, but leaves the rest to unfold, but who knows”
“Do you think Lord S genuinely decides early on? I have always wondered. My thought is that he makes a judgement on who he definitely DOESN'T want, but leaves the rest to unfold, but who knows”
We don't know how much of the task footage LAS actually sees. I suspect he actually watches very little, if any ,and just relies on what Karen/Nick say and then goes on what he gleams form his boardroom interactions. Also more often than not the teams are split into two sub-teams so Karen and Nick only see half of what goes on as well. and I doubt they bother to watch back footage either.
Originally Posted by syncage:
“We don't know how much of the task footage LAS actually sees.”
“We don't know how much of the task footage LAS actually sees.”
None of it. There isn't time to edit it down, or to watch it in real-time. I doubt he sees the footage much before we do. His comments on You're Fired generally contain no new information so I don't think he's seen it before those are recorded.
I'm pretty sure the production crew report back, as well as Nick and Karren.
