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Old 13-03-2013, 20:58
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Well I've got quite a dilemma ahead. Who do each of you think should be fired?
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Old 13-03-2013, 20:58
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Im just saying we are mercury and i said my piece before that
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Old 13-03-2013, 20:59
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I think JJ as he didnt contribute much
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:00
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George and JJ - who should be fired?
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:01
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Well I've got quite a dilemma ahead. Who do each of you think should be fired?
I don't think it should be me, as I led the team as best I could despite it not really being my biggest strength and I think I did a good job. Also, if you look at the first five items that you listed (on which we spent less than Sterling), three of them were items I was responsible for sourcing, so I clearly did well there at keeping costs down.

If the person fired is the weakest candidate overall, I would say JJ should be fired, as he was the only candidate who didn't fulfil all of their tasks. If it's on who was actually responsible for this failure, then it should be Emma because she didn't understand that we had to keep costs down, and I think that was fundamental.
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:03
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I'm just going to summarise now. George, last week you really let me down but this week you've proven you deserve to be here. However, I can't let go the fact that you were the PM, and this task was very, very rushed.
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:03
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I also think George should be fired as he was ultimatly PM

I dont think i should be fired as although i didnt understand i still Tried my Hardest to find all the items i was given
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:04
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JJ, you won as PM last week, so that shows something positive. However, you didn't do much on this task and from what I hear you didn't do what George asked of you.
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:05
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Emma, well, you didn't even know what the whole task was about. You could've been on another planet for all I know. But, I have to make a decision, and...
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:05
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*~*~*~*JJ*~*~*~* - You're fired.
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:06
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By JJ im so Sorry
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:06
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George, keep this up, you did well this week. Emma, you need to make sure you know what you're meant to be doing and please stop posting with an aggressive tone.
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:07
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Take care, JJ. It was good to work with you, and I hope there are no hard feelings.
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:07
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My internet is playing up. only just got back online . Bye emma
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:07
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George, keep this up, you did well this week.
Thank you, Lord Stuart.
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Old 13-03-2013, 21:08
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JJ, please make your way to the Taxi thread and post some comments.
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Old 14-03-2013, 19:59
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Is everyone here?
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Old 14-03-2013, 20:01
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Here Lord Sugar
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Old 14-03-2013, 20:03
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Here lord Stuart
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Old 14-03-2013, 20:05
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Right, just before we start, I'm going to mix the teams up slightly.

The teams in the last task were:

Team Mercury

Emma
George
JJ

Team Sterling
Eliza
Naruto
Nick

The teams for this task will be as follows:

Team Mercury

George
Nick

Team Sterling
Eliza
Emma
Naruto

Emma will be PM for Team Sterling as she is the only candidate remaining who hasn't been PM, and Team Mercury can decide on their own PM (please make it clear in your thread who the PM is).
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Old 14-03-2013, 20:10
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The next task is going to be something a bit different. As you all know, advertising plays a huge part in running a business - and for a small business advertising on social networking sites can turn them into a global success.

Your task is to use social networking sites to advertise a business, blog or idea that you will come up with. The two sites you will use are Twitter and Instagram. In your teams, you will come up with your business, blog or idea that you will post about, and then set up a Twitter and an Instagram account for it. Please PM me your new accounts’ names (make the names based on your idea) so I can keep track of how you are getting on.

The idea of the task is to get the most followers, so make your idea interesting! Keep the posts on the accounts based on your idea, so, for example, a team who want to post on celebrity fashion could tweet: “Victoria Beckham’s outfit today - the dress is gorgeous but not sure about the scarf!” You must not mention Virtual Apprentice or anything to do with Digital Spy Forums in any of your posts. If you break this rule it could lead to an automatic loss for your team. Photos can be posted on the Twitter account and will also be posted on the Instagram account.

The task is about knowing how to build up a business, blog or idea on social networking sites, so you are allowed to tweet things like “Follow us - we follow back” but remember that no Twitter users like spammers and will most likely un-follow you if your timeline is full of tweets like that. I will warn teams if the content on their accounts is not based enough on their idea, or if they are spamming. You are allowed to re-tweet, favourite and follow any tweets/people related to your topic, and you can use hash-tags to get your name out there (you can follow anyone you want but don't spam!)

Please do not post the account names of your accounts on your team’s thread; I would like teams to be unaware of how they are doing in comparison to the other. This task will last until Wednesday 20 March, so it would be a good idea to keep your accounts updated to increase your followers. The followers for both teams’ Twitter and Instagram accounts will be added together at 7.30pm on the Wednesday and the team with the fewest overall followers will lose, out of which at least one will be fired.
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Old 14-03-2013, 20:16
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can we use our team name as a hashtag or is that to much about DS virtual apprentice?
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Old 14-03-2013, 20:18
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can we use our team name as a hashtag or is that to much about DS virtual apprentice?
You cannot post anything to do with the Virtual Apprentice or Digital Spy Forums, so no you can't post that.
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Old 20-03-2013, 19:41
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20 minutes until boardroom.
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Old 20-03-2013, 19:46
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-sits down and puckers up lips-
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