Rebecca: they just fire the best candidate?

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Shrike

05-06-2013

If she'd stuck up for herself a bit more in the boardroom, I think she'dve stayed over Francesca.
IMHO Shugs knows who he wants in the final, if not whos going to win, I don't really think he was bothered who he kept tonight as its not one of them!

Reality Sucks

05-06-2013

Originally Posted by muzungu:
“Rebecca always had ideas and she could sell. The corporate people said the motivational speaker was the best part of the day!

It wasn't the cost of the motivational speaker that made the team lose, it was the refund they claimed for the rest of the day not being inspirational enough.

I have no idea why she had to go. LS didn't make sense with this decision.”

I agree - it would have been a complete write off without the motivational speaker. LS always says it's not just about the money, but that's what it always seems to come down to with him.

Shrike

05-06-2013

Thinking about it a bit more the other thing hung on Rebecca was the wine tasting - carp idea and poorly executed, but there was £300 spent on duff bar props for it (including a flamingo ffs!). Who spent £300 on that tat? Francesca.

jericho_mpm2005

06-06-2013

I'm struggling to understand what the The Apprentice stands for anymore.

on 6 tasks Rebecca is clearly better then most but even that's not enough to go against someone who's done nothing but mess up so many times.

Alrightmate

06-06-2013

Originally Posted by ronandreg:
“Rebekah was an excellent candidate in the first two weeks. After Lord Sugar told her that her strong qualities were upsetting the fishwives, then she appeared to take too much of a backseat.

Lord Sugar's argument which brought her back into the boardroom this evening was economically illiterate. He said that without the expenditure on the external speaker her team would have won, hence Rebekah was at fault. Just because the £600 figure equated to the gap , it did not necessairly mean that that was the cause.

The difference between the teams was the fact that the client asked for more money to be returned. Without the external speaker - which appeared to be the most relevant part of the event - the client could have asked for 75% or 100% of the money back.”

Exactly, because the task overall was a shambles. It wasn't the hiring of the motivational speaker which lost the task, he was probably what saved them losing even more of a discount, the away-dayers said that the problem was that it was because it was all an unfocused mess.

Plus, how much did the team spend on the task, £2000?
If so then how come it was just the £600 spent on the motivation speaker which was to blame?
What about the other £1400? Doesn't anyone else who spent something carry the can for that?

Alrightmate

06-06-2013

Originally Posted by Shrike:
“If she'd stuck up for herself a bit more in the boardroom, I think she'dve stayed over Francesca.
IMHO Shugs knows who he wants in the final, if not whos going to win, I don't really think he was bothered who he kept tonight as its not one of them!”

I don't think she would.
Sugar was hinting to Francesca who to bring back into the boardroom and that if she didn't get the extra strong hint then she would be fired instead.

brb

06-06-2013

Yes, what Lord Sugar said was utter bollocks. The people in the event clearly said the motivational speaker was the BEST thing about the entire event! If anything, Rebecca actually STOPPED them from losing more money.

Agent F

06-06-2013

Originally Posted by jericho_mpm2005:
“I'm struggling to understand what the The Apprentice stands for anymore.

on 6 tasks Rebecca is clearly better then most but even that's not enough to go against someone who's done nothing but mess up so many times.”

It's down to the winner now being decided on the basis of their business plan, and Sugar knowing what their plans are right from the off. I hate it. To me it makes the whole process utterly pointless.

Alrightmate

06-06-2013

Originally Posted by brb:
“Yes, what Lord Sugar said was utter bollocks. The people in the event clearly said the motivational speaker was the BEST thing about the entire event! If anything, Rebecca actually STOPPED them from losing more money.”

I'm trying to think what it would have been like without that motivational speaker.And all I can think of is that they'd have absolutely nothing but a bit of walking on planks.

They'd have had nothing.

What ideas did the others have?
There was no criticism of the others for having a lack of any ideas, yet in previous episodes that has been the determining factor behind people getting fired.

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