I don't know if this is a topic that anyone is interested in, but I personally keep being amazed by how people in general respond to tears in a worksituation as opposed to anger.

When it's not used as manipulation, why is an emotion that results in crying generally considered weak and the emotion that results in anger considered 'strong'.?

Both stem from something being taken personal and not dealt with effectively and I bet most of us have had an experience in the workplace where our reaction was an emotional one.

I don't see a lot of adult professional behaviour in the boardroom, but as soon as someone cries (Natalie, Rebecca) they seem to be 'out of the game'.

I'm interested in views or personal experience.

Crying means giving up: anger means fighting back. Both are unprofessional.

I think that doing a programme like The Apprentice is really highly pressurised, you're in situations where you have to work under bizarre time constraints, with people who are less interested in doing the best on the task and more in making sure they get their moment in the limelight. I think it takes its toll on people, and a lot of them end up reacting in a way that they wouldn't normally.

My all-time favourite Apprentice candidate is Zara Brownless (as people probably realise, as I mention her name on here more than any other) and one of the reasons that I thought she was amazing is that she was completely in control of her emotions and never lost her cool (that we saw) on any of the tasks or boardrooms. Hardly anyone manages to be that controlled even on the adult show, I think that deserves a lot of credit.

I had to look her up as I've never watched any of the Young Apprentice shows. Are they any good?

What you describe sounds admirable, especially in such a young person.

I personally really enjoyed Young Apprentice more than the adult series, and I'm very disappointed that it was cancelled. Out of the three series, that series was my favourite - partly because of Zara, and partly because of some of the other people. It had some incredible candidates, and someone else said the other day that the final six people were arguably the strongest final six on any incarnation of the programme, adult or young. Whether you liked Zara or not (I personally did, but not everyone did) you had to admit that that was one skill that she really had down to a tee.

It's all on YouTube, would you like me to PM you some of the links?

Thank you, that's very kind of you.