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Was this the episode The Apprentice became a farce? |
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Was this the episode The Apprentice became a farce?
Who makes up these rules in the boardroom just for entertainment?
Disgraceful actually. The skeleton was pretty impressive, but Lord Sugar just got outwitted and didn't like it. |
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Adding on an extra £310 for the wrong skeleton?Not even the RRP. |
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Definitely. It's been heading this way all this series, especially with the 20 candidates at the start - contrived way to do a couple of 'shock' mass firings.
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Sugar fails to see the difference of thinking outside the box & basically taking the @#@~
He obviously feels that everyone wants to get one over on him, that was clearly not the case on this occasion, to me it shows some form of insecurity on his part. OR he just wanted to shaft that team to get shot of Filipe the choice is yours
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As Sugar insists on parroting at least once a series, he's "judge, jury and executioner". He's often made these arbitrary decisions: there are often tasks where the winner is entirely decided by his whim. I don't think this week was a particularly egregious example of that.
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Adding on an extra £310 for the wrong skeleton?
Not even the RRP. |
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Who makes up these rules in the boardroom just for entertainment?
Disgraceful actually. The skeleton was pretty impressive, but Lord Sugar just got outwitted and didn't like it. It's a game show. Once you accept that it is a bit of silly fun. |
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It smacked of an excuse to get rid off Felipe.
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It was a farce. A farce for not accepting it and a farce for the price.
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It smacked of an excuse to get rid off Felipe.
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It was clearly the wrong decision, the best team lost. This series has been pathetic, and it's mainly down to Sugar. If they want to continue the programme, get a new, younger entrepreneur and freshen things up..that's if they can find anyone who wants to take the job.
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His idea was something to do with disabled children. so Lord Alan ran a mile.
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Adding on an extra £310 for the wrong skeleton?
Not even the RRP. |
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He got outwitted and didn't like it. It was as simple as that.
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Sigh. The 310 was including the fine for the rope.
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If it had been a different task and it had won them money, Sugar would be heralding it as genius.
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It wasn't a proper skeleton though! if a paper skeleton is acceptable why not go to a toy store and buy a plastic diamond!
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He got outwitted and didn't like it. It was as simple as that.
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It wasn't a proper skeleton though! if a paper skeleton is acceptable why not go to a toy store and buy a plastic diamond!
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I thought Lord Sugar was in the right to be honest. If I asked somebody to get me a Skeleton and they brought me back that, I would have had the same reaction. They didn't even build it!
All of the fines were not just for the skeleton either. 1. Price of Skeleton which is around £200 2. Fine for not getting Skeleton about £50 3. Fine for not getting the length of the rope correct (which I did think was unfair) £50 4. Actual price of the Paper Skeleton was like £13 which is essentially wasted money |
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It wasn't a proper skeleton though! if a paper skeleton is acceptable why not go to a toy store and buy a plastic diamond!
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I thought Lord Sugar was in the right to be honest. If I asked somebody to get me a Skeleton and they brought me back that, I would have had the same reaction. They didn't even build it!
All of the fines were not just for the skeleton either. 1. Price of Skeleton which is around £200 2. Fine for not getting Skeleton about £50 3. Fine for not getting the length of the rope correct (which I did think was unfair) £50 4. Actual price of the Paper Skeleton was like £13 which is essentially wasted money |
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I thought the rope fine was less justified than the skeleton one. He got 70% more rope than he wanted for nothing.
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It wasn't a proper skeleton though! if a paper skeleton is acceptable why not go to a toy store and buy a plastic diamond!
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