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Week Seven: Who should have been fired?


View Poll Results: Who should have been fired?
Brett 18 13.74%
Sam 46 35.11%
Scott 43 32.82%
Selina 59 45.04%
Vana 6 4.58%
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Old 18-11-2015, 21:55
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Did you agree with Lord Sugar?

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Old 18-11-2015, 22:05
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Selina cos she is a B!tch
Scott for being nasty to Sam and refused to even shake his hand
Sam cos he is too soft and nice to be AS business partner.
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Old 18-11-2015, 22:13
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Easy firing again, but Scott is lucky to stay, Selina lucky to avoid the final boardroom.
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Old 18-11-2015, 22:19
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I would have fired the whole team, all terrible
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Old 18-11-2015, 22:32
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Brett - could have an argument with himself.

So adverse to change and stubbornly rude it's unreal. And unmanageable.
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Old 18-11-2015, 22:42
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Sam AND Scott for me.
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Old 18-11-2015, 23:06
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Franklly all of the losing team could've been fired.

Sam for being useless.
Selina for well being Selina. If she was as good at business, as she is at maoning she'd be a millionaire.
Brett and Vana for those fake prices and both could frankly have an argument with their reflection. Both seem very difficult to work with and to be doing the opposite of teamwork.

And goodness knows where Scott's behaviour came from in that boardroom. Storming off without shaking Sam's hand and lieing that Brett threatened to punch him (Brett seemed to be slightly loud but that was it). Goodness knows why too -there were others far more likely to get fired based off the task and he'd done well to not tell them all to shut up during the task.

In fact, most of them come across as a nasty bunch this year. Charleine seems very dislikable and to have an worrying level of dislike to Richard and I really dislike Joseph too.


I'm worried that Surallan has to go into business with one of this bunch.
The Season 4 line-up may soon seem likable in comparison.
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Old 18-11-2015, 23:06
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Scott seemed to give up early in the task in my opinion; he seemed demotivated and half hearted in his management role. Even in the board room, he admitted that he had a lack of energy and he didn't seem to talk a lot of sense when criticising Sam and Brett. The whole team did badly in the way that they were always feuding with each other so given that, they were never going to pull together to win. I think Selina and Brett were key parts of the problem in the team and even if they did sell better, it is a massive character fault to have.
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Old 18-11-2015, 23:40
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Sam, bless him, it felt a bit like watching Elle last week. He just looked so out of depth, it was the right time for him to go. However, I credit him for not backing Scott up regarding the 'I'll smash your face in!' comment. He could have easily done so in order to try and protect himself but he did the right thing which then led to Scott moving his attack right onto him.

Scott I believe should have been sacked when it became clear he had blatantly made up that 'I'll smash your face in!' comment. Brett said nothing which even sounded remotely similar to that so Scott couldn't have misheard, he did it to make Brett seem like an army thug who winds everyone up and if he doesn't get his way makes threats of physical violence.

Selina also could have gone for causing arguments and having a face like a slapped arse when she didn't get her own way. Same for Brett, having a confrontation in a store is going to send customers away, if I walk into a store and I know I really want something but I walk in and find the staff bickering, I am going to walk right back again. It was unprofessional.

Vana was the only one I was sort of impressed with tonight. Yes okay, I know she also wasn't happy to be sent out to bring in customers at the start but she got on with it, went to the other store and looked at how they were set up and seemed to bring a breathe of air back into the team when she and Brett came in and took over sales. For that reason I also think Brett deserved to stay, though he really does need to learn how to talk to people as does Selina.
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Old 18-11-2015, 23:51
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Sam unfortunately as he was clearly out of his depth. He is very cute though.

Scott should've gone too, he has 2 PM losses, screwed up a pitch and was really silly with the garden last week.

Selina could've gone too for being a massive whinger.
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Old 19-11-2015, 03:17
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Sam, he was out of his depth all the way through, and messing up numbers again hardly inspires confidence. Unless his business plan was making money by standing around looking gormless, then I think the right person went.

Scott is on borrowed time, Brett IMO won't make the final due to his personality, Selina reminds me of Luisa but without a glimmer of humour so she may be a finalist, and Vana I think is doing really well so she's probably going to be the first out of these four numpties to get the boot.
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Old 19-11-2015, 03:24
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How the heck did Selina survive? Dannnng.

Scott was a blatant liar this week and deserved to be fired, but I guess b2b triple firings were a bit too much
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Old 19-11-2015, 03:40
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Selina is eye candy so she has to stay for a few more weeks.
Lovely to look at.
Sam was the right choice
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Old 19-11-2015, 13:14
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Sadly I think Sam was out of his depth.
But I would have probably bent the rules in order to fire Selina too. What a misery.

Scott surprised me as he's usually a reasonable level-headed guy but he totally lost the plot. I may have kept him around just to see if it was an off week and if he could recover from it.
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Old 19-11-2015, 13:35
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Brett. I said it in week one, he's a downright horrible individual who seems to think that if he says something forcefully and loudly enough, it will be so. Seems to be working for him though. As for his "If you speak to me like that again...." statement, clearly he WAS going somewhere with that but decided against it at the last second, which was very telling for me. I don't think he can 'self preservate' for much longer.
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Old 19-11-2015, 17:56
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defo sam
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Old 19-11-2015, 18:27
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Gotta wonder why Vana has votes against her, of the entire team, she was arguably the most competent. (I'm aware that's damning with faint praise, but still).

Definitely think Selina should have gone. I couldn't believe it when Brett was chosen yet again to be brought back over her. Really stupid decision, both this week and last week.
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Old 20-11-2015, 11:16
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Honestly cannot stand Selina. Not sure if it's the edit, but surely it cant be THAT different to how she actually is, and was on this particular task. It's just constant moaning, complaining and honestly what on earth has she actually done?
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Old 20-11-2015, 22:48
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Selina needs to go. Thought she was gone but then she wasn't selected to go back in. Such a shame
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Old 20-11-2015, 22:53
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Sam for being completely useless and Scott for having lost 2 sales tasks as PM despite it supposedly being his area of expertise, both times because of woeful misallocation of staff to roles (why have your worst salesman be the only one selling all day? Why create the role of "two people wandering the shopping centre doing **** all" at all?).
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Old 21-11-2015, 10:50
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I would've fired Scott - he's lost twice as project manager, both times on sales tasks which is supposed to be his field. He projected negativity which made everyone on his team look to how they could cover their own backs in the boardroom, rather than how they could win the task, plus when you find everyone around you annoying it's usually a problem with you and not them. He didn't utilise his team properly, sending his best salespeople Brett and Vana out to wander round the shopping centre leaving Sam who's weak at sales at the shop all day. Finally his blatant lie about Brett in the boardroom and personal attack on Sam should have finished him off.

Ironically, the children's party task next week looks like one that Sam might have been good at as he works with children and is creative.
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Old 22-11-2015, 23:35
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Sam, bless him, it felt a bit like watching Elle last week. He just looked so out of depth, it was the right time for him to go. However, I credit him for not backing Scott up regarding the 'I'll smash your face in!' comment. He could have easily done so in order to try and protect himself but he did the right thing which then led to Scott moving his attack right onto him.

Scott I believe should have been sacked when it became clear he had blatantly made up that 'I'll smash your face in!' comment. Brett said nothing which even sounded remotely similar to that so Scott couldn't have misheard, he did it to make Brett seem like an army thug who winds everyone up and if he doesn't get his way makes threats of physical violence.

Selina also could have gone for causing arguments and having a face like a slapped arse when she didn't get her own way. Same for Brett, having a confrontation in a store is going to send customers away, if I walk into a store and I know I really want something but I walk in and find the staff bickering, I am going to walk right back again. It was unprofessional.

Vana was the only one I was sort of impressed with tonight. Yes okay, I know she also wasn't happy to be sent out to bring in customers at the start but she got on with it, went to the other store and looked at how they were set up and seemed to bring a breathe of air back into the team when she and Brett came in and took over sales. For that reason I also think Brett deserved to stay, though he really does need to learn how to talk to people as does Selina.
There was an implicit threat in what Brett said though he didn't actually say what Scott imagined. I think if there had been no threat at all Scott might have been fired for suggesting it. But Brett shouldn't have spoken to Scott like he did either.

Sam had to go really. His number skills weren't the real problem. After all what the real total was was still within the £500 cash available (unless the initial spend was limited to less than £500). Expecting them to add up with pen and paper is not reasonable and not a good indication of a head for business. You need an instinctive feel for the numbers in business, not an exact total to the penny. Even bean counters have beans to count with (or calculators).

Scott was just not on it this week, but he's too good to be fired for one bad week.
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Old 23-11-2015, 10:53
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I think Lord Sugar got it right with Sam.
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Old 24-11-2015, 12:32
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Brett. I said it in week one, he's a downright horrible individual who seems to think that if he says something forcefully and loudly enough, it will be so. Seems to be working for him though. As for his "If you speak to me like that again...." statement, clearly he WAS going somewhere with that but decided against it at the last second, which was very telling for me. I don't think he can 'self preservate' for much longer.
Unless they foul up big time i think Brett will stay until the Interviews so will Vana. Brett was lucky to avoid the final boardroom on the Pet Show task his behaviour cost his team a couple of products which could have won them the task.
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Old 24-11-2015, 13:10
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There was an implicit threat in what Brett said though he didn't actually say what Scott imagined. I think if there had been no threat at all Scott might have been fired for suggesting it. But Brett shouldn't have spoken to Scott like he did either.

Sam had to go really. His number skills weren't the real problem. After all what the real total was was still within the £500 cash available (unless the initial spend was limited to less than £500). Expecting them to add up with pen and paper is not reasonable and not a good indication of a head for business. You need an instinctive feel for the numbers in business, not an exact total to the penny. Even bean counters have beans to count with (or calculators).

Scott was just not on it this week, but he's too good to be fired for one bad week.
That's what bugged me. There was a threat of some kind clearly being made but everyone ignored it. It's like everyone's scared to stand up to Brett.
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