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#626 |
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If the basic fee was £2000 and neither team received £2000 how could either have been said to have won?
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If the winning team had made a loss there might be a case for calling both teams losers but, since both teams made a profit I don't see that this is particularly different in principle than any other task in which the biggest profit wins.
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When Karren and Claude began announcing the sales figures, it was immediately clear that Selina's team had won because we still hadn't seen the "try not to poison your client" line from Alan Sugar that was shown in the trailer from the previous week... (and this remark obviously applied to Gary's team)
That said, I think I've previously seen lines in trailers that weren't shown in the actual episode Such as the football stadium manager saying "How did you come to that [figure] ?" during the cleaning task a few weeks ago (but I might be wrong) |
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I remember a "We painted over someone's cat!?" trailer for the Handymen task but don't remember it in the episode
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If I remember rightly, the quote was taken out of context - in the episode itself, I seem to remember Richard saying something along the lines of "I don't want a phone-call from the other team saying: 'We've painted over someone's cat' " (the first part was deliberately cut out in the trailer to make it sound like somebody had actually painted over a cat !)
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The problem was not that they had used chocolate spread that "may contain nuts". Given that the child had asked for a chocolate cake and that pretty much all chocolate spreads you can buy have the disclaimer "may contain nuts" just to cover themselves, that was fairly unavoidable. The problem was the way in which this was communicated to the client. The client was told that the spread used on the cake may contain nuts but was left uncertain whether it may actually have been a nut-based spread like Nutella. Until that could be confirmed one way or the other the mother was left sitting on the side-lines, unable to participate at all, until the exact nature of the spread could be determined.
She probably never intended to eat the cake and it eventually it turned out that it was the usual disclaimer which meant that she could actually be at the party after all but, in the meantime, due to the uncertainty with which she had been left with, she had been subjected to a fair amount of stress which could easily have been avoided if the nature of the spread had been communicated clearly and unequivocally from the start. It was the communication that was at fault and that's a fair thing for the candidates to be tested on.
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Gary made the same decision Sugar did - he couldn't decide on the cake team. Gary had an impossible choice. Sugar avoided it.
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In the end they used a Cadbury's Choc spread which said "May contain traces of nut".
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But you have to factor in how different businesses work. If you are selling tat on a market stall you can maybe get away with things and just count your profits knowing another sucker will come along who has no idea about your previous dealings. This type of business is not just about profit but also getting more business due to word of mouth or positive reviews (snip)...
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You've described the problem with most of the tasks but it all comes down to Sugar's ineptitude and business "ethics". He's nothing more than a market trader who got lucky.
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Such as the football stadium manager saying "How did you come to that [figure] ?" during the cleaning task a few weeks ago (but I might be wrong)