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Week eight: Who should have been fired?


View Poll Results: Who should have been fired?
Charleine 43 29.66%
David 45 31.03%
Gary 86 59.31%
Joseph 11 7.59%
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Old 26-11-2015, 16:19
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Gary for being rubbish at planning events, which is his business plan; likewise Selina for being rubbish at what is, after all, her day job, if she'd not won.
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Old 26-11-2015, 19:48
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Why does it have to be David - he performed better than Gary and the other two bought crap party bags, least he put himself forward as a ropes instructor (albeit a rather straightlaced one) and saved the team money.
What did David do well? He made poor decisions, including with the party bags/glow sticks, and utterly failed with the t-shirts. He was also dull and cheesy for most of the kid's party. He had strong competition from Gary, but David performed worst.
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Old 26-11-2015, 21:13
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What did David do well? He made poor decisions, including with the party bags/glow sticks, and utterly failed with the t-shirts. He was also dull and cheesy for most of the kid's party. He had strong competition from Gary, but David performed worst.
Not putting the glowsticks into the party bag was irrelevant. It's hard to see how it became such a talking point in the boardroom. Anyway David had previously suggested doing it and they all agreed. It's not as if he did it on the spur of the moment.

Anyway, glow sticks at a daytime party are pointless. Gary was very keen on having them for some reason.

David's main failure was the tee shirts, but that represented less than half the money the clients wanted refunded. Gary's total failure to reassure the clients about nuts was at least as big a factor.
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Old 28-11-2015, 00:16
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Not putting the glowsticks into the party bag was irrelevant. It's hard to see how it became such a talking point in the boardroom. Anyway David had previously suggested doing it and they all agreed. It's not as if he did it on the spur of the moment.

Anyway, glow sticks at a daytime party are pointless. Gary was very keen on having them for some reason.

David's main failure was the tee shirts, but that represented less than half the money the clients wanted refunded. Gary's total failure to reassure the clients about nuts was at least as big a factor.
The bolded is the reason why it's relevant. The kids were having a crap, awkward time on the bus, so why would giving them glow sticks in broad daylight help the situation? Predictably, it fell flat. It made more sense to keep it in the party bag as was originally planned. So yes a poor decision, just dwarfed by his other failures.

The nut situation was a mess, with Gary sharing responsibility with Charlene and Joseph. The t-shirts were all David.
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Old 29-11-2015, 08:57
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All 3 bar david he was the only one who tried to save the task.
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Old 29-11-2015, 11:25
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Old 29-11-2015, 22:01
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The bolded is the reason why it's relevant. The kids were having a crap, awkward time on the bus, so why would giving them glow sticks in broad daylight help the situation? Predictably, it fell flat. It made more sense to keep it in the party bag as was originally planned. So yes a poor decision, just dwarfed by his other failures.

The nut situation was a mess, with Gary sharing responsibility with Charlene and Joseph. The t-shirts were all David.
I think choosing to buy glowsticks was a bigger error than handing them out at a bad time.

David was stuck with printing the shirts and messed it up, but I doubt that cost was the most significant loss. We don't know the breakdown of refunds, but the nut alergy problem was probably the biggest factor in the parents' overall disatisfaction. The three responsible for the nut fiasco ganged up on David in the boardroom. Gary trying to make out that the glowsticks not being in the party bags was why the bags had to be sold at less than cost was notably pathetic.
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Old 29-11-2015, 23:30
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I think there was a fair shout for either David or Gary going this week. David cost the group a lot of money, yet Gary's leadership was very weak and his miscommunication of the chocolate/nut situation created an element of mistrust between the team and the client. Plus they were both terrible at generating atmosphere. Joseph and Charleine may have made mistakes also, but they at least seemed to remember it was a children's party and not some kind of corporate team building exercise.
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Old 30-11-2015, 01:19
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I think choosing to buy glowsticks was a bigger error than handing them out at a bad time.

David was stuck with printing the shirts and messed it up, but I doubt that cost was the most significant loss. We don't know the breakdown of refunds, but the nut alergy problem was probably the biggest factor in the parents' overall disatisfaction. The three responsible for the nut fiasco ganged up on David in the boardroom. Gary trying to make out that the glowsticks not being in the party bags was why the bags had to be sold at less than cost was notably pathetic.
There was nothing inherently wrong with having glowsticks. It just didn't make sense to hand them out in broad daylight as opposed to keeping them in the gift bag as originally planned.

Exactly how much the nut situation cost them is unquantifiable, but we do know that David's t-shirt fiasco resulted in a £175 loss. That is very significant.
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