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Old 20-10-2016, 22:49
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Heir to the McVitties fortune I believe
I wouldn't trust this lot to sell Hob Nobs to an old peoples home...is this the worst collection of candidates ever ?? lol
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Old 20-10-2016, 22:50
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Wearing scarves is very popular on this show yet when they was selling it looked like summer.

Now in the garden in t-shirts so why the scarves.
Sorry to ruin the magic of the show and maybe the mods could edit this post for me but there is a reason for the above.

Spoiler- Don't know how to add

Please read sir Alan's book

Unspoiled don't know how to add
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Old 20-10-2016, 22:52
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Sofiane can count himself lucky.
Honestly, this programme can't do their future prospects any good. I tell you what, I'll give you a damaged, HALF a football for double the price!
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Old 20-10-2016, 23:04
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He looked so much like Tim Nice But Dim
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Old 20-10-2016, 23:18
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He looked so much like Tim Nice But Dim
That's exactly what I am thinking!!
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Old 21-10-2016, 00:04
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I thought Your Fired was poor tonight. Susan Calman took it all too seriously as usual and the Made in Chelsea bloke was poor as an example of a confectionery businessman. Hard to know why Konnie Huq, lovely though she is, was on the panel. As for the blind taste testing, apart from taking an excessive amount of time setting it up, it proved nothing. Except perhaps that the awefullness of salt and vinegar fudge is mostly in the mind.

Oliver was as useless on YF as he was on the task. Very affable, very fair minded but totally indecisive.
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Old 21-10-2016, 02:22
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Who's the woman in black who seems to know what she is doing?
Gráinne!
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Old 21-10-2016, 09:36
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I wouldn't trust this lot to sell Hob Nobs to an old peoples home...is this the worst collection of candidates ever ?? lol
I was going to post the same question. This season comes across more like The Generation Game rather than a serious attempt to discover a potential business winner.

Edit: Lord Sugar: "Good Game, Good Game Let's see who's gonna be sacked this week"
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Old 21-10-2016, 09:39
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Is Alana having a redemption arch on her edit?

Same might happen to Karthik next week.

If so these two might be around for a long time.
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Old 21-10-2016, 09:51
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LS seems to fire the candidates his least likely to get on with rather then on the strength of the task.
Please enlighten us as to what were Oliver's strengths on last night's tasks?

I thought that Oliver was sacked because he was shite rather than because Sugar took a dislike to him. This goes for the previous two sackings also.
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Old 21-10-2016, 10:12
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When it comes to this series, Lord Sugar has been spoilt for choice on who to sack each week.

Any of the three in the boadroom could have gone yesterday without it being an injustice.
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Old 21-10-2016, 16:34
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Is it just me that cant stand Paul. He behaved like a child. Made no sales. He seems very aggressive and moody. Someone needs to slap him down!
Absolutely!

Plus, despite Oliver saying it tasted bad, Paul got him to pick the salt and vinegar flavoured fudge. Then Paul failed to sell any of it. He should have been fired.
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Old 21-10-2016, 16:38
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My impression of this week's task was that both teams did equally well, or badly, and one earned £100 less than the other, so they had to lose someone.
Salt and vinegar fudge was obviously a mistake, but on Your're Fired, the guests liked it!
This show is losing its shine, but I will keep watching.
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Old 21-10-2016, 19:01
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I think this bunch have to be the most inept bunch ever , the only one who seems to have any sense is JD , i'm hoping he wins
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Old 21-10-2016, 22:26
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I liked that bit. You need someone who's a bit cheeky to pull off that kind of stuff cos it was ridiculous but it worked!
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Old 22-10-2016, 17:09
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My impression of this week's task was that both teams did equally well, or badly, and one earned £100 less than the other, so they had to lose someone.
Salt and vinegar fudge was obviously a mistake, but on Your're Fired, the guests liked it!
This show is losing its shine, but I will keep watching.
Wasn't it that people liked the fudge until the aftertaste kicked in? Since salt in chocolate is now a thing, perhaps it was the vinegar that caused the problem.
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Old 22-10-2016, 19:01
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Didn't even realise the black guy (Samuel?) was part of the process! We've barely seen him!

Big fan of Paul.
LOL, i wondered where he came from , that was the first time i have seen him
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Old 22-10-2016, 19:03
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I'm a bit bored of Alan's stupid quips this series , it seems like he is doing them in every sentence , he even put in a silly quip when sacking the poor guy this week, Sugar needs to sack his gag writer imo
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Old 22-10-2016, 20:59
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I'm a bit bored of Alan's stupid quips this series , it seems like he is doing them in every sentence , he even put in a silly quip when sacking the poor guy this week, Sugar needs to sack his gag writer imo
He was much better in the early series, I think even he's fed up with the whole thing now
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Old 24-10-2016, 13:48
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I think the corporate sales were a joke, £300 and £75 sales. Sorry but I would of turned around to the football club and said yes you can spend £300, but don't expect the sweets to be bespoke. And as it was the colours were seriously wrong, they do know what blue looks like?
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Old 24-10-2016, 14:27
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I think the corporate sales were a joke, £300 and £75 sales. Sorry but I would of turned around to the football club and said yes you can spend £300, but don't expect the sweets to be bespoke. And as it was the colours were seriously wrong, they do know what blue looks like?
Taking a step back, they fell into a trap because they did not consider the impact of trade sales on production. Trade sales are low margin, high volume, with a guarantee of however much profit in one hit. But actually producing that high volume can be a killer, especially in the Apprentice where everything is new and everyone is on a steep learning curve.

Sofiane in particular was sucker-punched when the football club rejected his £400 offer and then, while he was on the ropes, followed up by increasing the amount. His so-called negotiation left his team with more work and less profit -- almost none if the club had (as they probably would have done without the cameras) rejected the half-footballs.

And when you've already spent far too much effort making sticks of rock.
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Old 24-10-2016, 16:10
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I think the corporate sales were a joke, £300 and £75 sales. Sorry but I would of turned around to the football club and said yes you can spend £300, but don't expect the sweets to be bespoke. And as it was the colours were seriously wrong, they do know what blue looks like?
They poured a ridiculous amount of blue colouring into the sweet mixture. They didn't even measure it, they just poured it in.
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Old 24-10-2016, 19:18
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I've watched all but the first series of The Apprentice and I don't think I'm alone in thinking that this year's contestants are the biggest load of inept tosspots we've ever had the misfortune to watch!

First up, how many of them have bothered to read Alan Sugar's autobiography What You See Is What You Get? It gives fantastic insight to the man and should be essential reading for any budding apprentice.

Having said that, these people claim to be the best thing for business since the invention of the fax machine (or whatever) yet they patently ignore the basic truths of each task, namely: How much does it cost to make/produce and therefore how much can I sell it for, resulting in how much profit? They never have a coherent sales strategy or clear game plan.

Also, if one of your team has either put themselves forward as task manager (or been press ganged into the role), then for goodness sake do the hell what they ask you to do, stop over-ruling them at every turn!

I was in sales and marketing all my working life and made a fairly decent living in the process. None of these candidates has a clue how to plan for a pitch or ask the right (open) questions when they're in front of the customer. They nearly always come across as a bunch of rank amateurs intent only on making as much money for their team as they can without any consideration for the needs of the customer, i.e. they don't bloody listen!

The series is addictive though, so I shall stay with it as always, but really, who screens the hundreds of initial applications and what criteria are used to filter the applicants through to The Process?
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Old 24-10-2016, 22:08
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I think this bunch have to be the most inept bunch ever , the only one who seems to have any sense is JD , i'm hoping he wins
Yes they are but, I loved the Goon Show when I was younger as I said on another post and this is like a remake !

And I agree - I like JD and hope he wins.
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Old 24-10-2016, 22:28
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I think the corporate sales were a joke, £300 and £75 sales. Sorry but I would of turned around to the football club and said yes you can spend £300, but don't expect the sweets to be bespoke. And as it was the colours were seriously wrong, they do know what blue looks like?
And you would have got no sales. His Lordship would not have been pleased. You're fired.

A corporate customer will want to buy bespoke items from a specialist supplier. Everything B&HA sell in their shops is in their colours or branded in one way or another. If they didn't want bespoke sweets they could just go to the local wholesaler and buy off the shelf at a few pence a packet.
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