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Why the pretence of leaving their jobs?
Reading what most of the ex-candidates are doing now, it seems the vast majority of them simply return to their old jobs after getting the boot from The Apprentice, although a few do set up in business for themselves.
So why do they bother with this pretence every episode of telling us how they've all given up their jobs just to have this chance to work with Alan Sugar? It's clear all of them are promised their old jobs back when its over. |
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Good point.
The fella who left last week will no doubt return to being a car salesman. |
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It is a blatant lie. My dad works in the same company as a woman from last series and her name was still on the payrole the whole time she was claiming she'd 'left her job for the oppurtunity'
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You have to be away for months (even if you are the first to go, traditionally on shows like this you have to remain in sequester until the end of production). Are you guys claiming that nobody could possibly lose their job over that?
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They could arrange some sort of sabbatical period I suppose, but not every employer will accept such an arrangement.
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Well they are meant to be the most promising business candidates from a field of 10,000 after all! It's surely not that difficult to imagine that their jobs are kept open for them.
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Yes but no one is indispensible...
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I guess it makes them sound more keen and eager for the job?
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Last year Ruth said that she'd been offered a Sabatical from her job, providing she went back there if she didn't win, and she turned it down and left as she wasn't sure what opotunities would come from her doing the show, a position I though was pretty fair.
However when she came to the interview stage she was grilled repeatedly as to why she didn't take the offer. Sir Slan seemed to me to be implying she'd been sacked! You can't win! |
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Originally Posted by Cythna
Last year Ruth said that she'd been offered a Sabatical from her job, providing she went back there if she didn't win, and she turned it down and left as she wasn't sure what opotunities would come from her doing the show, a position I though was pretty fair.
However when she came to the interview stage she was grilled repeatedly as to why she didn't take the offer. Sir Slan seemed to me to be implying she'd been sacked! You can't win! The whole programme is heavily scripted and edited for TV and you can't really believe everything the candidates say about themselves. Just like you wouldn't believe everything that's on a real life CV. |
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