The Apprentice - Series 8

Detroit_Waves · 31 May 2012 at 22:54

Who went this week? I havent had a chance to see it yet, and interested to know who went.

Vonhelmet · 31 May 2012 at 23:46

Detroit_Waves said:
Who went this week? I havent had a chance to see it yet, and interested to know who went.

Adam went.

Spenty · 1 Jun 2012 at 00:50

Tom or Ricky to win for me in that order.

Smit · 1 Jun 2012 at 08:49

David_VI said:
How can Tom win? I've never seen him show any emotion, he's so dead.

Don't think it makes much difference, probably 90% of the decision is based on whatever their business proposal is.

HangTime · 1 Jun 2012 at 22:30

Could see Adam getting annihilated in the interviews, probably for the best he went when he did.

Also noticed for the first time this week when they roll out the "I'm the reflection of perfection" clip from Ricky, you can see him struggling not to laugh at the end of his delivery. I'm actually pretty fed up with those soundbites and one-liners they record now, everyone knows they are staged to make people look as arrogant as possible, and they started getting old a few series ago.

Vonhelmet · 1 Jun 2012 at 22:41

HangTime said:
Also noticed for the first time this week when they roll out the "I'm the reflection of perfection" clip from Ricky, you can see him struggling not to laugh at the end of his delivery.

Got a link for that? Youtube or something? I'd be interested to see it.

Vonhelmet · 1 Jun 2012 at 22:42

Haha, look what I found:

MarcLister · 1 Jun 2012 at 22:53

Vonhelmet said:
Haha, look what I found:

So he'll be winning the final once Lord Sugar sees that vid.

sunama · 2 Jun 2012 at 08:14

He looks like a pretty good wrestler to me.

Morba · 2 Jun 2012 at 22:57

I'd love to do that!

sunama · 3 Jun 2012 at 00:24

Aaaah, but would you be able to put in the theatrics and put on a show for the audience? That's what makes a good wrestler and he seems to be pretty good at that (going by the video).

oldbag · 3 Jun 2012 at 12:30

According to the BBC, the interviews is the final task.

ic1male · 3 Jun 2012 at 12:31

oldbag said:
According to the BBC, the interviews is the final task.

Is it on tonight? Not Wednesday.

oldbag · 3 Jun 2012 at 12:32

Looks like it.

mithrandir · 3 Jun 2012 at 12:42

Its on tonight 8:30 to 10:30 on BBC1

wedgie · 3 Jun 2012 at 13:41

I think tonight we're going to see them get slaughtered beyond anything we've seen in past seasons. As embarrassing as these episodes always are, they're still my favourite, although I'm always a little uncomfortable with the grilling they get. It is a tv show, and doing it this way definately makes for the best tv, but the level of aggression they receive from the interviewers is about as unprofessional as you could ever get really. Can't imagine many real world interviews going like that.

Vonhelmet · 3 Jun 2012 at 13:57

What's the name of the bald guy... Clive or something? He's brutal.

mithrandir · 3 Jun 2012 at 14:06

Vonhelmet said:
What's the name of the bald guy... Clive or something? He's brutal.

Claude Littner.

wedgie · 3 Jun 2012 at 14:06

Claude I think, yeah he's the worst for it

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sunama · 3 Jun 2012 at 16:24

wedgie said:
...but the level of aggression they receive from the interviewers is about as unprofessional as you could ever get really. Can't imagine many real world interviews going like that.

Indeed.

I think if a candidate did meet such an unprofessional interviewer, he would probably turn down the job, even if it were offered.

The worst was when a candidate (I think it was Stuart Baggs), offered a handshake to the interviewer (which is standard procedure in virtually all interviews) and the interviewer declined his hand-shake. That was shocking.