The Apprentice

The thing that annoys me the most about the show is the apparent ban on using technology.

It seems to me either they're not allowed to use google or they're all idiots. Stuff like finding out what and how to use and how to big up that decoupage product would have taken minutes. Not to mention the fact that in general they all seem to criminally under prepare for their tasks.

No doubt it's harder than it looks but the current crop of contestants seem to me pretty untalented.
 
Royality said:
The thing that annoys me the most about the show is the apparent ban on using technology.
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Very good point. In episode 4 or 5 1 team wasted a lot of time trying to find out what "salmonella seeds" were, or something. If they googled it or did a wikipedia search, they would have known in 10 seconds. It took them half a day to speak to someone who knew this. What a waste of time!!!
 
Royality said:
It seems to me either they're not allowed to use google or they're all idiots. .
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I'm not too sure about the google thing - in the clip of next weeks episode we saw the interviewer saying something to Tre along the lines of "did you not think it would be been a good idea to google/look up about Sir Alan". Tre's reponse "maybe I should have done, yeah".
 
Majago said:
I'm not too sure about the google thing - in the clip of next weeks episode we saw the interviewer saying something to Tre along the lines of "did you not think it would be been a good idea to google/look up about Sir Alan". Tre's reponse "maybe I should have done, yeah".
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Isn't that one of those "What did you know about Sir Alan BEFORE the show" questions? Doesn't one of Sir Alan's interviewers always ask that to gauge how knowledgeable the contestants are about the big man and how "interested" they are in really being his apprentice?
 
Oh right, you'd have thought it'd be a given that the would-be apprentices would research Sir Alan prior to participating. Silly Tre.
 
Majago said:
Oh right, you'd have thought it'd be a given that the would-be apprentices would research Sir Alan prior to participating. Silly Tre.
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Yep. First series apprentice would be's had an excuse. The second and third series ones don't. They've had a previous series to watch to learn tricks.
 
MarcLister said:
Isn't that one of those "What did you know about Sir Alan BEFORE the show" questions? Doesn't one of Sir Alan's interviewers always ask that to gauge how knowledgeable the contestants are about the big man and how "interested" they are in really being his apprentice?
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tbh i don't think the show is thought out that well and quite contrived. There is no way that the 12 people they pick are the best business people out of the 1000's that apply. I don't even know for a fact that Sir Alan has an input into picking the final 12, he just gets to wittle down a pre chosen 12.

The show itslef is a bit contrived in the sense the whole thing is filmed over 6 montsh ago. Whilst we watch the 12 episodes, the actual 2 finalists are already doing a 4 month job at one of Sir Alan's companies.

On the tv it is implied that the final 2 are picked by Sir Alan and then the following week he picks the best one, in actual fact 4 months pass between these 2 shows in which he puts them in a real business environment to test their skills. As we speak the 2 finalists, who we don;t know are probably sitting in Sir Alan's companies trying to sell that stupid e-mailer phone!! The implicationjj to *** viewer is that they are picked based on 12 weekly tasks a and 1 big task where they get all the losers to help them. In actual fact this probably has a very small bearing on who gets the job.

Great TV viewing, but no way related to how a real person would be picked for a job.


rp2000
 
It seemed obvious to me what to do for the TV task would be ask
What items usually sell well in that timeslot,
what items sell out
Find out how many they can sell in that hour
Find the price of the items and work out the potential profit of each item and pick them from there.
 
Royality said:
Stuff like finding out what and how to use and how to big up that decoupage product would have taken minutes.
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One of the people at the tv station commented that they didn't even ask them for a demo of what decoupage is/ how to sell it.

Tre will go at the interviews - the people I always want to win are the cocky people like Tre - and they always get chucked out at the interview stage :(

fini
 
Dr_Evil said:
In episode 4 or 5 1 team wasted a lot of time trying to find out what "salmonella seeds" were, or something.
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:eek:

*nigella seeds

I may have just saved many lives. :p



fini said:
I loved it when SAS asked Tre if he was just doing it for the fame and then was going to leave after two minutes - 'nobody's going to take me for a mug' - was praying someone coughed 'again' under their breath at him.
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I thought exactly the same thing!



JamesU2005 said:
...no one from the current lot seem good enough in comparison to previous series.
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I'll agree to that - no one in this series is quite up to the level of the Badger (who should definitely have won the last series!). :p
 
It's nearly Apprentice time.

This episode better be good (aka Katie will get chucked out and kicked in the teeth by a horse, presumably her mother) as I passed up a night out for this.
 
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