The Apprentice 2024

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matrignano

4,412 posts

211 months

Monday 8th April
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LARK F1 GTR said:
And there was me thinking that April fools day was a week ago!

Did she mean shelf stacker at Iceland?

JimmyConwayNW

3,077 posts

126 months

Wednesday 10th April
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Do they usually have a meet the final 5 programme on the week of the interviews or am I imagining that ?

jinkster

2,257 posts

157 months

Wednesday 10th April
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JimmyConwayNW said:
Do they usually have a meet the final 5 programme on the week of the interviews or am I imagining that ?
They normally do. I haven't seen anything but haven't looked either to be fair.

blueg33

36,273 posts

225 months

Thursday 11th April
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I’ve been thinking (unusual obviously).

The prize has been £250k investment for years. If hasn’t been adjusted for inflation, it should probably be near £400k now.

This must mean that any business plan will be more marginal than the same plan would have been 5 years ago.

TwinKam

3,019 posts

96 months

Thursday 11th April
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LARK F1 GTR said:
More from the internet, who will win ?
Can no one spell these days?

MesoForm

8,921 posts

276 months

Thursday 11th April
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TwinKam said:
Can no one spell these days?
Too reliant to auto-correct - just hammer in the approximate letters and let the system sort it for you. Falls down when you have to spell without it.

TwinKam

3,019 posts

96 months

Thursday 11th April
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MesoForm said:
TwinKam said:
Can no one spell these days?
Too reliant to auto-correct - just hammer in the approximate letters and let the system sort it for you. Falls down when you have to spell without it.
But 'business', their self-confessed raison d'etre spelt two different ways in the same post?
OK, let me reword that; does no one bother to check their spelling & grammar before posting? It's a very basic marker of intelligence IMO, and these are meant to be the clever ones...
And don't get me started on their/ there/ they're or your/ you're/ (yaw!)...

Pitre

4,641 posts

235 months

Thursday 11th April
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TwinKam said:
...don't get me started on their/ there/ they're or your/ you're/ (yaw!)...
...and loose/lose curse

FourWheelDrift

88,703 posts

285 months

Thursday 11th April
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First ttty question to Flo "what is going to make entrenched recruitment agencies allow you to move into their space" or something along those lines.

It's got nothing to do with other agencies, anyone can startup and contact clients and get business, current agencies no matter how long they have been working mean diddly squat.

Langweilig

4,345 posts

212 months

Thursday 11th April
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Hathor-Ancient Egyptian cow goddess.

RosscoPCole

3,340 posts

175 months

Thursday 11th April
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Can you describe your business in a nutshell.
I immediately thought of this.

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 11th April
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Surely these people, who are in business, can't be that stupid as to not bring their profit and loss sheets?!

Nurburgsingh

Original Poster:

5,136 posts

239 months

Thursday 11th April
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Pffft - rubbish

And what was with all the cosy st what about family? This isn’t BGT!!

No need!!!

mikey_b

1,863 posts

46 months

Thursday 11th April
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pocketspring said:
Surely these people, who are in business, can't be that stupid as to not bring their profit and loss sheets?!
I’m not sure that most of them really are in business in the normal sense. Pieman and gym-bunny do seem to be, but Flo doesn’t seem to be placing employees anywhere, Tre has never even tasted his own drinks, and scrubs man has never made a set of scrubs.

The interviewers seem to be being fairly pleasant for the most part. Some sharp questioning, but nothing more than Dragons Den.

Nurburgsingh

Original Poster:

5,136 posts

239 months

Thursday 11th April
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“Buy a bottle of Tre’s man juice”

FML my beer came out of my nose!!! lol

Nurburgsingh

Original Poster:

5,136 posts

239 months

Thursday 11th April
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Woah woah woah - hold the phone!!!

You can change your business idea in the final…

Wtf - that’s cheating Shirley !?

Mikebentley

6,195 posts

141 months

Thursday 11th April
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Sir A tried to nick half the dentists business and I actually think he did well to say no.

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 11th April
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Nurburgsingh said:
“Buy a bottle of Tre’s man juice”

FML my beer came out of my nose!!! lol
A meme for sure!

2HFL

1,253 posts

42 months

Thursday 11th April
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Actually thinking some of these contestants are just actors.

Trey never having made his testosterone shot and only ever made a phone call to the supplier, and not even writing a proper business plan? Come on that’s bs.

Gym girl with no accounts in her business plan, so Shugs just takes her word for her numbers in the boardroom?

Pieman will get the win. There are way too many gyms already. Isn’t this the guy who lost every single task bar one too…

Rat smelt.

nikaiyo2

4,786 posts

196 months

Thursday 11th April
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Was Tre taking the piss?

His business plan, by the sounds of it was testosterone drink, no product, not even a super cool brand package concept. Just some vague idea. By that metric I have 15 business plans a week especially if I have had a drink.

Gym girl and pie boy the only possible reason they have not included P&L is because they do not make good reading, let’s be frank they make it clear both business are not making anything like the contestants claim. I do have to go to Petersfiled tomorrow so will grab lunch in his pie shop!