Another 'winner' from the Apprentice
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e in "gets what she deserves" shock. Oh well, never mind poppit!A six figure salary they say... just!
£100,000 doesn't seem all that much to go on a game show and make a cock out of yourself over.
If anyone of them were as good as they make out they have to be to win the show, then they could make more running their own business anyway.
Hmmmm
I think they are all in it for what they can get anyway. The job is probably not really that important to either Sugar or the contestants.
Dave
£100,000 doesn't seem all that much to go on a game show and make a cock out of yourself over.
If anyone of them were as good as they make out they have to be to win the show, then they could make more running their own business anyway.
Hmmmm
I think they are all in it for what they can get anyway. The job is probably not really that important to either Sugar or the contestants.
Dave
carmonk said:
The caliber of contestants is unsurprising given that nobody in their right mind would want to work for that terrier-faced mug. Honestly, he's a barrow boy who had a bit of luck and everyone acts like he's God Almighty.
Mitchell and Webb's take on what the Apprentice would be like if sensible people were on it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ss-59fi4nM
Read Alan Sugar's autobiography and a lot becomes clear. Even though it's as objective as an auto is going to be you can get a glimpse of the real guy and it isn't pretty. He gloats about pulling hard guy devious tricks on folk whilst wingeing that big chains didn't give him a leg up. He makes a big thing about not liking schmoozers yet has chosen Karen Brady for The Apprentice and from the bio, he clearly falls prey to schmoozers quite a lot as long as they press the right ego buttons. I was a bit of a fan until I read his bio and then I wasn't. Bit of an Essex wide-boy.
Jim the Sunderer said:
Talksteer said:
Yep sounds about right, Alan Sugar doesn't really have a "business empire" into which a 100k salary jobs can just be found.
The current format does however make me think why not save a lot of time and effort and just enter dragons den (or find an angle investor).
Investors these days are quite obtuse.The current format does however make me think why not save a lot of time and effort and just enter dragons den (or find an angle investor).
Yes, but only if you're not complementary...
carmonk said:
The caliber of contestants is unsurprising given that nobody in their right mind would want to work for that terrier-faced mug. Honestly, he's a barrow boy who had a bit of luck and everyone acts like he's God Almighty.
I've never been able to work out what Alan Sugar or amstrad ever made of value
when they all keep calling him " Lord Sugar"
CunningPlan said:
Read Alan Sugar's autobiography and a lot becomes clear. Even though it's as objective as an auto is going to be you can get a glimpse of the real guy and it isn't pretty...
He is one of those TV e-entrepreneur individuals who is in total denial of how much of a factor luck has been in their fortune. Duncan Banatyne is similar - read is autobiography and look at the risks he got away with in financing his first care homes. Entrepreneurial? Yes. Wise? Not really.As for The Apprentice, yes the act of candidacy of the contestants
immediately removes them of any worth as far as employment. Celebrity is another issue.
And as for the 'job'; well i do think that as it's presented in this story, it stinks a little. It's a little sordid really.
JagLover said:
anonymous said:
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I would have to disagreeAs presented the job is an opportunity to learn from Alan Sugar, the £100k is a good incentive, but hardly key for someone already in a good career.
If there are five layers of management between you then I fail to see how you are supposed to 'learn' from him.
Talksteer said:
Yep sounds about right, Alan Sugar doesn't really have a "business empire" into which a 100k salary jobs can just be found.
The current format does however make me think why not save a lot of time and effort and just enter dragons den (or find an angle investor).
Maybe they realise their ideas aren't good enough, or they've already been rejected by Dragon's Den. The whole thing should be re-named to the Alan Sugar Show, where people have to kneel before him and listen to his stories of how he made it from nuffink and is right good at this business lark.The current format does however make me think why not save a lot of time and effort and just enter dragons den (or find an angle investor).
I started off a fan on the first couple of series but now detest the show, Alan and Mr Trump.
Zod said:
JagLover said:
anonymous said:
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I would have to disagreeAs presented the job is an opportunity to learn from Alan Sugar, the £100k is a good incentive, but hardly key for someone already in a good career.
If there are five layers of management between you then I fail to see how you are supposed to 'learn' from him.
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