The Apprentice 2023

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redrabbit29

495 posts

120 months

Also another example of just cruel stupid bhy comments by the interviewers was the whole "I advise you could return to being an air stewardess"

It's not witty, or funny, or warranted. It's just horrible and rude.

Also Suralan's "jokes" (which has been mentioned countless times) are just cringeworthy. I assume they're written for him on a script which makes it 100% worse as they are not funny, and his delivery is appalling. Poor Tim has to forceably laught everytime he comes out with something which doesn't make sense or is something a 14 year old would have come up with.

Milkyway

6,557 posts

40 months

The Apprentice reboot... with Michelle Mone.
( Baroness Mone to you).

FourWheelDrift

86,352 posts

271 months

Milkyway said:
The Apprentice reboot... with Michelle Mone.
( Baroness Mone to you).
Episode 1: The teams are competing for a government contract.
Episode 2: The teams are searching for the best tax haven.
Episode 3: The teams are ordering yachts.
Episode 4: The teams are left on their own as Michelle seems to have disappeared with no forwarding address.

Milkyway

6,557 posts

40 months

Episode 5: The teams are tasked with selling some unusable stock.

pocketspring

2,377 posts

8 months

Episode 6: Interviews by the SFO.

cuprabob

12,678 posts

201 months

Episode 7: Megan returns and locks her up.

Milkyway

6,557 posts

40 months

cuprabob said:
Episode 7: Megan returns and locks her up.
( ... Marnie acting as her advocate)

pocketspring

2,377 posts

8 months

Milkyway said:
cuprabob said:
Episode 7: Megan returns and locks her up.
( ... Marnie acting as her advocate)
Could be a new genre...

Fake barrister. hehe

ilikepeas

25 posts

14 months

redrabbit29 said:

I counted 33 spelling mistakes

You don't know the figures do you?
To be fair these are important things. If I'm asking somebody to read something I've written I would at least make it clear, especially in the modern age of word processors. And not knowing your own business' figures is silly to me if you're asking for investment.

jammy-git

29,358 posts

199 months

I agree. I proof read every email I send out, let alone a business plan that I want to use to get £250k in investment!

WilliamWoollard

2,292 posts

180 months

It pissed me off when the boxing girl was berated for saying the trainers in her gym would work for free. My PT has to give half the money she gets, per session to the gym for the privilege of training her clients there. Seems fairly common in the gym/PT world. She would be delighted if she could work in a gym where she doesn't need to pay anything to work there. I'm sure many other PT's would be queueing up to work at a gym with that model.

As she said, you know business, I know this industry inside out. But she got shouted down and bullied into submission.

I ditched the show halfway through this series, but came back hoping for something better from the interviews, it didn't happen.

It's a dead duck now.

ilikepeas

25 posts

14 months

WilliamWoollard said:
She would be delighted if she could work in a gym where she doesn't need to pay anything to work there. I'm sure many other PT's would be queueing up to work at a gym with that model.
I apologise for my lack of understanding but how do they get paid with this model?

ch37

9,868 posts

208 months

I've just caught up with the interview episode and what an utter farce. I appreciate that from the proceeding episodes it's clear it's not an actual attempt to find somebody decent, but even so it's a kick in the teeth when you've come this far and 5 rock up with their business plans which, from the sound of it, are all an utterly worthless waste of paper.

Not one proof-read or run them by an accountant, or just a friend with common sense? I'm fairly confident every single member of my family (not one who has ever run their own business) would spot it if I didn't put staff costs anywhere in the plan.

I know the rest of the show is effectively rigged to make them look spectacularly stupid (no phones, no comms between sub-teams, cooking tasks etc etc) but I'm struggling to see how that works at this stage, do they only get to write them in those final 2 days, with no access to a calculator or the internet?


WilliamWoollard

2,292 posts

180 months

ilikepeas said:
WilliamWoollard said:
She would be delighted if she could work in a gym where she doesn't need to pay anything to work there. I'm sure many other PT's would be queueing up to work at a gym with that model.
I apologise for my lack of understanding but how do they get paid with this model?
The client pays the PT directly. And the PT keeps the money without the gym taking any. The gym are getting membership fees from the client.

redrabbit29

495 posts

120 months

ilikepeas said:
redrabbit29 said:

I counted 33 spelling mistakes

You don't know the figures do you?
To be fair these are important things. If I'm asking somebody to read something I've written I would at least make it clear, especially in the modern age of word processors. And not knowing your own business' figures is silly to me if you're asking for investment.
I agree they are important but in the context of the episode it was just more nitpicking without any real deep diving.

As another poster pointed out if you took the 60 minute episode, there must have only been about a few minutes of actual interview footage - most of it was just bullying, rude, snide behaviour rather than trying to get an idea of how their business could work (admittedly they're rubbish ideas but you know what I mean)

Most of the interview part was just them sat outside waiting and commenting on how it went

dom9

7,687 posts

196 months

WilliamWoollard said:
ilikepeas said:
WilliamWoollard said:
She would be delighted if she could work in a gym where she doesn't need to pay anything to work there. I'm sure many other PT's would be queueing up to work at a gym with that model.
I apologise for my lack of understanding but how do they get paid with this model?
The client pays the PT directly. And the PT keeps the money without the gym taking any. The gym are getting membership fees from the client.
This is what my gym does (boxing-focused); it's really not unusual these days.

Nurburgsingh

4,488 posts

225 months

dom9 said:
WilliamWoollard said:
ilikepeas said:
WilliamWoollard said:
She would be delighted if she could work in a gym where she doesn't need to pay anything to work there. I'm sure many other PT's would be queueing up to work at a gym with that model.
I apologise for my lack of understanding but how do they get paid with this model?
The client pays the PT directly. And the PT keeps the money without the gym taking any. The gym are getting membership fees from the client.
This is what my gym does (boxing-focused); it's really not unusual these days.
Surely this depends on what the PT's responsibilities are? - there are mixed models in operation at my gym, there are some staff that work for the gym, they are responsible for ensuring the equipment is clean and working etc, and they also operate as PT's .. and there are some that operate as just PT's for themselves, they pay a flat fee to the gym per month and they pay that whether they conduct 1 session or 400.

thegreenhell

12,302 posts

206 months

So if she's expecting them to work 'for free' in her gym, presumably that means they don't pay her either, so she's losing out on potential revenue?

redrabbit29

495 posts

120 months

Some of this reminds me a bit of Dragons Den.

When you have very good business people (Dragons) but they often just criticise anything that they don't quite understand or that isn't the normal way of doing things.

Often they can be right but there are many occasions when they just come across as narrow minded and stupid, especially when it's not in their particular area of work.

s94wht

1,132 posts

46 months

Milkyway said:
cuprabob said:
Episode 7: Megan returns and locks her up.
( ... Marnie acting as her advocate)
Please stop... licklove