The Apprentice 2023

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anonymous-user

69 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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Episode 6: Interviews by the SFO.

cuprabob

16,655 posts

229 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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Episode 7: Megan returns and locks her up.

Milkyway

10,383 posts

68 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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cuprabob said:
Episode 7: Megan returns and locks her up.
( ... Marnie acting as her advocate)

anonymous-user

69 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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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

anonymous-user

69 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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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

29,778 posts

227 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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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

2,386 posts

208 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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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.

anonymous-user

69 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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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

10,642 posts

236 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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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

2,386 posts

208 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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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

2,112 posts

148 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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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

8,370 posts

224 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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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

5,337 posts

253 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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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

19,422 posts

234 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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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

2,112 posts

148 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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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

2,108 posts

74 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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Milkyway said:
cuprabob said:
Episode 7: Megan returns and locks her up.
( ... Marnie acting as her advocate)
Please stop... licklove

Milkyway

10,383 posts

68 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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s94wht said:
Milkyway said:
cuprabob said:
Episode 7: Megan returns and locks her up.
( ... Marnie acting as her advocate)
Please stop... licklove
OK...


rdjohn

6,706 posts

210 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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Big Stevie said:
Ring ring, ring ring, ring ring

"Hello, this is The Apprentice"
"Hello I'd like to become one of next years candidates please"
"Do you know anything about business?"
"Nope"
"That doesn't matter, are you a reasonably good looking female?"
"Yep"
"That's good, and finally, are you a bit thick?"
"Yep"
"Congratulations, you're in"
In all seriousness this must be what the BBC are looking for. I stopped watching the series a few years back but have normally watched the interviews and final. This episode - down to the last five, they have to be having a laugh - perhaps the boxer is closely related to the DG and so the rest were just stooges.

There has to be a reasonable explanation, I need someone to pay my pension.

I am still entertained by Dragon’s Den, so there must be some hope somewhere.

Pitre

5,278 posts

249 months

Thursday 23rd March 2023
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I can't tell you how excited I am that it's the final this evening. smile

FourWheelDrift

90,912 posts

299 months

Thursday 23rd March 2023
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Pitre said:
I can't tell you how excited I am that it's the final this evening. ??