The Apprentice 2023
Discussion
Timothy Bucktu said:
If there's anything good to glean from this comedy show, it's that at some point in your life in order to be taken seriously you might encounter some criticism. You take that criticism on board and try harder next time. You don't turn on the water works and cry 'bully' like so many younger folk seem to do these days. Pathetic really.
That genuinely annoyed me at the time.They know they're going into a bearpit - it's the same format every year,
Any mistake will be seized upon. (My personal favourite last year was the interviewer buying the domain name a contestant planned to use.)
They will be told their idea is worthless - so be ready with the reason as to why it's not. (the sweets? I would have challenged the rubbish presentation of the competing product.)
Things like endless maths mistakes explained with "i'm not good with numbers" - why would I trust you with my money then?
Typos galore? Spellcheck, Grammarly, get a couple of mates to read it over. There's little excuse when £250,000 is on the line.
Crying? In a job interview? That makes me think you won't cope with the stress of running a real business terribly well.
I actually had that sweetseller as one of the more competent ones, ironically it turns out she was kept in as eye candy.
Edited by shtu on Friday 17th March 11:05
One other thing I noticed - on You're Fired, when it came to each of the three contestants' "here's what the other candidates had to say about you" section, all comments for all three evictees were from the other women. Not one comment from any of the men.
I'm not suggesting any grand conspiracy theory; just though it was a bit odd.
I'm not suggesting any grand conspiracy theory; just though it was a bit odd.
Timothy Bucktu said:
Marnie for the win. At least she'd do some good.
One would presume that as a court advocate, she is educated, has an advanced grasp of business, people skills, the 'real world', deadlines, profit and loss, debating and defending herself, and is surrounded every day by people from every walk of life etc. It would seem though that she is just the best of a bad bunch.'Baroness Brady'. Yeah, I think I'd have laughed in her face. Just 'Karren' has been good enough for her in the last 10 or so weeks, so why make a point about her silly little title now? CBE = Chief b
h ExecutiveRicksAlfas said:
The boardroom sequence where Lord Sugar was talking to his chummy mates was filmed really oddly. I don't think they were all in the room at the same time.
Is that the boardroom The editing is nauseating and the thing that winds me up the most, especially when they are picking a team leader each week and it's twisted to look like one of them has bullied the entire team into submitting to them being the leader, and the phone calls between the main team and sub-team as well. The camera operators will just roll constantly and capture as many varied facial expressions as possible at all stages of the task, and the editors and producers then have carte blanche to spin the final edit however they like in order to generate the desired plot.
Bit of a st show tbh. Not knowing the difference between turnover and profit is like not knowing your left from your right.
I even quizzed my 9 year old on it this morning and he knew the answer! I do run a business though and try to educate my boys on things like that so maybe not typical. But...for someone pitching to an investor not to know this is absolutely incredible.
The interviewers are unnecesarily harsh though, especially Linda who needs to just go for a dump or something. I've never come across anyone so rude as this in business - its certainly not standard practice!
t show tbh. Not knowing the difference between turnover and profit is like not knowing your left from your right.I even quizzed my 9 year old on it this morning and he knew the answer! I do run a business though and try to educate my boys on things like that so maybe not typical. But...for someone pitching to an investor not to know this is absolutely incredible.
The interviewers are unnecesarily harsh though, especially Linda who needs to just go for a dump or something. I've never come across anyone so rude as this in business - its certainly not standard practice!
The thing that got us that hasn't been mentioned yet is how many cuts there were and how short a time we saw the contestants with each of the interviewers, it just seemed to be interviewer asks a 'gotcha' question, contestant starts to answer, interviewer interrupts with some witty put-down, contestant walks off. But I guess with 5 contestants and four interviewers we were only going to get a few seconds with each.
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