BBC2 Who's the Boss?

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I can't decide whether this is a stupid idea or not, but the Brewdog guy came across as a bit of a tit.

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I wasn't impressed by the fact he decided halfway through that their CVs weren't up to scratch; the bin sift's something you do at the beginning, and that phonecall to the recruitment bloke was just embarrassing.

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My gut instinct answer to the 747 full of jelly beans was 'train an army of ants to offload them'; maybe I'm as much of a throbber as he is.

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JimmyConwayNW said:

Also what was with the bizarre entrance into the car park in his Golf GTI ? A sort of stamped brake, handbrake turn.

It's unclear, although an inability to control a motor vehicle is topping the list. I've seen better in a Maccy D carpark.

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Derish said:

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As for the candidates - I'm sorry, but they did send him a bunch of old fashioned, irrelevant geezers - what was that about? And he was absolutely right telling the HR guy that he's basically full of st and can't answer a single question properly.

James (and it seems Brewdog as a whole) is an eccentric sheep in the British setting, and for people like him it's always a struggle to find the right human resources as the company grows. If anything, the massive fail here was from the BBC and this 'groundbreaking' London HR agency that ended up issuing him with the same old farts as always, only slightly repackaged for TV.<snip>

It's difficult to imagine any sane business owner would consent to this programme without eyeballing the CVs beforehand; if he didn't he's an eejit, if he did he's a colossal attention we. A headhunter can only go with the instructions or job description given; whoever produced that is at fault, not the headhunter. In addition the job was for a regional manager in the metropolitan area/south of England, yet the jump-through-the-hoops was conducted over several days in Aberdeenshire; I'd guess you're only going to get the desperate, reality show wannabees or the unemployed for that given the pay seemed average and it required you to sign a waiver allowing the Beeb to humiliate you on TV.

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Are you on retainer for Brewdog? Your obsequiousness is saccharine.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Monday 14th June 00:25

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It is shades of Hoover and the holidays.

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Oh dear, how sad; never mind.

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