Andrew Rondeau
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Addicted To The Apprentice Already And What A Mess!
- By Andrew Rondeau
- Published 03/28/2008
Be warned
– this posting reveals who has been ‘fired’ from the first episode and the rest
of the post is only my observation and opinion based upon 60 minutes of edited
TV, nothing more.
Sir Alan
Sugar with his two glum looking sidekicks are one side of the desk and 16 cocky
looking candidates, the other, and the show begins. The
Apprentice UK has started.
What a show this is going to be!
I thought
this week’s task was quite easy. Here is
some fish, identify it, price it and sell it. You don’t have to source or buy
it. Can it get simpler than that?
The
problem they faced was there was no time for bonding beforehand.
Just ‘off
you go and sell’.
We have two bunches of strangers with no-one jumping at the bit to be the leaders but
all wanting to be talking, shouting and in front of the camera.
We ended
up with sixteen very keen show-offs with no strategy and no plan and the
outcome – a complete shambles – just as Sir Alan said.
The girls were slightly better
than the boys.
I thought
Claire (girls Team leader) made the best decision of the day, albeit far too late. She told her
team “Let’s correct and understand the prices before we sell any more” Good
decision, but why not do that at the beginning. I believe Claire gained respect
because when she spoke the girls did listen.
Why the
‘boys’ took 4 hours before deciding upon a pitch I do not know.
I thought
Alex (boys team Leader) had delegated well but he had no control mechanisms in place. It was just
panic, panic and more panic. He could
have gathered the majority of his team together at certain times throughout the
day just for 10 minutes and discuss the good points and what needs changing.
Simple!
A
question for you. How many candidates does it take to agree and sell fish to a
solicitors office at a 1/3 of the recommended price?
Six.
That’s right six boys. Why not split up and sell the fish to restaurants.
That’s what the girls did.
“F” for Fired
Then we
had the boardroom session at the end when someone is fired.
Nicholas
de Lacy-Brown was fired and rightly so. He is a Barrister and I was expecting
him to defend himself extremely well and get his point across.
Well he
didn’t and he started off talking about ‘Educated vs. Uneducated’ and he
assumed certain individuals were uneducated due to their accents.
All in
front of the most successful cockney businessperson around – Sir Alan Sugar. Nicholas
couldn’t have dug a bigger hole if he tried.
It isn’t
about accents and it isn’t about academic education. It’s about attitude,
confidence, drive and applying yourself in business and the quicker Nicholas
and a few of the ‘princes’ in this years show understand that, the more chance
of them being successful in this world.
Cor Blimey Luv A Duck
I would
rather have a ‘cor blimey’, hard-working, confident person working for me
rather than someone who can just talk a good show.
All talk and no substance
Now I
can’t finish without commenting on Raef and remember it is my opinion and
observation based on the first edited TV show.
All talk
and no substance. In fact, most of what he says doesn’t make sense anyway. He
will talk his way though the first few weeks, do as little as possible and then
get fired.
You can
tell who didn’t impress me, can’t you?
I think Sir
Alan has already made his mind up on Raef – he would never employ him. Only my
opinion but let’s see.
No one
impressed me from the first show but I am already looking forward to next
weeks.
Who
impressed you?
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