The Apprentice
Posted: Sat 1 April, 2006 Filed under: Thoughts 2 Comments »Have you been watching the new series of BBC’s “The Apprentice“?
All I can say about just about all of the competitors this time round is “Jesus Christ, and these people are supposed to be good?” There’s a couple who seem OK, (and it’s really no surprise that it turns out Syed is talking out of his arse about his job experience and qualifications etc.)
It’s pretty scary really, seeing how badly this lot is developing. I wonder if it’s possible for Alan Sugar to sack all of ’em, and just not take any of them on?
I’m not a big “Reality TV” fan, so I didn’t watch the last series (were there more?), but I’ve started watching this from about episode three… It’s great!
I agree that none of them are really shining through, if I had to hire one it would probably be Ruth as her Bullshit quota is slightly lower than the others.
I think it says something about the hoards of graduates who leave university and go straight into “management roles”, there is no substitute for having a bit of knowledge and experience of the product/service that your employer provides*, can your boss do your job?
*unless you work for a management consultancy, then you only need to give good PowerPoint.
It’s a brilliantly bittersweet programme – every week, you laugh at a bunch of self-important retards failing hilariously at a simple task and watch as their massive egos clash and they fight to tooth and nail over who decided that you need one chicken per pizza – and then you weep into your dinner as you realise that one of these pieces of human waste is going to walk away with a job worth £100k. Of course, how long they hang on to that job is rather open to question, and one can take solace in the fact that last year’s winner, Tim, has basically been given the job of selling an Amstrad-branded home facelift machine. Ahahaha, hahaha, haha, ha.