The Apprentice Tonight?

[ToraToraTora]

Do you reckon they compensated those poor trippers behind the scenes? What a shower!

[lardhelmet]

I hope so. They woz robbed!

[ToraToraTora]

Gemma: "Henry and Anne grew apart! " - PMSL that's an understatement!

[silliemillie]

I though Nick or Karren were going to say that some of them asked for a refund and that would be taken off the profits.

[Stargazer]

I can see what a difficult task it would be to accomplish this "task" in just two days. James is a nightmare but probably the most like Alan Sugar himself. I would absolutely dread having Alan Sugar as a business partner. He himself is such a smart Alec in his well rehearsed put downs and carefully thought out witticisms.

[Zacs-Master]

You mean 'carefully written for him witticisms'.

[lardhelmet]

I agreed with Sarah Millican that she would have called James back into the boardroom. Lord Sugar was clearly disappointed he wasn't called back in.

[Stargazer]

Quite! Zacs-Master. He is a wide boy and his grammar is typical "We was" and "You done" etc. He is rude and overbearing and I cannot imagine him smiling with genuine pleasure or showing tenderness. I wonder if he actually has a soft underbelly!

[VHG]

>>called James back into the boardroom.

While I agree he is a "dick" he is entertaining, and shows like the apprentice need entertaining people on them.

The girl that went out last night was rather "dull" and you cant have a load of dull people on the show or no one would watch it.

However I cant believe James has many weeks left.

[paulllambert]

I can imagine James being a nasty piece of work "in the real World". Horrid man IMO

[silliemillie]

.Paul, yes it looks like he is, he's previously been convicted of assault according to the newspapers.

[DTCwordfan]

Do people believe that the business world operates in the manner these clowns do? I seriously hope not.

[VHG]

>>>Do people believe that the business world operates in the manner these clowns do?

Not quite, but most of the tasks do feature things would come across in the "real world" such as buying, selling, negotiating etc.

So getting pricing right is important (the people last week lost because they under priced their candles, and this week they lost because they under priced their coach tickets).

And remember the week with the famous "T shirts" debacle.

The teams were given a pile of unrelated items (lemons, potatoes, flowers, T shirts etc).

The key thing was to spot the items you could make the most money on and focus on them. The lemons and potatoes were never going to make you a lot of money so you focus on the T shirts.

Both teams failed to make any money on the T shirts, but the "worst" team never even went back to pick them up.

Also all these tasks are done at short notice, under some speed, and are often outside the skill area of the people involved, and sometimes in the real world these things happen.

So all these lessons are useful for the real world.

However it is still an "entertainment" show.