The Apprentice 2012 Thread

What a great episode.

When are these project managers going to learn that Sugar prefers people that put in a load of effort but fuck up, rather than people who do nothing. Ricky should have gone purely for bringing the wrong people back. Jenna & Nick did bugger all yet escaped the boardroom.

If I had to live with Jenna I would kill her inside a week. That voice is ghastly.

Jenna is from Preston so she can't really be blamed for her northern accent. Adam is a northerner as well and I think he will do well. He isn't full of himself.

Reebok Trotter wrote:Jenna is from Preston so she can't really be blamed for her northern accent. Adam is a northerner as well and I think he will do well. He isn't full of himself.

But he is an idiot. He's like that puppy that used to advertise toilet tissue.

xmiles wrote:
But he is an idiot.

From what I have seen they are all bloody idiots.

After the tedium of last night it's back to some proper TV tonight. Which pillock is going to humiliate themselves in this episode ?

If Jenna is in the losing team tonight the PM should bring her back to the boardroom - she has done nothing and is ripe to be fired.

Well Katie's lovely blue eyes didn't save her. Jenna may have a broad accent but she displays an enthusiastic work ethic.

And Adam proved yet again what a total plonker he is. He won't last much longer.

I said Sugar would bin Katie off first chance he got and I was right. She only survived last time because he didn't want to fire three women in a row.

Useless bitch.

Adam is my favourite candidate, in terms of entertainment. I like plain speaking people.

He did miss the point of the task though, he thought gourmet meant 'license to overcharge' rather than 'high quality, high pricing point'.

The highlights for me were when they were getting no sales outside Tyncastle and Katie rang up and suggested charging £7.99 instead of £5.99. I laughed my ass off at her stupidity.

Having said that, if he'd banged the portions out at £2 a throw they would have been queueing up and he would have made 300% gross margin. Trying to sell ANYTHING for 12 times what it cost you to make it, in volume, is practically impossible.

And once again I found myself cringing at the sales pitches, if you want to engage customers you don't ask them closed questions like "have you had your tea yet?" or "would you like to try some of our stew?", it's too easy for people to bat you off with yes or no answers.

The people trying to engage the passing customers should have had a little sample table set up with a bits of stew/meatball on sticks, got people over with the free samples, and while they had their mouths full, told them about the quality of the product and invited them over to the mobile kitchens. Samples make hungry people feel hungrier.

All these business brains and not a basic grasp of how customer's minds work between any of them.

largehat wrote:I said Sugar would bin Katie off first chance he got and I was right. She only survived last time because he didn't want to fire three women in a row.

Useless bitch.

Adam is my favourite candidate, in terms of entertainment. I like plain speaking people.

He did miss the point of the task though, he thought gourmet meant 'license to overcharge' rather than 'high quality, high pricing point'.

The highlights for me were when they were getting no sales outside Tyncastle and Katie rang up and suggested charging £7.99 instead of £5.99. I laughed my ass off at her stupidity.

Having said that, if he'd banged the portions out at £2 a throw they would have been queueing up and he would have made 300% gross margin. Trying to sell ANYTHING for 12 times what it cost you to make it, in volume, is practically impossible.

And once again I found myself cringing at the sales pitches, if you want to engage customers you don't ask them closed questions like "have you had your tea yet?" or "would you like to try some of our stew?", it's too easy for people to bat you off with yes or no answers.

The people trying to engage the passing customers should have had a little sample table set up with a bits of stew/meatball on sticks, got people over with the free samples, and while they had their mouths full, told them about the quality of the product and invited them over to the mobile kitchens. Samples make hungry people feel hungrier.

All these business brains and not a basic grasp of how customer's minds work between any of them.

My thoughts as well. I like Adam because he is clearly not a scheming backstabber. He is probably a bit too naive for the business world of Alan Sugar but at least he comes across as someone you could trust.

The Asian Sensation is still the Asian Sedation and needs to up his game. It's pleasing to see Adam and Jenna from the northwest showing us northerners in a good light.

I am not a fan of Adam myself. He is completely unaware of his own limitations. A couple of examples from last night:

1. he did not think he was in any way responsible for his team's failure despite being the team leader and insisting on buying the cheapest possible ingredients because he actually doesn't know what gourmet means (or believe that anyone ate sushi)

2. he was easily manipulated by the obnoxious and devious Steve in to bringing Azar into the boardroom thus overlooking Steve's own responsibility for their failure.

He was lucky to escape last night and will be out the next time he is in the boardroom.

I realised last night that the reason I don't like Steve (bug eyes) is because he looks a lot like Owen Coyle.

Another good episode though. Personally I can't stand Adam, blamed everyone but himself - and Sugar is just as bad, during the intro he said he wanted proper gourmet food and not cheap shite...then when Jenna's team did exactly that he called it a "risk" in the boardroom.

Ricky Martin is going to win this, he's the only one who can add up.

Natasha Whittam wrote:I realised last night that the reason I don't like Steve (bug eyes) is because he looks a lot like Owen Coyle.

As well as his bug eyes he has strange teeth. The last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.

Not a big fan of the Asian Sensation but the wrong person got fired tonight.

I missed all the fun last night. Did the Asian sedation get the fickle finger?

Reebok Trotter wrote:I missed all the fun last night. Did the Asian sedation get the fickle finger?

He did, but Jade should have gone bigtime. Perhaps the most useless PM of all time.

In fact, last nights show has pissed me off - it doesn't seem to be about the task anymore, and more whether Sugar thinks he could invest in them. Why bother with the tasks Sugar, just read their CVs and business plans and make your decision.

I suppose they have to spin it out for the viewing figures. Half of the tasks are pretty pointless anyway.

Reebok Trotter wrote:I suppose they have to spin it out for the viewing figures. Half of the tasks are pretty pointless anyway.

Yeah, but if you're going to have a task, who gets fired should be based solely on that task.

Not only did Jade fuck up the task, Sugar even tried to help her out by suggesting she brought Hipster's bird Laura back - but she chose Tom even though Karen Brady had already said he'd held the team together.

I missed it due to a pressing engagement elsewhere so I didn't see all the dynamics.

My money is on Tom to win the series.