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Why do they say.. Thank You ?

  • 24-06-2011 2:36pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭


    Was watching The Apprentice and Dragons Den the other night and was struck at how mild mannered the contestants are even when they're treated like sh!t. I mean why say thank you when you're just been rejected, have any of these people got any backbone?

    Dragon: I've got no interest in investing in you i'm out!

    Entrepreneur: Thank you :rolleyes:

    __________________________________________________________

    Alan Sugar: You're Fired!

    Apprentice: I'd like to thank you for giving me this opportunity Lord Sugar:rolleyes:

    I'd just wish they'd say..."ah go f*ck yourself" and give them the single finger in the process


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    they are saying thank you to the people watching for enduring the crap that is the apprentice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Politeness? "Thanks for listening to my shoddy presentation on a useless product."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭greenybaby


    They were brought up to have good manners, simple as that :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭Azureus


    They're usually only treated like **** when theyve come in with a ridiculous idea with no business sense and inflated estimations of what their business is actually worth.

    Saying thank you for the opportunity to be taken seriously/wasting peoples time when hand on heart they knew they hadnt a hope in hell I imagine.


  • Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Because you can't recross bridges you've burned.

    Same reason you don't give the two finger salute to your last employer or landlord if you want to be able to use them as a reference in future.

    At the very least, if you're polite then the "dragon" might be willing to point you to someone they know who might be more interested after the show.

    Edit: also, any potential investors, customers watching the show will be less likely to have confidence in someone who throws a strop after receiving some criticism.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    It's all about being humble even though you feel like you want to tell them to gtfo .The possibility that you might need come into contact with and need the services of the Alan Sugars ( or the Irish equivalent ) of this world again might also be at the back of ones mind


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭TheBunk1


    They say thank you because they weren't brought up like wild animals and have some respect for their elders...

    I, on the other hand would launch into a foul-mouthed tirade and indeed tell Old Scrotum Face Alan to go f*ck himself and that I didn't want his poxy job in the first place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 449 ✭✭stephen_k


    You've just been sacked for being sh*te..
    You then verbally abuse your previous employer on national television...
    Upcoming job prospects = Nil


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    but the other night on The Apprentice..Alan Sugar ripped the piss out of that young chap Leon and then fired him!

    and all the young fella could say was..."oh thank you for giving me this opportunity Lord Sugar"

    i was screaming at the telly ..tell him to f*ck off!!!:mad: (which Sugar deserved)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Rejection is a pain in the ass but the best recourse is to go out there and prove them all wrong .


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    Because they're being watched by millions of people and potential employers who wouldn't like to employ someone like that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭Pique


    They should just say "Thank you Alan, for giving me this opportunity and I'm sorry that I wasn't right for the role.".

    Calling him 'Alan' when he's so anal about being called LORD Sugar, would piss him off royally (no pun intended) but at the same time, they are being polite and magnanimous about the whole "You're Fired" thing.

    2 birds, 1 stone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    UrbanSea wrote: »
    Because they're being watched by millions of people and potential employers who wouldn't like to employ someone like that

    yes, but then again maybe a potential employer might admire someone who stood up to him:cool:

    "now there's a guy/girl with spunk"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    fryup wrote: »
    yes, but then again maybe a potential employer might admire someone who stood up to him:cool:

    "now there's a guy/girl with spunk"

    Or the employer might be thinking '' if he can tell Alan Sugar to F...Off what might say to me '' ? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    fryup wrote: »
    yes, but then again maybe a potential employer might admire someone who stood up to him:cool:

    "now there's a guy/girl with spunk"

    True,but in turn,companies they're dealing with would know him as a bollocks and less likely to deal with them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    BLAST THEM WITH MANNERS!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    "Oh Alan, you have just made the biggest mistake of your fucking life. You will see me again, Alan. Don't you worry about that. You will fucking see me again, and when you do, I'll be firing you."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Maybe they have to sign a contract before they appear on the programme that says they have to say thank you. It's like when Anne Robinson tells people they're ugly and stupid and they just take it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭Pdfile


    you always say please and thank you OP. Manners is everything ( unelss your facekicker or terry... only exceptions ) :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    RayM wrote: »
    and when you do, I'll be firing AT you."

    fixed it I did. you're welks. xx


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    I've found myself saying thanks to ATMs before. It's a reflex, I think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    It's like when Anne Robinson tells people they're ugly and stupid and they just take it.

    "Hey, Anne... I might be a bit overweight, and I didn't know the capital of Chad, but at least I'm not a heavily-botoxed, twice-divorced, alcoholic former tabloid hack who couldn't keep custody of her own daughter."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Pdfile wrote: »
    you always say please and thank you OP. Manners is everything

    i'm all for manners but it must be both ways

    but saying thank you when you're being dismissed in such an arrogant fashion is just a step too far for me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    I was at an AGM where the shareholders weren't too happy (no not any of the banks) but no matter now hacked off or aggressive the question was the CEO always opened with "Thank you for the question..." and then would go on to answer it.

    Just seems to be a leveller, someone's going mad at you and you've the calmness to thank them, like you're not phased by it. It's business and it's all about presentation, you think the 2nd best product on the market has an advert saying "we're the 2nd best"? not at all, it's about presentation, and to an extent, lying.

    So, if you can't gather yourself together, say thank you to the fella who just fired you then you shouldn't expect to go too far in business.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    RayM wrote: »
    "Hey, Anne... I might be a bit overweight, and I didn't know the capital of Chad, but at least I'm not a heavily-botoxed, twice-divorced, alcoholic former tabloid hack who couldn't keep custody of her own daughter."

    Didn't know Frankie Boyle was on boards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    fryup wrote: »
    Was watching The Apprentice and Dragons Den the other night and was struck at how mild mannered the contestants are even when they're treated like sh!t. I mean why say thank you when you're just been rejected, have any of these people got any backbone?

    Dragon: I've got no interest in investing in you i'm out!

    Entrepreneur: Thank you :rolleyes:

    __________________________________________________________

    Alan Sugar: You're Fired!

    Apprentice: I'd like to thank you for giving me this opportunity Lord Sugar:rolleyes:

    I'd just wish they'd say..."ah go f*ck yourself" and give them the single finger in the process
    Well the dragons are supposed to be experts so the "contestants" would be used to thanking experts for their time even if it wasn't what they wanted to hear.

    Your supposed to be open to criticism in business you need to hear it, and it can often be useful. Businesses that go around expected to be patted on the back no matter what deserve to fail.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 758 ✭✭✭whydoibother?


    Maybe they have to sign a contract before they appear on the programme that says they have to say thank you. It's like when Anne Robinson tells people they're ugly and stupid and they just take it.

    Yeah, while there are obvious reasons not to shout a tirade of abuse at the person, I don't understand people who say thank you in every situation, no matter how they've been treated. There is the option of silence/ignoring the person etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    EL_Loco wrote: »
    I was at an AGM where the shareholders weren't too happy (no not any of the banks) but no matter now hacked off or aggressive the question was the CEO always opened with "Thank you for the question..." and then would go on to answer it.
    well, thats a whole lot better than we get from our politicans: "I'm glad you asked me that..." and then go on to give thier spiel, no matter how relevent it is (kinda like this post, tbh, f*ckin politicans, i hate them...)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Well the dragons are supposed to be experts so the "contestants" would be used to thanking experts for their time even if it wasn't what they wanted to hear.

    Niall O'Farrell an expert.... Yeah right!! :rolleyes:

    I also like how you said "supposed" :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    actually, the first fella to get fired, not sure if he said thank you initially, but Sugar made a comment as the fired chap was at the door. So the chap turned, paused, didn't say anything, sneered a bit, and went.

    So they don't all take it so well. Haven't seen any episodes since, but they must all be saying thank you or this thread wouldn't be here ;) It's AH, every thread is here for a good reason.

    and on a side note, why isn't it 6pm yet......... c'mon!


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