The Apprentice - where do these eejits work?

jaycen · 22-10-2008 04:57PM #1

I've watched a couple of episodes of the apprentice, getting hooked TBH

but I have one big question after watching these people try to sell products and services: where do they work?

As sales people they're terrible, basic mistakes on names, prices etc, what's going on? The fact they all come from good jobs apparently, sales managers, account manager etc is beyond me, is this the result of the celtic tiger, easy sales - promotion for even the worst sales reps?

I work in technical sales (I don't consider myself particularly brilliant at it either) but have never messed up on a pitch with the customer's name or their product's name :eek:

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enda1 · 22-10-2008 05:01PM

Maybe its a bit more difficult when on television than in a room of a few people?

That said, they are a bit dim I've always found.

marcsignal · 22-10-2008 05:01PM

I can't see that programme lasting, they should start selling smuggled cigarettes instead and they'll be on a winner..

bruce wayne · 22-10-2008 05:03PM

my guess would be snap printing.....thats where they seem to spend half of every ep every week !

Gone Drinking · 22-10-2008 05:04PM

I'm waiting for them to make "The Apprenticeship" where you watch 6 hopefull school leavers fight for a place in a phase 4 sparking course.

C'mon Anto!1

Dord · 22-10-2008 05:05PM

marcsignal wrote: »

I can't see that programme lasting, they should start selling smuggled cigarettes instead and they'll be on a winner..

Nah, red diesel would be better. Maybe we'd see a cross over between The Apprentice on TV3 and that customs & excise program on RTE.

Mark200 · 22-10-2008 05:08PM

I think it's a poor attempt to copy the British / American version. The British one is the best, I love it.

I don't think Bill Cullen is as entertaining/intelligent as Alan Sugar, and he's not as successful as Donald Trump. The programme gives very little time to their actual task. You could watch 20 minutes of it and they'd have done nothing, next thing they're walking out of the room where they've just given their presentation

marcsignal · 22-10-2008 05:10PM

Dord wrote: »

Nah, red diesel would be better. Maybe we'd see a cross over between The Apprentice on TV3 and that customs & excise program on RTE.

now yer talkin

it reminds me of this programme too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tc6-vSYIMk

SheroN · 22-10-2008 05:13PM

Two or three of them have been to college. The guy who apparently is a 'Senior Sales Exectuive", worked in car phone warehouse.

It's a 100k package, I'm sure that includes all the benefits etc. Not sure it's worth ending your career to risk going for.

Darragh29 · 22-10-2008 05:21PM

If you gave me 100K, you couldn't get me to work in a business that is looking at a 36% decline in it's business, there isn't a Renault salesman in the country who isn't dreading Christmas this year, because Renault are the worst hit brand by the slowdown. You'd think Penny Apples would be paying more attention to his own business interests right now...

Raiser · 22-10-2008 05:32PM

Darragh29 wrote: »

If you gave me 100K, you couldn't get me to work in a business that is looking at a 36% decline in it's business, there isn't a Renault salesman in the country who isn't dreading Christmas this year, because Renault are the worst hit brand by the slowdown. You'd think Penny Apples would be paying more attention to his own business interests right now...

Anyone who can amass a fortune selling fcuking Renaults is either a genius salesperson or else has an unlimited supply of criminally stupid, indiscriminate, cash-wielding Muppets

jaycen · 22-10-2008 05:33PM

Darragh TBH if I worked in the motor trade a long time ago (tech not sales) it always makes money, it's just the source that changes.

I'm waiting for the car sales show, can't wait to see these expert salespeople actually try to make a real sale, it would be impossible to mess a car sale up...wouldn't it? :eek:

They're so amateur I'm sure a group of kids doing work experience could do better.

asdasd · 22-10-2008 05:36PM

but I have one big question after watching these people try to sell products and services: where do they work?

snort. They're on television. T-E-L-E-V-I-S-I-ON. It's not real.

They're all CGI.

SoupyNorman · 22-10-2008 06:22PM

Its the wrong format IMO..

Let me set the scene of how it should go,

Wicklow Mountains, 14 candidates, Bill chasing in an Apache Attack Helicoptor and his sidekick cronies running the contestants out of the bushes with a pot and a stick.

22-10-2008 06:59PM

Have a good friend whose been working on this,so I might aswell throw out a spoiler or two,based purely on my complete lack of interest and what I remember him telling me..

There have been lots of problems with the air conditioning in the boardroom since day one,hence the heavy sweating and loud over dramatic music played to mask the sound....the contestants House is in Portmarnock and its 2 ladies in the final

keen · 22-10-2008 07:23PM

"I'm looking for warrrieors, you're fired"

What a spastic.

Red Alert · 22-10-2008 07:39PM

Didn't one of the girls off the apprentice pop up on "The Clinic"?

4zn76tysfajdxp · 22-10-2008 07:43PM

Red Alert wrote: »

Didn't one of the girls off the apprentice pop up on "The Clinic"?

After your lobotomy, you need to get monthly check ups for a while.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 22-10-2008 07:45PM

Whatever about the contestants, what about that Jackie Lavin monster?..

THE MONSTER

She's got a face like Lego, its in bleed'n bits.

Cunny-Funt · 22-10-2008 07:50PM

asdasd wrote: »

snort. They're on television. T-E-L-E-V-I-S-I-ON. It's not real.

They're all CGI.

Not far off tbh. Everyone forgets how "unreal" "reality" TV is. If everyone was perfect it would not make good tv.

SoupyNorman · 22-10-2008 07:51PM

Mairt wrote: »

Whatever about the contestants, what about that Jackie Lavin monster?..

THE MONSTER

She's got a face like Lego, its in bleed'n bits.

Hes another angle...

http://www.pozun.com/skeletor.jpg

Varkov · 22-10-2008 08:51PM

Mwuhahaha! He-Man, you're fired!

PurpleBerry · 22-10-2008 09:13PM

We're lookin' fer warriors!

New catchphrase there

The_B_Man · 22-10-2008 11:04PM

Dont tell me they've started an irish version of this? *Cringe*

They shoulda got Mr Mikey Ryanair to do it, or at least Gay Byrne!

22-10-2008 11:54PM

I've just started watching this, it's so entertaining. Most of them come across as being totally dim. Johanna is a complete looper.

Bob the Builder · 23-10-2008 12:04AM

haha, mikey ryanair. Michael O'Leary would never stoop so low.

kikel · 23-10-2008 12:10AM

LOL, check out a clip from next weeks show.

http://www.tv3.ie/shows.php?request=theapprentice

It looks like someone can't every figure out how to start a car.

dumbyearbook · 23-10-2008 12:29AM

Its TV if you dont like it switch it off, its reality TV at that - how good would you expect it to be? the show its based on is pretty much the same rubbish anyway, i've watched and its ok really passes an hour of a Monday I would'nt get too excited about the contestants, its very easy to comment on the mistakes made etc. from just watching it could be harder than it looks.....? Possible unlikely ill admit, but possible.

dumbyearbook · 23-10-2008 12:43AM

SheroN wrote: »

Two or three of them have been to college. The guy who apparently is a 'Senior Sales Exectuive", worked in car phone warehouse.

It's a 100k package, I'm sure that includes all the benefits etc. Not sure it's worth ending your career to risk going for.

No snobbery here anyway.

you're looking down the nose abit here maybe? - "sure they had fcUk all going for them anyway" such a typical attitude fair play.

pwd · 23-10-2008 04:54AM

one of them was in my class in school.
he was ok. kinda hyper. announced that his family had "their own private well" in geography while we were being told about water supplies.
comes across quite differently on the program - as he would since it's 13 years since I knew him.

nkay1985 · 23-10-2008 05:53AM

I'm a big fan of the UK and US versions but the people on the Irish one just seem so unprofessional in comparison. I think the programme itself looks quite good - production values etc. But the candidates are very poor.

The Apprentice - where do these eejits work?

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