The Apprentice – Baby Bear Says "Please Buy My Wedding Dresses"

Posted on : 21-05-2008 | By : admin | In : Management


Be warned
– this posting reveals who has been ‘fired’ from the
eighth episode and the rest
of the post is only my observation and opinion based upon 60 minutes of edited
TV, nothing more.

It was
6.30am, the phone rang, and it was
Francis telling the apprentices they had 30 minutes to get ready and the cars
would arrive. Oh and they needed to pack an overnight bag.

They have
just woken up, hair everywhere and with the morning after breath.

Thirty
minutes later, pristine, not a hair out of place and Raef had time to make his
bed! Did you see Raef make his bed – don’t you just love him?

How many
bathrooms does that house have?

This week’s
task was the Wedding Fair. Pick two stockists of Wedding gear and sell as much
as you can at the fair. One of the items had to be wedding dresses.

The team
leaders this week were
Helena – I do not like her. She thinks
she is much bigger than what she really is. Bossy and two-faced.

 

Bossy Helena

The other
Team Leader was Lucinda. I like Lucinda. Gets the job done without being
dictatorial. I think others like working for her.

 

I don’t think Lucinda is pregnant

Helena had a difficult job this week.
She certainly had the weakest members. Alex who just shifts blame onto others.
Emotional Michael who loves throwing his toys out his own pram.  Michael certainly needs to grow up.

Did you
see the part when Michael says, “I’ll give you a hug and a kiss, if you buy
now”. What a bonus! Yuk!

I bet the
customers were thinking, “No! I buy it if you don’t hug and kiss us!”

Another
Michael approach he used when he was trying to sell wedding cakes – unique
wedding cakes – and the customer said “No”.

“Have a dull cake then, if that is what you
want”.

Really,
are you going to buy from someone who says that to you?

When you
buy something the person, doing the selling also influences you.  No matter how good the product if you do not
have rapport with the seller, you are not going to buy.

Michael does
not understand that.

The other
thing about Michael is that if the customers do not buy from him, he blames
them. He doesn’t look at himself and think “Right, where did I go wrong? Next
time I need to change my approach”. No, he just calls the customers “Dumb,
dumbs” for not buying.

Michael,
you are an idiot.

However,
he is still there. He is the cat with nine lives. Therefore, Sir Allan (SAS)
must see something. I cannot.

As
Michael volunteered to show SAS what he could do, I expect to see Michael next
week as one of the Team Leaders. It depends upon who he has in his team whether
or not his team loses and then he gets fired.

I felt a
little sorry for this weeks ‘fired’ person – Sarah. She was in a weak team and
just did not defend herself in the boardroom very well.


Sarah got unfairly fired

I think
Alex or Michael should have gone.

Is Claire
going to do it and win or will she open her mouth and dig herself a big hole?

Will
Lee’s continual outburst of “That’s what I’m talking about” get right up SAS
nose and get him fired?

Will Raef
have the strength and character to defend himself when he faces being on a
losing team and almost being fired?


Raef as you have never seen him before!

Or will
Lucinda, the quiet, natural leader come through and pip everyone at the final
post?

Who
knows? SAS will decide. 

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