{"id":524,"date":"2008-05-07T21:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2012-05-03T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T19:01:00","slug":"the-apprentice-no-sorcerer-in-sight-%e2%80%93-bbc1-2100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"The Apprentice (no Sorcerer in sight) BBC1, 21.00"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Bloody Hell.<\/p>\n<p>These people are supposed to be bright?<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re chasing a low six-figure salary?<\/p>\n<p>This evening we have two teams of candidates running around on a shopping expedition in Marrakesh.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the gobby northern twat &#8211; Claire &#8211; who is so mouthy that she&#8217;s stealing everybody else&#8217;s oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>She embarrasses me.<\/p>\n<p>That I&#8217;m a member of the same species as her &#8211; that&#8217;s what embarrasses me.<\/p>\n<p>She doesn&#8217;t know the meaning of the word &#8216;silent&#8217;. She doesn&#8217;t know what the word &#8216;tact&#8217; means.<\/p>\n<p>And she&#8217;s so much in denial that it&#8217;s actually beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, bless him, is trying.<\/p>\n<p>But sadly he&#8217;s trapped in the back of a taxi with a Muslim girl who apparently doesn&#8217;t understand the concept of evening prayer in an African country.<\/p>\n<p>And let me get this straight&#8230; Jenny (the tall read-headed candidate) who tries to bribe a member of staff in a store to <em>not<\/em> supply the opposing team is applying for a job as PA to Sir Alan Sugar (AMS)?<\/p>\n<p>Yet she shows the ethics of Fagin?<\/p>\n<p>Does she honestly think that AMS wants to be associated with someone like that?<\/p>\n<p>Back in AMS&#8217;s boardroom she opens her mouth and lies and lies and lies.<\/p>\n<p>The team leader (also a Jennifer &#8211; but another one) is frankly, a brainless, spineless, game-playing Northern Irish bint.<\/p>\n<p>And on their team they have a person who describes himself as &#8216;a nice Jewish boy&#8217; who doesn&#8217;t know the difference between Kosher and Halal?<\/p>\n<p>These are allegedly intelligent people?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile on the other team we see a degree of control that&#8217;s completely absent from the former team.<\/p>\n<p>In particular Rafe is a real player &#8211; though I strongly suspect he&#8217;s doing so well in Marrakesh because of his looks, appearance and above all, his excellent demeanour.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m warming to him.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s improving with time.<\/p>\n<p>I realise that The Apprentice is car crash television but some of these people are so contemptible that they almost defy belief.<\/p>\n<p>In the taxi back to the house the aforementioned gobby northern twat &#8211; Claire &#8211; tells us that her nickname at work is &#8216;Rottweiler&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got news for you Claire.<\/p>\n<p>That nickname is nothing to do with your attitude.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s because you&#8217;re a dog.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Bloody Hell. These people are supposed to be bright? They&#8217;re chasing a low six-figure salary? This evening we have two teams of candidates running<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}