Viva Difference
5 June 2008 @ 9:05
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I am really peeved about The Apprentice. It is hard to see how someone who currently earns over £100,000 a year on contract jobs can be less employable than someone who is caught out lying about their education on a CV. Or someone who has very little to say about themselves other than ‘at my age, which is by the way TWENTY-FOUR. Did I mention I am TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD?’ and gets hugely tetchy whenever anyone suggests he might not have a “good” education. ‘I’VE BEEN AT PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR FOURTEEN OF MY TWENTY-FOUR YEARS’ he cries, afterwards twitching his lips irritably… Once again S’Alan was caught up by the token sob story! He said he didn’t want to hear it, told Helene for two weeks in a row he ‘doesn’t know that she’s about’ and then fires Lucinda saying all the remaining candidates ‘have something about them’. Yes, two alcoholic parents and a ‘hard start in life’, apparently. Another thing that annoyed me was all the going on about spelling. Like that indicates intelligence. OK, so intelligence does dictate the use of a spell-check or someone who can spell to check over one’s CV, but I cannot spell either… Looking at some ghastly business person taking great pleasure from pointing out spelling mistakes - especially when he read out a whole sentence and then said ‘I can’t understand that, it is incomprehensible’; ell how come you just read it all then?!!? - is really boring and bullying. Bullying. The bi-word for this year’s series, in my view. First Nicholas De Lacy Brown got ganged up on by the TWENTY-FOUR YEAR OLD and Lee (after all, stupid though he was, he DID say I think lobsters are more expensive than that and left the final decision on pricing to 24YR-OLD, didn’t he?). Then it was Sara. Alongside both has been Lucinda, who has been targeted by the whole group since the off. Mainly, it seems because she is a bit different. Oh well, if you earn £100,000 a year, wear what you like and don’t have to work for S’Alan, I’d say viva difference, myself… |
