It is a photography task on "The Apprentice" tomorrow

candlestick said:
A great example of the 'class' snobbery that was discussed on shrimperblue's thread the other week!! :thumbsdown:
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Yes i was thinking similar to yourself... what exactly is wrong with a 400D for taking portraits :shrug:
 
I'm sure the contestants would have done things differently with the benefit of hindsight. However, only one seemed to have some interest in photography, and the others didn't.

It was really a sales task and a production task, they took the sales but couldn't deliver the goods.
 
Glitter said:
I could not believe that they set up their stand 10 min walk away from their back office developing room!
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I don't think they had a choice, that's how the program works surely everyone has worked this out. EVERY show they split the teams into two, they are told to do that. The setting up 10mins away for production was dictated by the show, not the teams.
 
Great telly though isn't it. I've purposely avoided the previous series as I caught bits and thought the people would just wind me up too much.
However, that's the point of the show, and it works. Great stuff.

Does anyone else think 'sir' Alan is a bit of tool though. I think he's fired the wrong person every time this series. He just strikes me as a barra' boy who struck lucky. I mean Amstrad, come on, they were rubbish computers (spectrum owner meself :))
 
Also, it's all in the cut. Things aren't quite what they seem. All depends what you want to believe, I suppose. Personally, I don't have a TV, so it's not really a problem...
 
tel48 said:
Yes i was thinking similar to yourself... what exactly is wrong with a 400D for taking portraits :shrug:
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Nothing wrong with the 400D I have one I was talking about the kit lens.
 
The Amstrad ranges were very popular - they were popular enough to enable Amstrad to buy out Sinclair's computing division.

Amstrad doesn't get enough credit for bringing PC compatibles to where they are now. If it wasn't for those early PC clones for £ 400, who knows what would have happened?
 
Dangleman said:
Does anyone else think 'sir' Alan is a bit of tool though. I think he's fired the wrong person every time this series. He just strikes me as a barra' boy who struck lucky. I mean Amstrad, come on, they were rubbish computers (spectrum owner meself :))
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Actually that's how he got started if memory serves me right, selling car stereo aerials off a barrow in the east end. Amstrad as a company is derived from "Alan Michael Sugar Trading".

Yes, the early computers were rubbish, but more from a production point. He took short cuts and, for example, cut out the psu in the main box and drew power via the monitor. That said, they were popular and did their bit to put pc's in the hands of the masses. He used a similar tactic with audio tower systems in the late 70's - instead of trying to make discreet components such as amps, tuners, equalisers, all housed in a cabinet etc, he had a chipboard elcheapo tower with just one board in the bottom of it and a front panel pressed to appear like it was discreet components.

Personally, having professionally repaired too many of his products, I wouldn't touch Amstrad stuff with a barge pole. However, I do admire his survival instincts (he's come close to going out of business a few times)!
 
In my view.

The obvious thing to have done would have been to assess the teams skills, so you can determine who can do what.

Secondly, the manager should have been at the back office end making sure that the processes work. It wouldn't have taken long to get one of the others into the swing of taking pictures, he could then of overseen what was happening in the office.

One card per customer should have been the way to do it. And I agree that the processing section should have been on site.

However, we don't get to see it all. But leaving that somebody that wants to see you fail in charge of a major part of the project was foolish. Simon wasn't a bad manager, he was just naive.

It's no longer about who can be the next Alan Sugar, it's now more like "Big Brother in the office".

Steve
 
icecavern said:
Rubbish that sold millions... He's not stupid.

Pete
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Dangleman said:
If you were a young kid in the eighties like I was, it certainly was an issue. And don't even mention commodore 64's :)
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I was, and I remember the school yard "debates" all too well, ah, those were the days.

(PS, Amiga, Atari :shrug:)
 
My cousin had a Commodore 64, it had sound
I had a Specky, it had.....err....clicks.


I hated my cousin:lol:
 
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