Re: "You're constructively fired"! - Apprentice winner : Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:17 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

This is where my "Rule of Life #20" comes into play - Don't feed the lawyers.

Seriously, just walk away, shoite happens, so you won a TV show where you were promised one years employment at £100,000 but you had to do nothing at all for the money except file some letters - have a look at the queue at the door as you leave the building, all of those people are waiting for your £100k filing job you silly b1tch.

Having earned £82,000 at an investment bank before she went on the telly it shoudln't be too hard for her to climb back on the horse and think of her easy 12 months at Mr Sugar's TV Production Company's expense.

In this case I would agree but there are numerous other people in a position where an unfair dismissal tribunal will prevent them moving on. For it to drag on two years is bonkers

Re: "You're constructively fired"! - Apprentice winner : Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:45 am  

Having only watched a couple of these programmes, my question is 'would you employ ANY of these chancers in your company'. They all seem to be ego maniacs with very little REAL talent and are just seeking there 15 minutes.

Re: "You're constructively fired"! - Apprentice winner : Thu Mar 07, 2013 11:14 am  

rover49 wrote:

Having only watched a couple of these programmes, my question is 'would you employ ANY of these chancers in your company'. They all seem to be ego maniacs with very little REAL talent and are just seeking there 15 minutes.

Sadly HR departments seem to have adopted this model for their graduate recruitment programmes with the result that they end up with a bunch of new recruits whose sole ambition is to get noticed and rise to the top without ever getting their hands dirty. They seem to have forgotten that they still need someone to crunch numbers and analyse data.

Re: "You're constructively fired"! - Apprentice winner : Thu Mar 07, 2013 11:47 am  

I don't understand why she accepted the job in the first place, without knowing what her duties and responsibilities would be. Why did she even enter the interview process without knowing what she would be doing should she be successful and get the job?

Presumably when Lord Sugar said "your hired" she said "to do what exactly?" before accepting.

Re: "You're constructively fired"! - Apprentice winner : Thu Mar 07, 2013 12:23 pm  

EHW wrote:

I don't understand why she accepted the job in the first place, without knowing what her duties and responsibilities would be. Why did she even enter the interview process without knowing what she would be doing should she be successful and get the job?

Presumably when Lord Sugar said "your hired" she said "to do what exactly?" before accepting.

Well, it wasn't exactly like that, it was like a competition thingy on the telly, and she won.

Re: "You're constructively fired"! - Apprentice winner : Thu Mar 07, 2013 12:54 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

In this case I would agree but there are numerous other people in a position where an unfair dismissal tribunal will prevent them moving on. For it to drag on two years is bonkers

Its only around 11 months from the time she ended her employment.

Re: "You're constructively fired"! - Apprentice winner : Thu Mar 07, 2013 12:59 pm  

EHW wrote:

I don't understand why she accepted the job in the first place, without knowing what her duties and responsibilities would be.

I can think of 100,000 of them.

EHW wrote:

Why did she even enter the interview process without knowing what she would be doing should she be successful and get the job?

Presumably when Lord Sugar said "your hired" she said "to do what exactly?" before accepting.

To make a difference at Viglen, all the candidates knew where the job would be before they got to the final stages (the TV shows) Bordan's quote of "doesn't do very much" sums up the claimant very well.

Re: "You're constructively fired"! - Apprentice winner : Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:37 pm  

rover49 wrote:

Having only watched a couple of these programmes, my question is 'would you employ ANY of these chancers in your company'. They all seem to be ego maniacs with very little REAL talent and are just seeking there 15 minutes.

Nail on the head there.

I too, usually have better things to do than to watch this tedious parade of puffed-up blame-mongers.
There was one straightforward contestant some years back who could manage people, actually got stuff done and could sell.
She didn't win.

Re: "You're constructively fired"! - Apprentice winner : Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:28 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

This is where my "Rule of Life #20" comes into play - Don't feed the lawyers.

Seriously, just walk away, shoite happens, so you won a TV show where you were promised one years employment at £100,000 but you had to do nothing at all for the money except file some letters - have a look at the queue at the door as you leave the building, all of those people are waiting for your £100k filing job you silly b1tch.

Having earned £82,000 at an investment bank before she went on the telly it shoudln't be too hard for her to climb back on the horse and think of her easy 12 months at Mr Sugar's TV Production Company's expense.

I guess Lord Sugar may be right when he says she seems interested in a career in the media and is hankering publicity? No one in the right mind would have given up a reasonably well paid job in an investment bank for a £100,000 game show prize. By taking this sort of action she will be unemployable in the "real world" so she has probably consigned herself to the media, self-employment, entrepreneurship or...... politics!

Re: "You're constructively fired"! - Apprentice winner : Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:30 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

I can think of 100,000 of them.

she was apparently already earning £82,000 in an investment bank, so the money cant have been that big a factor for her.