Comments on: “The Apprentice” candidates are all washed up http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2009/05/14/the-apprentice-candidates-are-all-washed-up/ Insights from the UK and beyond Sat, 18 May 2013 06:49:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Keith M Warwick http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2009/05/14/the-apprentice-candidates-are-all-washed-up/comment-page-1/#comment-8854 Keith M Warwick Fri, 15 May 2009 05:34:57 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/?p=2614#comment-8854 The Apprentice is one of the most facile, vacuous, disingenuous non-reality series ever concieved. It's meaningless raison detre is staggering! That Alan Sugar - not one of the greatest or richest business czars - sits like an inscrutable yet wholly predictable (split between fantasy and reality) angel of judgement, adds to the grotesque carnavalesque quality of the whole laughable debacle. The contestants are the usual suspects: posers, hysterics, inadequates, the stupid/silly, the vain glorious, and those severely taxed by the minimum requirements of the basic teamwork tenets. It illustrates monumentally how NOT to run a business! The Apprentice is one of the most facile, vacuous, disingenuous non-reality series ever concieved. It’s meaningless raison detre is staggering!

That Alan Sugar – not one of the greatest or richest business czars – sits like an inscrutable yet wholly predictable (split between fantasy and reality) angel of judgement, adds to the grotesque carnavalesque quality of the whole laughable debacle.

The contestants are the usual suspects: posers, hysterics, inadequates, the stupid/silly, the vain glorious, and those severely taxed by the minimum requirements of the basic teamwork tenets.

It illustrates monumentally how NOT to run a business!

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