Ok time now for another post on The Apprentice, as the eighth series is now into the 10th episode and with two weeks remaining they are starting get down to the real business end of the process, so here's more on the task for this week.
This week the two teams had to come up deals that they could negotiate with high end businesses in London and do daily deals on a website for only 24 hours, and the team with the most discount sales would win the task, while the other would suffer the usual fate, with one of the team being fired. So team Sterling, lead by Stephen, came up with going after restaurant deal offers, but Ricky on their team wasted alot of time in the morning trying to persuade one of the restuarants to accept a deal, but he later went to ensure two deals with two other restaurants. Stephen and Gabrille however got discounts but neglected to go with the brief with specified it had to be with the high end businesses. Team Phoenix lead by Jade, however went with making discount deals for a high end spa and got a 50% discount, but she poorly organised her meetings and get her appointments in order.
Back in the boardroom as usual we soon found out what was what as the two teams gave an account to Lord Sugar what they did etc. But the task was all about the figures and it was revealed that team Phoenix were the winners as they pulled in the most sales with an impressive £14,563, as opposed to Sterling's disappointing £6,440. So team Phoenix enjoyed another victory and reward, which this time was a meal out at a country house.
As for team Sterling, as there were only three members left, they all had to go back in the boardroom together. Stephen debated that while he was at fault for not going to the restaurants with Ricky, that he felt that Gabrielle contributed very little to the task. Ricky however contributed the most in terms of sales in the task as he was reponsible for over £5,000 of their sales, and did his usual assertive job of defending himself in the boardroom. Gabrielle however struggled to make her plea as strong as the two guys did, and realised her faults in the task, but also felt that the failure of the task lay solely with Stephen. But in the end, Lord Sugar decided that due to the lack of contribution and lack of passion in later tasks, that with regret, Gabrille had to go. But... wait! There wasn't to be just one firing, there was another as well, as Lord Sugar gave Stephen the chance of being project manager this week to prove himself, but as he didn't delivered he was let go as well! Yes! Mwah mwah!
Well I can't really argue too much with Lord Sugar's decision to fire Stephen as I thought he really was a bit of an arse, and he was out of his depth in the process, and more often that not, he kept bumbling his way through tasks. He also failed to task responsibility for his actions in certain tasks and was too quick to blame others as well, so I was quite pleased to see the back of him. As for Gabrielle, I kind of agree with Lord Sugar's decision to fire her, but at the same time I felt she should have stayed, as she was a really good candidate, and after 10 weeks its easy for any candidate's passion to drop off. But sooner or later Lord Sugar really has to get down to brass tacks and sort out who he wants to stay and who he wants to let go, so good candidates along the way will fall foul of the show's format.
Anywayyy that's another Apprentice post over with, and with only two weeks left its getting closer to the final stage, where the remaining candidates will present their business plans and come under fire from Lord Sugar's experts. But one more task remains and that will be next week, so its gonna be fun.
Right that's it!
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