Apprentice-watchers pray Woody Allen was wrong

I too found The Apprentice intriguing. Having watched the American version also, it was interesting to see the differences between the two sets of candidates (in my book, the Americans were stronger and hungrier.) It would be nice to have a follow up programme showing what all the candidates were doing now, and what exactly is the winners job - VP of eMailer Plus, shipped out to an office in China or something?

I would like to point out that the phrase is not "Your fired," but "You're fired." The latter is an abbreviation for "you are," therefore this is the correct expression. The former refers to something which belongs to you i.e. your accounting practices.

Angela Walker

Although the series 'The Apprentice' was originally an American show, I gather that it was conceived by an ex-pat Englishman! Sir Alan was interviewed on the radio part way into the series, and he made it clear that he wasn't at all keen on his new catchphrase. It was, he said, a contractual obligation of the American owners that this had to be used at all 'sackings'. As an inveterate people watcher, I found the whole thing fascinating. Like many, I couldn't work out how Saira managed to stay untill the final; I would have sacked her on day one just to get a bit if peace.

Sir Alan was also quoted as saying that he considered that four, I think, of the contestants should never have been there in the first place but that he had no say in the matter.

Of course the interesting thing will be to see if Tim is still with Sir Alan in six months or a year's time.

even candidates have rights now a days which must be respected..

I must admit I enjoyed this series in parts - although every week I cringed at how Alan Sugar's chair was jacked up so he appeared to loom above everyone else when sat down. For goodness sake, you could see his knees were touching the board room table.

I was amazed that Siara got to the final. Sure she could sell, but she spoke v e r y s l o w l y to people as if they were idiots.
She had no inter-personal skills so I was watching really in frustration at how far she got.

The fact was that the show was called The Apprentice and that was what Tim was - some of the others had years of experience so they should obviously have fallen by the wayside. the salary was irrelevant - that was more a prize for winning a reality TV series than a true salary.

As many people probably know "The Apprectice" was not a UK idea but came over from the States where the "Boss" was Donald Trump and the catchphrase was invented by him and picked up by the UK producers as it caused such a reaction over there.

I doubt very much that the UK TV producers sat down and thought during a planning meeting for the show "What are the potential areas of UK employment law that we could be encouraging the contrevention of?"

It's an interesting point though!

I cannot understand anybody wanting to work for Alan Sugar in the first place. The winner should have been the one who got away!!