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The women on The Apprentice

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WidowWadman · 28/03/2012 22:05

Second week of men vs women, with me watching from behind the sofa and cringing badly.

Both weeks the women's team explicitly shows lack of any acumen when it comes to the finance side of the project, and concentrates on coming up with a pretty crap product and bickering and stitching each other up.

Is it the editing? Or have they purposely recruited female canditates who showed no interest in margins?

It will get better once the teams are mixed up, but the current set up just screams "women can't do business".

I just wonder whether that's by design or accident.

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Dworkin · 28/03/2012 23:25

Surely that should read the 'ladies' versus the 'boys'. And no, we didn't get to see the financial model from the 'boys' because of the editing. It's just to spice it up.

Widow, come on, you should be ashamed of yourself for believing such shit nonsense.

DowagersHump · 28/03/2012 22:21

Yeah they did focus on the boys numbers last week and we had no idea what the women were charging, nor what their margins were. That's what I hate about the programme - you never get to see both sides of any particular debate. It's really crap editing IMO.

And yes, I also hate the men vs women thing they do.

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WidowWadman · 28/03/2012 22:18

Dowagershump not today, agreed, but last week they were talking a lot about margin (I remember, because I noticed)

Hopefully they mix up next week

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G0ldenbrown · 28/03/2012 22:18

We saw they boys talking numbers last week. So much so that there product was rubbish, numbers was all they mentioned

WipsGlitter · 28/03/2012 22:15

But in this case; they couldn't do the maths! But I agree it is crap when they do men v women. It's such a dated way of forming teams.

DowagersHump · 28/03/2012 22:14

We don't know what the boys' financial modelling was do we? We didn't get to see them talk about margins or costs or anything.

NoWave · 28/03/2012 22:14

The editing can make it look like anything, really. People, words, all cut and spliced.

G0ldenbrown · 28/03/2012 22:11

Oh, I'm SOOOOO glad someone agrees with me on this. I love the apprentice but the first few weeks always bug me for this reason. How come the boys always look like they have business heads and the girls always complain that they can't do maths?

I had this argument on FB last week (and was told by many men that i was wrong), but it's like on the boys team you have 7 good business men and 3 'characters' and on the womans you have 3 good business woman and 7 good looking idiots 'characters'

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WidowWadman · 28/03/2012 22:09

But the editing can't really make them mess up their financial modelling, can it?

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NoWave · 28/03/2012 22:08

Not

NoWave · 28/03/2012 22:08

It's the editing. You can see it- I was thinking, this time, they are not even pretending that it's nor heavily edited.

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