Apprentice - Met Office sacks Katie!!

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link to BBC story here

leaves her time to launch her media career though...

oh dear!
look out media!

I always thought her salary and job details were suss as she was rubbish on any task that involved designing a brand. The trainer task was just laughable - her presentation skills were appalling.

oh dear

Have to say I'm not surprised. Wonder whose husband she'll use to get herself a huge salary again, this time...

Oh Dear, still now she can spend some time "playing mummy".

Hahaha - can't say I blame them at all, but can't say she'll be worse off either .

Tee Hee - it couldn't have happenned to a nicer person!

Why the yawn chippy??

Missed all this, so boss regaled me with the full story - will be watching the repeat tonite sounds highly entertaining

yawning because i'd prefer her to be deprived the oxygen of publicity...all she wants is to be famous. Good on siralan that he sussed her out. Did you see the apprentice why i fired them show on sunday night?

didnt see that programme - was coming back from Bristol! was it good?

I thought she worked for the father of her children?

Good, she is a disgrace to womanhood. But bad, as pesto says , whose dh will she steal this time.

siralan basically said he'd sussed her out - that she wanted to say she'd won, but didn't want the job - and he constructed a scenario whereby she could bow out without losing face. If she hadn't quit of her own accord, he was going to say, oh i've changed my mind, you're not in the final, you're fired. He's a shrewd operator.

apparently she was still on her probationary period (sounds as if they might have already extended it).

Lock up your husbands...

She'll be fine - I hear 'Take A Break' are looking for a make-up expert.

Hee hee, I don't think she's done much for pale blue eye shadow sales, or working mothers for that matter!

I had an interview at work yesterday and they asked if I was going to do a 'Katie'!!!!

and that i believe is karma coming to bite her on the ass!

it's the most read story on BBC now - the power of mumsnet

Her Ex

oh, God - Katie's ex:
"As anyone around him will confirm, his utter lack of acceptance of the word ?no? or ?it cannot be done? seems to be at the centre of a momentum that has carried him and the people around him on 'high wire' experiences..."

I absolutely hate this kind of speak. Sometimes the best managers are those who eventually agree that something CANNOT be done, and try to work out something equally good which can be done instead. I'd rather have a realistic manager like that than somebody who insisted that you could actually do the impossible. They must be hell to work with.

I hate all this "there's no such word as failure" shit as well (see Peter Jones interview in current RT). It's just macho nonsense. Peter says there is only feedback. Of course there is such a thing as failure. people just deal with it in different ways.

Is her ex the father of her kids? I don't read the papers, just watch the programmes.

I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE IS 31. I am 34, my dh thought she was 40!

Oi do you mind - I'm 42 and don't look Katie-like (god I hope I don't anyway)

I bet they all had an extra HobNob with the tea to celebrate when she left the MetOffice. Poor sods - imagine working with her.