Apprentice - Met Office sacks Katie!!

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link to BBC story here

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

Could it possibly be that she lied about her age??? That woman has got O'levels I swear. I'm 31 next month and she would not be stuck in the 80s like that, she would be stuck in the 90s (like me).

She was on £90k a year?

Hmmmm yes good point - I wouldn't put it past her to knock a few years off.

My MIL works for the Met Office and she said she can pretty much guarantee she was no where near that salary. It's public sector ffs.

Maybe QVC will hire her as a presenter. She's clearly has an instinct on their core target demographic

Lying about your age is a funny one ... girl I was at college with, last time I saw her I was 19 and she was 20. Then when I am 35 or so I hear she is trying to make it as a pop star - and she is 28! Now how did that happen? It just seems doomed to failure, especially now with Friends Reunited and all the other sites where people can keep in touch with each other. Who else is lying? I am sure Victoria Beckham is older than she makes out, for example.

I could not beleive she is only 31 either. I think bouquets is right, she must have lied about her age. I'm 31 in August and would not be seen dead in her outfits or her make up.

For her sake, I hope in future job interviews, none of the interviewers are Northeners or called Mavis or drink Pinot Gricho (sp?)

speedy, that's Mr Pinot and Mr Grigio to you

With her reputation for sleeping with the boss she should sail through a job interview Think Bridget Jones and...

"Why are you leaving your current job ?"

"I've got to because I slept with my boss."

" Right your hired, we don't have anything against that sort of thing here! "

who says that ffs! She is such an idiot. You just know she reckons she is the hottest thing around, flirting with Sir Alan, who would find her attractive?

Although I bet she is filth in Bed.

THIRTY ONE!!!!!?????????

Holy moses

'I earn 90k a year, I have a BA gold card, I didn't get where I am by sitting at home playing mummy'

I have a couple of friends who I know must earn a lot of money, and they NEVER are so vulgar as to say exactly how much.

Katie's 90K a year sounds like the sort of thing an insecure person makes up.

90K sounds awfully good for the Met Office, and although I assume they sell a little abroad, find it hard to believe a marketeer does that many trips.

Do you think then that as an ex met office girl looking for a media career she could be the next Ulrika Jonsson?

90k is what she earnt working for her ex. I'm a civil servant and I know she won't have earnt that much, 40k absolute max at her age.

Hi- My DP was at uni with Katie - that would make her 31!

I'm 39 and I wouldn't be seen dead in her clothes or makeup either!

I can't think of anything worse than her telling me it's going to p**s down all weekend.

Although I live in Manchester, so I doubt she'd go further North than Watford Gap.

I wouldn't hire her in a million years - I don't care how good she is at her job, her principles suck and I wouldn't want someone like that contaminating my lovely team.

Yes very true we can never expect to bump into her up here - specially not me from the same town as the car salesman!

Agree completely with Speedymama's 16.07 post.

Why did that interviewer (the one who looks a bit thuggish) big her up to Sr Alan. He even said he couldn't work with her himself but was quite happy to inflict her on Amstrad employees. The only "attributes" she had were a huge ego and an extremely narcissistic personality (in my opinion making her extremly unemployable).t

CEO of a global corporation by the time she is 40? - well she literally couldn't arrange an art sale in a gallery (which surely is akin to not being able to arrange a piss up in a brewery).

I would like to conclude with a line of MN vomit emotions but ofcourse they don't exist

The kind bbc might have edited the interviews so it didn't look like they all hated her!

The Met said they didn't pay her £90k - maybe that's why she couldn't answer that why do you want this job question? ie, oh, I lied about how much I get paid, so I need the cash...

I CANNOT Accept that she is the same age as me