The Apprentice (IRL)

subway

i dont get it, they are just wearing supermacs uniforms and handing out flyers.
hardly the best way for bill to detect someone with great potential.

and they just got laughed at by some metro distributors

Heroditas

"It's not something that's particularly suited to my skillset" - Ronan on the difficulty in getting people into Supermacs. :rolleyes:

subway

stink bombs! only on the irish apprentice.
this is brilliant

deadwood

What is the task?

robo

The Galway team have it in the bag!!

zuutroy

Just watching this for the first time...is this what TV has become?

subway

deadwood wrote: »

What is the task?

apparently they have to make a profit for their supermacs store.
i dont understand it either.
supermacs is an established business, all they would have to do is go the pub and the store should make money on its own.

robo

deadwood wrote: »

What is the task?

To bring in extra money for Supermacs.

subway

robo wrote: »

To bring in extra money for Supermacs.

i didnt hear the part about extra money, sounds like an odd thing to measure.
how do they know how much money the shop would have made anyway?

i know theyll forecast it, but when the decions will be down to about 2 euro (which we all know it will -for suspense) it seems a but unfair

robo

subway wrote: »

apparently they have to make a profit for their supermacs store.
i dont understand it either.
supermacs is an established business, all they would have to do is go the pub and the store should make money on its own.

One of the tasks for the US one was to think of an inovative sub for Quiznos I think and then the winning team was the team who sold the most of their sub. They had to come up with the idea and price it, so it opened up different possibilities.

BaZmO*

I despair!

And who the feck is Joe Canning and why would he want to be involved with a commercial business? Fair enough if it was for charridee but Supermacs?? FFS!

subway

robo wrote: »

One of the tasks for the US one was to think of an inovative sub for Quiznos I think and then the winning team was the team who sold the most of their sub. They had to come up with the idea and price it, so it opened up different possibilities.

thats a good task, involve everything from marketing, advertising, design, sales etc etc.
never mind coming up with a new burger, these guys had 1 day and cant adjust prices.
they have a store manager telling them what to do FFS

all this is, is an excerise in handing out leaflets

Daith

BaZmO* wrote: »

I despair!

And who the feck is Joe Canning and why would he want to be involved with a commercial business? Fair enough if it was for charridee but Supermacs?? FFS!

Heh. I did like that the mayor showed up!

robo

Oh look Bill is looking after his favourite little bunny :rolleyes:

Slideshowbob

surely a mistake not having an ethnic minority or non national as a contestant - even if just to show up the mediocrity of the Irish on it??

Heroditas

BaZmO* wrote: »

And who the feck is Joe Canning and why would he want to be involved with a commercial business? Fair enough if it was for charridee but Supermacs?? FFS!

Supermacs sponsor Galway hurling so I guess as a Galway hurler he might be obliged to show his face to "keep the sponsor happy"

subway

somebody forgot to pay the internet bill

Heroditas

Slideshowbob wrote: »

surely a mistake not having an ethnic minority or non national as a contestant - even if just to show up the mediocrity of the Irish on it??

The butch blonde is a Kiwi

deadwood

Slideshowbob wrote: »

surely a mistake not having an ethnic minority or non national as a contestant - even if just to show up the mediocrity of the Irish on it??

They were managing both branches! USA&Poland, I think?

robo

I think that Avril will bring your man who had the deal with the GPO and the guy who wore the super bunny costume, cos she won't bring in any of the girls...yet!

lg123

poor ronan is a gonner

BaZmO*

Heroditas wrote: »

Supermacs sponsor Galway hurling so I guess as a Galway hurler he might be obliged to show his face to "keep the sponsor happy"

Ahh that makes sense alright.


I didn't quite catch who sponsored the cocktail reward.....did anybody manage to catch the name??? :rolleyes:

ntlbell

what happened with the lads in the GPO why did they think the food was for nothing?

subway

ntlbell wrote: »

what happened with the lads in the GPO why did they think the food was for nothing?

nobody knows!
it wasn't clear what happened at all

robo

ntlbell wrote: »

what happened with the lads in the GPO why did they think the food was for nothing?

I think that Ronan made a deal to give the GPO food, but it was crossed wires, the gang in the GPO thought that the food was free, the team turned up to "sell" the food and the people in the GPO (workers) were not going to pay, as they thought it was free...pity they didn't show it though!

Utopia Parkway

BaZmO* wrote: »

I despair!

And who the feck is Joe Canning and why would he want to be involved with a commercial business? Fair enough if it was for charridee but Supermacs?? FFS!

Joe Canning is the biggest young star in hurling. Plays for the Galway hurlers. Supermacs are the main sponsor of the Galway hurling team.

subway

robo wrote: »

I think that Ronan made a deal to give the GPO food, but it was crossed wires, the gang in the GPO thought that the food was free, the team turned up to "sell" the food and the people in the GPO (workers) were not going to pay, as they thought it was free...pity they didn't show it though!

he explained it there, he didnt say it was free, but "forgot" to mention they had to pay for it :rolleyes:

Daith

Editing is really poor in this.

Oh and " air of negativity"!

subway

subway wrote: »

he explained it there, he didnt say it was free, but "forgot" to mention they had to pay for it :rolleyes:

"you wouldnt get into the bunny suit!11!!!"

how can anyone be taking this seriously

Heroditas

The two lads backing each other up. Comical crawling.