Upstream | April 23, 2009 | 1 comment

Pants? The Apprentice, Week Five

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/the-apprentice/5195858/The-Apprentice-2009-Mar...

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This week’s task requires the candidates to come up with a brand name, box design, cartoon character and 30-second TV commercial to advertise a new kind of breakfast cereal for kids. “It’s so natural,” says Philip in Ignite’s branding brainstorm, “you feel naked but with pants.”

Shocking. But makes great TV.
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    • 23/04/09 - Week five - Kimberly you're fired!
      It was the closest thing to a real project this week; no selling, just the delivery of an idea within a time period, to a budget (we presume but this was not mentioned specifically), and to the highest quality level. Well done to Kate and her happy productive team - even Ben said she was a good leam leader, high praise indeed!
      Meanwhile back in the land of the 'rough tough cream puff from NY' life was less than happy. Noorul was 'awol' again, sitting in the garage in his pants, Howard was ... somewhere ... so was Mona apparently, and that left Lorraine and Philip at each other's throats. Kimberly tried to keep everyone happy (well Philip anyway) and as a result failed to keep anyone happy (even Philip).
      The winning team logically moved from cereal to treasure to treasure flakes to adventure to pirates to Captain Squawk the pirate parrot. The other team started at 'pants' and worked back to 'Pants Man' - now Philip is from the north so he knows that is not a good thing!
      It culminated in a presentation - well done Debra for the Treasure Flake pitch - but Mona just threw in the towel with her 'Wear pants but don't wear pants, superheroes and people not awake can wear pants but not other people unless they have't had their breakfast...'. And in a box, a lurid green half finished box (my 6 year old son could have done better with MS Paint given 30 minutes or so) that Sir Alan felt was better suited to the gardening section.
      So this week I am with Sir Alan; Kimberly should have been fired for a) not managing her team and task and b) for not bringing Noorul back in to the boardroom. How many more hints can Sir Alan make that he wants to fire the timewaster?
      And me, well I am looking forward to 19th September - Talk like a Pirate Day - when I will be eatin' a hearty breakfast of Treasure Flakes for sure. Yarr!

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