I wouldn’t hire the “Apprentices” on the TV3’s Irish Apprentice for an after school paper route. They couldn’t sell a defibrillator to me if I was in cardiac arrest. No one, of the 14 contestants, is deserving of a $100,000 salary (which goes to the winner). Every week they’re given a task and between the two competing teams nobody really wins. The host, Bill Cullen, then has to decide who the best of the worst was.
Every show is like watching Laguna Beach. The girls are complete bitches to one another and the guys just don’t really seem to have any purpose. Most of the tasks have centered on sales and marketing (which they all claim to be good at one or the other). But every episode ends up being a disaster. They’re producing the work on par with a high school project. Maybe the pressure of being on television stifles creativity. They’re so bad I think they’re behind AIB’s latest savings promotional material:
Wow? Really? Thanks for letting me know 100 x 12 = 1,200. They had a whole display of these with different amounts. For example, if you deposit €200 a month for 12 months you’ll have €2,400. I double checked that with a calculator. They’re right. As somebody who frequently struggles with arithmetic it’s good to know my bank can count. I want to be sure when I deposit a €961 check onto a €572.41 balance that I end up with €1,153.41 €1,533.41. Of course, it is kind of odd that you wouldn’t receive any interest over the course of the year. Well, there’s an * and the back must clear that up.
Nope. The back says:
* That’s assuming a 0% Interest Rate!
WARNING: The value of your investment may go down as well as up.
So, not only will I receive 0% interest on my €1,200 it’s entirely possible I’ll lose some of that. Holy shit! Was Ruth O’Dowd, week 7’s fired Apprentice, behind those financial projections?
If Bill had them back in the boardroom he would say “Quit spoofin’! Talk sensibly to me”.