You’re Fired, Watching THE APPRENTICE – week 4
In business, especially in the current financial climate, one mistake can cost you your job. Omit a zero or misplace a decimal point and you can find yourself collecting a P45 quicker than you can say “oops”, as Paula found out this week on The Apprentice.
The teams were mixed up again this week and their task was to develop and sell a new beauty product made from all natural ingredients. Simple enough right? Decide what you are going to make, produce it using the essential oils and other bits they were provided, design some packaging and get out there and sell it.
The only problem… Paula didn’t realise that Sandalwood oil cast £1200/litre and their product contained 450 ml of the stuff, she thought, because she read the wrong column on the recipe that she was buying 3 ml. A whopping £595 mistake!
Saying that, Paula was not totally to blame, she did leave Ben and Debra in charge of the costing. The problem was Paula was trying to play Little Miss Nice and didn’t ensure they did their job. She just left them to it, so Ben mucked about in the lab playing with the soapy products and Debra, well Debra didn’t do anything.
Sir Alan though couldn’t forgive Paula for her monumental mistake and she was fired… a decision that was probably correct, though I would have fired Ben just for being so bloody annoying!
