The apprentice always takes a bit of time to get going and by week 7, most of the lightweights have been fired and possible winners start to emerge. A couple more weeks and then the dreaded interviews with Suralan’s next layer of Lieutenants (after Nick & Margaret).

New task last night where Suralan obviously expected them all to do some selling in the style of door to door salespeople.

Three classic apprentice mistakes

Picking the “cat playhouse” as a product to pitch (which looked to me like a decorated cardboard box). I didn’t hear how much it was sold for but most self respecting children would prefer to do the decorating themselves.

Completely ignoring the fact that a couple of appointments were already lined up and not picking a product to match. As I posted last week with the cost of employing a mac designer or whatever, these things don’t just drop from the sky and I think we could all tell how frustrated Suralan was with the teams.

Not knowing the price of a competitors product. The body sleeping bag, looked, on the face of it, a decent product but it was obviously up against the traditional model. Not know how much one of those cost was a classic apprentice mistake.

Philip fired

And so the “laws of the apprentice” were proved again. Being a loudmouth and throwing weight around means that your comeuppance will come sooner rather than later and so it was last night.

Nick & Margaret involved

The dry wit of Nick & Margaret has been observed in many places but maybe it is due to the nature of the candidates that they are more involved in the boardroom.

An out take?

During Philip’s taxi ride home. I don’t know when the taxi ride was supposed to be in the cycle of the “firing” but when he immediately left the boardroom and sat cross legged, he had light brown shoes on – but when he walked to the taxi, they had changed to dark grey.

Ultimate winner

No idea – possibly Yasmina?