Categories: tv
Tags: The Apprentice, Muppets, Jargo, Management Speak, Recession
Date: 14 October 2010 12:00:45
There is one thing that has always bugged me about my job and that is the endless jargon that people come out with.
In a meeting a few months ago I was with some "Logistics Professionals" who talked in acronyms, anagrams and random phrases. They all knew what they were talking about but no one else did.
What made it worse that some of their acronyms and anagrams actually mean something different tyo other people, so you could see the customer looking more and more perplexed.
Now look at The Apprentice. Here we have "the most successful and promising talent in UK business". Actually what we really have are a bunch of power hungry, unimpressive, over achieving idiots and rejects. No one I know would ever employ such a bunch of muppets (apologies to the Henson family here) that have ever walked God's earth.
I am convinced that they represent the lowest level of the human gene pool - if the dinosaurs had such species then no wonder they evaporated in thin earth.
Listening to one of the girls prepare and give her presentation last nigh you could hear the vacous management speak in every sentence. Nothing meant what you thought and seemed to ahve nothing to do with the product.
You want to know why we have a global recession? Watch The Apprentice and weep.