Absent Apprentice Andy

I've just watched the first episode of The Apprentice Season 3. Alas, nice but dim & weak Andy Jackson got fired despite claiming:

"My passions are winning, winning and winning."

He seemed to have a lack of passion for coffee. Maybe they only drink tea up North.

The dilemma for the losers and for Sir Alan is who is to blame when a team loses - the incompetent individuals or the project manager who didn't stop them going astray or redirecting them back on the road.

Tonight Sophie Kain ordered 100 litres of milk when Andy only asked for 20 litres. I was very disappointed to see someone with a PhD in Physics make such a blunder. She blamed her error on not allowing for the expanded volume of milk due to frothing but a simple order of magnitude calculation should have seen her order closer to 1/10 of the milk she ordered. Gerri Blackwood picked the wrong location for selling upmarket coffee - the downmarket Chapel Street Market - complete with Pie & Mash shop.

For the other team, an elementary error of buying the wrong type of coffee was made but they recovered from it by buying more coffee. Given the classy men in the team, I'd have thought one of them would have experience of drinking & making more than instant coffee.

I've spotted the new Syed Ahmed: Tre Azam who is alledgedly

"Forthright, opinionated and a bit of a maverick"

He certainly upset his project manager, Jadine Jackson, this week.

What is it about the BBC? In each season, the opinionated ones seems to have the same racial origin. Is it racist or pandering to those with Indian-subcontinental origins? First there was Saira Kahn, then Syed Ahmed and now Tre Azam.