| Topic: | Re:"I want the cars the girls and the power" | |
| Posted by: | Richard Cathcart | |
| Date/Time: | 04/12/15 00:15:00 |
| The other day I was listening on the radio to Charlie Mullins, who left school at 16 with no qualifications, took up a plumber's apprenticeship and went on to make a fortune with Pimlico Plumbers. Conversation turned to 'The Apprentice', about which he was particularly scathing. I've since googled him on the subject and found this: "[Pimloco Plumbing are] up to 200 people now, and looking to add another 10-20% to headcount next year. But finding new apprentices is always a challenge. If I ruled the world, I would ban programmes like The Apprentice from the telly. It devalues the word ‘apprentice’ – it’s nothing to do with apprentices! - and gives young people totally the wrong idea about business. The workplace isn’t a frightening, intimidating place with someone hollering at you all the time. And it takes three years to train an apprentice; you can’t just do a few silly tasks and get a £100,000 salary afterwards. I don’t like Lord Sugar’s mannerisms. He’s just in it for the ratings and that attitude is sending this country backwards. A load of halfwits running round London trying to please a Lord? Great message, that." http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/features/1160264/my-week-charlie-mullins-pimlico-plumbers/ (On the radio, he called Sugar a "bully") From the few minutes of the Apprentice I've watched, I reckon anyone who watches regularly is as big a half wit as the contestants. |