OldBlueLady
Junior Blues Coordinator⭐⭐
Whoever the 16th person was who "bottled it" before the tv stage, he enjoyed more air time than the majority of those on the men's team - Howard excepted. Tonight was all about the meltdown in the girls' team. Stepping up to the plate in week 1, Mona (surely the a and n are the wrong way round?) reluctantly took on PM after Debra wasn't persuaded by the others to do so - so, second choice then Mona?
The brief was to set up a cleaning business, with up to a £200 budget to help them on their way. The boys (Empire) were quickly on the move, securing a contract to clean 30 cabs, PM (Emperor) Howard decided to split his resources and send some of his team to do the valeting and some to St Pancras to do some shoe shining.
The girls (Ignite) take ages to decide first on a PM, and then what they're going to do. Anita is asked to keep a balance of what they've spent, and a list is made of what they will need which comes to just over £196 - "well done" says Anita! The girls also split, with Mona putting Debra in charge of the second group. Debra's group secure an option on classic cars - clean 4 satisfactorily and they can do the rest of the showroom. Mona's group offer a Hummer limo service the golden opportunity of cleaning each Hummer for £100 - the owner and his colleague choke on their laughter, they don't pay that much for all 3! Eventually they settle on £40 each, and are actually impressed with the service. Debra's group manage (after not knowing how to work the pressure washer!) to get shoe polish on one of the cars and don't get to extend the contract.
The boys quickly work out that there's not much to be made in the shoe shining and regroup as a whole unit to speed along the car washing. There's a bit of bickering, and they manage to leave a door open while pressure washing but they do ok. Debra's group of girls resort to washing cars in car parks and even knocking on people's doors! Mona's group are pulling cars in off the street on the industrial estate where the Hummers were.
Back to the boardroom, dissent in the ranks amongst the boys who didn't feel Howard had done well as PM. It's immaterial though, despite taking slightly less money (a tenner) than the girls by virtue of their wiser strategy of spending less in resources, the boys have made the most profit. Katie gets a few digs in, she's going to be a gobby one! They are sent back to the new "luxury" penthouse apartment, to be entertained by two top class cocktail mixers (are these the 2 that were on Britain's Got Talent a couple of years back?). The girls look glum and as they go to the cafe, full scale arguments break out, not least caused by Mona repeating Debra's telecon that she was working with a couple of "puppets".
Mona takes Debra and Anita with her into the boardroom. All 3 are criticised by Nick and Sir Alan, Debra and Anita feel that Mona didn't manage the project well, Anita defends her position saying she was only asked to add the figures up not pass judgement on what was being spent. Debra is heavily castigated for allowing her team to mess up their lucrative "contract". Sir Alan finds it very hard to make a decision, and I think Debra can consider herself lucky because it eventually comes down to the fact that the victim, Anita, emphasised her business acumen so heavily on her application he feels she should have been more aware of the pitfalls of spending all the budgeted money.
So, Anita goes.
TrueBLue --- Kate Walsh
Firestorm --- Rocky Andrews
OBL --- Debra Barr
BillericayBlue --- Lorraine Tighe
Kent Shrimper --- Noorul Choudhury
Pubersuralan --- Philip Taylor
The General --- Ben Clarke
Emu --- James McQuillan
MK --- Majid Nagra
Ricey --- Yasmina Siadatan
Tinkerbell --- Mona Lewis
SteveO --- Anita Shah :thumbdown:
Ldnftso --- Kimberly Davis
Glasgow --- Paula Jones
MissWestStand --- Howard Ebison
The brief was to set up a cleaning business, with up to a £200 budget to help them on their way. The boys (Empire) were quickly on the move, securing a contract to clean 30 cabs, PM (Emperor) Howard decided to split his resources and send some of his team to do the valeting and some to St Pancras to do some shoe shining.
The girls (Ignite) take ages to decide first on a PM, and then what they're going to do. Anita is asked to keep a balance of what they've spent, and a list is made of what they will need which comes to just over £196 - "well done" says Anita! The girls also split, with Mona putting Debra in charge of the second group. Debra's group secure an option on classic cars - clean 4 satisfactorily and they can do the rest of the showroom. Mona's group offer a Hummer limo service the golden opportunity of cleaning each Hummer for £100 - the owner and his colleague choke on their laughter, they don't pay that much for all 3! Eventually they settle on £40 each, and are actually impressed with the service. Debra's group manage (after not knowing how to work the pressure washer!) to get shoe polish on one of the cars and don't get to extend the contract.
The boys quickly work out that there's not much to be made in the shoe shining and regroup as a whole unit to speed along the car washing. There's a bit of bickering, and they manage to leave a door open while pressure washing but they do ok. Debra's group of girls resort to washing cars in car parks and even knocking on people's doors! Mona's group are pulling cars in off the street on the industrial estate where the Hummers were.
Back to the boardroom, dissent in the ranks amongst the boys who didn't feel Howard had done well as PM. It's immaterial though, despite taking slightly less money (a tenner) than the girls by virtue of their wiser strategy of spending less in resources, the boys have made the most profit. Katie gets a few digs in, she's going to be a gobby one! They are sent back to the new "luxury" penthouse apartment, to be entertained by two top class cocktail mixers (are these the 2 that were on Britain's Got Talent a couple of years back?). The girls look glum and as they go to the cafe, full scale arguments break out, not least caused by Mona repeating Debra's telecon that she was working with a couple of "puppets".
Mona takes Debra and Anita with her into the boardroom. All 3 are criticised by Nick and Sir Alan, Debra and Anita feel that Mona didn't manage the project well, Anita defends her position saying she was only asked to add the figures up not pass judgement on what was being spent. Debra is heavily castigated for allowing her team to mess up their lucrative "contract". Sir Alan finds it very hard to make a decision, and I think Debra can consider herself lucky because it eventually comes down to the fact that the victim, Anita, emphasised her business acumen so heavily on her application he feels she should have been more aware of the pitfalls of spending all the budgeted money.
So, Anita goes.
TrueBLue --- Kate Walsh
Firestorm --- Rocky Andrews
OBL --- Debra Barr
BillericayBlue --- Lorraine Tighe
Kent Shrimper --- Noorul Choudhury
Pubersuralan --- Philip Taylor
The General --- Ben Clarke
Emu --- James McQuillan
MK --- Majid Nagra
Ricey --- Yasmina Siadatan
Tinkerbell --- Mona Lewis
SteveO --- Anita Shah :thumbdown:
Ldnftso --- Kimberly Davis
Glasgow --- Paula Jones
MissWestStand --- Howard Ebison
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