Underquoting Jobs – Happens to the best of us.

Wow, its been super long since I have posted something! Well here’s something worth sharing, I think. I feel we all go through this, as designer, contractors, any type of freelance really…estimating the amount of time that goes into a job you are quoting. This awesome article is brought to you by none other than Smashing magazine and you can read it here. Click it! It’s worth a read.

Btw, I cannot believe Yasmina won on The Apprentice UK!?!?! Below is a video, love these, in memory of season 5! haha

Your Fired!!! xoxoxo Sir Alan Sugar

Sir Alan Michael Sugar, the UK version of The Apprentice. Pookey, follows this show on a more than regular basis. Sometimes he’ll play the show over and fwd or rewind to his favourite parts.
He’s tried to get me to watch it and for the most part I do watch it, but not like him. This morning it was down to the final 4! I was extremely sad to find out Lucinda Ledgerwood (Born in Singapore, and began her career in Risk Management before undertaking various roles involving I.T. in the financial sector.) was fired. I liked Lucinda, she always stood out, in her bright colours, she was her own boss and apparently the highest earner from all the contestants.

People who I didn’t like, ‘good jewish boy’ Michael Sophocles, who couldn’t tell ‘kosher’ from ‘halal’. Also Jenny Celerier (woman of the world), who not know was ignorant about the difference between ‘kosher’ and ‘halal’, but tried to sabotage the other teams progress by trying to bribe the sports shop assistants not to string the other team’s racquet. Definitely, distastefully conniving.

Double trouble

Week 7 Sir Alan shocked everyone in episode seven of The Apprentice by sending not one but two contestants home. Even show insiders were unprepared for Sir Alan’s actions and programme makers had to hastily scramble a second film crew to ensure coverage of not one but two taxi rides out of the show.

“Is it ‘Get rid of Jenny day’ or what?” – Jennifer Maguire

Sir Alan seemed disgusted by the goings-on in Morocco, and he certainly had plenty of potential candidates to get rid of as mistake after mistake mounted up. He told them, “There’s no written rule that says I can only fire one person… I can fire three of you today. I’ll fire all bloody five of you if I have to; it don’t bother me”.

In the end it was the two Jennifers who felt his wrath the strongest. “It was like he said, I’m not feeling the Jennys”, said Jennifer Maguire. “There’s a room there that needs to be cleared out. Let’s just get rid of the two of them”.

Already room mates, the women found themselves on the same team this week as Jennifer Maguire led Jenny Celerier in team Renaissance. While Jennifer Maguire was disorganised and lacked attention to detail, Jenny C’s crimes were more blatant. From trying to bribe the sports shop assistants not to string the other team’s racquets to some highly dubious shenanigans surrounding a kosher chicken, her actions didn’t impress Sir Alan at all. He fired her first and then told the others it was “because she’s a bit of a snake”.

“At the start I thought she was bright and articulate, but the tennis racquet trick is dirty cheap sabotage,” he said to his aides. “There is some element of dishonesty about her.”
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Here’s a video of the boardroom going ons during this double whammy.

Now with Lucinda fired, theres Helene, Alex and Lee (yay Lee)

Lets see who wins shall we?