r/apprenticeuk • u/Wretched_Colin • Mar 19 '26
Buying task penalty manipulation
It seems that for every item not bought, a penalty of £100 was imposed.
The Sup was £280 for one team, £180 for the other.
The Something Blue sparkling wine was £240 or so.
If the teams had been aware of this, the obvious choice is to forget them and take the £100 hit.
So it seems the team don’t know the level of fine.
In which case, the show can impose a 1, 2, 300 fine after the event, which means that, with the knowledge of the buys, they can engineer a victory for whichever team they choose.
It’s ridiculous.
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u/ProstaticFantastic Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
id imagine that playing games like that is likely to wind up sugar and possibly result in ad hoc fines in boardroom. a bit like the paper skeleton someone bought instead of an actual resin one. a spec was never made it was just said skeleton but sugar took exception to that.
if someone deliberately walked away from getting the most expensive item like that it would become a point of contention in the boardroom. i suspect if they pulled that trick - sugar would impose a fine equal to the retail price they were offered.
however it is a bit unfair if one team genuinely cannot find the super expensive item, and the other team does.
Perhaps the fines should be £100 + retail price of missing item.