Elizabeth meets her match with fiery Linda Plant | The Apprentice 2017
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- It's week 12 on The Apprentice, and that means one thing, Interview Week! We see the return of favourites Claude Littner, Claudine Collins, Mike Soutar and of course, fan favourite Linda Plant. Elizabeth finally meets her match with Linda.
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The thing is, I can see both sides.
Elizabeth at the beginning of the interview is really short and honestly, seems quite rude, borderline condescending. Imagine if it was a real interview - she wouldn't get the job because first impressions are made immediately and Elizabeth wasn't doing herself any favours by coming off as cold and short from the very beginning.
However, Linda ends up telling her that making a decent profit out of her business isn't good enough and then goes on to tell her that her idea is too simple and just starts digging at her needlessly - "Your flowers don't look that special to me". Yeah, I know they're supposed to do that but I totally understand people being on Elizabeths side here, you can scrutinise someones business and offer critique without being an asshole about it.
Honestly I didn't see anything wrong with her answer when she said she had three flower shops, I mean she just said it as it is.
Actually £18000 a year across three shops a year isn't a good profit. Its 6 grand per shop.
No interview would ever be like this - Linda has just been told to get a rise out of Elizabeth. If anyone worth their salt was in an interview like this they'd just leave because it's obviously a toxic workplace.
I don't see what's wrong with pointing out there's no USP, therefore why would she get the investment?
Agree with you entirely. At the end of most of her i/v's its difficult to know what value Linda Plant has added to the process. If she's a purely entertainment feature (as it seems) she'd be more appropriate on RuPauls' Drag Race.
Linda is calling the business idea too simple for Sugar... but the same year wasn't one of the winners with the same model just with Sweets instead of Flowers?
Dean It was that same year. It was Sarah.
Sian was the winner that year with her swimwear business... which is just as simple tbh
@@alxndr27 Sian was on last year, this one is from 2017
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I think it was Alana Spencer, she was the 2016 winner.
Elizabeth was hilarious, Linda got a taste of her own medicine!
@Hafsah agree 🤣😂
Well, Linda has a job and Elizabeth doesn't. So, that's how that medicine worked out for her.
Yes
I quite liked her. The interviewer was completely intimidated by her and became more aggressive when she realised she wouldn’t just melt like the majority of contestants.
Tru dat
I don’t. The interviewers are deliberately difficult to see how people react to it. Yes she didn’t crumble like a lot of people do, but she responded by being blunt, rude and not explaining anything or answering simple questions.
Dreadful attitude. You stand up for yourself but not by trying to act tough and cheeky.
But you don't impress interviewers by being aggressive to them lol. It's not a dick measuring contest
@@stevenstone307 they have those? How do I enter? 🤔
Yeah, one/two word answers means you're not melting /sarcasm
I think Linda met HER match to be honest!
No
@@tombstonerforever9374 yes
18k net compared to a multi millionaire - I think not mate
@@kbrp5493 the idea of the show isn't to find the biggest business it's to compete to prove your the best/ most worthy person to invest in
@@kbrp5493 being a nice person is rare nowdays. Just because a person is a multi millionaire gives them no right to think they're better than someone else who is less wealthy.
I actually think linda was just as aggressive as Elizabeth
Here here.
@@anufajemisin4348 *hear
Albond it’s definitely “here” not “hear” 😂 correcting grammar when you’re wrong
@@12OverThru9 itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/here-here-or-hear-hear/
I wouldn't correct someone if it was already correct.
Jo W That’s her job
Elizabeth was awesome. Easily my favourite candidate that year.
Clearly a bit of an arrogant, rude lady though..
'So far I have found you exceptionally aggressive'
BIIITCHHH COME ON
I find your language very misogynistic, disappointing emma.
@@Emma-dv2yh your name wasn't actually misspelled (no hyphen required Emma) and the use of the comma is correct, "and" would slightly alter the meaning of the sentence.
@@Emma-dv2yh next time make sure you've actually passed English before trying to be clever #HunchbackofNotreTwat
Really Emma It’s ‘misspelt’ in British English, and misspelled in American English. Get a life.
@@themightykenwynejones7353 Emma starts with a capital letter, though.
For someone called Linda “Plant”, you’d think she’d be more on board with the idea
🤣🤣 Great 👍
hi Dad
@@genapp3603 make sure you do your homework for tomorrow!
I think the plants would be envious of the flowers getting all the attention.
Elizabeth is right about the small profit being ok. When its your own business you work in and you draw a decent salary yourself having a small profit margin makes a lot of sense, pay less tax and invest back into the business.
Tax doesn't necessarily work like that
@@tombstonerforever9374 no not necessarily but it can if it suits your business
@@londontrada If compared to someone with better margins, Elizabeth wouldn't seem as good.
@@tombstonerforever9374 what does that mean?
@@londontrada One of the other candidates may have had better margins
Elizabeth was absolutely epic
...epically rude and arrogant and got cut down to size lol
@@MorrisseyMuse wrong way round, that was linda
Remember kids: Linda played the upper-hand card and got aggressive on Elizabeth here not because her business was not a good one, but simply because Linda herself was intimidated by Elizabeth not being intimidated by her. It's a power trip gone wrong for Linda.
That's not what happened at all. The interviewers try and rattle you and all Elizabeth did was become more aggressive and combative.
Elizabeth is my new spirit animal. Linda, was behaving terribly towards her and she gave it right back.
Hold up. Linda said that Elizabeth didn't have a USP to which Elizabeth just made a snarky comment. Linda can test the waters of Elizabeth as she had nothing to lose. Elizabeth had 250k to lose and she lost it by not explaining her business well.
Linda just got scared of another alpha. It must be unsettling looking in a mirror
The Stanimal I don’t think that’s what he meant
Maisy Little well he meant wrong
Marcus “Alpha” Haha she is a delusional moron with the mind of a child what are you on about
This is verging on 'don't mess with me girlfriend'
Wobble head, hoop earrings and waving finger.
Hilarious.
Can't be taken seriously in any form.
lol
There is usually someone they build up to be unbearable or a villain in The Apprentice each series. It makes good TV after the editing. Elizabeth was outspoken to say the least , but you could see she had a fun side to her too at times. I remember her doing some flower arranging and telling the flowers how much she had missed them🤣.Frankly they knew what they were getting in the final - they always do. They knew her character, her business plan. If a flower delivery business was too simple to be of interest then why let her progress this far? Linda Plant is a shrewd business lady and good for the TV producers , but I think her proven abilities are wasted on the show. She could do some great mentoring instead of playing the formidable interviewer on one episode a year like this. All the interviewers trying to be tough comes across as a bit of a caricature to me. She clearly has a lot of knowledge to share.
I do love Linda's appearance each year 😂. Nothing has topped this yet though. The edit obviously does what it does but elizabeth was class 👌. This pair are funny. 'do I look simple to you elizabeth, do u look simple to you?! Take your tone down!! 🤣🎉
Viewers love the immense tension of the interview stage and Linda does fantastically well at sharply critiquing the candidates' business plans. I'm sure Linda could play the mentor but in a program like The Apprentice that'd be rather boring. The caricature bent to the interviews is wholly necessary because it's like running a gauntlet before the final boss battle-it's built up so very appealingly people will tune in to see what happens because the capacity for scathing remarks is insatiable.
Elizabeth is an absolute legend
is she? She makes 18K in profit and thats pathetic.
I think there was a personality clash here.
I do think Elizabeth needed to be more forthcoming though in talking and explaining her business, especially at first.
More like linda meets her match
no
I think Linda was the aggressive one. Elizabeth was just mirroring her
Other way around
She should have her own tv show
“Do I look simple to you?” Should have just said yes 🤣
Over the pandemic, I used lots of online mail-order flowers. It was very useful, and I dropped some cash on it regularly. It’s a better idea than Linda is giving it credit for
Unfortunately, the likes of Interflora have already been doing it for 100 years and have the market globalised already with over 50,000 affiliated shops to provide and deliver from. At this point, it would be like coming up with the idea for a business that would consist of cooking and delivering pizza. It's not going to be a bad business necessarily, but it's hardly ground-breaking either.
True, but an independent florist near me retired early after Covid as she was so busy, and presumably made enough profit, she closed the shop.
You are right though I do agree with you
There are plenty that do it better than her anyway. It’s good business done well but she sounded like it changing the whole flower game
@@IAmPez you could say that about most businesses though, we do still need small/ local business and plenty of people prefer a local and small business for the personal touch
Linda: "I think you should take your tone down"
Elizabeth and everyone else: "Speak for yourself!"
The old woman thinks she can be extremely rude and not get someone who’s very competent have all the answers. Well done the young lady, because if this wasn’t an apprentice interview the old girl was going to lose the argument.
this was not a case of winning and losing an argument, this was Linda testing Elizabeth to see if she is able to generate a good response and Elizabeth failed
When you are going for a job, don't try to one up your interviewer.
Linda has every right to scrutinise her business, it’s what she’s being paid to do.
Linda’s not the one asking Lord Sugar for £250,000, Elizabeth is.
Scrutinising isn't the same as just random comments like "your flowers don't look that good to me" and then getting offended when the candidate doesn't match your level of stupidity
@@torin755 Linda also assesses her character and passes that information on. So it doesn't matter to her who wins or loses these arguments lol.. and that's exactly what happened.
@@torin755 It was up to Elizabeth to say “I don’t agree, the flowers are great but perhaps I could take better pictures to reflect that”.
Sometimes you need to read the room and play a defensive game instead of an attacking one.
@@SRPC21 Idk. I think she read it fine and showed to the viewer that Linda just had very little to actually go off and resorted to saying stuff like "it doesn't look good" without elaborating at all
@@torin755 The whole idea of these interviews is to assess you as a person, as well as any flaws in your business.
Elizabeth needed a USP, a unique selling point that makes her stand out from every other florist and she didn't show that here.
She's seen the show before, she knew what the interviews were going to be like and the sort of questions and criticisms she would be facing, yet she just gave one word answers and was incredibly rude from the offset.
Linda sees Elizabeth: finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary
I don’t know whose Linda or Elizabeth but both are getting what they give in equal amounts
The florist is giving a good sense of dishing back. Fair play
Linda set the tone of that meeting. Elizabeth probably should not have responded in kind, as Linda was the one in the position of power, but Linda was the one turning up the heat
Loved Elizabeth here. Came ready for the fight.
If I went to any job interview and the interviewer behaved like that I’d tell them to ram their job and walk out. The lady has worked hard to build her business up and she quite rightly defended herself. Ok she came across as abrupt and a bit brusque but that was her defence mechanism against a rather rude and arrogant interviewer.
0:30 smile should be a meme
The tension in the room looks fierce.
I was routing for Elizabeth all the way.
This was just a case of two personalities giving as good each other. However one has the credentials, the other doesn’t. One’s being interviewed, the other isn’t. No matter how tough you are, there’s always a situation where sometimes it’s better to back off a bit to help benefit you in the end.
The problem is you can't win with Linda, because she derides candidates for being weak (she mocked another interviewee for crying at the end of a task one year) but then if someone stands up for themselves, she says they're being aggressive. No matter how good someone's business plan is, she will always make out that it's rubbish and that the candidate is incompetent and stupid.
@@Paul2377 yes it's emotional abuse and bullying. How on Earth does she motivate her employees with such a hostile and disdainful attitude?
Elizabeth could only ever have one boss......Elizabeth.
Elizabeth was one of those that I despised at first. But I really liked her towards the end
The Apprentice would double their viewing figures if it was just 12 weeks of these interviews!
“Do I look simple to you?” 😂💀
I liked Elizabeth Idc lol how could I forget 🤷🏾♂️ she gave Linda the same energy she put out
You've got a nerve calling her agressive! You are the agressive one here. Not only is she rude and arrogant, she tried to belittle the candidate's business. The candidate was quite right in answering her frankly and honestly which she didn't expect as she probably thought that she can insult the candidate and get away with it. The candidate was more professional here. Not only did she defend her business with honesty and integrity, but she was professional enough to request an opportunity for a restart as she detected an agressive and unwarranted tone. Not only did this lady failed to take the opportunity offered by the candidate, she should have been the one to request a start over if she truly believe in her capabilities an as interviewer. This is not MI5 or some sort of prison. By all means interview and investigate candidates and their business, but that does not mean being rude and disrespectful to candidates just to make yourself look big on TV like that disgusting fellow Claude. I am very proud of this candidate for the way she handled herself. Defending your integrity and honour is more important than money.
The candidates business is literally nothing special, way overhyped and her reaction to criticism shows a childish and dismissive personality.
@@daleyoung4710 She was not criticising or offering constructive criticism for that matter. She was being an arrogant rude woman. There is nothing I hate more than rude people. Shame on you for coming here to defend this type of culture.
@@Njoofene Shame on you for trying to shame others when you are in the wrong. SHAME. .
I think Linda was very wrong here Elizabeth had done really well. I hope things worked out for her as for Linda well don't let her be the ambassador for small business!
Good on Elizabeth. I have always found Linda to be a bully. Yes, other interviewers are harsh, but you feel it's part of the act. Never felt that way with Linda. I think she believes her own hype too much. And her criticisms are harldy ever fair. Here she criticises Elizabeth for not making enough profit. But a lot of small businesses operate at a loss. Elizabeth is at least successful at what she does. If she was making millions, why would she be on The Apprentice? Candidates are often questioned on why they need the investment if they're alreadydoing well financially. Linda is just criticising for no reason to look tough, but she isn't.
0:54 that’s when Elizabeth messed up. She didn’t allow herself to defend her business and instead started attacking Linda. If Elizabeth can’t answer questions about her business then she probably doesn’t deserve her investment.
Since this, Elizabeth has found a USP for her product and that’s what made it better.
Out of all of the interviewer I cannot be doing with Linda. She interrupts people she is rude and arrogant. Good on Elisabeth for taking her on.
It's not a good idea to take her on when she wanted to please her
Linda was worse than Elizabeth!!!
I honestly think Linda was and is more snappy and aggressive than Elizabeth.
Linda I think met her match. Elizabeth went tail to tail. She was not messing around. Linda tried to scare her and it didn't work out.
I understand that its supposed to be a tough process but im glad Elizabeth doesn't take it from anyone.
One thing I hate about Linda is the “it’s a bit too simple actually”. The bottom line is it doesn’t have to be completely over complicated with multiple different sectors and levels, it just has to work and it appeared to be doing so with the profit Elizabeth was making after having covered all costs
Am I the only one that thinks she just matched her energy?
Not necessarily a good strategy when asking for a massive sum of money and the person whose energy you're matching is the person _literally hired_ to question why you should be getting it!
"How dare you be questioning me!" is a silly attitude to be taking when that's ACTUALLY HER JOB.
@@jakerockznoodles I think she probably knew she'd lost by then! Thing is, Elizabeth knew the interviews would happen. I wouldn't tolerate people speaking to me the way Sugar and Linda do, which is why I'd never in a million years apply for a show like The Apprentice.
Nope. Linda is absolutely awful
18k net is good considering she’s probably spending money on advertising and marketing to expand the buisness. Also likely taking a good salary out of that
18k net from 3 shops, that's 6k net per shop. That's not good. That's £500 per month.
@@champdude17 if she’s taking £40K a year salary it’s pretty decent. Likely investing gross profits into expanding the buisness further
@@thomasmason8481 so you think taking a salary double your Net profit is good business? Most business owners pay themselves the bare minimum early on so they can spend as much as they can expanding their business.
@@champdude17 I’m not her so I can’t read her mind but I’m sure everyone would like to make a good living for a nice house and car 🤷🏻♂️
this better not be the one thing i remember when im 95 in 2092
the set up seems like Elisabeth was interviewing Linda
Sorry Linda was actually in the wrong. Her tone was rude... elizabeth matched it. Then she called Linda out saying it’s unprofessional n Linda back tracks n puts it on Elizabeth. No
If you are in an interview, you don't match the tone of your interviewer. The goal is to get them to like you. Elizabeth had no people skills, you aren't going to get far in business without them.
What would Linda class as "good' NP ? Making a profit is the main thing. There's so many entrepreneurs and companies who are great at bringing in sales but horrible at making money ie. profit. A 3.6% NPM may not seem great but those numbers have to be compared to the industry average. Obviously there is very little to differentiate products in floristry. I mean you can't change the way flowers are. It's about creating a brand around your business.
What I got fed up with this style of show versus the earlier seasons where they were fighting for a job was that business plans should have been vetted before picking candidates for the show where all had viable businesses that Sugar would happily invest in. Instead, people are chosen, someone performs well in tasks and makes it to the final only to be rejected because their business plan is poorly done, the business is flawed or that Sugar didn't see himself investing in a particular type of business. I mean whats the point.
Give her a flower that will make her happy . My recommendation bird of paradise . Nice flower
there was no mention of net profit, logistics pipeline, etc future plan.
can I have some popcorn over here please?
Oh that’s brilliant ! Love her hahaha
Iconic
twat
1:15
Do I look simple to you? 🤔
Err, well yes you do and sound it too.
Linda definitely met someone who's not going to take any shit from her
Imagine being married to that woman. Jesus.
*_DO I LOOK SIMPLE TO YOU?_*
Linda you are talking rubbish. Ask how much of a salary first she took you silly woman
You can tell Linda had too much fun with this
Well done Elizabeth Give as good as you get
Dooooo I look simple to youuuuuuu 🤣🤣
Fiery Linda Plant meets her match with Elizabeth
I think Linda really needs to take her heels down, I'd love to see her do the stairs in those bloody great things, LOL
Actually I think Linda finally met her match - she has just used her position and authority to bully candidates being interviewed over the years. Elizabeth gave it back with both barrels.
Love the way the interviewers always say the candidates are arrogant... hmmm pot kettle comes to mind!
The unstoppable force meets the immovable object.
When you start having a full on barny with the snooty person interviewing you, things aint going to good lol
Looks like its Linda who has met her match!
I like this girl 😂😂
Elizabeth was the DSU Carmichael of her time
You can't win with the interviewer really can you
Funny thing is I think Linda is actually not so cold but has to play a role and felt completely out of depth here. Also most candidate are young and totally inexperienced so she was not used to this
I back Eli on this. She was simply working off of what Linda was giving her. REKT
and she got fired for her lack of business
Average secondary school teacher with student
Is that Sue Perkins??
linda finds someone else aggressive?? 😂 that’s ironic
Even funnier because her name is Linda Plant XD
Do I look simple to you Elizabeth
multi florist - more than one flower
Title should have been Linda meets her match Elizabeth....
I don’t know who this “business woman” is but I understand why she was never asked back.
Elizabeth was brilliant, zero bullshit but not a condescending person like Linda
Linda puts on a twang when she talks its hilarious
Linda Plant is awesome.
Projection. The one in blue was aggressive.
Linda your fired.
Her fired what?
A more accurate title: Linda Plant meets her match in fiery Elizabeth. Linda always berates her interviewees but this is the only time I've seen her run out of ideas and tell the candidate to take their tone down because she can't come up with any more insults and the candidate hasn't submitted under the pressure
Elizabeth was being too smart for her own good here. When asked what her business provides, how difficult would it have been to just blag a bit. "I want to create a company which is a one stop shop for your flower needs. If you are hosting a wedding and need 1000 bouquets of flowers, or if you are just buying a bouquet as a welcome home gift for a family member, I aim to be able to provide fast, national shipping, with an easy one click shop website". Some bollocks like that is what Linda was after not "Grog want flower, grog pick flow, ug ug!"
i hate this stuff, why can't someone just be honest and say it like it is? in some of the apprentice clips, lord sugar will ask someone a question and cut them off straight away if they don't reply with either a 'yes' or a 'no'. how are you supposed to know if they want a straight answer or if they want you to start waffling so they can shoot you down again.
If she'd tried to blag, Linda would have interrupted her midflow and said: "it's just a florist". Elizabeth's short answer saved Linda the trouble. :)
@@Paul2377 If you aren't a captivating enough speaker to keep someones attention, you shouldn't be in the business world.
@@simbacaned Indeed and Queen Liz proved she was!
This should be called 'Linda meets her match with fiery Elizabeth' instead
Linda is actually nice and wanted to help but Elizabeth was having none of it.
And that’s how you deal with arrogance! Fight fire with fire 🔥
She looks like Olive from "On the Buses"
£18,000 profit a year from 3 shops is honestly not that good lol. That's a £6k profit per shop every year. For comparison the shop that my boyfriend works at makes about 6k every day.
I remember Elizabeth boasting that she has size 10 feet!!😂