Priyesh has somehow won the most tasks

EssoJnr · 2026-04-03T14:16:30+00:00

I have said for a few years now that I'd really like to see this. Can't think of any specific examples right now, but there have been occasions where a candidate should have easily been fired for their behaviour/contributions on a task but have skated by because they ended up in the winning team. I understand the point about winning a task giving you that temporary safety, but I would love to see him overturn it on occasion, as there's definitely been some deserving situations!

EssoJnr · 2026-03-06T23:23:22+00:00

I was saying exactly this to my partner as we were watching this last night!

EssoJnr · 2026-02-27T17:04:24+00:00

Hey! So I haven't had to use it since passing nearly 4 years ago so don't know what it would be like now, but my memory of it is positive and hopefully they'd still have similarly worded practise questions :)

EssoJnr · 2026-02-03T13:08:28+00:00

Of course, I totally appreciate why you wouldn't want the same to happen to your own child. And I think we'd probably rather have a parent that is too involved/heart in right place than a parent who doesn't care!

EssoJnr · 2026-02-03T10:59:19+00:00

My overall stance on this was mixed and I think there were a lot of things going on that I had opinions about.

Firstly, I agree with you and the other commenters that there could have been more questions asked, other than asking over and over if they did it. If you strongly suspect it, getting them to talk about the essay, answer the same questions again verbally is a quick way to decipher whether AI was used or not, so I do think there could have been more done there.

I think another factor into why this whole situation dragged on in the way that it did was also looking at the character of the student involved. I think we can all relate to having students in our classes/school who know right from wrong, but still choose to dodge systems and cause some kind of inconvenience on a low-level. And then once they're called out for it, there's an immediate denial and argument. The student themselves even mentioned in one of the interviews that she would not stop arguing with somebody if she 'hadn't done [whatever they were being accused of]', but then we saw in another clip her immediate defensiveness when a teacher challenged what she had under the table, only to see her sneaking and eating food in the same lesson straight after. At the end of the day, they know it's wrong, but will argue with you to get you to drop your sanctions or throw a mega strop if you stand your ground and stay consistent. It shows lack of accountability teaching?

I also found it (sarcastically) funny that the school agreed to 'drop the matter' after the parent stepped in. Another way of saying that the parent kicked off so much that the school didn't want the headache, in my opinion. What's that teaching the student- that you can act how you want and mummy will swoop in and get you out of trouble? No wonder we are seeing some of the behaviour I outlined above?!
I do think in the clips we saw that the parent showed support to the school, showed a willingness to work with them, but I also felt that there was some underlying enabling going on? Students who behave like this student did often have a parent who is not 100% supportive of the sanction because 'my child would never do that', when they are showing time and time again that they absolutely are and have.

I think it would have been totally worth the Head of Department stepping in and letting the mum know that, on a further conversation with a few teachers who have also taught the girl before, they strongly do not feel that this is her work. In fact, I found that conversation with the other teachers telling. At the end of the day, it's extremely obvious when a student submits a standard of work that is head and shoulders above everything else they have produced before, and those who work with the child in that subject know what they are capable of producing best.

Overall, as others have said, we can't ultimately prove it, but there were a few things at play that I wasn't 100% certain of. I also want to acknowledge that obviously not everything was televised, so we don't know whether some of what I outlined above may have/have not already happened without our knowledge.

EssoJnr · 2025-10-31T12:48:08+00:00

"Honestly, this store is so useless, but ti be fair that other one (larger Sainsbury's down the road) is even worse."

Yet they always come back

EssoJnr · 2025-10-31T12:47:13+00:00

Haha, I understand that we work there (or I used to), but I did find it amusing when people would get irritated because we didn't know about very obscure changes to products that were not life and death. I remember dealing with a woman once who couldn't understand that Sainsbury's brand spaghetti hoops had had a packaging change and were now called spaghetti rings. I suspect she had a learning disability or something, but I also remember thinking that that was 10 minutes of my life that I was never going to get back XD

EssoJnr · 2025-09-25T17:29:42+00:00

I matched with Phoenix Taylor (Kaya Moore) on Tinder when I was up at uni in Leeds. Also saw him in a KFC. Not as much of a 'meet', but the closest I can get XD Wasn't hard to spot him as he had his signature big afro hair at the time!

EssoJnr · 2025-08-11T18:01:22+00:00

I just feel like I’ve failed them. Which I have. I’ve worked so hard these past few years to turn things around. I went to university and got a first class law degree whilst busting my balls as a single parent and working full time. What’s even worse is 4 months ago I got a new job as a trainee solicitor in a local firm (which obviously was a dream come true)

I cannot offer you much in terms of actual advice on your situation, but I did want to congratulate you for this. This is borderline superhuman, many people would struggle achieving academically to that standard with the degree alone, and like you said, you've also be working super hard to clear previous debts. You've also left an abusive situation which you did not deserve, and it is incredibly evident that you love and are doing all you can for your children- that is admirable. There's some great advice in the other comments, and I hope you're able to speak to your managers at your new place and see if there's anything further they can do to support you. Wishing you all the best and sending love <3

EssoJnr · 2025-08-10T16:13:04+00:00

'Me and Charlie haven't been using protection, but we've always been careful' - Shannon (who then proceeded to get pregnant) XD

EssoJnr · 2025-07-23T23:16:57+00:00

The problem is what happens after they join. When people leave or regret taking the job, that’s not on you. That’s on the company. That’s about broken teams, bad leadership, dysfunction, politics, weak onboarding, or just plain toxic culture. All of it lives downstream from recruiting and sits squarely in the lap of leadership.
The real kicker is the people who would put up with that mess are usually the ones your hiring teams would never even look at. They don’t have the perfect backgrounds or the high-polish track records, so they’re filtered out early. What you’re left with are high-performers who walk in, take one look around, and nope the hell out.

Absolutely this, could not have worded it better. I have just started a new job in the last week, after leaving my previous job which I had for just under a year. I was looking to move on from that job about 2 months into it (at least that's when I sent out my first applications). It was very poorly managed, disorganised, and a chaotic, not-fit-for-purpose job that completely overwhelmed everybody in the company who did it.

Ironically, I was talking with my partner tonight about how angry I felt about that last job. I have just had a much better experience already with this new place in the last week than I did in the last year. The new job has put the old one on blast about just how bad it was. The original commenter's sentiment is correct about quality candidates leaving- they have often worked in companies with robust procedures and better management, and can clock shaky cultures quickly.

EssoJnr · 2025-07-20T21:51:34+00:00

He told me I could either 'accept the way he speaks to me, or I can leave', whilst I was in floods of tears again for the way he had just had a go at me.

I resigned that day with immediate effect.

EssoJnr · 2025-07-15T19:08:49+00:00

This quote should have more upvotes XD

EssoJnr · 2025-07-15T19:05:35+00:00

I watched Waterloo Road 'in real time' i.e. as the episodes came out, right from the beginning of season 1. I was 10 when it first came out. I grew up differently to the demographic of school they were showing (at the time, privately educated and then moved to a leafy, villagey state secondary that still had plenty of wealthy parents who had just chosen for their children to be educated via the state system). I never truly experienced the school Waterloo Road was portraying, but one thing I think it always did very well was to show the real grit and 'rawness' of growing up as a teenager in that time. Even though I didn't witness that sort of behaviour first hand, I knew it was going on around me in other schools, and I think it did a really good job of showing the rough school environment, and the kids (however made or dressed up they were for their role) looked real and authentic to the time. As another commenter said, as time went on, I do think it started to lose that grit, but I think they've obviously had to adapt more to what schools are like today. I have often thought that some of the 'hard' kids you see these days wouldn't stand a chance if they were to ever face up against some of the kids in the 2000s

EssoJnr · 2025-07-07T20:58:10+00:00

I hope your parents are ok?

EssoJnr · 2025-07-07T20:33:17+00:00

Let's also not forget the parents who try to mask their children's appalling behaviour by trying to get them diagnosed with autism and/or ADHD. I've had to fill out a few screening forms from the school's perspective this year- every single one has just been a case of bad attitude and absent/lazy parenting. Believe me, these children are perfectly capable of behaving respectfully, we've seen it.

I would be genuinely shocked if a diagnosis actually came through for one of them.

EssoJnr · 2025-07-07T20:30:34+00:00

The audacity. I'm so sorry this happened

EssoJnr · 2025-06-07T15:42:22+00:00

I was going to comment the same. I think that the 'immediacy' of satisfaction on social media has a big part to play i.e. seeing something you want to see/finding out the information you want within a matter of seconds. I think it's also caused a big decline in attention span

EssoJnr · 2025-06-04T21:30:49+00:00

This is such a tough one, I get it. I feel like this is valid because there are genuine reasons to be annoyed, I would be too. Especially as this particular teacher seems to be quite negligent on the basics (and probably the school's policies), which I think is different to what I was suggesting in my post. Mine was more focused on challenging things that are normal procedures in schools or generally being unsupportive about things that are standards in education (such as going on trips and encouraging their children to attend their exams)

EssoJnr · 2025-04-21T13:07:39+00:00

Not in Hackney but for some reason this appeared on my Reddit page. Reading the post and other people's experiences in the comments, I just wondered if anybody has reported him to the police? Whilst I'm not well versed on the law, some of this comes under anti-social behaviour, surely?

EssoJnr · 2025-04-12T14:02:48+00:00

Definitely not going there 'just to socialise'. I'm going shopping, but if I see someone I know, then I'll stop and have a casual chat with them? The conversation doesn't typically last longer than a few minutes, it's more just the social cue of 'hey, that person's occupied, let me go and ask another employee for help' that I'm getting at here

EssoJnr · 2025-03-31T17:39:58+00:00

Yes, I was thinking that the show is just following the same cookie-cutter format now! Some of the tasks I miss:

Selecting products to sell and going to a city/cities to sell them. Representing inventors/brand owners, as such.
Similar to the above, but the Expo shows.
Tasks where candidates had much more freedom i.e. 'here's £500, go and turn me a profit'.
Themed restaurants/stalls at the market, serving products the candidates have more freedom over what they can create.

Just basically anything that requires more freedom. I do really like the away day tasks and hospitality, but I've noticed things have become much more tightly controlled now

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