The Apprentice 3 Weekly Performance Review, Episode 11: American Idiots

I don’t see what Trump is seeing. You’re a good soldier, a fine assistant, but you have no ideas and no management skill. There’s a reason you do well in the background.

You were rushed going into the presentation, but apparently you and Chris had time to play with cameras and mannequins while Angie was working? I have to agree that you probably should have been fired this week. I mean, what exactly DID you do this task? I don’t think it matters because you and Angie were both just episode filler. You’re just here to fill out our contracted number of episodes.

Chris: Christine thinks that Trump is being extremely unprofessional by harping on you week after week. Why doesn’t he just fire you already? The same reason he didn’t fire Danny immediately, or Sam, or Raj, or Omarosa. It makes good television. At my work, everybody hates you. You don’t get rid of a good villain like that quickly.

That said, Christine says that Chris has shown remarkable improvement (his recent arrest nothwithstanding) and after harping on it week after week, Trump should at least acknowledge that he managed to quit smoking.

As for Chris’ arrest, the general reaction I’ve seen is that it was hardly a surprise. No, it’s not. Not to say that he didn’t do what he’s accused of, but you have to wonder how much his Apprentice notoriety had to do with it. “Oh, it’s the loud threatening guy from The Apprentice, we’ll have to watch to make sure he doesn’t get out of line.”

Again, I’m not saying he’s innocent, but let’s not be too quick to judge.

To the task, people are making fun of you for not doing anything this week aside from lose the card. Well, losing a credit card is an easy mistake (albeit a fairly boneheaded one), especially when you’re worried about a few thousand dollars in gadgets. Then you were told to go get the card and not to come back without it. And you didn’t. What else do they expect of you?

I hate to sound like a Chris apologist, because I think he should have been fired by now. But I feel like the guy’s getting it in the shorts from this show, and I think that’s not right.

Angie: Question for Trump: who keeps saying Angie is great? Stephanie let her go last week because she didn’t think she would help her go after Chris! The last few weeks, she’s been fighting for her life in the boardroom! Once again, I’d like to watch whatever show Trump is watching. It might be more interesting than this one.

Why were you fired? Because Alex is a bad manager. There’s a fact that most of these people don’t seem to understand, and that is if your manager looks bad, you look bad. This is a possible reason that Trump thinks everyone on a winning team is a star – because it takes more than the manager to win. Trump just takes it to the extreme. It also takes more than the manager to lose, which is why two other people come back into the boardroom each week.

If you were overworked, and your manager is as oblivious as Alex, it’s up to you to say something! My boss (not that she’s oblivious like Alex! I’m making a point here!) has told me many times to let her know if there is a problem. If she doesn’t know about it, she can’t fix it. In this case, Alex SHOULD have known there was a problem. You told us that he didn’t, so it fell on you to bring it to his attention.

It looks like Bren will join Net Worth next week. That sets the stage nicely for Chris to go one week and Craig the other, and then Alex and Bren to go home after the executive interviews reveal them to be “too smart” or some such nonsense. That sets up the Tana-Kendra finale I predicted a couple weeks ago. Everyone is now jumping on THAT bandwagon, except that some are choosing Tana. I stand by my prediction.

Mike DeGeorge has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, and has almost ten years of management experience. He is also Associate Editor of RNO. Email Mike at mikmaria@charter.net.

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