The Apprentice: Why Katrina Lost

Finally, we have the way she handled herself when she was project manager in Episode 7, on a challenge that involved what should have been her specialty – real estate. Of course, we know she failed on that one. But more than that, she whined and tried to blame it on Troy being unfair.

Do I think Troy was completely fair? No, I don’t. He did pull a fast one on her. But come on, the claim that in all her years in real estate nobody has ever done that? Baloney.

However, even if it were totally true, even if Troy were as bad as she made him out to be, she screwed up the way she handled it. By calling him out the way she did, it made her look like a complainer. It made her look like she wasn’t willing to accept responsibility. Things got even worse for her when she blamed Bill for not getting a better price even though she was the project manager and she had the real estate expertise! Frankly, the only reason she survived that boardroom session was because of Tammy.

She only survived the next boardroom session because of Ereka’s bad decision not to bring her – and Katrina helped seal Ereka’s fate! By commenting that her friendship with Ereka had nothing to do with Ereka’s decision, she planted a seed in Trump’s mind that perhaps that was indeed the cause! And here hypocrisy reared its ugly head again, because when Amy kept Nick safe in this most recent episode, Katrina accused Amy of doing it because of their relationship. What’s good for the goose is apparently not good for the gander.

Katrina did not exactly inspire loyalty as a leader, and she tried to put the blame elsewhere. Her main idea seemed to be that sex sells – except when somebody else suggested it. She became upset when things didn’t go her way. And she was a hypocrite several times over. Furthermore, she didn’t do anything to actually prove herself. It’s not enough right now to just not be terrible, you have to actually do something good to make yourself stand out and stick around.

Sure, Katrina had a problem because everybody else held Amy in such high esteem. But trying to dispatch that and make still more excuses by saying Amy won largely due to luck certainly didn’t elevate her standing in Trump’s eyes. Considering all her past issues, I don’t know that Katrina could have beaten anybody in the boardroom this time. Her past finally caught up to her. That is why Katrina lost.

David Bloomberg is the Editor of RealityNewsOnline and can be reached at RNO@pobox.com.

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