The Apprentice 4: Why Toral Lost

The seventh rule says players should understand the challenge. Almost the entire group of women failed at this rule – other than Jen, who told them they should put some branding on their creation. But that wasn’t really what caused Toral to lose.

Toral failed to understand how her role in the challenge would be judged. It wouldn’t have mattered who was in the suit, but Toral refused to be a team player and just get in the silly thing. Does she really think she would have lost more respect by getting into it than she did by acting like a snobbish bitch on national television? Hell, one of the had to get into a woman’s costume, and he didn’t whine about it!

Eighth is to be creative. Toral wasn’t. ‘Nuff said.

The ninth rule says applicants can’t be one-dimensional. Toral seemed to only want to rest on her business degree and background. But that simply is not good enough. This is not a standard job interview where you can present a résumé and let your hopes ride on it. You have to prove that you deserve this apprenticeship. Toral utterly failed.

Finally, we have the rule that says contestants need to use common sense. Oy. Where do we begin with Toral? I believe when common sense was being handed out, Toral refused to accept it because she felt it would be beneath her. Let’s look at just a few of the things she did that defy logic:

• She knew she had to step up, but didn’t.
• She refused to wear the costume, even knowing full well that everybody was just waiting for her to slip up again.
• She made horrible excuses about why shouldn’t wear it.
• She realized how bad those excuses were and later tried to blame her religion.
• She lied in the Boardroom about what Felisha said.
• When caught in her lie, she tried to act as if it wasn’t important and then repeated it.

I could go on, but the point is obvious – Toral didn’t have the foggiest idea how to behave.

As mentioned earlier, Trump was so annoyed at Toral that he didn’t even wait for Felisha to bring her into the final Boardroom (as she was obviously going to do). Can you imagine if Toral worked for Trump and she told him she wouldn’t do something because it was beneath her? I’m not talking about refusing to do something ethically or morally questionable – just something she didn’t want to do. She’d have been fired on the spot.

Oh, wait. She was. And that’s just it. Toral seemed to believe she was above everybody else, but when push came to shove, she couldn’t even prove she was equal to them. She believed she was so smart, but I believe she was one of the dumbest players in the four seasons so far. Everything was laid out for her as far as what was expected, and she ignored it. That is why Toral lost.

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