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February 24, 2004
The Apprentice Episode 7: Tammy's turmoil
Behind again somewhat. It is in large part because I was totally let down by the show last week. The producers are getting very good at the trailers. The week before all you heard from The Donald was "this was the toughest one yet". So of course you want to watch. What is going to be so hard? To cut to the chase, Tammy is fired and she was the obvious choice from the beginning of the show. I mean Episode 1 show. I have threatened Alex to apply for the show just to redeem Seattle and Venture Capitalist. Those two categories fielded two of the weakest contestants on the whole show. Tammy was shielded in the comfortable womb of the all Women's team for four episodes where her ineptitude, bumbling, and general incompetence was overshadowed by the efforts of the other superior players. David the VC was outed on the first episode as a cerebral academic with little experience in reality. Well I have a little over a week to put together my video for next year's show...
Last week Heidi and Omarosa got into it. The other participants feel for and support Heidi and know Omarosa for what she is: A cold hearted killer. This week the teams had to re-balance by one and Omarosa's team took Amy over to Protege. It was a good call as I think Amy has a future. So the teams lead by Katrina and Troy were given the task of choosing between two apartments in need of restoration and renting. The one who got the greatest uplift in rent was the winner. At the outset I thought Katrina had the upper hand because she is a real-estate professional. But Troy proved more tricky than a country fox. Troy ended up with the better apartment, the one with more potential. The result of the test was set from there. A bit unfair if you ask me.
Katrina actually showed the first signs of something that has been sorely so far: the ability to delegate and manage people. Not just your team, but other resources. So far the teams have been treating this like Survivor where the only people who are available for the tasks are those on your team. Does Donald really want a President of one of his companies to be moping the kitchen, painting the walls, and doing all the work themselves? Katrina got a general contractor to come over and do the bulk of the work very quickly and cheaply. The first use of leverage that I have seen. Unfortunately it was not enough as their apartment had a higher starting rent and therefor a lower percentage uplift was possible. The potential for uplift was also artificially limited by the short marketing time available. Basically one day. The teams had three days to do work and rent the apartment. In real life you would have done more marketing and hopefully seen more tenants before renting.
Omarosa was whining the whole time about being hit on the head by a piece of drywall and used it as an excuse to not do any work. Tammy spent her time randomizing the contractor and distracting the team from their work. I want both of them to go. Tammy is gone, let's hope Omarosa is next.
Posted by Martin at February 24, 2004 7:53 AM
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Here's hoping that omarosa finally gets blown out tonite. she needs to go.
Posted by: John Ludwig at February 24, 2004 10:24 AM
Whatever it takes to eliminate Tammy!
See Story below:-)
"Apprentice" Veers from Reality
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=797&e=5&u=/eo/13578
Posted by: Zack at February 26, 2004 10:02 AM
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