Trump Gives Herschel His Walking Papers

Yogurt and chicken didn't register with Schwan Foods this week, and as a result, celebrity contestant Hershel Walker was fired by Donald Trump on this week's Apprentice. Tasked with creating an original dish and dessert for packaging and delivering to customers, both the KOTU and Athena teams were to compliment their creations with a marketing plan for review by Schwan management. Once again, a lack of social skills did in a project manager as Walker interpreted being a manager as the same as being a dictator. Instead of being open to the opinions of his team and researching Schwan's product offerings and consumer trends, he went with his personal, non-original choice of chicken. It didn't help much that in his previous task of raising charitable contributions via Ivanka Trump's jewelry line, he was an accessory to the crime of losing that task; golfer Natalie Gulbis was the casualty. While Natalie's departure was task deserved, (she poorly chose the auction pieces, opting for small pieces which would not be visible in a large auction house even whilst right beside her, a more experienced Melissa Rivers chose larger items) Herschels' was long overdue: Narcissism isn't condoned in the workplace.

Steve
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Brian McKnight, You're FIRED!

This week's Apprentice delivered its latest casualty: Brian McKnight. Now, personally, I'm happy to see him go. As I said in last week's post, he has been one of the least contributive players and attempted each week to "fly under the radar". It was this posturing that kept him alive this long, masking his lack of business acumen and common courtesy. In fact, his enormous ego and arrogance, which I personally experienced during a music industry convention awhile back (he totally rudely ignored my respectful "Hello Mr. McKnight, I love your music") This guy just snubbed me, looked past me and stuck his nose up at a fellow industry executive.

He was lucky to have won a task as project manager; all he did was perform, which we all know he's good at. His people skills, however, are terrible. His business acumen is non-existent and his disrespect of a troubled Dennis Rodman was inhumane.

The Apprentice just became more enjoyable to watch!

Steve
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Chloe Kardashian & T-Boz Get The Boot!

This week's The Apprentice (yes, internet marketing guys love the Donald too) was very different. No, not as unusual as the appearance of Dennis Rodman, who I feel is a king on the court but was out of his element on this stage. It was atypical in that two people relatively innocent celebs were fired: Chloe Kardashian (daughter of famed lawyer/OJ Simpson Attorney Robert Kardashian) for a previous DUI offense and T-Boz (of TLC fame) for unwittingly volunteering to visit the gallows with condemned prisoner (project manager of her losing team) Mellisa Rivers.

However, opposing team project manager Clint Black, who obviously has very little business sense (ignoring his teamates, suppressing the comedic genius of Joan Rivers, flawed sense of humor, etc.) was indeed deserved of being canned for this week's task of creating a viral ad for ALL Detergent; he was spared. Not that Chloe has contributed much to her team other than staying under the radar and avoiding attention (as Brian McKnight does), but there were celebrities more qualified for a pink slip than those fired. To Mr. Trumps credit, he did magnaniously offer 20k to Kardashians' charity of choice. while at the same time showing us his dislike for lack of business acumen and of drinkers who drive at the same time.

I sure didn't enjoy seeing T-Boz go. How about you?

Steve
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