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Originally posted by Misbehavn23
Trump made the right choice.
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Yes and No.
Trump made the right decision to hire Randal. I actually liked Rebecca better (blame it on the Y chromosome if you like), but I thought there was little doubt that between the two, Randal (whom I also liked a great deal) was the more qualified.
But then Trump made a terrible decision. He hit Randal with the question of whether he should hire Rebecca, too. Bad, bad move.
What was Randal supposed to say? Ms. MysticCat and I both wondered what we would have said. (We both decided that politeness and agreeing with the boss would have had us saying "yes," which is probably why neither one of us is in high-pressure business). If he said "yes" he would be a nice guy but would also be dishonest and would justifiably feel like his well-deserved win had been tarnished. If he said "no" he risked coming across as as a jerk, which obviously some in the audience (and here on GC) thought he did.
Trump never should have put Randal in that position. He should have either said "I'm hiring one" and let that be it, or he should have said "I'm hiring both of you," instead of schluffing the decision off on Randal and basically making him be the bad guy.
The whole thing just made me feel kind of queezy, and I think it was Trump's fault, not Randal's.
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When Randal came out of left field and said "You write about businesses and I run them", I was like wow! I knew that was it and he was going to get hired.
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That was the one thing Randal said that really rubbed me the wrong way. He was right, or course, but something about the way it was said bothered me (but not Ms. MysticCat). I think it's that I'd rather hear someone stress his own strengths rather than attack someone else -- it sounded like a line from a political debate. There are ways to say the same thing without sounding (in my mind) quite so, um, politician-like.
No big deal, but it did make me wince.
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