Apprentice 4: Donald

[NutBrnHair]

That's fine -- I was for Randal too, but I'm just saying, $11,000 is small change for that type of event.

[kansas13]

Originally posted by darling1
btw, teachers rock!!

Thanks!!

[KSigkid]

Originally posted by kansas13
I am out of school and have been for the past 3 years. Maybe its because I am a teacher that I don't have that competitive, back-stabbing, mentality. I don't have the need for it in my profession.

Depends on where you work - if you think education is free of back-stabbers, you work in quite a unique situation.

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by Misbehavn23
Both were assigned their final project, charity fundraisers. Rebecca had to host a comedy event raising money for the Elizabeth Glaser AIDS Foundation. Despite her comedian pulling out, It was a nice event but how much money did Rebecca raise? $0. Did anyone notice that Donald was disappointed (and stated on the show) that Rebecca did not come out or send someone to greet him when she knew in advance he was coming? Randal had to host a celebrity softball tournament to raise money for Autism Speaks. It did rain forcing the event inside. How much money did Randal raise? $11,000. . . . Randal raised money for Autism Speaks despite his obstacles and that is the difference in 'writing about businesses and running them". That is also the reason why Trump only hired 1 Apprentice. Now if you still think both should have been hire that night then you are speaking from emotion, not rational.

But, and I think it is a significant but, Rebecca did exactly what the host of the event told her they wanted. Could she have tried to talk them out of it? Sure. Could Rebecca have made sure that EG Ped AIDS had more of a "presence" at the event? Definitely. But unless the candidates got instructions we didn't hear (certainly possible, but not likely since at no point did Trump, Carolyn, George, Randal or anyone else say "it was made clear the charity was the client," and Trump asked both candidates "who did you think the client was?"), then I don't think Rebecca was that off base by understanding that her client was Yahoo rather than EG Ped AIDS and her job was to plan an event the way the host wanted the event to go. OutBack certainly seemed to think they were Randal's client.

And if you're going to point fingers at how Rebecca failed to raise money when she planned the charity event, then you can't ignore Randal's failure to have a "Plan B" -- Carolyn certainly couldn't let that go and was obviously astounded at Randal's failure in that regard -- even more so when he said he dismissed chances of rain because it was "only" 30%. And while he clearly thought Randal did a good job raising money, George also clearly though Randal did not do that a great job planning the event. Bottom line -- it was clear that George and Carolyn both thought Randal did a much better job raising money but that Rebecca did a much better job planning the event. Her failure to raise money at least appeared to be directly related to a failure on someone's part to communicate exactly who the client was.

Again, I think overall Randal deserved to win. But I don't think the fact the Rebecca failed to raise money is the reason why. After all, the person who supposedly only writes about business pulled off an event that impressed everyone (even if it didn't raise money). The person who runs businesses instead of writing about them failed to have a rain plan for an outdoor event, something Carolyn was still baffled by right before Randal was hired.

[Tickled Pink 2]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20051220/en_tv_eo/18010

The Gift of the "Apprenti" By Joal Ryan
Tue Dec 20, 5:58 PM ET



To Donald Trump, the latest finale of The Apprentice was "good television." To NBC, it was as good as it got.


The two-hour Apprentice capper was the struggling network's highest ranked program of the TV week ended Sunday, per Nielsen Media Research. And around NBC these days, highest ranked means 13th place.


As far as The Apprentice was concerned, the showing represented the best of times (a season-high 12.8 million viewers) and the worst of times (a finale-low 12.8 million viewers, off more than 50 percent from the original boardroom blowout back in 2004).


What the season ender lacked in eyeballs, it arguably made up for in buzz. Monday's Larry King Live saw Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld share air time with "the finale controversy."


Said controversy was ignited when Donald Trump hired Rhodes Scholar Randal Pinkett to be his apprentice, and then asked Pinkett if he thought runner-up Rebecca Jarvis should be hired as well.


"It's not The Apprenti, it's The Apprentice," Pinkett explained in declining to share his title with Jarvis.


On Larry King, Trump said questions as to whether his unusual proposal was somehow about race--Pinkett is black, Jarvis is white--were "totally inappropriate." The mogul said he merely liked both candidates.


"You have to say, Larry," Trump told the CNN host, "it was good television." ...

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by Tickled Pink 2
Monday's Larry King Live saw Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld share air time with "the finale controversy."

I saw it. Larry King just wouldn't let the "controversy" go. Randal defended himself and his decision very well and Trump stood up for him, but Larry just hung on.

FWIW, I'm thinking Rebecca may be better off in the long run. Apparently, job offers are pouring in for her. She wouldn't say from whom, but Trump said he had heard that those interested in her included Microsoft and Yahoo.