# The Apprentice -- 1/27 (Spoilers)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apprentice-1-27-spoilers/286901>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 27, 2005, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apprentice-1-27-spoilers/286901 "2005-01-27T12:23:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apprentice-1-27-spoilers/286901/101 "2005-02-01T14:13:12Z")

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> [@Green Bean](#):
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> As long as he ends up with a final 2 he can live with, I don’t think he really cares whether an undeserving person stays on the show for a long time, as long as it makes good TV.

Agreed. The $250k he pays the winner is orders of magnitude below what he’s making from each season.

For that price, he could hire Amorosa to bring him coffee, just to piss us off 😃

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apprentice-1-27-spoilers/286901/102 "2005-02-01T14:25:27Z")

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> [@Eleusis](#):
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> For that price, he could hire Amorosa to bring him coffee, just to piss us off 😃

\*\*pictures Omarosa in a dirndl and a hard-hat… :eek: \*\*

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apprentice-1-27-spoilers/286901/103 "2005-02-01T15:38:25Z")

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> [@Green Bean](#):
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> In other words, he doesn’t always fire the person most deserving of firing that very week.

And sometimes the person most deserving of firing is on the team that won the week’s task.

How does that translate to the real world? If a team or department surpasses its goals, does everyone get the bonus? Even the guy who didn’t contribute?

How about team failure, when one person shone but was dragged down by the others?

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**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-apprentice-1-27-spoilers/286901/104 "2005-02-01T19:17:59Z")

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> [@AuntiePam](#):
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> And sometimes the person most deserving of firing is on the team that won the week’s task.
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> How does that translate to the real world? If a team or department surpasses its goals, does everyone get the bonus? Even the guy who didn’t contribute?
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> How about team failure, when one person shone but was dragged down by the others?

Depends on where you work. In a lot of places, yes, if the policy is a bonus for everyone in the department gets a bonus for surpassing x goal, then even the guy who did the bare bones minimum to avoid firing gets a bonus. Because that’s policy. A lot of places do it that way to avoid accusations of favoritism (or unfavoritism).

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