So did MrValley. Between noticing that and the walking in heels, I think we can see why MrValley watches this show. :dubious:
No, actually, I have to admit that he’s the mushy emotional type who saw the commercial for Making The Box (*Don’t think outside it! * [sup]TM[/sup]) and immediately said “I want to go and bring ValleyGirl!” Sucker. :wally
Her praise is grudging at best. It almost seems to pain her when a positive comment is called for.
I truly believe the demeanor with which she greets these young executives each week is a mixture of envy and determination to take them down a peg. You can read it in her face. The brilliant young upstarts who are going to dazzle the world. Not on my watch, her smirk says. I’d be willing to bet she had at least one very tough-to-please parent in her upbringing.
Finally, say what you want about George, but he does manage to keep his nose out of Trump’s ass.
Considering the surprising breadth of Erin’s hiney as she retreated from the boardroom, I wonder what she will look like when she is nine months poignant.
I was a little shocked that Chris had to be talked about the chewing again. It was brought up before when he chewed in front of the kids in a clown suit, which is disturbing all on its own. I think that there are times to give in to an addiction, and times where you say this might be inappropriate right now. I think that if you are being filmed in front of a number of people and trying for the job of your life, you may want to think twice before you put that tobacco in. Trump has already told you that he did not like it, and yet you continue.
He may be a young millionaire, but I feel like you need to get a little common sense.
I’m having a sudden vision of the editors giggling madly as they decide to include Erin’s “poignant” remark.
Yeah, they’re so boring that Home Depot has snatched the idea like a dog snatches a hotdog from a plate and is running with it. It doesn’t matter if it’s boring. What matters is if it will sell tools and supplies.
I agree that he’s got a real problem articulating.
A highlight for me was when Erin was tattling on Chris for using bad language (evidently thinking she was on a roll after Trump got pissed about the tobacco). Trump “so he really curses?” egged her on, only to slap her with “I don’t care, I use bad language a lot too.”
Chris may be a millionaire, but does it really count if he received most of his real estate from his dad? He may have done a lot with it, but it’s not like he started from scratch. (And I didn’t realize chewing tobacco was big in Utah.)
The Donald wasn’t going to call Chris on that. Trump also did a lot with family real estate!
I’m finding it hard to believe that Chris has never encountered his bad temper before.
Erin was right about his anger coming out of an inferiority complex. At least in regards to speaking. He can’t lay out a well thought out argument, so he compensates by raising his voice and stabbing the air with his finger like that’s supposed to mean something. The guy has obviously never debated before or been required to defend his ideas or actions. I don’t see that he has any respect for authority, either. A guy who knows he’s at the bottom of the totem pole simply does not fly off the handle in front of his superiors like that. He doesn’t know how to ingratiate himself.
If he had gone home instead of Erin, it would have still been sweet.
I’m thinking that perhaps higher education would benefit both Craig and Chris’s speaking skills.
I just watched the tape of this episode. Thanks again twickster!
What I learned from the task: Engage the customer. Get the customer to take part in the deal. A “do it yourself” workshop is where the customer does it eirself.
What I learned from the firing: Find a way you can contribute, instead of finding a reason not to contribute. Also, don’t sass the boss.
Bonus lesson: If the team is broken, fix it and you can suceed in the project.
I simply cannot believe they scoured the country for candidates who think good business is winking at the boss.
I actually think if Erin hadn’t done the cutesy-wink trick but jumped in with a solid argument like “I understand why you would take Carolyn and George’s views into consideration Mr. Trump but if you consider the arguments I’ve presented today I think I’m the most deserving of another chance b/c X” he would have switched over to deciding between Angie and Anger Management. Instead she chose to play the laugh-hair-flip card (which is what I think irritated Carolyn) and squander her political capital with Trump (which I think she had).
So Scuba_Ben – did Erin flash cleavage at Trump on her way out of the first round of the boardroom? (I tried to tell him to watch for that moment in a way that would lead to no spoilers at all – perhaps I was too oblique.)
I did see that scene. IMnshO, she did not intentionally flash her assets. She seemed to me to be simply pushing her chair back… and she bent over pretty far.
I figured out last night that the worst sin on this show is giving up on a task. These tasks are supposed to be challenging. Erin gave up right at the start, and got the axe for it. Last season, the PM on the bridal salon task gave up right at the start, and he got the axe for it also. Our friend The Quitter burned out, then gave up between tasks; I think she would have been fired very soon if she had stayed around. Trump wants people who will step up to difficult tasks, for the project that the winner will oversee will be chock full of obstacles.