I feel much better about this week’s episode.
One of my favorite lines was Carolyn saying something like, “Will you just stop talking for a minute?” because Jennifer really was trying to chew off her own leg to free herself there.
And of course, Jennifer’s earlier, “Where’s the little munchkin” made her look soooo professional. :wally
I have to admit, Raj is back in the ‘plus’ column for me. I’ve been extremely undecided about him, but I liked how he (and Kevin) called the women out.
I wonder what would have happened if, after Bill warned her about taking someone into the boardroom for the wrong reasons, she had decided to take someone else instead. Would she have been fired anyway? I’m sure she knew she was screwed as soon as Bill said that, but thought that choosing someone else (thus admitting that indeed, it was personal) would look bad. Or something.
I don’t disagree with this week’s choice and I have to say, Carolyn gets better with each episode. I want to be her when I grow up. 
DoC, I believe it was Jennifer M. who said the women held on to their opinion of Stacie J. until it best suited them.
It’s week 2 of my ever popular (in my mind) Raj Ratings. Each player is dropped into a ship category and eviscerated as best befits the situation.
Edmund Fitzgerald - or, Gone with no hope of returning
Bradford, Stacie J., Rob
Jenn C (last week - Bismarck) - You? Suck. Your “job” as “manager” was “awful”. If you spent half the time working that you do flipping that dang hair, you might do better. The world is a better place for having you to laugh at.
Titanic - or, Dead in the water, just waiting for the cargo class to drown
Elizabeth (no change) - A couple other clearly sucked more, but you are Sean Penn to the rest of the teams Susan Sarandon at this point
Ivana (no change) - Actually, one more week like this one and you may have enough hull repairs to move up a class. Still, you bring nothing to the table.
Sandy (last week - Stuck in dry dock) - Yoiks, way to make a mark, weird hair chick. Saved because your BFF didn’t bring you. Didn’t work for Katrina last year, won’t work for you now. The clock is ticking.
Bismarck - or, probably sinking, but it will take a couple more blows
Andy - No change, mainly because the chicks were so awful that the guys had no show time tonight. This will be a running theme for the dudes.
Maria - A quiet week, which you needed. You are probably hopeless, but you might still have one of your freakishly powerful eyelashes clinging to the cliff.
Wes - No change, see Andy.
Stacy R. - No change. You are abrasive and you have no redeemable qualities that we can see, other than being the size of a Hummel figurine. But, most of your irritating moments are away from Trump so you might just last a while (shudder)
Stuck in dry dock - or, Who are you? Are you on this show?**
Chris, Jennifer M., John. You each had some honest to goodness air time, but still have done nothing business wise to stand out. So here you stay.
HMS Pinafore - or, Some singing, some dancing, some tragedy. Overall, not too bad.
Pamela - No change. Next week does not bode well. Granted, you might be the kick in the butt the chicks need, but you don’t seem like the type to get along with them. Hey, surprise us. You need the boost.
Kevin - See Andy. But, you also have a project manager win to tout. Tout away.
Queen Mary II - or, Leader of the Pack, vroom vroom
Kelly - No change. Apparently, your role was the invisible man this week. Not a bad thing considering the negative actions by the other team.
Raj - No change. Some might call your lack of air time as project manager a sign you did nothing. But, really, the women needed another hour to look awful so you get a pass. Your win will serve you well in Trump’s eyes.
Best part was Jen C. listening around the corner while Stacy badmouthed her to two of the other women.
Also cool was Stacy’s big bring-it-on smile when Jen C. chose her to come to the board room.
Hope Pamela can do something to get Apex on track, but from the previews, it doesn’t look like it. What a train wreck that team is.
“You just don’t get it. You failed. You failed, you failed, you failed.”
Carolyn rocks.
Yes, that was her. I thought she came off rather well this week (and I think she was fairly subdued in the Stacie ambush last week. She just said it was “weird” or something like that. She didn’t try to milk it like the others did).
A quick check of TWoP tells me that Stacy is the “munchkin.” I’ll sort out the blondes in another week or two. 
My business lessons for the week are paraphrased straight from the show. This one was too easy to evaluate.
Lesson from the task: Know your customers. When your business depends on neighborhood traffic, know what the locals are like, and what they will like.
Lesson from the firing: Being a leader starts with respect, integrity, and example.
I noted something from the first half hour: Mosaic has good team spirit, and Apex has bad team spirit. It seems the ladies are all out to stab each other, and are STILL playing Survivor: NYC. They just don’t get it, do they?! This is a live fire job audition, in prime-time TV, not some silly game show.
Once again, the only lady I like is Pamela. I feel a bit sorry for her, being sent into the lioness’s den next week.
Can someone please spoil me? I missed the beginning of the boardroom. By how much did Apex lose?
StG
Only by a few points. It was those damned old Jewish women!
It was 61-57, IIRC.
And yeah, imagine the nerve of those two old Jewish women, too, you know, Jewish to appreciate some good Asian-fusion cuisine. :rolleyes:
Dagnabbit! I just got home and my VCR apparently is uncooperative. Is there a Saturday re-run with additional minutes?
Kevin goes one step up in my book. Way to call out that those women don’t know jack about psychology.
Who was the one who was crying for heck’s sake? Being around that crew would make me batty, too, but really now.
What was the deal with going to the restaurant and then turning around and going back to the apartment to work? I didn’t understand what was going on there.
As much as I dislike Ivana, she was the one who picked up on the fact that the women were standing around, which actually did get noticed on the reviews.
Overall, I’m with Carolyn. Watching them, I’m embarassed to be female. Is this season sponsored by the National Association for an All-Male Workforce?
As a side note, one of the women (forget who) did bring up the fact that Liz could not handle not being liked. She just seemed to go to pieces if people didn’t love her. I get the feeling she has never really had experience with people disliking her or calling her out.
Beyond this, and I know it’s going to sound sexist, but re the Apex team I kinda, sorta get the vibe that with the exception of little Stacy, and the lawyer lady, that these women have been getting a bit of a pass most of their lives because they’re very attractive, and are baffled/confused/frustrated when they are not the pretty queen bee that everyone else is deferring to. Their reaction to even (seemingly) moderate levels of frustration is tears and simmering fury.
I think it would have been a good idea to include some not so glamorous women who are used to rolling up their sleeves, and getting along with people to get things done.
Elizabeth. And then Jennifer C. said in the boardroom that she (Elizabeth) had nearly had a breakdown. I don’t know what in the world makes these women (lawyers, bridal shop owners, etc.) think they are in anyway qualified to speculate on the mental health of anyone else, but they sure do like to, don’t they? I love how she added that she had to grab Elizabeth by the shoulders and shake her to snap her out of it, or whatever.
I love this show.
That was Elizabeth. She just couldn’t handle the pressure, probably because she realized that since Stacie J was gone she was fair game. What a punk. I might have had sympathy for her, except that she was one of the main ones complaining about Stacie J’s “clinical issues”. Those who live in glass houses…
One thing that surprised me was that Jenn C didn’t opt to take 3 people into the boardroom. Trump pointed out weeks ago that having another person gives you a greater chance of not being fired (that the ladies even needed to have this pointed out to them is a testament to their general idiocy). Jenn C could’ve brought Sandy in and taken the edge off the pettiness of her other choices. I do have to give Jenn C marks for her words in the after show interview, about being more careful about who to trust.
Two disturbing things about these girls (I don’t know if they deserve to be called “ladies”);
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Their deceitfulness. Never an outright lie, just exaggeration and lying by omission (Maria and Ivana not telling Elizabeth about the budget screw-up). In a way this is much worse than incompetence, as it speaks to the issue of “character” so much more than acting weird over an eight-ball (Stacie J), or even making a rash, spur-of-the-moment decision (Bradford). No honesty, no trust, no deal.
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Their inability to step outside themselves and try to see what their actions look like from someone else’s point of view. They are all always right, and everyone else is wrong. These girls are totally lacking in any sort of self-awareness. It’s disgusting.
Personally, I hope to see Stacy R go. She’s so grating and uncompromising and arrogant, at least as arrogant as Jenn C. I also want to see Sandy go. She’s weak, and thinks she can last by simply going along with the majority. She can’t take a stand on anything. Like Elizabeth, she’s a punk.
Last thing: the looks on Stacy R and Elizabeth’s faces when Trump fired Jenn C. Not smart to look so smug, and in Stacey’s case, actually smirk, at someone else’s misfortune. Like Ivana’s boardroom breakdown, it just looks bad. Like you have no self-control, and no idea how that might look to your potential boss.
BTW
Who was it who answered the phone, wearing the overly bunch underwear? :eek:
That was Raj, who apparently loses his “accent” when he’s half asleep (or nearly naked).
I was reading the bios of the contestants for the first time. I was struck by the contrast between the candidate’s fancy-schmancy degrees, pretty faces and paper qualifications. . . and their apparent incompetence in the real work world.
Would anyone like to join me in a little schadenfreude dance as the resume heads go down one by one? 
It’s an amusing contrast to the current Survivor gang where there isn’t a single Ivy League degree in sight.
(Yes I am Mark Burnett’s bitch. Don’t tell. )
I don’t. If the guys lose a couple of times to help even out the teams again it will help avoid spreading the nastiness around. I really feel for the men when the time comes to shuffle up the teams and they have to take on some of that baggage.
That was Jen C’s way of not running around like a chicken with her head cut off and instead focussing on the task; didn’t you hear her interview on that? She had a lot of wonderfully ironic comments like that this week. I also enjoyed her comments about how great it was that she brought everyone together apparently excluding the part that she brought them together against her.
I think that taking three people into the boardroom is a tricky gambit. Remember that it’s not like Trumpl flips a coin and whoever loses gets fired; theoretically he’s going to pick the person at the table he likes the least (obviously with some variation for drama if he knows another person at the table is definitely out of the running and at this point I think he might have problems picking which of the women he likes the least). So bringing in a third person does not necessarily increase your chances of not being fired. If you’ve got three people to blame, then bringing in three might be a good idea but it seems to me that in most situations you’re better off going for the minimum.
What tiny little bit we saw of the men really did show them well. Everyone seemed to take up their share cheerfully, they definitely had some good ideas (I thought only the women were allowed to use sex appeal 
), and although they weren’t brilliant in the task they certainly got some respectable scores for people who had never really done a restaurant before. It may have only been four points seperating them, but they were the four points that the teams really had the most control over and the men were doing a better job with both.
What’s queerer than John flirting with the gay guys?.. The other straight men on the team singling John out as their prettiest.
I don’t think they’re going to do extra minutes anymore. The repeats on CNBC and Saturday on NBC are all 1 hour.
CNBC: Fri, 8p & 11p; Tue, 8p & 11p
NBC Sat, 8p
Check out the TiVo blurb for next week: [spoiler]
So, the men rightly debate how much to sell the wares. The women don’t even get that far because they’re still fighting over power issues. Remember, the women hated Bradford’s management, and that was the only time they won. Heh heh.[/spoiler]
Peace.
I always thought she was going for an Audrey Hepburn look, myself.