But the question is: Did he get laid recently? He was such a wimp until the last episode. He was approaching studly! :eek:
I’ve only caught the last few episodes so I admit I don’t know everything that’s happened.
I couldn’t help laughing during the whole bullhorn situation. I thought it was great and I would have been floored if Trump and his cronies would have objected.
What I don’t understand is the outcome of the task. I thought Randall and Rebecca would crush Capital Edge. The difference was only 5 calls?
Let’s see if I have this straight… Randall and Rebecca had 60 people, a van, and nine bullhorns. Capital Edge had 15 people and I forget how many carriages. For some reason 43 sticks in my mind so let’s make it 45 for comparison.
With the number of calls essentially the same and everyone evaluating the carriages as ineffective, what am I missing in this matchup?
45 carriages and 15 people (CE) vs 60 people (R&R): If the carriages were ineffective then CE’s people were 4 times as effective as R&R’s people. If each carriage was as effective as a person, it comes out even, the same number of calls per unit.
I thought the carriage idea was pretty bad but maybe I was wrong. Were the carriages as effective as people or did CE hire temps that were so much better than R&R’s?
Exactly my thoughts, Kaboodle. There was more there than producers showed us, or else Donald made a mistake.
I think one big advantage Adam, Alla and the other one had was they had phones right there. Here’s the flyer, here’s my phone, call now. I didn’t see Team Randall doing that, though I may have missd it. I thought Alla would win because of that factor actually. Yea, there carriages looked like hell, but they were getting people to call–at least that’s what the editing showed.
Except that their goal wasn’t to get the most number of calls per worker. Rather, it was to garner the most calls, period.
Randall and Rebecca may have had more worker drones, but they had the smaller management team. Even with fewer idea people and brainstorming resources, they still won.
Alla’s team was actually dialing their own cell phone for people to request the samples. I didn’t see Randal and Rebecca offering their own phones or dialing for people. I think that’s probably why CE got so close
There were only 14 carriages plus 15 people for Capital Edge, so they had 29 resources vs. 60 for Excel, not including the actual apprenti. I still don’t know why they did so well, except that the Capital Edge people were getting so many people to use their phones – do I recall correctly that Alla said at one point she had people lined up to use her phone? Who would stand around waiting to make a free phone call for a free sample of some crap perfume if either (a) the person talking you into it has the powers of Svengali, or (b) you’re a famewhore hoping to get some on-camera time? That’s kind of a sad commentary either way you go with it.
I was also shocked the ending numbers were so close. I was expecting a massacre. The horse carriage idea was horrible and I was glad Adam went home. I just couldn’t, in a million years, see him winning so better to get rid of him now. I’m a bit sad that Felisha is destined to go home next, because I’ve kind of grown to like her the past few weeks. She’s smart and has made a lot of good calls. She was the one who spotted that their song was headed in the wrong direction last week and she was the one pushing for people vs. carriages this week. It’s a shame it’s taken so long to really see her in action. So long it’s too late, actually.
True. And I guess Donald pretty much had to stick to that particular rule; otherwise, there could be charges of fixing the game. Still, a management team that produces 60 calls per person hired is vastly more profitable than a management team that produces 15 calls per person hired (assuming ~900 calls for each time of 60 and 15 respectively). Sales is nice, but it’s profit that stays in the bank (or gets reinvested or whatever). I’m confident that Donald understands that, which is why he based his decision not on who failed the task (no one really did) but on who would give Randall and Rebecca the most competition next task.
The winning team, when asking for help said, “Can you get me thirty people.” They got their thirty people , twice. Randall knows how to handle people.
The losing team, when asking for help said, “I need as many people as you can get.” They got fifteen people, barely. :wally
If that were the only expense involved, I’d agree. The problem with Team Felisha was that they also blew a lot of money on the horse-drawn carriages. Apart from resulting in some unprofessional-looking work, it also wasted a great deal of their capital.
Good point, JThunder. They did indeed waste a lot of money. The most mysterious thing to me, really, about the productivity issue on the two sides is that (at least from the editing) it seemed that Randall and Rebecca had the far superior crew, not just in terms of sheer numbers, but in terms of quality of personnel. They were diverse. Everything from white-haired old ladies to young Puerto Rican rappers. They were all fluent in English. They all attended a workshop led by Randall himself. How could these people have been less productive than the gaggle from the other team?
The quality of the help may have depended on the type of agency they called to provide the people. And they may have offered more money per person, too. Those are the intangibles that make or break a task.
I still think snatching the bullhorns out from under the noses of the other team was probably my favorite moment thus far for this season of The Apprentice, however!