Ordinary Gweilo

Week 11 of your 13-week job interview, and what is the point of Carolyn?

The previous week she so unsettled Felisha (by telling she was rubbish) that it made her determined to be the PM whilst simultaneously destroying her self-confidence.  This made for entertaining viewing, starting from the initial discussion in which Felisha couldn’t even bring herself to say that she actually wanted to be PM. Even though team mate Ulla is allegedly her friend, she certainly didn’t make it any easier for her, and Ulla’s comments to camera were incredibly bitchy.

The task, by the way, was to do product placement a 60 second promotional video for Microsoft Live Meeting, and for some reason that I have probably missed, Ulla is seen as expert on videos, so this made an awkward situation even worse.  Felisha spent half the time trying to take charge and the other half letting Ulla decide what to do (and wondering whether that was the right thing to do). 

Ulla decided to scrap the footage they had painstakingly shot (of Felisha getting into a cab) and show pages of dull techno-jargon instead.  Bad mistake.  Incredibly Ulla still seemed to cling to the belief that they had done a good job and how it was her brilliant idea that had won it.  The Microsoft executives were polite, but they knew (as we did) that the video was hopeless.

Once Ulla realized that she was in a minority of one, she thought she could get away with it by denying that she had made the fateful decision.  This was was ridiculous because we had seen the discussion on video and it’s obvious that Trump must also have watched it (or would do so later).  He fired the pair of them, Felisha for being too weak and Ulla for being a lying bitch (I paraphrase slightly).  If that is how she treats her friends, I don’t like to think how she handles people she doesn’t like.

Carolyn proved that she knew nothing by agreeing that they both had to go (no surprise there – she always agrees with what Trump says), but explained that this was because they had each blamed the other, as if that never happens in The Apprentice (except, like, every week).  Trump had it right when he said that Felisha would probably admit that she deserved to be fired and Ulla should just have kept quiet – she didn’t, and thereby demonstrated why she also had to go.

Team Randall did a competent job, but this was one task that he could have done with his eyes shut and one arm tied behind his back.  Rebecca smiled sweetly, hobbled around on crutches, and pretended that she was in charge, but was more than willing to let her team mate get on and win the task for them.  As a reward, Randall was re-united his wife and Rebecca had quality time with her rather dopey-looking boyfriend.