Ordinary Gweilo

The Apprentice is back, and it’s as daft as ever.  We are told that one million people applied to be on the show, and they have selected only the best and brightest.  Well, you could have fooled me.

This time the teams were created by the random device of Trump choosing two Project Managers and asking them to pick the people they wanted – with the minor drawback that they didn’t even know the names of most of the people, let alone anything about their character or personality.  In spite of this, both seemed to figure out that the rotund bloke with the glasses was one to avoid. 

Trump’s way of choosing the PMs wasn’t much better – one was selected because he had announced that he was a member of Mensa.  I’m sure Mensa is a marvellous organization, but if the best achievement that someone can come up with is that they have paid a membership fee to join a club for people with high IQ’s then they can’t have done very much with their life.

Anyway, things moved along as they usually do, with ample proof that they aren’t picking those people because they are the most capable.  That would be far too dull, I imagine.

Someone with the unlikely name of Summer volunteered to do cold calling, and promptly gave up after one call.  Brilliant.  There’s a Russian guy called Lenny who’ll also be gone soon, and the man from Mensa was every bit the leader that I had expected.  Oh, and the guy who got picked last seems to have read something about ‘brainstorming’ but not realized that it’s not just about saying random things that happen to have come into your head.  He’s a lawyer, I think, so that’s two strikes already.

Boardroom.  Carolyn does her best to get Summer fired, but Trump is going for Mensa man when Summer interrupts him to say something of no consequence.  Haven’t those people watched the show before?  Don’t they know how it works?  Keep quiet.  Mensa man survived, but not for long.   

They seem to have dropped the ‘immunity’ option altogether.  Now, that was a daft idea.