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The Apprentice, Week 15: Interviews, Best Buy, Sony PlayStation, Electronic Arts,
and the Olympics
Original Air Date: 5/5/05
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So lots of firees come trooping in, and, oh yes, the teams are already set. Kendra gets stuck with Danny, Erin, and Michael, while Tana gets Brian, Kristen, and Chris. Hoo boy. Kendra and Tana pretend to be all giggly and excited, and George Ross says very pointedly, “Bosses are free to use or not use their employees in any way they want.” Guess the Omarosa snafu taught them well. Tana, still grinning in that Mary Kay way of hers, has a question: “Any chance of changing around our team?” Hehe, I’d want her to get in trouble for that, but you know that Kendra is bursting with the same question.
Up in the suite, the two women giggle and squeal some more. I’m starting to wish there were a man on board here. Tana tells us, “When Carolyn and George said, ‘Here come your teams,’ and all that came in were the Three Stooges, I was like, ‘What the hell is up with this?’” Now, as right as she may be here, it seems quite unwise to start snarking about your own team behind their backs before launching into a major project with them.
Kendra jumps on the evil backstabbing boss routine: “Danny, Michael and Erin were selected to work with me on this task to see how I could manage people with a degree of incompetence.” And of course in a total 180, we get to see her calling up her team to kiss their patooties: “Well hello there, darling.” Between Kendra and Erin, there’s so much squealing my wine glasses cracked. “Oh, you guys, I’m so excited and I’m so glad to see you all.” Michael understands that Kendra’s not totally happy, but he thinks they’re going to do fine. Well, if we have Michael’s vote of confidence…
Kendra at least admits her complete lack of knowledge on this task, exclaiming “Holy Moly” for the second time in about ten minutes. “We’re going to run a seriously tight ship,” she says, while Erin picks her ear with a pen.
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Tana is still cranking about her bad-tempered team, but Kristen promises that she has “a team here that loves each other.” I’ll believe that when I see it. And then, then Tana tells them, “You all are at liberty to make decisions without me.” Oh, such a seemingly innocuous line, but so fraught with possibilities of failure.
In the meantime, Kendra arranges a meeting with Best Buy and Electronic Arts Games. Okay, I’m starting to get a tad confused. The events are happening tomorrow and the team just seems to be sitting around talking about how busy they are. Kendra yammers about “There are so many different elements to putting on this sort of production. There’s a lot going on.” I just don’t understand what is going on. I mean, obviously someone must have done some legwork before The Apprentice wannabes came on board 24 hours beforehand, right?
The Best Buy and EA execs wander in, and Danny sits them down—but Kendra is nowhere to be found. Mr. Best Buy is not very happy and gripes about time issues. Yeah, because the event is tomorrow and you’re like, having your first meeting now. Danny, all atwitter, starts off the meeting in the most gratingly annoying way possible that only Danny can pull off. He sings. Sings! I tell you. “We have a little jingle: We’re team Magna and we stand here together. We’re team Magna and we love Best Buy and EA.” Christ almighty.
Erin is just sitting silently on the side but somehow manages to complain to us later about how Danny can’t “concisely tell the busiest people in America what he was trying to achieve.” Not that she offers to step in and help or anything. The execs are frustrated, and Mr. Best Buy complains, “I cannot leave here right now and have a remotely clear understanding what is going on tomorrow.” Yeesh, finally Kendra steps in and pretends to know what she’s talking about. She walks them all through the venue, “desperately trying to reestablish the credibility I had lost.” The execs seemed charmed and fooled, and one of them says graciously, “I know you’ve been talking fast; we appreciate that. That’s why we hired you, we value your expertise in producing the entire event.” See? Still confused. Do these people not realize that they’re working with candidates from The Apprentice, and not event producers? Is the emperor really naked?
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Any chance of changing around our team?
