none of your business

sure, watching any sort of reality tv makes you a loser. but im the type of loser who watches the apprentice every week. simple reason: its interesting to see how people behave and treat one another in the work world. just like its interesting to watch people starve on a remote island, and how its interesting to watch people trade spouses.

for those of you who havent seen the last episode of the apprentice and plan on watching it, ignore everything below.

the premise of the show is to take a batch of people with different levels of work competency and give them an adult version of double dare, minus marc summers. as each episode progresses, trump fires one candidate until only one remains thus earning the prized title of the apprentice.

the final two candidates in the last episode were remarkably qualified. and throughout the show you see these two click outside of their tasks, showing huge respect for one another. it was almost like they were best friends throughout each experience, despite having to compete with one another. one of them is a rhodes scholar with 8372 masters degrees under his belt. the other is a financial journalist whos worked with charity organizations for colin powell and al gore, as well as working for a consulting firm for nonprofit organizations. both super qualified from the start. theyre given challenging final tasks and do equally well. its seriously a cointoss, and a few episodes beforehand others shared my prediction that trump would want to hire both.

in the end trump hired the rhodes scholar. after the applause died down he leans over and asks "would you be okay with hiring the other candidate?" at this point my hearts racing with "who called it?" while im looking around aside from tony playing warcraft, an empty living room pointing at myself like a loser. and he replies,

"no. this is not the apprenti. i would not hire her."

and the look on her face was terrible. it was as if she were pregnant and hed just socked her in the stomach. the whole audience boo'd and the credits rolled. and i almost screamed at the tv. these two show great chemistry during the span of the show and he just denies her this ultra rare job position?!

i understand the sad truth that the business world is not one of intelligent design. there is no maker who decides which businesses stand and which dont. then theres the ever present question, "oh ya, who designed the designer...answer that and stay fashionable." personally i dont get intelligent design, someone needs to explain that...stuff...to me. for now, garebears teachings still stand. getting back to the point, ya if you want to thrive in business and move up, you have to eat your competitors up. that principles sort of understandable. but on an opportunity like this, when you make a friend, you both go through the same kinds of endeavors together, and your boss hints at wanting to hire your friend as well as yourself- youve gotta be pretty high up there on the im-a-total-business-bitch scale.

i dont normally say things like this but, that guys a total douchefuck. hes obviously taken a likening to mr. burns:

"I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business."

im glad this show reminded me why i dont want to journey up some corporate ladder into a huge position of power. i guess you do have to be a bitch to get up there. and quite frankly, my time and energys better spent on solving problems in the world than competing with the likes of such people. if i HAD to make the choice between the two, even though i have huge respect for hard working, intelligent people, id give it to the woman because shes part of a deficient population in america, one who use their talents for good. that and she was hot. i dont dig 6'8 lanky men from kenya.