The next decade....what's in store?

Woahhhhh, the Donald did a 'Donald' tonight

The previews this week for Donald's The Apprentice had said that something would happen that never happened before. I didn't see the clip just before the show started, so didn't know what to expect.

Both teams had to create an interactive sales experience in a sporting goods store. The aim was to increase average revenue. Capital Edge team did golf and increased revenue in their store by a whopping 74%. Excel did baseball and DECREASED revenue by 34%.

Now you know The Donald likes money. So don't make him lose money. Well is not him, but the sports store. So he was mad. Hopping mad.

For those of you who don't normally watch, what happens is that he asks the Project Manager of the losing team to choose two people to bring back in the Boardroom, then they and The Donald argue about who should be fired. His two side kicks who this week were Carolyn and Bill (who won the first year), each contribute their two cents.

The Donald told three members of the team to go back to the suite and told all remaining four, including the Project Manager, to remain. They thrashed it out. The main point was it was a sales task and they failed.......badly.

The Donald said never had any team lost so badly. Then the dreaded "you're fired" came, to all four. The beauty queen Jen looked like she was about to cry. Then all four squeezed up in a taxi. We didn't see what their reaction was. Maybe they decided not to put them in the spotlight too much.

This show tonight taught that you're never safe in the business world, unless, maybe, you own your own business!

Posted by yamfoot at October 27, 2005 10:19 PM