Ya know, I've liked Randall all season, but the past few weeks I've been looking at things that made me doubt that he's the "best" apprentice.
Here's a guy with, what, 5 degrees? Do we all know people that are like, "professional students", know a lot about a lot but don't have the drive, determination or common sense to be successful at anything?
I heard many, many times last night that he heads up a multi-million dollar company. I gotta tell ya, those offices they showed where he works aren't like the offices of any multi-million dollar company I've ever seen. Then they show him at home, gotta tell ya again, that looked like the $600/month apartment that we all shared with roommates while going to college.
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I have not posted a coment to this thread all day. I really enjoyed this season's Apprentice. I felt that the two finalists were meant and deserved to be there. I also felt that while Randal won more often than Rebecca, they were very evenly matched.
As I watched the show last night, I really felt that Rebecca had won the task, not the fundraising portion of the task, but overall the task in a whole. DH and I talked about the problems that each team had. Randal, the weather -- Rebecca, the loss of her star MC (which, IMHO, may have been staged to see what Rebecca would do when things started to crumble--like the weather did for Randal). Rebecca and her team did an awesome job of recovering for the MC, with what seemed like very little time and effort. She directed her team and they did what they were told. The nightclub was decked out as Yahoo had wanted and the show was very well done. The gift bags were very professional and not something cheap that was bought at a Party City. Everyone that was at the event seemed to be enjoying themselves and did not look out of place at the event.
Randal, on the other hand, had many issues. After the weather went bad, they scrambled for an alternative place to have the auction. The locker room was the best place to have the event. The room was WAY overcrowded and the people that were there seemed out of place. The items that were up for bid were bought by the other stars that were there. And, them being bought by other stars, $11K does not seem like that much money to me. More than Rebecca raised, but still not a lot of money. I also felt that the way Randal handled the deligating of the responsiblities for this task was awful. Having all of them go to Party City to buy decorations, thus having one of the team members miss out on a meeting, was terrible. The cheap gift bags they put together was tacky (for a kids birthday party not tacky, but for a group of stars, very tacky).
Getting to Bob NC's quote, I thought the same thing when I saw his "office" with the plastic banner showing his company name on the wall. And, his home is definately not the type of home I envision an owner of a multi- million dollar business to live.
I am sure both will do well in whatever oppotunity presents itself to them. It was a good season, I wish Randal had given the other job to Rebecca, but I am sure she will do very well in the job she gets from this "interview."
I also would love to know what the envelopes brought into the EGPAF. I hope that number is posted soon. Too bad it was not released prior to the airing of the Apprentice Final Boardroom!!
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