apprentice: does Omarosa think the entire US doesn't know she's a yatch and a liar?

[cheapie]

what a bitch. and a completely useless person. she totally lied on the show tonight. did she think the camera was not on her? how is she going to get a job after this? you see the time when she had to go to the hospital with a "head injury"? :rolleyes:


http://ps2.interpolls.com/cache/nbc/apprentice/sweeps2/dc.poll
Kwame - he's the boss 7%
Omarosa - she's in charge of logistics 83%
Diane - she's the Entertainment Coordinator of the Taj Mahal 2%
Jessica's Management - they deal with her travel 8%



loser.

http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Apprentice/images/imgs_contestants/omarosa_player.jpg


"I'm going to crush my competition and I'm going to enjoy doing it."
--Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth

Omarosa is a former political appointee in the Clinton and Gore White House. She currently works as a political consultant in Washington, DC.



lol. i don't know what to say.

[bachviet]

Now we know it's all Clinton's fault. ;)

[eSDee]

Tonight? Did you Tivo it or something? ;)

I have heard some people say that she might have been put up to it to challenge Kwame's leadership ability. But yeah, she's scandalous.

[ray]

Who cares what Omarosa thinks. She was fired/moved about 4 times while she worked for the Clinton administration. One co-worker apparently wanted to punch her in the face because Ossabuco was such a b****.

I've been saying all along that Kwame has been sailing in under the radar. I personally think he's a textbook kind of guy and lacks the proactiveness that others have showed, but since he's been pretty consistent with his performance that's why he's in the final.

I still say Kwame will take it.

[hapoo]

I just think its a real shame he let troy go. I think he was the best one there. But between bill and kwame, i'd rather kwame take it. For some reason i don't like bill.

[baggio248]

Not to be mean, but everytime I hear her name, I always think of:
https://www.brown-haley.com/img/patterns/rocatin14.jpg

[Pinkgirl36]

she is a freakin bitch!!! kroq had a whole thing yesterday am about her and what is her problem. it was quite funny!

[mcs328]

I wonder if she was put up to screw him over for ratings sake or if she really is that spiteful. If the first, then Kwame is just doomed to fail. If the latter then I question anyone willing to hire her as part of their company. She's not a team player and I would fear for my job if I worked for her because she might make me the scapegoat for embezzlement or something.

[Showtime]

Lazy and pretentious are bad qualities. I couldnt believe Kwame didnt press her about the phone call at dinner. The nerve of that "woman" to lie about it and try to act like she couldnt be bothered at dinner. In fact I felt Kwame did a very smart thing by picking her with his 2nd pick. He knew she would be last and would resent it so he picked her early cuz he would end up with her anyways. I would have liked to see the team being picked some other way.

Its funny how it came down to the 2 most educated candidates IMO. Kwamee - Harvard. Other Dude - Loyola with some Cum Laude....

I still think the show is completly rigged.
-If the teams were left alone than it would only have been women left after a few weeks. None of whom were qualified to run one of trumps companies.
-Trump fires a leader who makes a bad decision in the 1st week even though Gilbert Gottfried looking dude was sleeping on the job. Can you say Ratings? He kept Gottfried for ratings and fired him the next week when he had no choice.
-Amorosa should have been fired after her 2nd time up for dismissal. She caused the most controversy and that = ratings.
-Trumps reasoning for some of the firings was so subjective that it could of gone either way.

In the end he has the 2 most qualified men to run some dummy corp for his amusement.

Anyways,

I vote for Kwame to come out on top. Since he did go to Harvard and all.

-jel:halo:

[ialsohaveadream]

Its funny how it came down to the 2 most educated candidates IMO. Kwamee - Harvard. Other Dude - Loyola with some Cum Laude....
-jel:halo:

Uh, no. They had some guy early on who had an MBA AND a doctorate, and he was under 30, if I remember.

[LegendKiller]

I hope that Bill wins. Nothing like smacking down a Harvard snob.


LK

[HmpDeeHmp]

Not to be mean, but everytime I hear her name, I always think of:
https://www.brown-haley.com/img/patterns/rocatin14.jpg

:lmfao:

I agree that Omarosa's a queen b****, but isn't Kwame the stupid one for choosing her to be on his team and then appointing her to do an important task? :disa:

[cheapie]

wow. kwame's team is falling apart. try dropped the ball on the breakfast. then omarosa had the balls to get in kwame's face and tell him to get on troy for screwing up. what a bitch.

[cheapie]

man. cept for the breakfast thing, i think i would hire troy to run my company before anyone else. he's awesome.

[cheapie]

wow. omarosa totally fvucked kwame by disappearing with jessica simpson and not answering the radio. trump looks pissed.

[Pinkgirl36]

i wish i had a working tv tonight....grrrrr

[cheapie]

amazing. trump just totally called omarosa out. asked her why she lied. and then asked the other girl if she was doing ok after the yatch said she dropped the n bomb. i'm suprised kwame didn't punch her in the mouth. she cost him the job.

[DarkFury]

CHEAPIE!!! Geez man... some of us haven't seen the ending yet! Don't spill all the beans yet... OK?

[hapoo]

Yeah man, don't tell them bill wins yet!!!! Let them see it for themselves!







j/k, havent seen the episode myself yet

[Showtime]

I cant believe that b cost Kwame the job! It is beyond messed up. Freakin trump needs to clarify that you can fire someone.... That was the main question we had while watching it unfold. Oh well poor Kwame will have to settle for a quarter million job with some other fortune 500 co.

-jel:halo:

[HmpDeeHmp]

Even though Kwame got screwed, he'll have plenty of job offers lined up...



KFC Woos 'Apprentice' Loser with Finger Lickin' Offer

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Fried chicken giant KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken to people who recall the chain before its rebranding) thinks that the runner-up on NBC's "The Apprentice" will make a perfect fast food employee. But rather than just giving the loser a chance to ask, "Do you want mashed potatoes and gravy with that," the company is offering a limited time high profile gig.

The final firee between Bill, Kwame, Amy and Nick will get the chance to spend a week as the Chief Sales Office for KFC, with the opportunity to help the chain roll out its new over roasted chicken line, a potentially difficult task indeed.

While the winner on "The Apprentice" will get a year-long gig heading one of Donald Trump's myriad companies, the runner-up will have the opportunity to spend one week as KFC's CSO. That week will include a $25,000 salary and a year's supply of KFC products. That person won't get to see The Colonel's blend of secret herbs and spices, but if they just so happen to do a national advertising spot while they're there, so much the better.

[eSDee]

I thought it was awesome that Omarosa got exposed like that at the end. A lot of times in life you gotta suck it up when injustice is thrown your way since a lot of times things are out of your hands. It's just reassuring to see that one girl who allegedly called Omarosa the N bomb vindicated. There's still a chance she said it, but because Omarosa was shown to be such a lying manipulator, it becomes highly unlikely.

[CornMonkey]

i hate that drag queen.

[LegendKiller]

I don't understand why you people are flipping out about Omarasa costing him the job.

He was a manager that hired an obviously lacking employee. Furthermore, he KNEW she was doing this stuff and he didn't do jack about it. He was an ineffective manager and needed to be fired, its plain and simple.

If I pulled half that crap with my boss I'd fully expect to be fired, and if he didn't do it, I'd expect his boss to fire both of us.

LK

[cheapchinese]

i really wonder how can she get hired after the show is done

[DarkFury]

Ah... the limitations of "TV" with right out of college kids...

Sure you could SAY that you'd be the hard @ss in front of the cameras... however when the moment really hits you with the pressure building, actions can be much different than hindsight.

Honestly, I woulda fired her too... or at least I woulda put "Troy" on Omarosa or moved her to a "less critical" position (and definitely not next to the star of the event)

[whitak24]

I don't understand why you people are flipping out about Omarasa costing him the job.

He was a manager that hired an obviously lacking employee. Furthermore, he KNEW she was doing this stuff and he didn't do jack about it. He was an ineffective manager and needed to be fired, its plain and simple.

If I pulled half that crap with my boss I'd fully expect to be fired, and if he didn't do it, I'd expect his boss to fire both of us.

LK
everyone is blasting kwame for hiring Omarosa. but guess what -- he didn't have a choice.

bill picked first. so when kwame made his second pick, he had the choice of nick, omarosa, and heidi.

1.) kwame knew nick would be useless, which of course he was. did you see nick do anything for bill, other than "check on the frost update"? nick had his pissy attitude from the start about "i guess i'm an employee, so i suppose i'll deal with it." in addition, i think nick has disliked kwame long-term, at least since the planet hollywood episode. so nick wasn't an option for kwame.

2.) heidi hasn't ever really accomplished anything on most of the episodes. she's not necessarily a drag, she's just not productive.

3.) it was a risk-reward tradeoff. omarosa does have skills and abilities, and i think Kwame thought that if he could channel her, he could get her to do some useful work for him (whereas with nick and heidi, you knew you were getting nothing).

4.) Kwame knew bill wouldn't pick Omarosa, so if he didn't pick her with his second pick, she would default to him as a last pick. he also knew she was potentially a problem employee. if you're going to channel a problem employee to do something positive, the way to start out ISN'T picking them last, showing that don't even like them. to try to insure as much success as possible, kwame had to pick her with his second pick.

basically, the fact that bill got to pick first gave him a huge advantage. had kwame picked first, i think the picks would have gone K - Troy, B - Amy, K - Katrina, B - Nick, K - Heidi, B - Omarosa. a Kwame, Troy, Katrina, Heidi team would have given a drastically different result, i think.

i agree with jel that it was unclear whether they could fire people. it never occurred to me that Kwame could have fired her. i don't think it occurred to him either.

i think the one mistake Kwame made was that he should have put his foot down sooner and said "listen guys, we need to run a tighter ship, this level of sloppiness is not acceptable." other than that, i thought he handled everything excellently.

bill....i thought his performance was weak, and his task wasn't all that difficult. plus, i thought he was far to disrespectful of leslie and the other golf course employees.

but overall, he's a good guy and i'm not sad he won, i would have just preferred to see Kwame take it.

[DarkFury]

Heh... too bad they didn't have a second round where they would have to switch teams and then do it again with 2 new assignments and see how Bill would've handled Omarosa...

[whitak24]

yeah, good point. i'd like to see bill keep omarosa under control and productive :D

[ray]

everyone is blasting kwame for hiring Omarosa. but guess what -- he didn't have a choice.

i think the one mistake Kwame made was that he should have put his foot down sooner and said "listen guys, we need to run a tighter ship, this level of sloppiness is not acceptable." other than that, i thought he handled everything excellently.

bill....i thought his performance was weak, and his task wasn't all that difficult. plus, i thought he was far to disrespectful of leslie and the other golf course employees.

but overall, he's a good guy and i'm not sad he won, i would have just preferred to see Kwame take it.

:stupid: Kwame may be a text book kind of manager, but he is also placing a lot of responsibility and trust into his employees (Ossabuco, Heidi, Troy). He may not have been right in avoiding micromanagement, but I probably would have done the same thing given the magnitude of the event and the situation.

I also agree that Kwame's event was much much more difficult beginning with the fact that they had to ensure the safe pickup and arrival of Jessica Simpson and her band to the Taj Mahal. Did Bill have to make any travel arrangements? None at all. He just had to make sure Trump's golf clubs and caddy were waiting for him the second he arrived.

While Bill had to find a sign that his team misplaced, Kwame had to organize a breakfast (which hit a roadblock) involving Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachey, the president of the charity they were sponsoring, the president of the hotel, etc. While Bill was busy working on gift bags, Kwame's team was preparing a Meet and Greet event for over a hundred screaming teenage girls. I believe Kwame had about 6 Taj Mahal employees to communicate with while Bill and his team were busy making their gift bags.

I'm not sure what it's like to host a celebrity for a charity concert, but I have been to enough concerts to know that scheduling is everything and if there are any hitches that prevents the musician from hitting the stage at a specific time not only will you upset the musician, but you'll have tens of thousands of pissed off fans to deal with as well. Bill's golf situation? There were probably 30 of Trump's friends waiting around in the clubhouse mingling peacefully while they waited for the course to defrost.

If I had to choose between running a golf tournament for 1 day or organizing a charity concert and publicity appearance, and the only factor in my decision was based on the overall ease of the project, I would definitely choose the golf tournament. However, since I enjoy music and concerts I would look at the other factors and take the gamble and responsibility of taking care of the Jessica Simpson concert because I know I would truly enjoy working on it.

Like they said last night, everybody has received some great job offers so I'm glad that they're all doing well for themselves. As Kwame put it in the board room, he gave up a job on Wall Street to spend 13 weeks on the show. Though he didn't win the contract from Trump, I'm sure he's got some employers lined up waiting to hire him.

I hope that the 2nd season of Apprentice incorporates more regular work-life tasks instead of these special one-time "projects" It would be interesting to see how the candidates perform under a typical situation in an office environment.

[DarkFury]

I hope that the 2nd season of Apprentice incorporates more regular work-life tasks instead of these special one-time "projects" It would be interesting to see how the candidates perform under a typical situation in an office environment.
I just hope that they ain't bringin' Omarosa back for her "disruptive factor" for A2... they did show her photo when they mentioned that some of the current players would return. :eek:

[ray]

I just hope that they ain't bringin' Omarosa back for her "disruptive factor" for A2... they did show her photo when they mentioned that some of the current players would return. :eek:

I hope they do bring her back so Trump and his croonies can lay into her again :boxing:

[cheapchinese]

Your DOUBLE FIRED!! :p

[LegendKiller]

I dont give a flying rats ass about him HAVING to hire her. Sure, he did, however, he could have chosen to have her pop popcorn, fluff pillows, ANYTHING but putting her in charge of a function.

HE FAILED people, he didn't cut somebody loose when he should have. THAT is why he was fired, he accepted status quo.

Most of you probably haven't been in a high-stress management position. I haven't either, but I have witnessed it first hand, and I know what you need to do.


As for the tourny being easier. I doubt that. JS has handlers that usually do a pretty good job. If you delegate your tasks to people and plan for any outcomes, then there wont be problems.

Bill planned like crazy, he didn't go to fancy dinners every night, he planned. From the word GO he was planning. The camera focused on him during times of stress because planning sessions and things going correctly are NOT good TV.

Geez people, think.


LK

[DarkFury]

Geez people, think.


LK
So is that your "insult" to those of us who don't agree with your assessment?

Geez... sometimes I wonder if folks would say to your face the things they say to you on the net.

Either way, there are different ways to manage people and not in EVERY case can you just FIRE someone because they don't do what they are supposed to... but then again, what do I know... I'm just a Gubment pawn and not some "high powered" President/CEO of a major corporation.

There are "high stress" positions here where you can't do the same thing as a "private" company would, therefore I see the other side of the coin (but it seems that you can't see it from that perspective... or at least you haven't acknowledged it.) Yeah.. .I agree, he should've put her off to the side rather than give her something important to do and then have to trust her (that much I can agree on...) But hey... it was a bad situation.

I guess that makes me "less of a person" than the elite folks... :pfft:

Thanks for confirming that LK. :rolleyes:

I'd still like to see how "Bill" would've handled it (since he is the consumate planner...) yeah, like he didn't lose his mind when "the plan" lost that sign... What would Trump have said had he not found it in the nick of time through sheer luck... and not through "just in time planning". Yeah... that sign might've cost him $250K, but it didn't. Tough cookies to the intentional sabotage of Kwame's team I guess. :shrug:

[ray]

...but I have witnessed it first hand, and I know what you need to do.

And what exactly is that? Apparently you know the correct way and everybody else in the world is doing it wrong. So please share with us your infinite wisdom.

[Showtime]

LK,
You make a few valid points, but there is a question that was asked all thru the show. Can the project leaders fire anyone? Could they have told Amarosa to just sit out cuz all she was doing was bringing controversy and messing up the flow? I dont think it was an option and it was never addressed. When Gillbert Gottried (Sam) fell asleep, he should of been fired. He went on a for an episode or 2 longer (ratings).
With Amarosa, I don't think Kwame even thought he could fire her. As far delegating duty, he put her in a position of babysitter basically. Pick up the kids and babysit em. She failed miserably and Im not sure that Trump didnt put her up to it.

W24,
I thought the exact same thing. That he hired her 2nd to make her feel good about being not last. Since shes a cold, bitter, problematic, bit of a nag, brat. According to the wrap up Kwame said he picked her cuz she had some qualities he felt would help him win. I don't know what the real reason is but if he hired her by choice and not cuz he knew he'd end up with her, he deserves to lose. He deserved to lose just for that IMO.

Now I am in management and so are my friends who watched it. Me in a little company, my friend a big company and my other friend very high up in a very big company. We all wanted to fire Amarosa from the 2nd or third episode. Trump kept her around for ratings and it worked. Hell she's even coming back in some capacity in the next show. I wouldnt be surprised if a lot of her actions were scripted cuz her actions didnt fit her background....

I still feel that if Kwame would have fired her after the 1st mistake, he'd of won it.

Anyways Im in for the 2nd season Im pretty sure. This thing wrapped up just in time for the playoffs and it was one of the better "reality" based shows Ive seen.

-jel:halo:

[DarkFury]

And now... back to the "other" Mark Burnett production... Survivor: All Stars. :D

[Whack]

What's the story about the Sam guy giving Trump a suitcase full of money to work for him? He was going to pay Trump to work for Trump?

[Kevster]

Anyways Im in for the 2nd season Im pretty sure. This thing wrapped up just in time for the playoffs and it was one of the better "reality" based shows Ive seen.
-jel:halo:

You know next season they're going to lay everyone off in the first episode and offshore it in India, right?

[ray]

You know next season they're going to lay everyone off in the first episode and offshore it in India, right?

That's an interesting concept. Place them in a completely different economic environment. Let's send em to China...or Russia.....

[Showtime]

They wouldnt last 5 minutes and you would have to change the name of the show to Survivor.

-jel:halo:

[HmpDeeHmp]

What's the story about the Sam guy giving Trump a suitcase full of money to work for him? He was going to pay Trump to work for Trump?

Ya, apparently he gave Trump $250k to work for him and Trump said he'd consider it. After that it wasn't really mentioned again but Trump kept the suitcase. I was wondering if that was staged... :shrug:

[ray]

Ya, apparently he gave Trump $250k to work for him and Trump said he'd consider it. After that it wasn't really mentioned again but Trump kept the suitcase. I was wondering if that was staged... :shrug:

of course it was. most everything Trump said was scripted after he made his final decision last night.

[ialsohaveadream]

Ok, having run both a golf tournament and a concert before (albeit on a much more low-profile level), I'd say Kwame definitely got the tougher job.

All you have to do is think of the situations of the people they are trying to please:
Bill- A group of uber-rich golfers who golf enough to understand frost delays
or
Kwame- A group of screaming pop fans who know nothing of backstage workings

[DarkFury]

They wouldnt last 5 minutes and you would have to change the name of the show to Survivor.

-jel:halo:
Maybe they should call it... "The Sweatshop". :D

[whitak24]

I wouldnt be surprised if a lot of her actions were scripted cuz her actions didnt fit her background....
well, it would seem they don't yet the gossip is that she was fired from 3 or 4 jobs in the clinton administration because she drove everyone freaking nuts.

here's kind of a general question: how much of a reality show like the apprentice do you think is scripted? do you think there are producers behind the scenes pulling the strings, or are people acting naturally?

on one hand, i would suspect that TV producers are pulling strings, but on the other hand, this is your exposure to millions of americans. now if you're on celebrity mole hawaii or something, it doesn't really matter if you're a nut or do weird stuff, because everyone knows it's all fun and games.

but the Apprentice is a job interview. do you really want to show half the potential employers in the nation that you are a back-stabbing, lying bitch? i mean, even if the producers are telling you to throw the thing, would you really do that bad with it? if Omarosa ever came to me looking for a job, i can tell you that would NEVER hire her under any circumstances.

[cheapie]

ok. a couple of points here. kwame DIDN'T have to organize the concert. just the hospitality and logistics of jessica simpson's arrival and pre-show activities. which is freakin' cake. i didn't think the golf event was much tougher either. i've been involved in large event management and it's amazing how difficult it can be.

kwame should have said, if you don't keep the freakin' radio in your hand for the rest of the event, you are gone! and did you see nick and jessica looking at her walking around in the hats? the were prolly wondering wtf was going on. :rolleyes:

[DarkFury]

kwame should have said, if you don't keep the freakin' radio in your hand for the rest of the event, you are gone! and did you see nick and jessica looking at her walking around in the hats? the were prolly wondering wtf was going on. :rolleyes:
Only problem was... he could never find her. He woulda spent the entire day chasing her around as much as she kept moving.

She basically sabotaged the hell out of him like the spiteful "B" that she is...

[cheapie]

i want to say something, and i'm worried about how this is going to sound....i'm glad she did it to another african-american because now there's no racial controversy. she effed him as badly as she did the white leaders of her teams. if she would have sunk bill there would be people that would be saying she is a racist after her accusing of what's her name of using a slur and sucking for all of the white leaders. now we know she's an equal-opportunity loser.

[cheapchinese]

i really want to know,, how many times she will be rejected until she actually lands a job.

ps...she does look like a drag queen

[Showtime]

Race is irrelevant... Amarosa would look bad in any skin tone.

Again, I dont know if it was explained that you could fire someone on your team.

-jel:halo:

[HmpDeeHmp]

No, it wasn't clearly conveyed beforehand that Bill and Kwame had the power to fire their employees, nor was it said that they couldn't fire them. A major component of being a leader is having the ability to "think outside of the box" (sorry for the cliche), and Kwame clearly lacked in that department.

Throughout the whole series, Kwame was never assertive as all good leaders should be. On top of that, he was competing for the job of a lifetime, so who cares if he micro-managed the team in order to get the job done right? It was a battle, and he should've done whatever it took to win. As the old saying goes "Nice guys always finish last..." and Kwame proved just that. :nono: It's a shame because he's a good guy and has a lot going for him. I'm sure he'll do just fine even though he lost.

[DarkFury]

Race is irrelevant... Amarosa would look bad in any skin tone.

Again, I dont know if it was explained that you could fire someone on your team.

-jel:halo:
My question is... why do all these REALITY SHOWS always find the cattiest (is that a word?), bitchiest, most ruthless Black Woman to represent the "token" interests to which most folks cater to in the stereotype?

I've seen it time and time again... on Survivor, on "America's Top Model", and now on "The Apprentice".

It's bad enough that the deck is already stacked... but dayuum... I know some Black women who aren't like that... but I guess they wouldn't make for "good TV" huh? And we KNOW you can't have more than one or two on the same show at the same time.... :rolleyes:

I'm still waiting for a reverse reality show with a cast of 16 people with only 2 of them White maybe one Asian thrown in for flavor and the rest Black and Hispanic... I'd like to see how they would do in a reverse circumstance. :hihi:

Of course you know what my shows would be...

http://www.lemonizer.com/upload/uploadsApril/ghettosurvivor.jpg

http://www.lemonizer.com/upload/uploadsApril/pimptationlogo.jpg

[cheapie]

Race is irrelevant... Amarosa would look bad in any skin tone.

-jel:halo:


that's my point. i'm glad that there isn't any stupid race controversy except for her accusing the girl of dropping the epitath.

[HmpDeeHmp]

Ya, and American Idol with it's portrayal of our good old friend William Hung hasn't done much to dispel the stereotype that all Asian males are geeky, feminine and have bad accents. :disa:

[Showtime]

Dispel your own stereotypes..... As long as everyone you meet recognizes you as non stereotypical than that is more important than what people who dont know you think. People do act as the stereotypes associated with their race. Only you can make people percieve you as otherwise. :)

As far as thinking outside the box... I felt that was the reason Trump would hire Kwame. It's basically going to be a puppet job with many people baby sitting. So you dont want anyone too rash like Sam.

Funny things is that I dont remember any Black people and Trumps staff....
(chew on that)

-jel:halo:

[DarkFury]

Funny things is that I dont remember any Black people and Trumps staff....
(chew on that)

-jel:halo:
Exactly.... :hmm: