Apprentice

Its been long since I wrote my last blog.
Quite a few interesting issues crossed my path during past 8 months but, some how or the other, I could not gather myself to the task of reporting it here.
Yet another very interesting issue came up yesterday. Its about the show Apprentice, running on NBC hosted by Mr Donald Trump, the real estate baron. Yesterday night was the finale of the event where in out of 18 contestants, final two competed against each other, in a managerial task, for the coveted position of an apprentice at Trump organizaiton.

Randal Pinkett, and Rebecca Jarvis were the two final contestants. Undoubtedly, Randel by education by exprerience running a real business, by age and even by stature (hmm..) was better than his rival Rebecca, a 23 year old, financial journal reporter. Donald Trumps final choice of Randel was without doubt perfect. But heres the twist to the tale.

If any one has followed the show over past couple of months, one would have easliy realised that Rebecaa, with her broken ankle, in the second week of the show, with a smiling face all through out, with her calmness under stress, with her true loyalty backing her team in the final task, with her foresight in understanding the bigger picture overlaying a given problem and sheer charisma, was upto Randel in terms of being Trump Apprentice. Trump, as would have possibly elected the 2 of them for 2 huge projects he has currently undertaken.

All through out, it was sort of clear that, Trump would declare, Mr Randel winner and hire, Ms Rebecca along with Randel. But in the end, after declaring Randel the winner, Mr Trump, posed a question to Randel, "If you were me, would you hire Rebecca also ?". Surprise Surprise, the answer from Randel was, "Mr Trump, the show is apprentice and not apprentia, there should only b e one hiring". What the F*** Mr Randel I wonder!!!

Agreed that the the show is apprentice, agreed that you were the brightest amongst the contestants, and agreed that u deserved the accolade and the moment of glory. However, why in the world would you be so selfish, and egocentric so as to deny another bright candidate an oppurtunity.
Infact, the two jobs that Mr Trump announced earlier, were out there for both of u to pick.

I still wonder what logic other than self centric mania, would have made Mr Randel a MIT graduate
make such a statement and deny a well deserving candidate her share of the glory.