Trump was so wrong to fire Bryce last night. Is it better to fire someone who tried and failed or to fire someone who did nothing or very little to accomplish the goal. Life’s not fair and when you choose religion over accomplishing the task, then the task does not get accomplished. I’m a religous person and I would have taken the fall for my beliefs if my team lost.
Yes, they were late. Yes, their jingle wasn’t as good, but Bryce did an excellent job on this task. I’d say he was the best of the bunch.
Here’s what AdRants said about last night’s Apprentice. I want to point out the last line - “Bryce had the last word though in the Taxi with the classic line, “It wouldn’t hurt if Trump listened once in a while.”:
On this week’s episode of The Apprentice, Donald Trump, with his usual “listen to me speak because I don’t give a s*it what you say” style, fired home builder Bryce, pretty much the most level-headed, well-grounded apprentice in the bunch. His team lost a challenge in which they had to develop a jingle for Arby’s new like or natural chicken sandwiches. While we’re not so sure why that’s such a differentiating factor since we’ve never met an unnatural chicken - except perhaps in a bucket of fried KFC, the Arby’s execs wanted to drive home the point their chain is the only place to get natural chicken. I wonder if they’s ever heard on Boston Market or any other restaurant that serves chicken. Now, if they mean organic, hormone-free chicken that isn’t slammed against a wall to kill it like PETA so loves to show us in its videos, that might be something to hang the “only” strategy on.
The only reason we digress so much about the “only” natural chicken thing is because Bryce’s team didn’t mention that in their jingle. Leaving something like that out - whether it means anything or not - doesn’t make a CMO very happy. It’s no surprise Bryce’s team lost. Whit is a surprise is how Bryce took a dysfunctional bunch of 20-somethings (except for Lenny) who were at each other throats last week and turned them into a functional business machine that worked together extremely well. One might think, loss aside, the team building management qualities Bryce displayed would be noticed by Trump but no. The boardroom turned into the usual scream fest with Trump bellowing out platitudes without listening to the details of the back story.