I was speechless!!! COULDN’T BELIEVE IT!!!

I’ll offer the differing viewpoint here. I can see both sides; but Randal has gotten so far in his young life by his competitiveness (as well as all of his other characteristics), and he didn’t want to share this moment with someone else. He won fair and square. I don’t think his choice tarnishes his character. I suppose it could be explained by selfishness, but I choose to chalk it up to his competitive nature (which, yes, you could choose to see that term as negative, but I don’t).

I can see Kris’s arguement…but the only thing that really matters for that guy is the court of public opinion. And he’s been tried and convicted already. Poor guy, it’s bad enough to go from total winner to total loser in the span of 5 minutes…but to have it on national television… ouch!

I’m sure that Rebecca will do better now than she would have if she had won. Either way, the Don goes out with a bang!

i’m not buyin’ it, kris. i’m not saying this reveals randal is a ‘bad guy’. just showing that he has a dark side (and, as is the case with so many of our fatal flaws, his weakness is merely a variation of his strength). yes, he won fair and square — and allowing rebecca to get a job out of it would only enhance his winning, because he’d get to be the winner, but also the magnanimous guy who acknowledged the skills of his sister-competitor.

i couln’t believe it!
i was shocked when it happened.

i told pam. he couldn’t share the glory.

then it was clear. Randal’s first decision as the apprentice was disappointing to his new boss.

wow.

I hardly ever watch the Apprentice, but last night, after getting home from band practice caught the final minutes of the broadcast. I was amazed just like you. Randal could have so easily gone from a good guy to a great guy in the eyes of the Trump, his fellow competitors and the world if he would have been able to share the stage with Rebecca. You make a wonderful point Marko.

By the way, I am a newbie to your blog. Heard about it at NYWC in nashville. Good stuff.

-w.

My wife and I wanted Rebecca to win, but didn’t care if either of them one. In fact, my wife called it and said, “Do you think he’ll hire them both?” That’s what I was hoping for. Then Randall shocked us both.

I know it’s just TV, but I think I was actually mad at Randall. I definatly lost respect for him.

With you on being shocked. I did see this morning on the Today Show that the Yahoo execs offered her a job working with in their financial area with Ben Stein.

i didn’t watch it… but i think that randal proved he was the legitimate winner… apparently, randal knew that he was the indispensable member of the group and to give consolation to rebecca would be insulting to him and diminish the value of his work. trump knew randal deserved it more than rebecca, otherwise the don would have fired him. maybe it wasn’t nice of randal to say she shouldn’t win, but it was obviously very true… she was the consolation winner… the “you’re not as good but awww… you’re so cuuuuute!… you can win, too i guess.”

and what if something different had happened? what if randal clearly won (no tie) and asked that rebecca be hired on as well? we’d all go “that was sweet” but really, it’s terrible television and a terrible way to conduct a competition. that’s like having a tug of war go on for 13 weeks and at the end, just as one team is about to clinch it, they both just go “you know, your team is really great… we should both win”… what a terrible game!! the whole point of competition is being competitive… to compete… not to be nice (unless it’s a niceness competition… how fascinating that game would be to watch)… be nice when you’re off of the playing field but, until then, play to WIN. nobody plays to tie.

if you can rate these people as employees without having them compete against each other and without comparing them directly to one another, that’s great… i’d love to buy your book (i think the california education system might too).

in closing, if randal wasn’t the best, most indispensable worker, how could he have backed the don into a corner? he’s not a jerk, he’s not selfish… he just knows deep down that he worked harder and deserved it more and he was able to get that point across to the don.

heart,
andy
ps… who wouldn’t rather work with ben stein? seriously…

Wow - here is another take on the Apprentice “controversy” which is worth reading. Could this be an example of racism that is difficult for Caucasians to understand???
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/104960261

Oops - I gave the wrong link. Here is the corrected one:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10496026/

andy, i think you’re missing the point. randal DID win. allowing another highly qualified candidate to also have a job takes nothing away from the fact that he won. had he allowed rebecca to be hired, it wouldn’t have changed the fact that he won.

I am thinking Randal got a beat down by his wife last night.

I agree, I don’t want to judge his character any more than my own, but I was surprised.

I was going to say what Len said…he got here first! Darn spending time with friends! ;) Rebecca seemed to take it OK and I think could be very happy at Yahoo! But I agree,with the exception of Bill it IS a one year internship…hiring both would have been OK. I think she could end up with the better deal in the long run.

I was very disappointed with Randall - for the first time. Rebecca was certainly one of the strongest candidates on the show as of yet; I did think Randall deserved the win, but was excited when Trump brought up hiring her as well. I thought maybe in the moment; he just won, he was excited and all of a sudden he thought he was being asked to share it so he said no - but he was still defending his decision today, claiming it would be like asking a gold medal winner in the olympics to share their medal. No one would have thought he was sharing; he was the winner. She was clearly second place. Oh well.

So True.

Marko - you got that whole Emergent controversy for you working …. as long as its that and not some other character flaw … you’ll be fine.