The end for Aaron on the Apprentice
Sadly, Aaron’s bid to be the next Apprentice has come to an end. You can watch the final episode here.
Aaron was the latest victim of an unforgiving format that tends to ignore past performance and focus squarely on “what have you done for me in the last 24 hours?” Despite having won two weeks in a row, Trump (and the producers) came down on Aaron. This seems to fit the pattern in which the losing project manager gets canned, barring any really obnoxious or poor behavior by one of the losing team members.
The only thing that really bugged me was how they set it up, to portray him as quiet and ineffectual. The big deal about not speaking up the ‘week’ before in the boardroom was ridiculous. Trump thoroughly dominates the boardroom and having the winning PM in there with him is so gimmicky. I mean, as part of a job interview, you’re encouraging the prospective hire to criticize his team members and create drama? Ah yes, teamwork. As in the team working together to boost ratings. That’s reality TV for ya…