With much excitement the new season of the Apprentice has officially began. 16 new hopeful candidates fight for the chance for a job at the trump organization. This time all of the contestants arrive jobless with strong hopes to leave employed. Like many of Americans today this season of the apprentice surely resonates with the current economic times.
Episode one opens with Donald Trump splitting the 16 people up into two teams of men vs. women. The men break off to name their team “Octane” while the women decided on “Fortitude”.
The challenge at hand was to design and build an ultra modern workspace, which would be judged on functionality and originality.
The woman’s team had a volunteer for project manager, Nicole; an unemployed attorney took on the challenge. The Men’s team more or less, through someone into the fire volunteering the oldest in the group Gene; an unemployed financial advisor to take the position of project manager.
Having the teams in place and challenge at hand, both teams broke out into a frenzy getting their space up to Trump standards, or so what they thought would be.
The men opted for a “Green Space” while the women focused on a theme of “Modern Executive”.
It would not have been a good episode without a fight, and there were plenty to be had. James, an unemployed attorney had plenty to say from the men’s team all the while Clint an unemployed developer and David a divorced father of 5 made a scene with friction over flower orders.
With less then what seemed like 24 hours both teams finished their workspaces and Trump arrived to judge. He was very clear in saying he did not like either space and called both teams to the boardroom.
On the men’s side Clint surprised everyone by not wearing a tie and the women broke out into war before they even knew if they won or loss.
In the end Gene prevailed with leading the men’s team to a victory and Nicole’s teams dragged her name through the mud. Nicole was fired yet Trump still made a comment he would like to get her an interview.
