Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Interview to a kill
By Miss Alli | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 05.04.2005
Darlene asks Tana where a "small-town girl from Iowa" fits into Trump's company. Tana says that she fits in wherever Trump wants her and she'll make the best of it. In other words, "[Monkey noises.]" She claims that she has been an entrepreneur since she was nine, and I'm not sure how meaningful that can really be, but all right. Tana adds that the reason to be an entrepreneur is that you want "freedom," and I really don't understand why this show has such a thing about being an entrepreneur and wanting freedom, because if you want freedom, the last thing you're going to do is leave self-employment with its tasty sky-high taxes and lack of health insurance and go to work for Donald Trump. It's senseless.
The Burger King asks Craig what his most challenging business problem was. Craig says it was "getting the right people," presumably for his shoeshine business. The Burger King asks him to elaborate a little bit about getting personnel and what he did about it. Craig's answer, verbatim: "What happens is when I set up something, and I hand it over to someone, I tend to allow it -- it seems like it's easy, it seems like, you know, and I'm -- and I'm trust -- I'm willing to hand it over to someone with the intentional of them allowing -- for them to have the opportunity to burn their own bridge." In other words, "[Qu-- qu-- well, quack.]"
Howard asks Kendra what would be her ideal job with Trump. "Selling real estate or being involved in one of the buildings that he's going to be constructing," she says. A decent answer, for once. Howard points out that she doesn't have experience in construction, as we look at what I think we are meant to notice are Kendra's hands shaking. He says her experience seems to be in marketing, and she says that's true, but "you have to start somewhere, and my goal is to become a developer, so Donald Trump can either hire me, or I'm going to be his competition soon." Howard smiles, but she really didn't carry that off all that well. You can say that, but you have to be able to back it up with something more convincing than a statement that you're going to enter a field in which you have zero experience, and by gum, you're going to cause some trouble for its current titans.
My favorite interviewer, the Domino's guy, asks Craig about the fact that he's done a bunch of different stuff. Does he have "a short attention span"? "N-- n-- I've -- uh…," says Craig. Going great!
Darlene asks Kendra when it's okay to bend the rules. Kendra says she bends the rules every day, which is a total lie. She says that there are a lot of legal loopholes and tax loopholes in real estate. She's the tricky one!