LSAS shakes his head as Paloma leaves, and mutters “there must be something wrong with me today”, though in fact the opposite is true, because he’s kept Alex and Sandeesh around, despite the former being “purported as useless”, and the latter “purported as doing naff all”, as he pointedly reminds them both.
In her exit interview, Paloma says that she’s been a strong candidate overall, and ultimately she was fired for being “too lippy” in the Boardroom, and there’s nothing about that sentence that’s actually untrue, and yet I just can’t agree with her conclusion; “I think it’s his loss, to be honest.” The lesson today is this; you don’t have to denigrate everybody around you to prove how great you are. That is, in fact, a sign that perhaps you are not so great as you think you are, because if you were, you’d stand out on your own merits.
Death Watch. Chris’s opinion is the only one we hear (Paloma has cocked something up on three tasks running, so it should be her to go) before Alex comes dancing in like a clown, with Sandeesh following sedately behind him. Alex reports that “things got very personal in there”, and that Paloma described him as “an irritant” and “awkward around people”, and Stella goes “she said that?!” to the latter, because she understands how you just can’t do that. She’s so great. I’m going to get so mad when she is inevitably the runner up to some douche like Chris or Jamie.
Next week is the advertising task, which is always a winner. I’m putting odds on Jamie or Alex to be the one that gets caught up in their creative vision and forgets that they’re supposed to be selling a product, as happens to someone every year in this task, without fail. See you then!
