Flutterby™! : The Apprentice

I have been thinking a lot recently about how the way that we, with various cultural myths, enable abusive employer relationships, and how that ends up playing out in the culture longer-term. For one thing, the current job is fantastic about how we relate to each other, and how there's a lot of negative interpersonal bullshit we don't tolerate.

So this: How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success:

“The Apprentice” was built around a weekly series of business challenges. At the end of each episode, Trump determined which competitor should be “fired.” But, as Braun explained, Trump was frequently unprepared for these sessions, with little grasp of who had performed well. Sometimes a candidate distinguished herself during the contest only to get fired, on a whim, by Trump. When this happened, Braun said, the editors were often obliged to “reverse engineer” the episode, scouring hundreds of hours of footage to emphasize the few moments when the exemplary candidate might have slipped up, in an attempt to assemble an artificial version of history in which Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip decision made sense. During the making of “The Apprentice,” Burnett conceded that the stories were constructed in this way, saying, “We know each week who has been fired, and, therefore, you’re editing in reverse.” ...