God, I am really embarrasssed to be a woman after last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2. Carolyn agrees with me. Unless you yourself are Trump-certifiably “crazy,” you’ve caught on to the fact that no project manager on this show is ever going to have anyone sing his/her praises. Seriously. And for all you people who are distressed about Stacie J’s termination due to aforementioned craziness, don’t judge until you’ve had a project fall flat on its face because your company couldn’t do anything about the crazy loose cannon on your team. Yes. Crazy. Doctor’s note and everything.

In Apprenticeland, you have to break down those with whom you’re competing if you yourself want to get ahead. In a nutshell, this means all of the project managers are going to “lack leadership,” “not walk the talk” or “point fingers.” I’m all for a team dynamic, but if I’m competing against my project manager you’d better believe I’m going to accentuate my positivity and accentuate her…um…areas for improvement.

Oh wait…I get it now…the only point of having a project manager at all in this “game” (sorry Buddy Bill, its a game) is to create drama. Ohhhhhhhhh. Geez. Can’t believe I didn’t catch on to that sooner.

And from that, comes my embarrassment. To be fair, Jenn C. was trying not to emulate the namby-pampy Ghost of Project Managers Past, but from the word “Zagat!” she was off base. Way off base. But did you see the decor? It is amazing! Forget the fact that she’s an annoying leader, she put some chi chi restaurant in a not chi chi area and then has the audacity to criticize her patrons. Uh uh sweetie, it don’t work that way here in da city. And she’s from New York City. This isn’t Sex and the City, sweetpea. Put away the black clothing, tone down the lipstick and keep it real.

Anyway, what grinds my coffee is how these women make everything personal. Everything. And today’s women actually are baffled by the fact that they don’t get promoted and no one wants to work with them? It’s one thing to desire equality but its a whole different thing when you shoot right past equality into some Postequal Superior world where men are deemed flat-out stupid and all competing women are mentally ill if they don’t agree with you. Yeah, this gets me fired up.

Stacy’s Project Management Rule of the Week:

“Don’t be an obnoxious Project Manager. You won’t get buy-in, no one will help you out, the task will fail and eventually you will be fired.”

I’m liking Raj more and more every day, but could have done without him in the white backwaiter jacket. Everyone else sort of blended in last night except for Stacy R. (to think I thought she was flying under the radar), Customer Service Jackass Manager Chris talking about being “on” for the customers (how much did you make in tips back in the day?) and Carolyn. I love Carolyn…more so with each new episode. I know she already works for Trump, but can’t we have her win on this show too?

As far as Buddy Bill Rancic goes, the uber-husband informed me after his trip to Chicago last week that there is most definitely not a Trump building going up in Chicago at this time. Leaves more time for Buddy Bill to fill in for Curious George, I suppose.