LAST EDITED ON 03-22-06 AT 00:15 AM (EST)

LAST EDITED ON 03-21-06 AT 09:25 PM (EST)

>Donald why'd you have to gang up on Brent too. It's like the kid in school who gets bullied only to have the principal and vp etc.not do anything about it. <

Precisely. Brent NEVER had a chance from the moment he joined the team.

Brent, you see, is a little funny looking. Short. Wide. Kind of waddles when he walks. He's probably been the outsider from his first days at school.

So what does an outsider do, when they want to be accepted as part of the group? Well, the usual advice is to get involved in some project and do your best to try to make suggestions. This is what Brent did. In fact, there were at least TWO suggestions he made which directly led to a solution for the group, but NOBODY in the group was willing to give him credit.

Suggestion #1: The Team Name. Brent made the first suggestion, Killer Instinct. The group realized that this was not the way they wanted to go, they wanted a name to suggest cooperation, not vicious competition. So Synergy was suggested-with Brent's applause. Even though his suggestion was rejected, Brent's suggestion crystallized the thinking of the team as to what they wanted to convey in a name. No Killer Instinct suggestion, no Synergy suggestion. True, it was just a name for the group, but Brent's suggestion really did lead to something positive.

Suggestion #2: The Lure Into Sam's Club. The whole team was aimlessly palavering about what they were going to do to get people into the store to get memberships. Brent suggested karaoke in front of the store. Rejected. So, Brent modified it to free hairdo's for the women. That too was dismissed, with an air of exasperation by the team. But when another member modified the hairdo idea to massages, the team all adopted it enthusiastically. Clearly, it was Brent's idea, slightly modified. And it won. Yet, every time Brent made a suggestion in subsequent tasks, the whole team either cut him off or rolled their eyes to sky as if to say, "I can't BELIEVE this guy!"

In appreciation for his coming up with the winning idea, Brent's project manager put him up in the blimp to get him out of the way during the task. Beautiful.

Yes, it is true that Brent should have handled his confrontation with Stacy more diplomatically. And he really hung himself in the boardroom when he said how much Tammy, the Project Manager, "stank"-thereby destroying any sympathy Trump might have for him. But that is what happens when people get insulted and embarrassed time after time. I mean, Tammy had put him in charge of choosing the clothes for the presentation-how humiliating is that? At the end, it got to the point that anything Brent did at all, no matter how well intentioned, was taken as evidence by his "team" of yet more outrageous behavior. So he finally caved in to the pressure and lashed out-which usually leads to bad consequences.

Except for Roxanne, who at least tried to be decent, I hope the rest of "Synergy" goes down in flames, starting with Andrea and Tammy and working the way down the line. I hope Synergy becomes another Net Worth, where they lose week after week after week.