LAST EDITED ON 03-27-06 AT 02:26 PM (EST)

LAST EDITED ON 03-27-06 AT 02:12 PM (EST)

You're partly confusing how one deals with a customer - which an opposing party on a business deal is - with a fellow employee. People don't get fired for all deciding that someone is difficult, abrasive and disruptive....

I really haven't seen any particularly disruptive behavior on Brent's part, outside of being somewhat rude to a contestant who was rude to him.

But apart from that:

As I stated before, there is a level of behavior an employer has the right to expect his employees to follow with people both inside and outside the company. Synergy did not even come close to meeting that level.

I notice that you did not even begin to deal with what would happen in a real company if the boss came in one morning and found out that several employees had come together, without his permission or consent, and fired one of his employees in his absence. Hoo boy. There would be hell to pay there. Funny thing about bosses-they expect their underlings-or job applicants-to actually know who the boss is. If they demonstrate that they don't-it's sayonara.

As far as this being a game-it is a game where the contestants are judged by their fitness to take over a $500,000 job in a Manhattan real estate and building firm. If the contestants show an inability to comprehend even the most basic limits of their authority, whether in a game or in business, then they have shown that they are unqualified to asssume that authority in the first place.