LAST EDITED ON 06-01-06 AT 11:47 AM (EST)

>So are you saying the "fifteen week job interview" is a
>lie? That's it's really a "seven week job interview"?

Yes, it refers to the program's scheduling, not the filming time. I didn't realize anyone was still confused about that. The show does film in New York -- which has seasons -- didn't you wonder why the weather never changed significantly in fifteen weeks? It's no different than game shows like "Jeopardy" taping five episodes in one day and saying "join us tomorrow," "we'll pick this up on Tuesday," etc.

>Regardless - even if you had only "40" days, you could
>still avoid those two days. As others have said, do
>you really feel people would have taped/shot on Thanksgiving or
>Christmas? Family times?

No offense, but once again, you are showing your ignorance and making blanket statements about topics you clearly know nothing about. Yes, Survivor tapes during the Thanksgiving holiday all the time. They even frequently make a point of showing a clip in which the castaways lament missing the holiday, their families, etc. Other reality shows like The Amazing Race also regularly film during the holiday season.

>Lastly, if George has latitude to take those holidays off (and
>likely any other holy-day keepers in the Trump organization) it
>would be completely unfair to "require" any "apprentices" to work
>on them.

Why? Should the production also automatically work around all Muslim holidays? How about Hindu holidays? Do you think that if a Jewish executive has the flexibility to take a holiday off the company extends that right to the lowest members of the organization? Since when is the business world remotely "fair"? Is it "fair" that many executives are taking home millions while a low level grunt doesn't even earn a living wage? Companies decide that business circumstances require someone to "work" on a holiday all the time and Lee knew the production schedule when he agreed to participate.

Given that anyone who has made it that far into the casting process has been made aware that the show is a continuous ~40 day shoot, if Lee had questions about whether the production would outright stop during the Jewish holidays he should have asked about it upfront. The onus was on him to be available for the show's production days, not for the several hundred crew members involved in the shoot to reschedule their production schedule around the fact that a Jewish person wanted to participate. The Apprentice has previously taped in the fall and none of the other Jewish contestants ever did what Lee and Dan did, and there have been many (Alla Wartenberg was Jewish. So was Adam Israelov. And Brian Mandelbaum. And Andy Litinsky. And Stacy Rotner. And Brad Cohen. And Heidi Bressler. And David Gould. And Sam Solovey. And The Apprentice's first and third seasons also filmed during the same fall timeframe as the show's current fifth season.)

Obviously you have some extreme affection for Lee, but as others have pointed out, many viewers dislike Lee for reasons that have nothing to do with his decision to skip two tasks. And if you want to make a case for the merits of Lee's actions, it'd help if the "facts" that you cite to support your case were actually true.