Originally Posted by brangdon:
“Except he didn't, really. He didn't tell Trump that no-one should be fired this week. Instead he accepted that someone would be. What he did next was tantamount to resigning (since they could hardly fire Lee for his religion or Lenny for his nationality), and yet he didn't actually resign. It was just an ill-thought-out mess on his part. His heart may have been in the right place, but he wasn't thinking. He was a guy who couldn't cope with reality.
Lenny did all he could on the task. He had numerous suggestions for the jingle, admittedly all rubbish because he didn't know what a jingle was. Nor could he write the lyrics through not having American as his first language. The team leader ought to have found something else for him to do that played to his strengths. He was wasted where he was.
Lenny has been an asset on previous tasks. Eg the previous week he pointed out that they should use a voice-over instead of subtitles. The only time I've noticed him being apparently at fault was over the generator, and since the observers confirmed that he had worked hard on that task it's quite possible that the fault lay elsewhere (eg with the team leader, who got much wrong that week).
And of course, where the other 2 Jews took their holidays, Lenny chose to work. That was a bit like a Christian working over Christmas. We're not allowed to penalise the ones that won't do it, but the ones that do are hardly lacking.”
“Except he didn't, really. He didn't tell Trump that no-one should be fired this week. Instead he accepted that someone would be. What he did next was tantamount to resigning (since they could hardly fire Lee for his religion or Lenny for his nationality), and yet he didn't actually resign. It was just an ill-thought-out mess on his part. His heart may have been in the right place, but he wasn't thinking. He was a guy who couldn't cope with reality.
Lenny did all he could on the task. He had numerous suggestions for the jingle, admittedly all rubbish because he didn't know what a jingle was. Nor could he write the lyrics through not having American as his first language. The team leader ought to have found something else for him to do that played to his strengths. He was wasted where he was.
Lenny has been an asset on previous tasks. Eg the previous week he pointed out that they should use a voice-over instead of subtitles. The only time I've noticed him being apparently at fault was over the generator, and since the observers confirmed that he had worked hard on that task it's quite possible that the fault lay elsewhere (eg with the team leader, who got much wrong that week).
And of course, where the other 2 Jews took their holidays, Lenny chose to work. That was a bit like a Christian working over Christmas. We're not allowed to penalise the ones that won't do it, but the ones that do are hardly lacking.”
The anti-Lenny case was left implicit and was that he had similar limitations in previous tasks and the language problem wasn't going to go away. The problem might have been that DT couldn't sack someone on air for being an immigrant with limited lnguage skills - it would look bad. He has to wait for Lenny to foul up doing something. That may be why DT seemed frustrated the other week when he couldn't get at Lenny when he had. .
