How unfortunate though, that passing the buck is rewarded more than the taking responsibility of a manager?
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I thought about adding that...I really remember thinking last week that its sad that Chris, in the end, did the respectful, stand-up thing, but got fired anyway.

I think if there is something large, and glaring, that a PM or M (for that matter) is responsible to notice and if not correct it, at least attempt to correct the behavoir of the individual causing whatever problem is occuring. Again, a reason it was sad to see Chris go. He gave his best effort to damper marcus's antics, but without avail. From what we saw, Rebecca made no attempt to remedy anything that went wrong in terms of setup, decorations, refreshments, etc. I think she should have been held responsible for that.[/quote]

I dont believe that these situations are comparable. Chris has his choice of who to take to the boardroom. It had already been established in their boardroom by Trump and the Viceroys that Mark was the major reason for the loss due to his incompetent ads, yet Chris insisted on trying to blame Markus, even though he was RIGHT about the problems with the ads. Trump basically told Chris NOT to bring Markus back into the boardroom since he had nothing to do with the loss. When Chris went against the directive of Trump and brought only Markus with him, he basically showed up Trump and sealed his fate. If he had though it through the could have also brought in Mark and both of them may have been able to deflect the blame back to Markus, and hopefully in the exchange get Markus to talk too much and seal his doom. That he didnt showed everyone that he felt he could force Trump to fire the problem child of the group. If anything Chris was being disrespectful of Trump. Bad idea.


With Rebecca, she had the choice of bringing two people into the boardroom. One had overall responsibility for the event planning and the other bombed on one specific task during the event. I think Jen W failure contributed more to the overall failure than Toral's. Had Jen W. come up with a better event, then Toral's miscues would not have meant as much in the overall assessment of the success of the event. I also think that Jen W's attitude spoke more about how she was willing to do a halfass job on the event since she probably felt that the blame would go to the PM anyway. From her conversation with Caroline its obvious that she didnt put her all into the event. She probably felt she could blame Rebecca for not exercising more control over her and the event, much as the blondes tried to do on the previous task with Marshawn. By the time of the event it was too late to make any changes, and so Rebecca was stuck with what she had. Also Rebecca was able use the blonde clique's disruptive tactics to deflect attention away from Toral and focus it on Jen W. She had the advantage of being able to stand up for a friend, who she may have felt rightly or wrong was an asset, and also offer someone just as deserving or more deserving for firing. She stood up to Trump, but in a respectful way, and at the same time gave him an out to keep her.