Disabled Attorney Says 'Apprentice' Biased

AP ^ | 2/9/05 | JIM SUHR

[PeterFinn]

"Anyone who tries out for "The Apprentice" is mentally challenged."

Ditto for those who watch it.

[cajungirl]

well I don't think viewers want to watch a disabled guy. Who would willingly tune in to a vapid program to watch some guy in a wheel chair wheezing.

I think I feel mean, but the bottom line is everything in tv.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Sure but could they actually go to the job site to follow through to see the out come, etc. I think not, not without special accommodations and in a race to be first to complete a task a disabled person would only slow things down, sorry, but handicapped people are limited. I want to go into space but I can't. Sometimes it's just best to accept your limitations.

According to what you've written above, since they have no chance to win, they shouldn't even be allowed to try.

What you really mean to say is that it's best for them to accept your limitations.

Regarding the ridiculous space example, perhaps you could explain how being confined to a wheelchair on earth would limit one's mobility in zero gravity?

[devane617]

The Texas AG is a Quad and is real likely to be the next Gov of Texas. As a "gimp" and in a wheelchair I faced a daily battle with this type of crap for 25 years of work.
This guy should be given a try without regard to his disability.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The people on "The Apprentice" seem incomprably rude. I could only stomach about 5 minutes of watching it. I wonder if it will carry over into corporate America.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

I think the suit is frivolous and opportunistic envy to punish healthy participants. Who would carry the handicapper's water on the intense projects Trump expects or do they really want to subject themselves to rejection?

So, because you think that someone has to carry the handicapped's load, then they shouldn't even be allowed the opportunity to try.

Only the able-bodied are capable of handling rejection?

Sources, please.

[Question_Assumptions]

They've said plenty of things on that show that could be actionable if this were treated like a real job interview. Particularly comments dealing with age and sex.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

As a "gimp" and in a wheelchair I faced a daily battle with this type of crap for 25 years of work.

Some people just don't understand this.

They'd rather take away your opportunity to even try. They think you won't be able to handle the rejection.

Nice, huh?

[sgtbono2002]

Here is another show I have never watched, who wants to watch a guy with a combover say youre fired.

[devane617]

If they have the balls I will loan them one of my wheelchairs and we will go for a few job interviews, shopping, to the local restaurant for a drink. I bet I can change those bigoted attitudes in about an hour.

[Question_Assumptions]

The people on "The Apprentice" seem incomprably rude. I could only stomach about 5 minutes of watching it. I wonder if it will carry over into corporate America.

The first season of The Apprentice had some decent candidates. As time goes on, Mark Burnett is trying to turn The Apprentice into "Survivor: New York City" and he's casting people who belong on a desert island eating bugs and running through mazes like rats rather than people who belong anywhere near a real business. They now give winning project managers "immunity". What's next, Mark? A contest where they have to roll a giant ball around Manhattan?

And given the stories that are getting out about how they treat the contestants (e.g., cameras in the bathrooms, not enough food or sleep, etc.), it's little wonder that the show is turning into more and more of a freak show.

[Tall_Texan]

This guy should be given a try without regard to his disability.

Agreed. But the show already has more than its share of LAWYERS. Give some other disabled person a try, not another damn lawyer.

BTW, if having a law degree is such hot sh!t, why are there so many of them who are always looking for other types of jobs? Can't the legal profession keep them employed or is their field so full of insufferable bastards that they just have to spread their disease to other walks of life?

[whereasandsoforth]

I wheeling my niece down for the next Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader tryouts. Before that, I'm gather four of my friends from The Lighthouse For The Blind and we're heading to the American Airlines Pilot Training Facility. Then I am going to insist that my deaf aunt apply for the opening at the city's 911 call center. But tomorrow morning, I'm going down to The Apparel Mart and insist they hire me as a model.

[jec41]

Maybe he should sue the companies that fire people who smoke on their own time. Welcome to the real world.

[Question_Assumptions]

The problem is that the show contains many physical tasks in places that are not necessarily handicapped accessible (two weeks ago, they had to renovate an old Jersey shore motel which had stairs and no elevator, for example). They also run the candidates through a meat-grinder experience where they don't get enough food or sleep. It's really not a show for someone who isn't in top shape. I doubt I'd be up to it and I'm fairly average.

[Glenn]

ADA = REASONABLE accomodation

Reasonable is a loaded word. It's what causes the problems. What is reasonable to me isn't reasonable to my employer, it seems. He has no concept of my disability because he isn't living it.

[Beckwith]

Biased? Everyone and everything is biased.

So what?

[Jeff Gordon]

What is next? Quadriplegic Firemen?

[Xenalyte]

I'd like to be a fighter pilot, but I have bad eyes and am five-eleven. Somebody somewhere owes me money.

[Xenalyte]

Q. You know what's better than winning the Special Olympics?

A. Not being "special."