Interview: Jennifer Maguire and Jenny Celerier
Let's talk about some of the other candidates. Lucinda, for example, doesn't seem very popular with you all.
Jennifer: I think there's a lot to say about that. Every single candidate said that she's lazy, she doesn't contribute on the tasks and was quite manipulative. I think it's funny that you don't get to see that a lot. But she's a very intelligent woman. She knows exactly what she's doing. She's very articulate in the boardroom and can definitely handle herself.
It was in the cab on the way back from the laundry task when we first saw a flash of the... darker side of your personality, Jennifer. You had a rant at Lucinda - but what tipped you over the edge?
Jenny: What tipped me over the edge was that I'd told Lucinda three times, at five minute intervals, that we had to get out so that we wouldn't be fined and lose all our laundry. Her duty and responsibility was to get all the tumble-drying out, which was 500 napkins, get them in the bag and get them out to the van. On the third time I went over to her, she was taking out one napkin at a time, folding it really prettily and putting it in the bag. At that rate it was going to take us until six o' clock in the morning to get out. She was consciously sabotaging the potential success of the team, trying to undermine me as a manager, and I wanted to have it out with her. She decided to turn on the crocodile tears - that's her prerogative, but they weren't genuine tears.
Couldn't you have had it out with her in private, though, rather than in front of an audience of Helene and Shazia?
Jenny: I would have done if we were in any other situation, but unfortunately we were governed by the fact that we had to travel in these cars. And I believe it's more important to raise an issue when it happens rather than two hours later when you've found a quiet room.
And what about everybody picking on Sara for not pulling her weight at the end of week six? Had you all had a skinful or something?
Jenny: At the end of a boardroom situation, everybody is on the edge. We're all extremely tired. And when you are so hugely competitive and want to win, and you have a weak link who's not really contributing what they should be to a task, it becomes extremely frustrating. Everybody has an "off" task, but when it happens three tasks in a row, then you think, "I can't continue to carry this anymore and I have to say something".
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