In this episode, "The One Where Rachel Shows She's the Worst Boss Ever" er, I mean "Paris Dilemma," Rachel first makes an organizational error after she speaks too soon to invite Brad and Taylor both to Paris, and then instead of just apologizing for her mistake and assigning someone to stay behind, she puts it to the two of them to decide. Well sort of — she expects Brad to just say he'll stay behind because he hasn't been on as long as Taylor. Then when he gets upset because Taylor makes the "test" clear, Rachel makes things even worse by not hearing Brad's legitimate claim out, and then she makes Taylor make the decision.

And then: Twist! After all the mind tricks Rachel put Taylor and Brad through over Paris, it ended up being Brad that Taylor chose to go. This whole dilemma made me really angry and resentful for both Brad and Taylor. It wasn't just about Rachel not wanting to be the bad guy and tell someone they couldn't go to Paris, it was about her not admitting her mistake in booking the new jobs over the Paris trip and her other mistake of telling the pair they could both go too soon. By making them decide amongst themselves, she plays the two against each other — right when they start getting along really well. What is this, Survivor?! I haven't seen a power play like that since Richard Hatch.

Seriously though, as cool as any job seems, you should still be treated like a valuable employee, and Rachel needed to be able to woman up and just make a boss decision. No one wants to look like the bad guy, but she put made Brad and Taylor both look bad to each other, and ended up making herself look worse in the process. By not listening to Brad's grievance either, she makes him feel like his happiness at work doesn't matter. She's fostering an environment of resentment with "nonconfrontational" moves like this, and it's no wonder that Taylor has such a bad work attitude.

Sadly, there's no happy ending; it was nice of Taylor to let Brad go in her place, but I feel like she pretty much had to. How could you feel good about going after that whole debacle?

Apparently I got really fired up about the Paris dilemma, but there was other stuff going on too: the totally fake usage of Bing to look for plane tickets, Rachel's impossibly glamorous doctor, the weirdly retro Vertigo diagnosis, and oh yeah, a whole LOT of jewelry.

P.S. Did I just hear a promo calling next week's episode the finale? Nooooo!