Undercover Boss

[pam]

Did anyone catch this new show on Sunday? I thought it was awesome and can't wait to see the next one.

[JudoMinja]

I watched it and thought it was great! I was glad to see the boss learned to appreciate his workers more and wanted to help them out. I'm also excited to see how this next one goes. ^^

[rayhale]

I thought the show was funny, it was obviously either scripted or at least planned out. This is one reason why I hate “reality” shows, they claim to be ‘real’ but their not. Here are some things I think that made the show unbelievable:

All the people that the boss met in his company ‘so happened’ to have some special circumstance.

The boss played the stereotypical role of the clueless boss, not realizing how his policies affected the employees.

His lack of any form of verbal chastisement of the manager of the employee that was doing the work of 4 people, when the manager not only knew of her living arrangement (living with parents, being forced to sell house for money), but ALSO had a solution! (if I was the boss, this manager would have been fired!)

[dazed-and-confused]

i agree with rayhale....p. t. barnum said...there's a sucker born every minute.

[miztrniceguy]

I thought it was great.

[Tarnished]

I thought it was good, I think it should happen in more corporations. I think there are many CEOs of corporations that really have no clue about what happens in the lower levels of their company. I have seen good evidence of this in many of the corporate jobs I have worked. And though it is a reality TV show, I do believe that they did this without it really being as scripted as you think.

[Lbybug]

my boss is going to be on this on the 21st. i'm waiting to see how he impliments some of the changes so far we're heard he had issues with.

[HEthePrimate]

Oh, dang! I was going to watch it, but completely forgot! Thanks for reminding me, Pam--I'll make sure to watch it next time. :)

[Tarnished]

Oh, dang! I was going to watch it, but completely forgot! Thanks for reminding me, Pam--I'll make sure to watch it next time. :)

You can watch the first episode here: Undercover Boss: Watch Episodes and Video and Join the Ultimate Fan Community - CBS.com

[pam]

His lack of any form of verbal chastisement of the manager of the employee that was doing the work of 4 people, when the manager not only knew of her living arrangement (living with parents, being forced to sell house for money), but ALSO had a solution! (if I was the boss, this manager would have been fired!)

You could be right. But we only saw 60 minutes of edited film. We have no idea what could have or did happen actually behind the scenes.

But I'm looking forward to seeing the next version with Hooters and the "reindeer games."

[talisyn]

I like the premise. If there was more communication between rank-and-file and management there'd be a lot less for unions to do

[Bini]

Haven't seen it but sounds interesting.

[dazed-and-confused]

my boss is going to be on this on the 21st. i'm waiting to see how he impliments some of the changes so far we're heard he had issues with.

ok...that's ONE episode i'd like to see.

[Lbybug]

apparently when he was on oprah he said one thing he didn't realize was how much food we waste, and was wondering why we're not donating it to a food bank or something

DUH. that's something we've been saying for years!

also, the thing that makes me think it's real is...

every month we get a "message from joe" on our computer at work with his picture on it. for the last month or 2, it's been a "message from....some other guy". i found it a bit odd, until i heard about "undercover boss" and it made sense to me that they probably took his picture down so people didn't recognize him right off the bat.

i've met him once before, he's a fairly ordinary looking guy. i'm looking forward to seeing it. feb 21st

[miztrniceguy]

so who do you work for lbybug?

[Lbybug]

7eleven

[miztrniceguy]

oh thank heaven!

[Lbybug]

oh paaaa-aaaaam. i'm waiting to hear what you think of my booo-oooooos

[pam]

It comes on here in 15 minutes. I'll be watching it.

[pam]

That was awesome. I just loved Igor the delivery driver. What an awesome awesome personality and perspective.

[JudoMinja]

Dang it. I forgot it was on and missed it tonight. DX I wanted to watch this one too.

[pam]

You can hulu it in a couple of days.

[rayhale]

I feel that everyone in business boardrooms should have a requirement to work ‘undercover’ in the company that they work. As Undercover Boss proves, none of the CEO’s that they showed had worked a ‘blue collar’ job in over a decade, and that is most likely the case of everyone in the boardroom. There is what is called ‘mystery (or secret) shoppers’, that is when companies pay people to shop at their stores, restaurant, etc… and that ‘mystery shopper’ will write down what kind of experience he/she had, but until you work at that store/restaurant, you truly won’t know what is going on. The episodes of Hooters and 7-11, are proof of this, as both episodes had the CEO personally calling headquarters to fix something that he saw that was wrong.

[pyxiwulf]

I love it. Having worked both at the ground level and at the corporate level of the same company, I know both how important it is to keep in touch and how policies get implemented that sound good in the boardroom and fail in reality.

As for how every person has a special circumstance. Everyone one of us does and CEOs don't get to the top without having the skills to draw that information out of people. It's a quality that helps the get to the top.

[Lbybug]

I found the interesting thing about the 7eleven episode that about 5 or 6 years ago, all the high up in corporate were required to do 2 weeks of ISE (in store experience). The difference was, it seems, the stores they went in during ISE knew who they were....and ya gotta make things look good for the 'big guys'. I liked the idea of him going in unknown. Still waiting to see changes though....as it took 2 days to get an 'emergency' problem fixed this weekend