Undercover Boss

[Jangler]

The CEO of a waste Management Company goes around and sees how the real people work. And they just did a segment on cleaning port-a-johns and I thought of this...

[pstall]

Fantastic show. I was surprisingly impressed.

[scpanther22]

I wonder how real it is??

[Squirrel]

I wonder how real it is??

Some of it seemed real but some you just know it was scripted. Who invites someone that just met to there house the first day.

[Squirrel]

Next week is Hooters CEO I will get a laugh out of that one.

[Samuel L. Jackson]

I asked my wife while we were watching it... "How many other thousands of his employees are in the same situations he's specifically addressing?"...

Sure, it makes for good TV and I enjoyed it, but it was a good example of how the upper class is so far out of touch with the middle to lower class of people...

He seemed like a genuinely nice guy though, and it was nice of him to do some of the specific things he did afterwards... But, how many other people in his company are in the exact same situation?

The Hooters one looks to be a hoot... Especially the pig making the girls eat from the plate for whatever reason... People disgust me...

[pstall]

i predict quite a tidal wave of change from this. not for every employee but i can see more ceo's doing this.

I agree slj, the distance between upper to lower class is light years apart. I have proposed for years a role reversal day or month for all companies. That will keep it real for sure.

[Squirrel]

It never hurts for the bosses to get there hands dirty. They get out of touch some times and forget they have actual people working for them.

[mr beauxjangles]

When I first moved to Atlanta in 2006, our CEO did something similar at least a few times each month, except it wasn't undercover. At our height we had about 100 employees. He was a tremendous owner, a great friend to everyone, and a "my door is always open" kind of guy (he actually meant it and delivered). Our CEO and founder would schedule these days where he would basically shadow people for a day at their job. It wasn't some empty effort to conenct with employees, because everyone knew him so well that wasn't necessary. He did it to learn. He would sit down with economists, accountants, programmers, project managers, IT support, administrative assistants...almost everyone. He wanted to udnerstand every part of his business and truly understand what everyone was bringing to the table. I miss working for him and his family.

[Mayor Qumiby]

I enjoyed this show...im ashamed to tell you guys this but i actually saw an epsiode of oprah when she actually did a segment on this show.. they had the waste managment guy and the 7/11 ceo and it was pretty awesome what the 7/11 corporation does for one of their people.. i will continue to watch. I agree with pstall in saying companies should put in a role reversal day in every so often for their corporate employees..alot of the people at the top have no idea what its like for the hourly employees and really cant see how policies they make affect the people under them.

[LiQuiD]

An outstandingly brilliant show from what I saw.

Only one problem. I had it DVR'ed and the fugging Saints celebration took up the first 15 minutes, therefore I missed the whole ending. Arrgh. The Saints strike again.

[rodeo]

i think it's an outstanding premise for a show in these times of corporatism run amuck.

[Mayor Qumiby]

If you have an iPhone and the tv.com app ( which I think might be free to d/l) you can watch the full epsiodes on there.