Uh… Have now watched one episode of this show all the way through (it took some doing), and here’s a tip – if a camera crew shows up with ANY new employee even the douchebags at your workplace are gonna manage to behave for a shift or two.
If you really want to see how they behave use hidden cameras.
What!? You did *not* find that show a deeply insightful, elevating and enlightening revelation into the realities of the present day workplace?
I, too, (perhaps out of some hidden masochistic urge) also watched *one* episode … morbidly curious, I suppose, about its premise was to be worked out (especially, how ‘natural and spontaneous’ behaviour would be captured in the presence of a film crew).
Perhaps the episode I watched was unusually ingratiating and saccharine – much in the way of cheap giveaways and tears at the end – but I doubt it.
Commercial television … more popcorn for the brain. Edward R. Murrow (as with many of his observations) hit the nail on the head in 1958 … [commercial television consists largely of a wasteland of] ‘decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live‘
http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/commentary/hiddenagenda/murrow.html
‘Undercover Boss’ is a marketing tool for the companies they select. The Boss is really a great guy and you just need to see it. Too bad Bain Capital didn’t get to do one with Mitt starring. We’d know how wonderful and kind he was too. (Sorry, Wifey’s watching the Town Hall debate.)
Carbonman: Yep, that’s painfully obvious. It’s deeply touching to see how angelic the employees are, and then in return the boss helps fulfil their base materialistic dreams no how matter how irrelevant they are.
It’s painful to watch.