I love how they always pair the CEO with an employee who has overcome some hardship or has a child with problems, not just some slacker loser. So staged it's horrible.
Go to a company - ANY company with a lot of entry level jobs in the U.S. Poll the employees and see how many of them have heard of Undercover Boss. For the premise of "this is a documentary" to work, you have to find a company where no one has heard of Undercover Boss. Sure, it might have worked for one season, but after that, you'd have to be pretty naive to believe it isn't highly scripted (more highly than in the first season.)
The Overseas Undercover Bosses are better than the US ones. They seem less staged. The country Fried Chicken one was pretty good because it showed franchises that didn't give a shit right to the CEOs face.
Uh...that was Southern Fried Chicken.
Then poll again a minute later to see how many of them Googled it on their phones.Go to a company - ANY company with a lot of entry level jobs in the U.S. Poll the employees and see how many of them have heard of Undercover Boss. For the premise of "this is a documentary" to work, you have to find a company where no one has heard of Undercover Boss. Sure, it might have worked for one season, but after that, you'd have to be pretty naive to believe it isn't highly scripted (more highly than in the first season.)
Yeah, this is how I assume it to be run. They do some background work to get the best potential employees for the camera, add the CEO having to work at the same skill/pace as the real employees without any training and being made to look like an idiot, then tearful finale as CEO realizes "my bad" and gives everyone he was with $10,000.The locations/employees they work with are pre-selected. Of course a company is going to vet a couple of their best/most interesting employees and use them. They always end up cutting a few out. They also completely cut out the other person/s who are competing for the same "job" the CEO is. The interactions are not staged or scripted but they do put them in positions where they are hoping for a desired outcome to play out. You put someone who's Mom/Dad/Son/Etc is dying of something, eventually they are going to talk about it during the course of an 8 hour shift especially if they are asked. The premise of the ruse has changed a few times now so as not to be too predictable, too, but they are going to run out of companies/ruses real soon...
Just like all "reality" tv, it's all scripted or they wouldn't have anything worth airing
My company is not small (~3000 employees, dozens of offices around the world) and I guarantee every employee knows the CEO by sight and name (and he knows a good portion by name as well). I find it interesting that people work for companies where the CEO is in some sort of ivory tower. Do others here not know their CEO?
my company is probably small-to-medium (~300 employees), and spread around the world.My company is not small (~3000 employees, dozens of offices around the world) and I guarantee every employee knows the CEO by sight and name (and he knows a good portion by name as well). I find it interesting that people work for companies where the CEO is in some sort of ivory tower. Do others here not know their CEO?
Some of them don't like to mingle with commoners, possibly for fear of being followed by an angry mob.My company is not small (~3000 employees, dozens of offices around the world) and I guarantee every employee knows the CEO by sight and name (and he knows a good portion by name as well). I find it interesting that people work for companies where the CEO is in some sort of ivory tower. Do others here not know their CEO?
The interactions are not staged or scripted but they do put them in positions where they are hoping for a desired outcome to play out.
crying ceo to show the people they are human. Oh really?
staged
I wanted to punch that one timeshare CEO. He is a true asshole and I will never give that business any money.crying ceo to show the people they are human. Oh really?
staged