As the Super Bowl game finished, a channel broadcasted the premiere of a fresh truth television series named “Undercover Boss”. In this show, the executive directors of leading business firms camouflage themselves as common employees in their own companies. They do dull and commonplace line of work. Each episode finishes with the disclosure that the common employee is actually the chief of the company, who in the end honors the industrious and diligent workers he comes across.
The episodes aim to present the business firms and their employers in a healthy way. In the first show, e.g., the Waste Management CEO, Larry O’Donnell, facilitates a cheerful, grinning worker as he clears out the venue of a fair. After coming to know that the Waste Management CEO had a huge company, we caught an arresting video of him playing golf as well as water-skiing. We also saw the Waste Management CEO in uniform of the company with the photographic camera work party telling all his workers that it was a docudrama on somebody auditioning for their tasks. Shortly afterwards, the Waste Management CEO was pictured vacuum-cleaning the movable toilettes at a funfair, collecting junk as well as being dismissed as he wasn’t sufficiently quick in his job.
Watching all this makes you wonder if your boss had to do your job without the profit of being on the television set and getting all the publicity. What will he feel after he puts himself in your shoes? Is there any particular problem you want him to know about? And if you are the chief executive officer, would you wish to do something like this?
Waste Management CEO
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