Oops - you fired the boss!

I watched that show too, it was great! I was thinking to myself how proud those employees must be to work for a company where the president cares enough to go out and do that! I wish more companies did that, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for this show. I saw previews for next week's show, it will be about Hooter's. Well I'm no fan of that place at all, I think it's completely degrading to women. Thankfully we no longer have a Hooter's in our area, but when we did I wouldn't even drive near it if I had the kids in the car. What sort of message is that restaurant sending our kids? That it's okay for women to dress like tramps? Just disgusting if you ask me.

"company policies.... contrary to company policy"? Neat trick! Gotta watch out for those middle managers.

Good cop, bad cop. Waste management? Hmmmmmmmmmp. This Undercover Boss seems like a pretty darn good show. Which channel is that on by the way?

hi dawnald that sounds like a great new show. Talking about fire the top guy at the company I worked for, I had asked for leave for twelve days to have some surgery done, Instead she said,oh this is so hard , the hardest think I ever had to do, but I have to let you go , you are oneof my best workers, but you are almost eighty, you will not be able to keep up, blah blah, but the whole gist of this was that the second in command,a skinny caustic tongued baitch just did not like to see an elderly woman shelving books and media in the library. she had gone to emily my bossand told her fire her or I quit,well since she was a new hire, Emily chose the easy way out she did fire me. I wrote a protest to the Orange county library headquarters and told them I was fired because of my age, no other reason. While I was waiting for tests for my surgery I got a letter from headquarters telling me they had fired both Emily and the second in command for firing me due to age discrimination. they wanted me back. but the next day I had a bad fall, resulting in a smashed pulverized shoulder so I had to have surgery and a bionic shoulder joint and an almost useless left arm.

I saw this show last week, I guess it was a repeat last night. The boss at the Wastemanagement firm was great. I was so happy to see that he had compassion for his workers. That he found faults on the job that he was willing to fix and that he was able to reward certain employees with a raise and change of titles. I agree if only more bosses would step into the shoes of their employees maybe, just maybe people will start to love to go to work because they will see that the big bosses have respect and compassion for their employees. When you go to work day in and day out without a bit of loyality from the big wigs you feel worthless and you grow to hate the job.

That's pretty interesting. I think that would be a good way to make sure that company policies streamlined people's jobs so that everyone could do a good job. It's pretty funny that he got fired, but yeah, if he wasn't good at what he was doing...

i knew a couple bosses that could sure use a taste of what the "lowers" do.. if only to teach them compassion. sure,i'd love to fire the top guy..but i'd be worried about reprocussions after the film crew leaves..

Even people who have to work their way up the totem pole sometimes forget how hard the climb is.....I think its a wonderful show! Maybe a wake up call too for a few!

I have to agree there are too many upper management calling the shots and don't know a thing about the jobs that the others are doing, what it entails and such. If more upper management put themselves into those positions for a day even, they wouldn't do the jobs themselves. I think it could be a very good learning experience if more companies did just that and got out in the trenches. Then they could make wiser decisions that would benefit many.

I caught the show and loved it. It will definitley be on my must watch list weekly. I thought there was a great lesson to be learned from those in upper management positions that may not have ever gotten a chance to see the nuts and bolts of the company they run from the top. I think this show will be a huge success mainly because it portrays real companies that we are all familiar with. The people were sincerely shocked to find out who it was that was really working amongst them and some were even emotional to the fact that he would take the time to even do what he did by going undercover within the company. As far as the upcoming show about the show hooters. I actually am probably in the minority in saying this because I am a woman but I am a huge fan of hooters and LOVE their wings. The atmosphere there is always relaxed, they always have the game on and the girls seem to enjoy their jobs. As far as the clip with the manager making the girls do things to leave early appauls and disgusts me! I really want to see the end result of that one because in no way do I think it is okay to behave this way in the workplace! But I am glad that this kind of behavior is being exposed so hopefully someone in upper management will put a stop to it!

I watched that show and just loved it. I could think of any number of ex-bosses or companies that I had worked for where some of the policies were just so stupid. I'm hoping that this show really goes for some of the really big company bosses like the ones that head health insurance companies. I really hope this show stays on for awhile. It could make a really great impact.

I DIDN'T WATCH THAT LAST NIGHT BECAUSE I SAW A BUNCH OF IT ON oN oPRAH A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. I probably will watch it next week when i haven't seen excerpts from it. It would be neat to fire the boss. I didn't do well w/a boss when i had one,lol.

...Hi dawnald, T watched the show as well and it was impressive. The camera work and the music reminded me of the Apprentice. The boss was seemingly a very kind man, who was concerned about people. It's interesting that his employees he worked with undercover, were people who just happened to have traits that allowed him to use them for better things or were people who helped him to make sensible changes in the company. The boss could not fill those bags with trash against the blowing wind as you mentioned and that was funny. He would have cost the company money if they kept him in that job, so he should have thanked the man who fired him. I really liked the show. Take care.

I think it is wonderful that he was getting out there and doing things that his employees have to do. He is a mighty big man to admit that some of the policies were actually interfering with how employees were able to work. I can think of some bosses I have known that should have done the same.

Hi Dawnald, We have sort of same shows like that over here, the things there finds in these working places are quite shocking, the best of all I love their faces when they find out who is the new boy, lol! Tamara

I have to admit there have been times, my dearest dream was to fire the CEO. But those days are long gone for me. Now I am my own boss and sometimes I do want to fire myself.