Undercover Boss

This show is obviously completely scripted and fake! People show up around your work with a bunch of cameras filming you and this new guy and you tell him that you cut corners, that you hit of female customers, that you do crappy work.. don't think so. Then all of the employees will share their lifestyles with this stranger? on camera? don't think so.

Plus there is an obvious pattern on the few episodes I watched before I declared it "junk".

My opinion is that this is another show made by the corporate enterprise to make people think that if they work hard they will get recognized and rewarded... give them hope and they work more efficient.

although its a good show its fully scripted.

So lets start which guy is going to the job for the first day with the whole camera crew and then (TO ALL EPISODES ) they seat down with the manager and they talked about their DIFFICULTIES in personal life ?which manager will talk about personal life with a TRAINEE average worker? does that sound like a reality for you? and at the end the boss ALWAYS rewards those managers who had difficulties and they always promoted them.

what kind of average employee goes around to the whole areas of the company to work with the whole camera crew? in business YOU Don't get to choose where to work, u get a job in the area/major that there is a need for an extra worker.

its the same procedure and scripted of the show and they follow it all over the time. even the managers and the whole staff they know it that its scripted.

Why does a reality show need a casting director? That should tell you everything you need to know.

This show is such a fake. Who shows up with a film crew and a fake wig on the first day. And then the employees dump their personal issues on the ineffectual boss in work drag Of course they know it's Undercover Boss and work the system. And then get escorted for the big reveal and pretend they had no idea. Just shoot me.

It's curious to see the interplay between the high-flying bosses and the enthusiastic junior employees. Often the bosses are unfit to do the jobs and often they are just going about the motions, not even pretending to be worried that their menial job is on the line.

I don't know whether to blame the show or the culture of North America, but I find it distasteful when the bosses reveal themselves and give out gifts at the end. Having a CEO tell you that you did a really good job should feel special; that's all that really needs to happen. Instead, they want to out-do Oprah and give employees holidays, cars etc. I once even saw one of these bosses give a worker 2 promotions. How does one keep morale in the rest of the team when they know that just because the boss stumbled across this guy, he got promoted from under them to above them?

The problems revealed are often along the lines of "yeah, this has been a problem for a while, but management doesn't care". Going undercover shouldn't really be necessary for that kind of problem.