Posted by denised in What the blogoshpere’s saying about bosses this week…
As we suspected they would, a lot of people had a lot to say about CBS’ premier of the reality show ‘Undercover Boss’ this week. Here’s some of what was said…
Popeater asks, is ‘Undercover Boss’ exploitive of employees? To make their point, Popeater points out that the employees featured don’t make a dime from their appearance. This while the networks are making millions from the show. Good point. We still think that anything that has the boss cleaning toilets and collecting garbage can’t be all bad.
Newsweek thinks the dirtiest job in America right now is producing reality TV and exhibit “A” is the “deeply fictional” reality of ‘Undercover Boss.
Over at Three Star Leadership, Wally Bock’s post entitled “Undercover Boss: A Repellant Piece of Trash” left us unclear about how he felt about the show. Not really, obviously he hated it. Check out his post here, to see why.
The HR Capitalist thinks executives wished that’s all it took to change their businesses and questions the real “reality” of the series. Kris Dunn sees the main problem with ‘Undercover Boss’ as that fact that transformation just can’t plausibly happen during the course of a 60 minute reality series.
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