CEO as Fairy Godfather.. (Undercover Boss)

[annabanana]

This show irritates the HELL out of me. A CEO gets to play dress-up. Then he descends from on high and confers gifts upon two or three lucky lottery winning employees, who's life gets better by getting to be enslaved full-time instead of part time. With half-assed medical benefits sauce.

[zbdent]

1. Although it's like the politicians who were "poor for a month on welfare", being able to go back

home to their safe place, it is heartwarming to see them totally f*ck up at the jobs they THINK are so easy ...

(on the idea of being able to return to where you were, Star Trek Voyager had an excellent example of this ... The Doctor, annoyed because the perception was that he had no idea how it felt to be a patient, gave himself a "24 hour virus". He muddled through it with his usual arrogance. After the 24 hours were up, the virus continued, and he panicked. His nurse said she had altered the virus's program to run longer, because in reality, the patients don't get the luxury of having the end be down to the microsecond).

[annabanana]

3. Do you remember "Queen for a Day"?

It was a shameless 4 hanky "my life is sadder than yours" crapfest.

edit: kudos to that nurse!

[Initech]

2. I like Bill Maher's new rule:

"New rule: if the new guy at work shows up with a camera crew, you're on Undercover Boss. Nobody wants to see a reality show called Mike's First Day At Petsmart.".