i have been watching undercover boss usa for a while now.
and today it was the turn of the ceo of mack trucks to go undercover.
it was interesting to see them making the trucks on a production line, rather than importing everything from the far east, then changing a badge.
one women put some parts on 140 engines per day, and that’s just her shift, x3 shifts per day, that’s quite a few engines, and quite a few trucks. not too much of a recession there then.
what gets me about these bosses, is they are useless on the production side of things. they dictate policies, and how things should be done, but can’t do the things that they ask of people themselves.
and there is another thing that winds me up.
on every show, there are a couple of employees with a sob story, surely he can’t just go into his factory, be partnered with someone who’s just recovered from a heart attack, then off he goes, and the next person he meets has grandkids with special needs. i’m not slagging people off that have had a hard time, but it’s on every show.
a useless boss, and employees with sob stories, everytime guaranteed.
Sounds like a ratings hit! Evryone loves a sob story, especially one with a happy ending where the poor unfortuneate gets a holiday or something. Good TV! 
theonlybigman:
Sounds like a ratings hit! Evryone loves a sob story, especially one with a happy ending where the poor unfortuneate gets a holiday or something. Good TV!
i agree, it’s good tv. but it’s the same sob story line, and useless boss every time.
just like BA in the A-team, every week he’d say “i aint going no plane”. 
i dont know how you say there is no recession when a lot of the show was tied in with the fact that they had closed factories and paid off thousands. i also would think a ceo might need other skills than being able to work on a production line…
glenman:
i dont know how you say there is no recession when a lot of the show was tied in with the fact that they had closed factories and paid off thousands. i also would think a ceo might need other skills than being able to work on a production line…
And he scratched a bumper!
I would say I have now watched the whole series and I did think it was good, the people at the top are really disconnected from the normal workers, I would suggest it is the same in this country only much worse, bosses could learn a hell of a lot from the way the employees serve their companies.