That one manager that had the 2-minute / 1-minute policy came off looking pretty bad. It may have actually been something that corporate had recommended or implemented, but he turned out looking like the bad guy? Overall, the low-level employees came out looking great while the manager looked bad and the top management team came off looking disinterested.
I hope they actually implement company-wide changes instead of simply assisting the employees that got a chance to work with him. It sounds like they might have at Waste Management, but you never really know unless you work there. I'm happy for the port-o-potty cleaner guy. He was hilarious.
I'm curious about next week's, too. How does this guy get away with demeaning his employees like that? Play his "Reindeer Games"?? Surely a girl would complain to someone somewhere and get him sued and fired...
Watching last night's episode...I'm sort of doubting the authenticity of this show. I mean, they select around 4 or 5 employees for him to work with and every single one of them is this wonderful, mostly uncomplaining employee with a heart of gold and a knack for encouragement? Seemed a bit of stretch and I have no doubt that WM specifcially hand selected these people because they KNEW it would make them look good in the long run. The only person that came off bad was the low level manager who was barely featured. In the end they make all these promises to make changes...but we get some kind of vague info on what changes really happened. The two guys that became the spokepeople for motivation/health were all well and good. The girl that got the justified promotion was nice. I guess I'm mostly talking about the woman that was pissing in a coffee can because she didn't have time to leave her route to take a bathroom break. They said she was working with the COO guy to implement changes to make things more women-friendly...what was the solution to that problem? I'm betting they still didn't want her to break off her route 3-4 times a day to take a piss. The Hooters episode next week looks to be more like what I would expect if the CEO went undercover. So maybe this show isn't as fake as I think it is. I mean, the companies like WM have to realize that if their employees look good, this show will basically come off as an hour long commercial for their company, right? How could they not do everything they could to take advantage of that?
I thought it was a good show and I plan to continue to watch. It was something that I was interested in because the CEO of our company is someone who is so disconnected, yet he still manages to micro-manage everything...from freaking New Zealand. He needs this kind of training.
I was talking about this with some friends. That show was better publicity for WM than all the millions of dollars they've spent on commercials over the past few years. To your initial question - I'm guessing it's an editing issue. My guess is that he probably worked with some other ... less good... employees, but they just didn't show them. I'd venture to guess that anyone who they show to be a jackass (like the Hooters guy next week) is someone that was fired. No way it's good morale for a company to have mocked an employee on national TV and have him/her still working there. So the show probably agrees to only show the good ones, for the most part.
I liked the show but some of it just seemed staged/fake... I definitely thought the girl who got the promotion was tipped off that this guy was the big boss.
That was really the only part of the show I questioned. Seemed like the manager might have let that one slip because he was probably trying to help her out as well. The others seemed legit to me.
Haven't we all seen enough reality tv by now to know how they (show producers) can do whatever they want with creative editing?
I think no matter what, the people are going to be on their best behavior and try to make themselves look as good as possible because they know they are on TV, even if they thought the reality show was for something else. ...which makes the Hooters promo even more ridiculous.
Yeah, the employees knew they were going to be on TV so it had to account for their behavior. The Hooters' "reindeer games" thing is weird. The only guy that kept it close to real was the dialysis guy but then the show was edited - we don't know how many times the boss failed at picking up trash before the dialysis guy told him to stop. He's the only one that came close to treating the boss like crap. This morning the boss said both managers last night were good managers. The first one appeared clueless however he knew his employee's situation and was attempting to help her. The second manager appeared to be a dick, but 1) he was told to stay in his office by the VP of communications who I think accompanied the boss and 2) the manager's plant won some award. The "did you greet your new employee?" question was a set up. Had the manager met the employee he would have know it was the boss. PS - For a second I thought the chick was asking the boss out on a date - where are you from? do you want to come over for dinner?. I was LMAO until I saw her family. The editing was bad cause I'm sure they talked about her family which was not shown on TV. When he said "absolutely!" I was rolling.
Oh I see what you mean. Ya, the editing did make it seem like he was your typical ebil low-level manager. As for the show as a whole, I really liked it. I never watch reality shows (except for ESPN's 'Dream Job'). I may just start watching this one. Unfortunately, I have a feeling that they're going to trash it and create drama on purpose to up the ratings. T minus 6 episodes before one employee ends up getting in an argument and punching the CEO or something....
The Dialysis guy was by far the most entertaining and realistic. He just didn't give a *****. Dude YOU SUCK AT THIS! I am on Dialysis and can do more than you. I know too many old men like him. I was laughing and clapping when he told it like it is. "uhm. . . well. . . You clean up well." Rocket River
I thought Dialysis guy seemed pretty real to me. In fact, I didn't necessarily think he had a 'positive attitude' at all. lol And yeah, I think in the end the company is helped by this...though it doesn't necessarily make them look good to know they dock their low level employees for minutes over, spy on their drivers, and make their women drivers pee into coffee cans. Still, it's reality tv, so I would expect some editing to be going on.
This is what I was thinking but you summarized it in a way that I probably never would have. I liked this show. The wife and me are going to make this our new show and we can't wait to watch the Hooters one this coming Sunday. Yet you can't help but think to yourself that some of this is staged since it is reality TV. I really want to know what is going to happen to the dude that said "Reindeer Games". Major - I don't think Larry worked with any other people than the ones they showed him with because every day, they would show him wake up and go to his next job site. I mean they showed him working with 5 different people which would represent a normal working week. Now, of course, there is the possibility that Larry actually did this for a couple of weeks and they just edited and spliced the 5 best ones to make it look like he worked a "week" when he really worked more than a week.
