Tonight's undercover boss "Inside Bank America".

[Skink]

:wow:

[Subdivisions]

1. Wrong. 7-Eleven repeat. n/t

[NJCher]

2. I love this series

It is the only "reality show" I have ever watched. It's a good show because all these presidents see how hard the people under them work. They can rarely match what their employees do. They are worn out at the end of their "shift."

They are showing a re-run, though-- 7-11. Something must have happened on the BofA show.

The 7-11 guy was pretty cool. He made opportunities for the hard-working people he met in his undercover escapade.

I started off disliking him because of his pretentious home but in the end, he won me over.

This one is really heartwarming. If you haven't seen it, it's worth watching tonight.


Cher

[John Q. Citizen]

3. I think it's propaganda. It's an attempt to humanize the people who run things.

I notice none of them advocate any real social change.

We never get to find out what the starting wages are for workers and have the CEO explain how he or she thinks anyone could possibly survive on that. We never hear about what benefits come with the job.

Instead, it's all feel good bs, IMHO.

[NJCher]

4. that occurred to me but I rejected it

Speaking as a former propagandist for Fortune 100 companies, this isn't propaganda. Propaganda is like what's showing on the Biography channel tonight with the bio of the Home Depot chairman.

No doubt the corporate PR people have had a few concessions, though.


Cher

[customerserviceguy]

5. Yep, it's a free commercial for the business

If it were real, it couldn't go on for more than one season, which would have to be filmed before the first one was aired. The bullshit reasons they give for having the 'new hire' being followed around by a camera would quickly become suspect once the show became known.

Most 'reality TV' is heavily scripted, you don't really believe that all those ultra-losers that show up on Jerry Springer are naive about it, do you?