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I've seen a few episodes, I'm a manager in my company, and checked it out, but I feel a little manipulated when I watch.
- It feels like an hour long infomercial, the management, and company overall, are portrayed in the best light. I want to go to NASCAR!! I want to bowl @ Lucky Strikes!!
- The employees the bosses train with are clearly hand picked, they are quite effective and enthusiastic about their jobs, and each has a very sympathetic backstory - single parent, child with life threatening illness, new immigrant to the country. They are no doubt good people and dedicated to their jobs, but are selected primarily generate an emotional response from viewers.
- While I appreciate that the UC Bosses are getting closer to employees, and trying out their jobs, my assumption is that they do not have to subsist on the salary of a typical employee during this week - no $7.25/hr - and expense accounts are most likely still in place.
- It's nice to see the handful of deserving employees get these rewards, some very heartfelt moments, and some are truly generous; one recent boss pledged to covering the medical expenses for an employee's sick child, who had a serious illness, anything not covered through their existing health care program, very commendable. However, this impacts just 4 or 5 out of thousands of employees.
- My biggest criticism would be, what happens next? There is the inevitable boardroom meeting, with "we need to look into X, Y and Z" but there is no follow up or accountability to see if anything does change. An exception would be, the CEO of Frontier Airlines, who pledged, on the show, and on a specific timetable, to restore salaries that had been cut after a recent merger.
Perhaps as a manager myself, I'm overly critical, but that's how I see it.
- It feels like an hour long infomercial, the management, and company overall, are portrayed in the best light. I want to go to NASCAR!! I want to bowl @ Lucky Strikes!!
- The employees the bosses train with are clearly hand picked, they are quite effective and enthusiastic about their jobs, and each has a very sympathetic backstory - single parent, child with life threatening illness, new immigrant to the country. They are no doubt good people and dedicated to their jobs, but are selected primarily generate an emotional response from viewers.
- While I appreciate that the UC Bosses are getting closer to employees, and trying out their jobs, my assumption is that they do not have to subsist on the salary of a typical employee during this week - no $7.25/hr - and expense accounts are most likely still in place.
- It's nice to see the handful of deserving employees get these rewards, some very heartfelt moments, and some are truly generous; one recent boss pledged to covering the medical expenses for an employee's sick child, who had a serious illness, anything not covered through their existing health care program, very commendable. However, this impacts just 4 or 5 out of thousands of employees.
- My biggest criticism would be, what happens next? There is the inevitable boardroom meeting, with "we need to look into X, Y and Z" but there is no follow up or accountability to see if anything does change. An exception would be, the CEO of Frontier Airlines, who pledged, on the show, and on a specific timetable, to restore salaries that had been cut after a recent merger.
Perhaps as a manager myself, I'm overly critical, but that's how I see it.
