I don’t know about you, but I eagerly anticipated the premier of Undercover Boss after Sunday’s Superbowl. Sure, I may be a reality TV junkie. But, really, this premise intrigued me more than Jake the Bachelor ever could. A CEO going undercover in his own company, taking on jobs of his everyday working class employees, and experiencing firsthand the impact of his decisions.
The first episode followed Lawerence O’Donnell, the President and COO of Waste Management, as he posed as a newbie on front-line jobs that his employees do every day. He learned firsthand that some of them do really hard, messy work for low pay. While most of us aren’t literally picking up other people’s shit, it sure can feel like it some days. Right?
If I was an employee of Waste Management, I would have a deeper appreciation for my COO right now. He saw problems with how his own policies were implemented and how his decisions, made in a pretty corner office, impacted the real people of Waste Management. In the end, he vowed to make some policy changes to make some of their work lives easier.
Don’t you want to know what really happened after the cameras left? I sure do.
