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I really love the show, it's really nice seeing the CEO and the like interacting with the common person and it's quite interesting seeing their reactions.
I have, but actually think it was better when it first started. More about the boss actually learning something. Now it seems to be more about drama. Does anyone really think that the bosses just happen to randomly work with only those people who have some kind of background drama in their lives? No just plain happily single/happily married/whatever who aren't also recovering addicts or terminally ill or something?
I did once...Felt it was too "Staged" to be honest...
Can you really blame them, though? With most of the target audience being the type to love crap like honey booboo and duck dynasty, was it a surprise that they started to stage it to have drama?
I did once...Felt it was too "Staged" to be honest...
It's an hour long, 100% staged commercial for the businesses featured. If my company was featured and I wasn't one of the pre-selected "special" employees, I would take issue with all of extra stuff given out.
It disgusts me. I don't watch it but my niece did one time. She told me they had an episode about the lousy crook who stole millions of dollars from the pension and 401k funds taking the money from my former union by using his investment firm as a front. After paying a fine, he was free to go and start another business in a new state. He became a successful fast food entrepreneur. He went on "Undercover Boss" saying he wanted to "make amends" for the damage he had done by treating his new employees with good salaries and benefits.
If he really wanted to make amends, he would have given back the people he stole from all the money he had stolen. This was nothing but a ploy to make people think he was sorry and a good guy.
A few episodes seemed good, but I didn't like how the show seemed to turn into an emotional sob fest where it seemed like they were directing the participants to cry.
I think the episode that turned me off was when they filmed in UC Irvine and it was just too much.
I hate it. Especially when the employees try to pretend they are shocked in the end. All the fake sobbing and stuff is overkill. Off subject but Shark Tank, on the other hand, is THE show to watch.
I heard that there's a lot of resentment from the other employees. Someone seemingly randomly gets all these benefits while other workers with lives just as rough get nothing.
One of the more believable episodes was when a Navy Admiral came aboard as an enlisted seaman. While the whole camera crew following people around thing would generally be a red flag, the Navy (and other branches) are constantly making "videos" for training purposes, which made this particular episode believable. Otherwise, especially now that the show has been around for so long and people should be "on" to it, its just not very believable to me.
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