When Your Job Sucks: “Undercover Boss” vs Reality of American Workers
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A new reality show, Undercover Boss show puts CEOs in the trenches alongside their workers, showing them how their policies and rules affect everyday workers. Great idea. But as American Rights at Work points out:
the majority of America’s workers do not have a TV show to shed light on their problems.
In light of that, FixOurJobs.org just launched a site to continue the dialogue.
As CBS gets ready to launch “Undercover Boss,” we’re getting ready to tell YOUR stories. Millions of America’s workers are stuck in jobs that suck—working longer hours, with unsympathetic bosses, and not making more money for it. And they sure don’t have a reality show to tell their story.
We can’t sit around waiting for America’s CEOs to go undercover and have a change of heart, one by one, like they do on the show. That’s why we’ve launched this campaign: to give America a place to vent – and to tell Congress exactly how we feel.
One of the major differences between work today vs work 50 years ago is that practically no one who is at the top today started anyplace BUT the top echelon. It’s not like any of these folks started in the mailroom, or as typists or file clerks, or on the assembly line. And like the Masters of the Financial Universe, many of them really do have the attitude of “If you were any good, or smart, you’d be me and think the way I think and be doing what I do.”
And people who don’t are people they despise.
And THAT is the reality show.