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Topic: Undercover Boss

IMHO Title: Official Outpost Greeter Posts: 30,884 Registered: Nov 1, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 28,020 User ID: 490,177	Subject: Undercover Boss
	I think it is propaganda produced by big corporations to garner sympathy from the masses while in real life they are screwing us over slowly but surly. -----signature----- You're Right ~ Koneg He's [Manegarm] like the Fred Phelps of atheism. ~Bubbledude many of you are in the Republican boat, aka the ship of fools. ~Modeeb We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. ~Kurt Vonnegut
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Scarne Title: Capo di Scientifico Posts: 27,710 Registered: Jul 23, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 22,798 User ID: 272,061	Subject: Undercover Boss
	Duh? -----signature----- E Pluribus Unum
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sweeny_comodore Posts: 9,066 Registered: Aug 23, '07 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 8,113 User ID: 1,248,480	Subject: Undercover Boss
	Scarne posted: Duh? -----signature----- Jesus? No, but there is indeed a god shaped hole in the heart of man, why is yours so empty? -- snarf igraine the original monotheism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus
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GrilledCheez Title: The Lord's Balls Posts: 37,872 Registered: Mar 22, '06 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 26,537 User ID: 1,125,840	Subject: Undercover Boss
	It is an AWFUL show. I dont' understand how anyone can watch it. What an insipid bunch of garbage. OH NO. You've been working your ass off to make me rich for 3 decades and live in a ghetto and can't support yourself and your family. NOW I SUDDENLY CARE AND WILL GIVE YOU 10K, while your coworkers int he exact same position but not on TV can continue to make me rich in squalor. HOORAY!!! awful awful show. -----signature----- Another word for expensive is successful.
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Friarspam Posts: 12,363 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 10,619 User ID: 1,200,702	Subject: Undercover Boss
	Man, you guys hate on the corporate world like a bunch of old hard-line commies from the USSR. Maybe you think the State would do a better job of running all the businesses in the US? -----signature----- My folks went on vacation and all I got was this lousy sig.
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IMHO Title: Official Outpost Greeter Posts: 30,884 Registered: Nov 1, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 28,020 User ID: 490,177	Subject: Undercover Boss
	Friarspam posted: You are doing a good job Frairspam -----signature----- You're Right ~ Koneg He's [Manegarm] like the Fred Phelps of atheism. ~Bubbledude many of you are in the Republican boat, aka the ship of fools. ~Modeeb We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. ~Kurt Vonnegut
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Friarspam Posts: 12,363 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 10,619 User ID: 1,200,702	Subject: Undercover Boss
	NOTE THE LACK OF DENIAL! I don't know if I should laugh or cry with you guys. You would be happy to live in a battery compartment with the government using your body to power its machine just like a movie. /freaks -----signature----- My folks went on vacation and all I got was this lousy sig.
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RHWarrior Posts: 5,026 Registered: Sep 30, '09 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 5,021 User ID: 1,372,077	Subject: Undercover Boss
	Only seen the UK and Swedish versions and those were fairly solid. Noone is living in the ghetto or near minimum wage for starters. I mean best case it's company leaders making an effort to know their business and emplyees better, worst case it's a one-off deal and a way to get some positive media coverage. The other options is to do nothing and not giving a fuck at all, tell me how that's better? -----signature----- "Drink coffee - do stupids things faster with more energy! ...and I'm all out of beans..." -me "You guys need to stop dick riding wow and compare everything to it. It never invented a godamn thing, just made it popular. " -tinkly
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Aerlinthian Posts: 66,222 Registered: May 7, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 65,491 User ID: 94,919	Subject: Undercover Boss
	Freedom isn't free, it is inevitable that at some point we are going to have this basic fight to the death again. Being born and raised in NYC was for me a very enlightening experience in very different terms than some of the other NYC residents that post here. I've met and had a great many conversations with people from former Soviet bloc countries. I can tell you in no uncertain terms that they didn't fight to get here because socialism (which is what communism is an outgrowth of) was good to them or their families. People who have lived through such periods know full well what socialism really is when enacted on large scales. It is murderous, soul crushing oppression...for the greater good of course. (clarity for idiots, that last bit is sarcasm) True capitalism has lifted by orders of magnitude far more people out of poverty than any other system of civilization. Unfortunately too many ignorant people these days fall into a leftist induced stupor that capitalism is bad because the economic leftists will pretend that crony capitalism / fascism / corporatism, they will pretend that those things are capitalism and then blame capitalism instead of those. And the real irony is that they will in the same breath laud and promote more state fascism as a means to fix the woes of the poor. It would be just laughably sad if it wasn't maddeningly schizophrenic. -----signature----- (none)
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poetkiosk Title: Snail Hunter Posts: 19,178 Registered: Mar 17, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 14,742 User ID: 658,239	Subject: Undercover Boss
	Not a bad show -----signature----- Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut http://www.welcometointernet.org/Jesus%20Cat.swf
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Taliesihne Title: Wind on the Deep Waters Posts: 36,223 Registered: Feb 19, '04 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 30,592 User ID: 896,469	Subject: Undercover Boss
	Friarspam posted: Man, you guys hate on the corporate world like a bunch of old hard-line commies from the USSR. Maybe you think the State would do a better job of running all the businesses in the US? Or maybe we are sane and think that private industry could just stand to do a better job taking care of the workforce. You know, wanting to see a solution to the problem that doesn't involve throwing the baby out with the bathwater? It saddens me that there are people whose lives are so black and white. -----signature----- Jesus saves, Allah protects, and Cthulhu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire. -Roland Deschain, of Gilead
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Abaddon_Ambrosius Title: Retired Theurgist TL Posts: 25,187 Registered: Dec 21, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 25,057 User ID: 568,022	Subject: Undercover Boss
	I think I saw one episode out of 5 or 6 I watched where the CEO listened, the show aired some fairly negative things that were NOT just about trivial operations flaws, and the actions taken were intriguing and educational. Then I watched a few more and gave up. I realized it is what you suspect it is: Another way of getting some publicity for the companies participating without giving practical re-usable lessons or practical insight to the viewer. I'm not sure why that one earlier show was better. Maybe it is because they knew it would hook people and trick them into thinking the show was better, so they moved it near the front of the rotation. Then dropped the rest of the drivel on them in later episodes. -----signature----- In the immortal words of Socrates - "I drank what?" "God you guys suck at the internet - how can you fail to locate porn?!" - Eternal_Midnight "Knowing means nothing." - Fat-badger
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