Popular CBS show has top bosses working with front-line employees
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From the photo, I never would have guessed she was a CEO 'plant' for the show... I'm sure everyone in her company does groundskeeping in pearls...
I watched this show for two seasons, but stopped. It was just way too fake.
Pearls go with everything!
I love "a pearl necklace..." heh...heh..heh..
This show was good in the first season - but after that, you can tell everyone knows the new employee being followed around by a camera crew is really the "boss".
Business is like a poker game. The best players show emotions sparingly. When they do, they often display an emotion that runs counter to their true thoughts. There is no problem with crying, generally, man or woman. However it can be taken as weakness. It should never interfere with rational thought. There are very few instances in which a crying CEO is beneficial to the company. The only instance I can think of is when the CEO goes on national television to counter rising anti-corporate sentiment by displaying raw emotion. I think she played this very well.
Crying CEOs are useful in advertising to a female audience. If these women are responsible for purchasing decision in power tools, all the power to them.
Sexest comments and story are insulting to women.
No, horrible, power-hungry, paranoid and back-stabbing (conniving) female bosses are what should be publicly touted as being insulting to the seemingly fewer and fewer "good women" in society nowadays.
You can be a leader and empathetic to others at the same time.
I watched this show a few times when it first came on the air. My feelings about it are still the same. Those being:
If I was one of these 'undercover bosses', I would fire my employees for being so oblivious that they never question why there are full camera crews and lighting crews around for a couple of weeks so that they can these 'training films"
I'd be more concerned that everyone has a sob story... why do only the employees that they interact with get help from the CEO? What about everyone else that lost a child, can't afford their children, can't help their parents or whatever? Everyone has a sob story and they are all so willing to share with the 'undercover' CEO.
I agree. They seem real eager to pass out some cash, vacation, etc. but with rare exceptions don't use it as a tool to address company wide problems.
I agree with Raymond-1126037: this story was sexist at best and pathetically insulting at worst. I cannot believe MSNBC would stoop to such a low level. Seriously??? A story on how it might be OK for female CEOs to shed a tear? Are you kidding me?? Will there be a follow-up on what it might mean should a male CEO cry? So glad women are working harder than ever to succeed in the world, so that MSNBC can insult and demean them.
Tell Boehner...or is it it okay only for women and liberals...or both?
Mo524 wrote "A story on how it might be OK for female CEOs to shed a tear? Are you kidding me?? Will there be a follow-up on what it might mean should a male CEO cry?"
No, this is media for women. The followup would be how this female CEO used the weed eater on her husband when he didn't agree with her because he deserved the mistreatment.
Good for her!
Relax! this is a 'fluff' piece - publicity for the failing show.
Here's my problem with this show & specifically this episode - Dwyer Group sells franchises....Dina Dwyer was not the employer of ANY of the people she worked with on the show. Their "Boss" would be the individual franchise owner. Dwyer Group is PAID by each & every Franchise owner on a weekly basis via royalties from the owners sales or a minimum if their sales don't exceed a certain amount. She is only the "boss" of people who actually work for Dwyer Group & none of them were on the show. So, essentially this is ALL bullcrap because she wasn't even these people's boss...not even the ONE franchise owner they showed....he PAYS HER! So, essentially this whole episode was nonsense - she wasn't any of these people's boss and further, She SELLS franchises so not only was she not their boss but she is getting paid (probably more each week than the employee) by the employees real boss...the franchise owner.....so I don't buy any of it.