Book Board Chat

While some people have said they never watch "reality shows" and toss them all in the same garage bin, I enjoy watching Shark Tank, Top Chef, and Undercover Boss. The last one is especially heart-warming because of what the CEO does for those employees with whom he had worked while undercover. While the aim of the CEO going undercover and working with regular line workers be it flipping hamburgers or packing boxes is to find out more about how the company is running at that level, he asks his " co-workers" about their personal lives and many are in dire need. In the end he steps up to the plate and helps them in someway - sometimes giving enough cash for a used car to an employee who rides a bus an hour one way and other times to help a family with a special needs child. And many times it is to give scholarship money to deserving young employees or to send a family on a 'dream vacation.' It is always neat to see the follow-up they do at the end of what the employees are doing. Of course, the undercover boss sometimes finds employees who are less than desirable in their performance and treatment of co-workers (usually a supervisor who doesn't pitch in when needed but sits in the break room instead). He gives them another chance and sometimes they do change and other times they leave.