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In any decent company it should be impossible to run such a programme as the ultimate head honcho and his sub honcho's... should be transparent from Director level down to the minions.

I know of and often speak to the "big wigs" in the company I work for, but am firmly in "pleb land"......

Same as in previous role...
 
no, he's saying that despite employing thousands of staff, through franchises etc, the top dog should always be recognisable even if he is dressed down to do a minions job, like serve burgers etc
 
Is that his fault or the level of intelligence /awareness / caring about their job?
 
even in a company employing 1,000's or 10,000's of people across multiple national sites?

even so if someone started working in my dept that looked a bit like the owner of the business, im not sure id pay much attention if they were average looking.
 
what i was saying is..........

If you are the CEO of any company... you should be recognisable and identifiable to your workforce...

Also, if you are an employee, you should have a fairly good idea of the senior mgt of the company, who they are, what they do etc..........

Therefore the whole concept of Undercover boss should be impossible due to the above...

However, it seems many employers and employees are f-wits - and do not know which way is up.
 
It's a load of rubbish this. There's a bit where the IT guy who knows the boss is in the salon with her. The boss is blow drying someone's hair with a camera poking in her face but trying to lay low and he doesn't even twig.
 
new2me said:
no, he's saying that despite employing thousands of staff, through franchises etc, the top dog should always be recognisable even if he is dressed down to do a minions job, like serve burgers etc
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Not possible though is it? I mean in a large company you may know the name of the top brass you may even have an idea what he looks like but hes not going to go and say a personal hello to each and every staff member is he?
 
pepi1967 said:
Not possible though is it? I mean in a large company you may know the name of the top brass you may even have an idea what he looks like but hes not going to go and say a personal hello to each and every staff member is he?
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of course not.

But suppose you are a pleb working for the acme bomb co ltd. Wile E Coyote is the CEO of Acme (employing 5000 people.) They will have an intranet site and old Wile E, will l have a page on there.. with a pic, therefore I would expect you to recognise him when he rocks up in your office and announces himself as "Nigel from HR"
 
Lynton said:
of course not.

But suppose you are a pleb working for the acme bomb co ltd. Wile E Coyote is the CEO of Acme (employing 5000 people.) They will have an intranet site and old Wile E, will l have a page on there.. with a pic, therefore I would expect you to recognise him when he rocks up in your office and announces himself as "Nigel from HR"
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Not if he was dressed as road runner beep beep :D

Yeah i agree tbh i just think its all set up tv rubbish. Its all done for affect i think.
 
Lynton said:
of course not.

But suppose you are a pleb working for the acme bomb co ltd. Wile E Coyote is the CEO of Acme (employing 5000 people.) They will have an intranet site and old Wile E, will l have a page on there.. with a pic, therefore I would expect you to recognise him when he rocks up in your office and announces himself as "Nigel from HR"
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So it requires them to care enough to find out what the CEO looks like? You think all the McDonald's employees know what the area manager looks like let alone a chairman or director. Some employees may see the head honcho every day and have No idea who they are or what they do, this is normal as they only care about the people they deal with.
 
Nigel? Why Nigel?
 
I wish I didn't know what my old CEO looked like as he was a ****.

I wouldn't really be that interested in knowing what a CEO looked like if I worked for a company again, no matter how big or small. :)
 
Never mind if the boss was recognized - the Francesco Group came out as a totally naff Organisation. Can anyone tell me exactly what benefit the Franchisees were getting? The whole idea of Franchising is thast the Franchise is promoted centrally thats why you pay fees. Talk about missing the point - the Franchisees should be grilling The Francesco Group and asking them exactly what they are getting for the fees they pay which on the strength of the programme would appear to be absolutely b****r all. No Marketing, Training or guidance. Pitiful
 
new2me said:
no, he's saying that despite employing thousands of staff, through franchises etc, the top dog should always be recognisable even if he is dressed down to do a minions job, like serve burgers etc
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I only caught the end but wasnt she just a director or something, she knew one of the employees that came it to get cut, so had to avoid him
 
It's all fake anyways... The 'plot' is always the same, same emotional ramblings, same outcomes. That's what ****es me off. I actually enjoyed the first couple of episodes, but then it became too obvious.
 
claves said:
It's all fake anyways... The 'plot' is always the same, same emotional ramblings, same outcomes. That's what ****es me off. I actually enjoyed the first couple of episodes, but then it became too obvious.
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Great first post...Welcome. I kinda agree. :)
 
i've only seen the odd episode but from different countries - one of the joys of only findin part time emploment and having dire weather most of the time. no matter what country, US, UK, Aus ... it's all the same bull
 
Overexposed said:
Never mind if the boss was recognized - the Francesco Group came out as a totally naff Organisation. Can anyone tell me exactly what benefit the Franchisees were getting? The whole idea of Franchising is thast the Franchise is promoted centrally thats why you pay fees. Talk about missing the point - the Franchisees should be grilling The Francesco Group and asking them exactly what they are getting for the fees they pay which on the strength of the programme would appear to be absolutely b****r all. No Marketing, Training or guidance. Pitiful
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I drew the same conclusion - they've got the relationship the wrong way around!
 
Overexposed said:
Never mind if the boss was recognized - the Francesco Group came out as a totally naff Organisation. Can anyone tell me exactly what benefit the Franchisees were getting? The whole idea of Franchising is thast the Franchise is promoted centrally thats why you pay fees. Talk about missing the point - the Franchisees should be grilling The Francesco Group and asking them exactly what they are getting for the fees they pay which on the strength of the programme would appear to be absolutely b****r all. No Marketing, Training or guidance. Pitiful
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Furtim said:
I drew the same conclusion - they've got the relationship the wrong way around!
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Did you know that the Francesco families 1st born child is called Franchisee Francesco?
 
I once told some random guy at work to stop sitting on my desk, as we'd just been told it was a H&S issue. He came round later on and introduced himself as the new call centre manager. I've never seen him since. Some firms are just too big for all the plebs to know, or even care about, who their distant bosses are.
 
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All of our "Top Dogs" are American......... I think their accents might give the game away :lol:

Having said that we get regular (weekly) emails from them..... that bear no resemblance to anything we do in the UK but at least they try :lol:
 
Russ77 said:
that bear no resemblance to anything we do in the UK
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That would be Americans then ... was standing next to one at the recent Bristol Harbourside Festival ... she pointed to 'HMS Cattistock' and proudly announced, "I guess that's the SS Great Britain then" :bang:

(other Americans are available)!
 
As soon as you saw TV cameras and some unknown person working and asking lots of searching questions you'd have to be a bit thick not to work it out. It's the people sitting clueless in the car on the way to head office that are the worst actors. The secret millionaire is bad for it now too, the jig is up. A lot of these shows now look like 60 minute adverts for their business.
 
The thing that gets me is the fact that they obviously hand pick the people. You never see the thick moon hoofer that we all know and love from work.
 
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