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Undercover Boss, More4 now (Monday 10.30)

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  • 02-05-2011 10:35pm
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    looksee
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    Is anyone watching Undercover Boss on More4 at the moment? Has anyone explained how the boss is wandering around with a television crew, and no-one has noticed?


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    embracingLife
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    Throughout each programme, the voiceover repeatedly says that the boss is a recently unemployed worker who is trying out entry level positions in the particular industry that specific business is involved in as part of a tv show.

    Thats the premise anyway. However,it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that many-though not all-of the workers realise who the "undercover worker" really is. Then again, I suppose many of the workers have never seen the boss at all and are genuinely shocked to find out who they were working with.

    When all is said and done,when the workers meet the boss in the boardroom at the end,its obvious that these workers were picked long before the programme started filming by their respective managers as being "star" workers and their work practices/permormance would be beneficial to the company as a whole. So, when we are told by the boss that the company would suffer greatly if these workers left and he/she is going to do something about it to keep on these workers purely on the boss's own iniative,its stretches credability that no other manager or collegue of the specific worker copped on to that fact long ago! It does make the viewer wonder how the hell all of these so called "world class" companies got so big if they are unable to identify good wokers without having to get the boss to go undercover with a camera crew to find out!

    You can watch each programme with an open mind and take it at face value as being completely off the cuff or you can watch it and quickly realise that its all a set up. In many scenes you can just catch a glimpse of other workers peeping out from behind doors etc at the camera crew and the people being filmed and then quickly duck away. I'd say many if not all scenes are rehearsed and filmed repeatedly to get them right-although there are some programmes filmed on the streets with crowds passing by so maybe not all are staged.

    If you want to see more go to http://www.channel4.com/programmes/undercover-boss/4od

    All in all,it is "reality tv" which is purely made to mimic real life for entertainment purposes.


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