I bet that felt good.

Confabulat: What a great story. I worked in restaurants for most of my life and everyone knows the crazy manager. We've all had that guy at least once. Some people cannot deal with being in management without thinking that gives them license to be a psychotic dick to everyone under them.

Good to see this guy get what everyone probably wished.


paid vacation and re-training?

One of the ways to being a good manager isn't to be a complete and utter control freak, but to simply allocate the right people to the right tasks. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, it's just a matter of making sure the job at hand works in conjunction with one's best abilities and not their faults.

Manager: "I need an order of fries!"
Fry cook: "I just gave you one."
Manager: "DROP ANOTHER ONE DAMNIT!"

I once worked at a restaurant where the new assistant manager thought he was cool and funny. One of my co-workers offered me a ride home as his shift ended same time as mine.

As we were heading out to leave (and we had to leave by the main door that the customers also used), the asshat manager 'joked' loud enough for the customers hear "So, going to cheat on your boyfriend tonight with this guy, huh?"

He was let go within a week for other similar, crude remarks to other employees.

/and no, I was not "cheating"
//that boss was an asshole

Meh, some guy who probably went from school to management. If he has never worked on the ground how would he know what it takes to get the job done. You shouldn't second-guess the boots on the ground.

/just kidding.

When he's undercover, he looks like Bob from Bob and Tom.

prolly sell a few burgers...
i drive by a rally's once in a while and might stop in just for props

I hope the guy they're putting thru culinary school isn't coming back to use his skills flipping burgers in a Rally's.

the last checkers burgers in my area had a fire 4 or so years ago and never re opened.

Why is this a Florida tag and not a Hero tag? I've worked at a lot of big companies that I'm sure the CEO would have backed up the manager.

That show is a joke and really just pisses me off. For the most part they take a couple people, some in needy circumstances, give them a small compared to how much the corporation makes. Out of that, they get some great (fake) PR and an hour ad. I just don't buy that the C-level employees on the show actually give a shiat about the rank & file.

I'll bet that manager rally checkered his underwear when he realized his that buns were cooked...

this should be a terrifying deconstruction of modern society.
instead it's prime-time.

JasonOfOrillia: Meh, some guy who probably went from school to management. If he has never worked on the ground how would he know what it takes to get the job done. You shouldn't second-guess the boots on the ground.

/just kidding.

The best bosses I've worked for were two guys who bought a small business, and the first thing they did was a few weeks of working with the employees to see how things worked at the ground level. It was pretty awesome getting to ask guys with Fortune 500 resumes to grab lunch for me or take out the trash, but at the same time they learned the "why" answers that most CxO types never understand.

/i know you were kidding, but there was a grain of truth to your post
//a good leader should know what the boots on the ground know

I'd be more impressed if this happened when the video cameras weren't around.

I watched that entire show, and it was tough. That poor Todd guy started crying at one point when talking about how he needed this job, and you could see the CEO fighting to hold it together.

Wouldn't it be cool if the same sting could happen, for example, to every private insurance company where crooked or incompetent claims adjusters force policyholders into bankruptcy because that "covered" cost suddenly ISN'T.

By the way, are we sure this restaurant story isn't too good to be true? Like, three people got together and colluded to punk "Undercover Boss"?

jjorsett: I hope the guy they're putting thru culinary school isn't coming back to use his skills flipping burgers in a Rally's.

Fast food companies do hire chefs at a corporate level for development of new products.

I once worked at a restaurant where the new assistant manager thought he was cool and funny. I had the hots for one of my co-workers so I offered her a ride home as her shift ended same time as mine.

As we were heading out to leave (and we had to leave by the main door that the customers also used), the female manager joined us for a threesome in the food locker and then 'joked' loud enough for the customers hear "So, when are we going to do that again, huh?"

She was let go within a week for other similar threesomes with other employees.

/and no, it was not our first threesome in the food locker.
//and that boss did indeed have a nice asshole.

I just don't understand why the manager would be a dick on camera at all. Don't mean people pretend to be nice when other people are watching anymore? What has this country come to?

Confabulat: What_Would_Jimi_Do: paid vacation and re-training?

Yeah he probably should have been fired on the spot, but the CEO took the high road, probably with TV and everything. Still I bet it will take a while till he starts acting like the biggest cock in the barnyard again.

if it was some white red neck, he would have been fired on the spot.

LawyersRock: That show is a joke and really just pisses me off. For the most part they take a couple people, some in needy circumstances, give them a small compared to how much the corporation makes. Out of that, they get some great (fake) PR and an hour ad. I just don't buy that the C-level employees on the show actually give a shiat about the rank & file.


That... and every episode is exactly the same. I watched it for most of the first season before I stopped, but I might have to make an exception for this episode.

/The CEO is probably thinking, "Oh shiat, we're gonna get sued."

LawyersRock: I just don't buy that the C-level employees on the show actually give a shiat about the rank & file.

I've met some C-level people who were awesome to work for/with. Sometimes decent people can end up in those jobs.

I can't believe he didn't fire that chump, he even took responsibility for his crappy work. I would have fired him in front of everyone and then I would laugh like Gob from arrested development. I guess that's why I'm not a CEO.

Ding fries are done.

I worked at an Earl Scheib's paint shop for about a week (I know I know). My immediate supervisor was a sawed off little fat guy who loved cursing me and the other guys and running his mouth. I quit after 10 days. Funny thing was, I saw him later on the street several times and went to talk to him and he'd never hang around to talk.
Imagine that. I just wanted to ask him if he wanted to talk to me like that...now, when we weren't at work.

I've worked in mid sized architectural firms for most of my 13 year career. The worst boss I ever had was when I ran my own freelance residential design business. Goddamn that boss was an asshole. He eventually fired my ass right as the housing marked fell apart. Farking asshole never did design another house since then.

Rally's burgers were so damn tasty, are Checkers burgers basically the same thing?

That guy probably went home and took it out on his wife.

Huck And Molly Ziegler: Wouldn't it be cool if the same sting could happen, for example, to every private insurance company where crooked or incompetent claims adjusters force policyholders into bankruptcy because that "covered" cost suddenly ISN'T.

That's what state insurance commissioners are supposedly for. That and taking campaign donations from the industry they "regulate".

9beers: Rally's burgers were so damn tasty, are Checkers burgers basically the same thing?

Their burgers are ok, but the seasoned fries are the reason to go there.

So, I'm the only one who thought that video looked way too set up? Have people just been watching reality tv too long? It..really rang false. I mean, it certainly could have happened, but that looked like a reinactment, not real. Some guy says he's the CEO of your company and the manager's Weeners isn't "bullshiat"?

Good story, but that clip feel either highly edited or more likely re-shot without the actual manager.

opps, my hat is a bird. your point in invalid

I did my time in the food industry, pizza delivery, not actual fast food, but the only thing worse than a dick for a manager is a pussy for a manager. At least dicks can actually get shiat done, rather than letting the worthless employees walk all over them.

LawyersRock: That show is a joke and really just pisses me off. For the most part they take a couple people, some in needy circumstances, give them a small compared to how much the corporation makes. Out of that, they get some great (fake) PR and an hour ad. I just don't buy that the C-level employees on the show actually give a shiat about the rank & file.

I watched a handful of episodes but it was just so forumalaec that I gave up.

There is always:

1) The destitute employee with 4 kids and no spouse who just wants to make ends meet. In the end the CEO gives them a scholarship or raise or manager position and

2) The out of control manager or dangerous policy that the undercover boss struggles with and then decides that breaking cover is what's best for his people (in a "my people are way more important than this show" kind of way).

Every episode is like this, the only thing that changes is what menial task the boss is unable to perform and gets humiliated because of it.