It's refreshing to know that the factory floor workers are familiar enough with their CEO to 1) recognize him in disguise and 2) talk to him openly

@ianh1504

Жыл бұрын

"Disguise" is a really strong word

@Netbug

Жыл бұрын

Despite him trying to deceive them for television producers.

@NotEvenDeathCanSaveU

Жыл бұрын

From my experience it's mostly CEOs with worse or outright horrible reputation who are easily recognized. For example where I work people never recognized CEO, but when some other dude, a complete douche replaced him, pretty much everyone knew when he's come to visit.

@jayburn100

Жыл бұрын

Says a ton about how well the company values their employees

@Delimon007

Жыл бұрын

@@NotEvenDeathCanSaveU It goes both ways

I mean, it's kind of a good thing that they recognized him from his many visits. It shows that he cares about his company instead of treating it like an ATM.

@Dakarn

Жыл бұрын

I've only ever had one job where I absolutely despised being visited by regional or corporate visitors. That would be Paradies-Lagardere, an airport retailer. Regional and Corporate ladder is full of ratfinks and used car salesmen. Hated working for that place.

@brianbird3756

Жыл бұрын

@raffpants618 I've worked for great bosses, and I've worked for shitty bosses. They all started their companies from the ground up and the shitty bosses failed and started more. I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two, son.

@RiyoRhymes

Жыл бұрын

You don’t have to call him son to try and put your comment on a pedestal BRIAN

@brianbird3756

Жыл бұрын

@Riyaadh Sarang oh I forgot, ad hominem is OK for everyone, BUT me.

@paimei2339

Жыл бұрын

@@brianbird3756 @Riyaadh Sarang You guys are tearing me apart.

Sadly, most owners/CEOs are so out of touch, too many employees continue to go unnoticed/unappreciated.

@revoltncock

Жыл бұрын

That isn’t particularly the ceos duty though. As you said the owner of a franchise or store would be the one to fill that role and responsibility. If you notice here the workers were the ones telling the “new guy” he was too slow and not vice versa as the ceo telling them they were slow. People think ceos are automatically bad or devoid of good qualities but in reality people are shit and they work at every job and position. It’s up to you to change that.

@DIE2dayORelse

Жыл бұрын

@@revoltncock I agree, a bad CEO can cause these problems but in my experience it's usually mid-low level management that puts their ego and performance above the greater good of the company and its people. My work has a great CEO and production workers thankfully, but the mid level is overstaffed and greedy and they will stab you in the back if they think it'll make them look good

@thomasm7919

Жыл бұрын

@@DIE2dayORelse spot on! I hope Lahey is treating you alright and keeping that cheeseburger storage filled tho, a man’s gotta eat.

@CoolWhipp-hy1qu

Жыл бұрын

CEOs have an insane amount of things on their plate so it’s not really in their repertoire to be doing what the average employee does

@Astrovite

Жыл бұрын

Starbucks.

Damn they blew it. No 10k gift or scholarships

@glorygracek.1841

Жыл бұрын

Oh I am sure he brought him back in the office and did the recap. They always do.

To be honest, he looks like he blends right in with his attitude. Not afraid to talk to the people on the ground, not afraid to hug and high five them. They probably all knew his face because he was significant to them.

The cameraman is the real mvp here. To be invisible the whole time😑

@anyagee9467

Жыл бұрын

they tell them it's a different show, something about finding jobs after 50, or trying new skills, etc.

@FourT6and22

Жыл бұрын

@@anyagee9467 I'm sure allllll the employs believe them too lol

@anyagee9467

Жыл бұрын

@@FourT6and22 yeah, maybe not, especially these days when everyone knows about this show. But my point is, they don't pretend that they don't see the cameras, they just think of it as some kind of reality show with random people participating. At least that's what they say 🤷‍♀️

@brandonohara4122

Жыл бұрын

​@@FourT6and22 😂😂😂

@brandonohara4122

Жыл бұрын

​@@anyagee9467 true

You hit the nail right on the head. A small tweak to us can be a huge tweak to their lives. That's why I left Autonation. A small tweak to the pay plan cost everyone half their income. The workers complain and are ignored until everyone in the department quit. A good boss should go to bat for the employees if a policy is causing the employees to get screwed over.

@jasonc.776

Жыл бұрын

I agree. As for this boss, the way he refers to "them" and "us" is telling

"Undercover" is key. I once had a boss arrive unannounced with a large group of people to demonstrate how he well he could do my very basic job (I was a log "bundler"). After 15 minutes he went on to several other people and did the same thing. Gordon did the REVERSE of undercover and he killed that multimillion logging company his father in law had painstakingly built. Unsurprisingly, Gordon was a used car salesman who married the bosses daughter.

@henrycooper4213

Жыл бұрын

Any body can do a job for 15 mins. Remind me of my old construction boss that had never been a labourer but had labourers. Used to jump in dig a trench for 10 mins 100mph then say that's how it should be done, total buffoon when we were there digging 8 hrs a day with a 20 min break.

@phelan8385

Жыл бұрын

@@henrycooper4213 DUUUUUDE I go through this with my landscaping job!

@DamienLavizzo

Жыл бұрын

I somewhat had the opposite happen when I worked at Borders in New York. Our Regional Manager came in for a job day, basically he worked half a shift as a bookseller and half a shift as a stocker. At the end he called us all in for a big meeting and told us how disconnected he’d gotten from the floor staff and how the day was an eye opener. Literally weeks later there were massive changes - more staffing, more rotations off the floor into the non-customer facing jobs, etc. Really sad that Borders went out of business, that company was full of people who really seemed to “get it”.

@Dakarn

Жыл бұрын

@@DamienLavizzo Dealing with the general public is exhausting. People can be smart. The general public is barely functional idiots.

@Culvey

Жыл бұрын

@@phelan8385 You must not have worked for older Mexican landscaper then, those guys don't know how to slow down. I hired a company owned by a 60ish year old Mexican man. I was out there helping move retaining wall blocks and I swear he was out pacing me 2 to 1 from the start and probably 4 to 1 by the end of the wall. I'm dying working half the speed of his worker, and a quarter his speed, and all he ate for lunch was a gas station burrito and some chips and went right back to work after lunch. That evening I started up a brisket to make sure it was good and ready so they could have it for lunch the next day. Any man working that damn hard deserves a lot more than gas station food for lunch. The guy proceeded to poke fun at me "young man couldn't keep up so he cooked lunch instead" lol.

I've always LOVED Taylor made golf clubs and this makes me love them even more. Technology and great company culture. Hard to beat that!

@Sean-gh3rn

Жыл бұрын

The average TaylorMade Golf salary ranges from approximately $35,000 per year for Material Handler to $202,000 per year for Infrastructure Manager. Average TaylorMade Golf hourly pay ranges from approximately $11.49 per hour for Sales Intern to $30.00 per hour for Office Administrator. This guy makes like 19mil a year, they have 1,262 employees, he's a leech and they should pay the employees more. 0.184%, that's what his average employee is paid compared to him at 99.816%. Boss makes a dollar, I make a tenth of a penny, wait that isn't how the rhyme goes. Capitalism is a fucking scam.

@JacobWinkle

Жыл бұрын

​@@Sean-gh3rn Then start your own company like I did and stop complaining. You know, if it's so easy buddy. You want to be a follower or a leader? Sounds like you're just a worker bee with no ambition to actually start your own company and you just dream about it. Everyone I know who started a company, had to start off by themselves, no employees, trying to get it out in the market to make the business into something. You didn't do that, you just showed up for the interview. Most people like the guy in the red shirt, don't even know who they are actually working for and just a worker bee who shows up for his shift and then goes home at the moment his shift is done. It's 1AM right now and I'm relaxing before bed because I'm done with my paperwork for Uncle Sam.

@stephanieyee9784

Жыл бұрын

Jacob, Sean doesn't Work. He doesn't have the chutzpah to be anything but a keyboard warrior. Heavy on stats but zero personal experience.

@MrBadassMusic

Жыл бұрын

@@Sean-gh3rn Wow you just described EVERY big manufacturing company! Great job sport!

@jordonpollock1550

Жыл бұрын

​@@Sean-gh3rnwaaaaa boo hoo cry more liberal. he earnt that title so get to work bozo. make your own successful billion dollar company maybe you'll share the same benefits

THAT MEANS 3 EMPLOYEES WILL NOT RECEIVE $10 000 or OTHER BONUS MONEY AS PER USUAL AT END OF EPISODE

@User1975-

8 ай бұрын

YES THEY STUPIDLY RUINED IT FOR EVERYONE!!!!

I mean, maybe all the cameras pointing at the new guy is a dead give away 😂😂

@circleviii1801

Жыл бұрын

you're the smartest person you know aren't ya?

@nickpavia9021

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I have never been able to enjoy this show because it is so obviously staged.

What was his disguise? A baseball hat? 😂

@balloonpoop

Жыл бұрын

He went with the classic Hollywood movie disguise of a standard baseball cap.

@joecee6862

Жыл бұрын

Hat, glasses, and fake Halloween teeth 😂

@janetdotson7829

Жыл бұрын

He should've tried glasses. It worked for Clark Kent.

@noxious89123

Жыл бұрын

+unshaven

Bosses should be more hands on in every company

@daveboonen5041

Жыл бұрын

I like my boss for this reason everything we do he does it too and is actually really good at it.

@Sportsr4lyfe93

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes thats just not possible but not forgetting that their position means nothing without the other AND vice versa is how great companies run

@XDWX

Жыл бұрын

​@@damiencass8156 Nobody. Most boss jobs are completely pointless.

@DStripeM

Жыл бұрын

Only true leaders do this. And in the billions of company's in the world only a few handful do this. Kinda sad to know that Info. The mentality to teach to fish than give a fish is way long past in many companies.

@Post-2-True

Жыл бұрын

They couldn’t do it most of them do nothing and just sit back and let the money roll in

Every CEO should do this. Not necessarily go under cover, but spend the day with workers to see them in action. Every single person in that company does their part to make it successful and I think having an executive who is willing to roll up their sleeves do their actual jib goes a really long way.

@MrRyanroberson1

Жыл бұрын

they still need to go undercover because everyone will act differently when the boss is around, giving him an unrealistic view of the situation. if you know, you know

“How did you guys know” idk maybe all the cameras 😂

@imkolip0ki387

Жыл бұрын

Shhhh

Homeboy's like "damn I could have gotten something out of this."

It's pretty tough to pull off when you already go see your people often. I think 'Undercover Boss' really only works for absentee bosses

Bruh no wonder he works right next door 😂

Do it daily. When i became a hotel exec, every day I walked through the kitchen and said hey to the dishwasher, I'd visit housekeeping and make the housekeepers laugh. I'd eat in lunch with staff not my colleagues. I started as a dishwasher when I was 15. I was a boss at 23 and left the industry at 42.

@sovereignwarriorproject4715

Жыл бұрын

That’s pretty awesome, man

@Ratboy2004

Жыл бұрын

@@sovereignwarriorproject4715 thank you.

@glowinggrenade

Жыл бұрын

Did you ever make the decision to pay everyone in the company (including yourself) the exact same good wage?

@lukevand9416

Жыл бұрын

​@@glowinggrenadethis would be a stupid idea and isn't the decision of the boss anyway.

@glowinggrenade

Жыл бұрын

@@lukevand9416 "stupid decision" nice argument. I'll pathetically 1 up you I guess. It's not a stupid decision and leads to better worker wellbeing as well as strong workplace synergy that increases productivity. Resentment kills businesses, people dying in accidents because they can't eat enough kills businesses. Employment should be a partnership and when it's not your workers will resent you and see you and your profit margins as the enemy. Why should they care about your profit?

If I ever see a CEO in disguise you better believe I have ebola, triple cancer, crippled kids, singe dad and a veteran card. 😂

They ruined that kids chance to get a lot of money and help from the CEO by blowing his cover.

As the CEO, he should be proud that his factory employees (even if just a few) knew his name and his face.

Goes one day without shaving and gets a hat. "They'll never know its me"

The biggest thing he said that most people in upper Management don’t usually understand was “A small tweak we make can be a massive change for them” and this usually relates to management making changes to how things are done, but not having any experience with how things were being done prior to that change. They have no idea how much of an impact a slight tweak will have in a system or process.

That is the kind of man I could work for. You feel like a person and not a number

Getting to understand the work goes a long way, not just for moral, but for efficiency and understanding the expectations of your employee’s. I’m working a job now where I’d have to work @ 150% to do everything expected of me. The turnover rate is high there too.

I started working IT 30-40 years ago. I used to take jobs like that between contracts. Those were the kind of jobs that paid for the IT knowledge. Plus I don't like sitting in front of the TV waiting for the phone to ring. But I did carry a pager. I stopped working at one job and they told me I was fired. I said that is OK. You are not my boss. Huh? That was my new boss on the phone. I even had one get a big surprise when I came back in business attire carrying a large briefcase. I just fixed what was wrong and left. Then went to the next location in that company. My specialty was putting out IT forest fires. IN the meantime I liked being busy. Never know too many skills. I always have the philosophy that giving two weeks notice is a bit one sided. Sometimes you are lucky to receive 1 minutes notice. Sorry but respect flows both ways. I only talked to the owner of one company, when contract came short notice. I actually complemented the way production was done and how well I was treated. But eventually that company got sold. People don't want to pay for US wages for products used in the US today. I guess that is what land fills are for.

Oh geesh, golly, what gave me away?? Idk maybe the 10 different cameras from every angle, getting in everyone's way lmao

@Johnny2Bags47

Жыл бұрын

😂

So he works literally next door and basically puts a hat on and shows up to the factory and expects people not to recognize him?

Let's hope this translates into real appreciation with decent pay for those on the factory floor.

@DrCureAging

Жыл бұрын

Most likely not. This is just for show. Think about it, do you think this guy cares if this is the first time everyone has seen him "work with his employees"? A guy who cares would have done that since the very beginning- as a norm. And yet, while people recognize him, it's more likely out of "hearing" and not from personal interaction. This has the vibes of the citizens of north korea meeting their overlord. He's doing this just a record a video (Surrounded by camera crew BTW. You think employees don't know what's going on?).

@genericamerican7574

Жыл бұрын

This was an Advertisement. Most reality tV is. Most cable shows are. Most mainstream movies are full of ads too like they were written for them… Just look at the Kardashians. That show was made to bolster their clothing store they just opened with product they bought with a stolen credit card from Brandy who Kim was working for. Even after they made the money back and got wealthy from it they refused to pay it back and had to be sued. Honestly brandy should have a share in the business her equity paid to start.

It takes a tv show and a spot light for the guy guy to visit his little guys

That it was brave of that employee to ask. His reaction was cute. He works right next door so they’ve seen him before.

My undercover boss moment was when the company VP sent his wife into my store to buy a pair of shoes. I knew they were in town but did not know who any of those big wigs looked like. Anyway, I did what I normally do for all my customers. The next day, my manager and district manager said did a lady come in to buy a pair of shoes. I said yeah and so what? Then they told me they said no one our store was always ranked in the top ten for sales and service. Our store became one of the few "don't mess with success" stores where we can have our own way of putting up company standard advertisments.

@snoglydox

Жыл бұрын

. *You made fat jokes and sold her male shoes painted pink?*

Most CEOs don't know or want to know.

@DCosgrove82

Жыл бұрын

Spoken like a person who recognizes he’ll never get back the agility of youth. It is a sad, reflective, day when one discovers this.

Hopefully he stops by more often and shows his appreciation. It would go a long way

Let's make an effort to end repetitive movement stress. Move people around stations every so often.

As soon as they seen those cameras they knew what was up😂

"Hi, new guy with a camera crew. Nice to meet you. Let me tell you about my student loan debt and family member who has cancer. Gosh, I love my job!"

CEO be like: " I didnt think they'd recognize me if I wore Clark Kent glasses and a hat. Damn..."

And every CEO will say “work hard and you could be like me” as he doesn’t even know how to make his own product

00:34 This exactly what I think when I see an old person working fast food

This is so odd to me. In the company I work for the CEOs come and help out in the busy periods all the time before they retired. They were in their 70s but would be packing orders over Christmas with all the other warehouse staff. Real leaders lead by example like that.

The very best & most successful owners & CEO's are on site every day & have a personal relationship with everyone involved including no employees like vendors, ect.

"who told you I was the CEO?" "She did" *"YOU'RE FIRED"*

I love the violins at the end......good marketing.

AWESOME!!!

"I'm feeling so generous, I'm gonna up their pay from $2/hr to $2.15! and I'll give them 2 bathroom breaks per day! Ok, well I'm off to my private jet, have a nice day!"

Producers were probably pissed off 😂😂

My next club will be Taylor Made. Great guy, right here.

I always wonder what it's like once the production team leaves and there's no cameras anymore.

He handled it well.

I love when people use the excuse "I'm to old for this"... that's just an excuse they use

Wow ya "i often stop by" duh people will notice him

Good work ethic, not forgetting where you came from

I think is possitive for that company floor workers recognize their CEO. If the CEO of my company came to the workfloor and stands next to me I'd have no clue who he is.

0:23 That is the face of someone who’s NOT impressed & who’s definitely NOT fooled. If “Cap” or “I call bull-shit” had a face, that’s what it’d look like.

Wish more CEO’s would hit the manufacturing floor (without the cameras)

"I'm no executive, just a regular worker. ...You can tell by my common robes and the camera crew following me around and interviewing everyone about me. Regular guy, I."

“Those people”, “these people”… vs. Our team, our employees.. ouch!

Lol the ladies smelled the dollar bill signs

Being loved, respected and listened to in work vs pay... I know what I would rather get

After the floor workers say hi for 30 seconds they cut to.him just greeting and hugging supervisory staff lol. We know who matters

The factory floor should be like jury duty. The people who work in from their comfortable office may not see the amount of work that floor workers must endure.

The bottom is always forgotten about. Yet the bottom is what supports the top and without the bottom the top will surely fall.

CEO felt like a celebrity when he got busted...

I need you here!!!

CEO: I stop by here often but let me put on a weak disguise and hope no one recognize me.

When things were rough at the factory I worked at, the suits did come down to the floor and work with us. CEO? Maybe in a different building but I really doubt it. Did the rest of the suits do it voluntarily? Maybe a few that I had interacted with did, but the suits in general had their arms twisted

If I thought he was the ceo, I would try my best to look like im working extra hard around him

@131313user

Жыл бұрын

That’s just sad…. Why don’t you just actually work hard?

@Jehty_

Жыл бұрын

@@131313user does that increase my pay? If no, why should I?

Holy pinch hazard, Batman! I guess if the CEO had gotten his fingers caught in the machine, he might have been interested in upping the safety. Might.

Great CEO👏

Meanwhile where I am at the ceo cut 1500 jobs so his bonus would be bigger this year. People are now more likely to get injured or killed on the job from being over worked, and less people means less eyes to spot hazards, or people to deal with them. Production is already taking a hit due to the lack of manpower. This company also has the highest number of fatalities in my sector.

@joecee6862

Жыл бұрын

I'd find another job and let as many people know as I can. Don't be overworked and in unsafe conditions brother, I hope you stay safe no matter what you decide. ❤️

Looks like Murray on impractical jokers

I'm sure the camera crew is a good hint too.

Bump their pay to really show how much they are loved, cared and not forgotten about. No? Alright, once every 6 month employee appreciation pizza party it is.

I think the professional camera crew might be a giveaway

Lol, I mean, what new guy stares almost psychotically across the floor at other employees, not doing his job.

Of course the employees will look when there are camera men focusing on one dude

Either the ceo or murr from impractical jokers 😂😂

2:02 so close to getting worker’s comp

Amen the title.

I was expecting him to start firing people left and right after his cover was blown.

I wish they do undercover boss at my place😢

I think it must be hard to not see the camera team following a random guy that is there for the first time while the boss is missing lol.

Does everybody know? Yeah 🤣

Well, I thought the entire camera crew following the new guy around would have given it away.

If there’s a random dude with a camera crew at your workplace, he’s the boss

Yooooo at 2:03 when that arm swings around I held my breathe cause I thought for sure he was getting smacked In the head 😳

They missed out on huge gifts due to that one woman …. 😂

A good boss will *always* listen to the workforce. It really pains me when I suggest to employees a way a company could improve what it does, and they tell me that their managers would not listen to them.

@alphonsusho8962

Жыл бұрын

At the end of the day, humans…are humans. If they hate what they do or where they work, they aren’t gonna be as productive. Never get managers who neglect workers and wonder why performance is so bad.

Did he "appreciate how hard they work" by giving them a raise? Of course not.

Maybe the full film crew gave them a hint

I’m starting a farm business in the Philippines. I want to run that place light you did golf clubs. I know that an integrated farm op could employ and support a village full of people.

Ngl id be mad that work is not getting done cause for me that means we staying longer than what we have to 😂😂😂

Well, there are TV cameras everywhere.

THESE PEOPLE ARE YOUUUURRRR PEOPLEEEEE.

Workplace gossip travels faster than light

The guy who called him too slow was fired the next day.

So as a bonus he gave each and every one of his hard working employees a free golf club!!!😂😂😂

Maybe they wondered about all of the cameras.