@@Dark_Shadow_27 Doesn't stop them from randomly changing s o p's based on "their knowledge of the company". I've only ever had one boss that knew what she was doing She took the test we took she used the equipment we used.
Bro who tf are you working so hard for yall are the reason work is stupid stop acting like you're so good for makimg eveyones life harder people like you make companies hire less people and make hostile work places
Take a second.. open Google.. look up what the definition of supervision means... Then think of how it's his first day... Then use your brain to put 2 and 2 together
@@sheldonharbour3596 if you need Google to figure out how to do a job that is LITERALLY a majority of your company- you’re doing something wrong and need more than supervision. Lol supervision to hose 💩 down and clean. That’s just funny. Use your brain homie.
The way I see it the bosses acted like dumbass goofballs to see how good of a person their employees really are, or aren't, even to the ones who can't handle the job i.e the undercover boss in this particular video.
@@Unknown--- right. However it works out though, it makes for good content with the ceo’s sometimes getting to play the hero when they award overly nice employees, as we as when an employee is anything other than overly nice and instead expects the “ recruit “ ( ceo ) to learn, and gets frustrated when they “ screw up “ ( intentionally play dumb and screw up/off in hopes of baiting a confrontation ).
People have already said this, but the concept was new at the time. Shows like this and What Would You Do we’re fresh so you could make a fake reality TV/documentary story up however you liked. It was pretty believable to go “we run a show for homeless people getting into careers they’ve always wanted to try”
4 months into the company I'm currently at and I had to teach my supervisor that the way he wanted me to do the work wasn't going to be successful. I told him my plan but he let his ego get in the way so we ended up wasting a whole day doing it his way until he came to the conclusion that it wasn't possible and the way I said it needed to be done was the only way. Ever since then, the guy hasn't second guessed me
@Mark Cowan I feel your pain brother. I'll admit I'm not the brightest crayon in the box, hell I'm barely in the box. But sometimes my ideas do make way more sense. But he has to pay for whatever don't work, so I usually just don't say anything.
I had a summer job at a Cash & Carry, which the owner built from Nothing, to driving a Rolls Royce. Both his sons had to work 'on the floor' doing all of the menial jobs, like he did. So, once they took over, the staff knew they had put the work in.
@ Listen My Dad and I had the policy that we would not ask our employees to do something we wernt prepared to do when Dad and I were in business together in the 1980s .
@@michealyoung2777 Prepared to do and able to do are very different things :) That's a good rule to have, though i dont think that has much to do with what makes a good boss either though.
@@liamparker2590 It's not. Managers mistake is telling someone to do something and then not staying to show how it's done. Very poor mgt skills. Here I go. Gonna toot my own horn. I was one of 42 managers in the continental US for the company I worked for. I was always number One two or three in the nation on a weekly basis. I stayed with each employee until they had a comfort zone with their product. Had to. My bonus depended upon it.
It's Roto Rooter? That'll be 14 thousand dollars! They literally quoted me 14 thousand dollars for a job I instead had a local plumber take care of for 450.
@@RememberPOGS You may be write but 30x the price? It's usually... 2x, 3x, 4x or so. That way if you get the job it's worth it. You just pass on the jobs if that's not enough.
@@AtlantaTerryit means make you pay for the shit you fucked up, or in street terms it means to come off what you have, which in lay mans terms means to give up your personal money, possesions
These shows just prove that CEO's shouldn't be allowed to have massive pays when they stand on the shoulders of all their employees that they pay like shit.
Jetting isn’t easy, he’s a poor teacher. My boss sat there and had me jet and showed me how to get it around corners in the line and then had me do it. Jetting is my go to now!
he literally says "how hard is it to put a hose down a pipe" if you needed extra explaining on "put the hose in the pipe" it's no wonder why you're still clearing out shit pipes
I worked for a dude once and one day we had to hand dig out a whole to free our sinking machine. He legitimately told me that was his first time holding a shovel in his 65 years of living.
@@mazzaleen6091 not everyone has the talent to manage an entire company and see big picture. A lot of people think they can but never start their own business due to excuses.
Nah anybody’s who’s worked a physical labor job knows you do what you’re asked to do until you’re done, and then find something to keep yourself busy. Literally all he had to do was keep hosing down pavement lmao
It doesn't mean that he has to act like an ass. He should show him instead acting like fool and trying to embarrass the "boss". Hopefully the boss will not give him the same way. That's no way to train somebody
If that employee trainer got on my case like that, I would chuck that hard hat at him and tell him to jam it! You do not talk to a new employee like that. He should get reprimanded bigtime.
This show made me realize that literally 2% of bosses actually know what their emoloyees do, amd even a smaller percentage can actually do the job they complain at people about
If that were my company, I'd be pretty happy with how that supervisor handled everything. He wasn't disrespectful, but he showed his disapproval and issued corrections to the task. Seems pretty fair to me.
When someone says "clean up this mess" you keep cleaning until the mess is gone, not until they turn around. I assume that there is a bit that is cut for the short because I doubt he'd say "clean up this mess" without teaching him how to spray it down.
I've pipe welded, diesel mechaniced, run heavy equipment, and crews in the oilfield. Upon hiring on at a drilling company the "office manager"(with a forestry degree) asked if I'd be interested in being a project manager. He outlined the scope of work and I told him what I'd do it for. He hired a guy 3 weeks later. I got out when my "project manager" didn't show up to a job one day because he'd completely filled his service body powerstroke with gasoline. Ineptitude and nepotism really seem to rule the world
Honestly that's one of the best reactions on this show, hes a Lil mad that the undercover boss stopped as soon as he walked away, but was controlled, didn't exactly curse at him just said goddamn. Cus indeed, goddamn.
Can't stress enough the importance of understanding and compassion when teaching. Someone not knowing something makes that person ignorant, not stupid or worthy of cynical treatment. The trainer and company have a responsibility to train their employees to meet their standards, not to demean...
I have never seen a worker get told "Okay I gotta take this call" then when his boss comes vack and says "why u stop working?" The worker FLAT OUT says "you were gone?" LOL did mans just beat the system?
And yet that "incompetent" employee in reality makes orders of magnitude more money than the very people who ACTUALLY do the work the business demands! Madness!
Still amazes me that we had this show to show all of us how IMPORTANT all the "lower level" employees that do the hard work are in a multi-million dollar company.. to bad nothings really changed for the workers and only gotten worse .
It’s bs when a boss can’t preform the basic job of an employee they are in charge of, always better with a boss that has previously been in the role they are in charge of
The funniest thing about undercover boss is that most of the CEOs didn’t even know how to do the entry level jobs at their company 😂.
This job isn’t really entry level.
That’s because most CEOs are business men not laborers
Why would they know how to do it?
That's not even true.
@@Dark_Shadow_27 Doesn't stop them from randomly changing s o p's based on "their knowledge of the company". I've only ever had one boss that knew what she was doing She took the test we took she used the equipment we used.
For real tho he told you to do a job and you stopped the second he walked away
Bro who tf are you working so hard for yall are the reason work is stupid stop acting like you're so good for makimg eveyones life harder people like you make companies hire less people and make hostile work places
Lmao
Take a second.. open Google.. look up what the definition of supervision means... Then think of how it's his first day... Then use your brain to put 2 and 2 together
@@sheldonharbour3596You're right, he didn't use his bathroom breaks...
@@sheldonharbour3596 if you need Google to figure out how to do a job that is LITERALLY a majority of your company- you’re doing something wrong and need more than supervision. Lol supervision to hose 💩 down and clean. That’s just funny. Use your brain homie.
Anyone in plumbing or any construction job knows that wasn't scolding lol
Worst job to try to learn because of how they treat you. I went into logistics and never looked back.
facts
That dude was being nice compared to the guys who trained me.
So you're saying you just automatically assholes
My dad doesn’t even treat me like his son at work😭
Undercover bosses was literally just a way of showing people how incompetent their CEO’s/bosses are
From what i know they did it on purpose to expose the toxic management underneath the CEO that they cant see from the top
Very true 😂
The way I see it the bosses acted like dumbass goofballs to see how good of a person their employees really are, or aren't, even to the ones who can't handle the job i.e the undercover boss in this particular video.
The CEO can’t do their job just as they can’t do the CEOs job. You need a perfect balance between management and the worker.
@@Unknown--- right. However it works out though, it makes for good content with the ceo’s sometimes getting to play the hero when they award overly nice employees, as we as when an employee is anything other than overly nice and instead expects the “ recruit “ ( ceo ) to learn, and gets frustrated when they “ screw up “ ( intentionally play dumb and screw up/off in hopes of baiting a confrontation ).
If I had a dollar for every time somebody who's in charge of me didn't know how to do the job that I was doing I would be a rich man.
Damn how many jobs you had my man😂
Didn't you get more than $1 from each one of those same employers? Like, real paychecks?
Me too buddy
I worked in IT for almost 10 years. Couldnt do it anymore. Most of my job was teaching people who made 3x my pay how to do their job.
That’s all on you then buddy cause that sounds like you’re settling for the bottom of the barrel jobs if your supervisors can’t even help you
With all due respect your boss takes a call you don't just stop working entirely
People do. One shouldn’t you are correct. Human nature is to relax when the boss is not there. You shouldn’t⚫️
Lol boss be lazy when the supervisor ain’t looking 😂😂
gooooo figure🤣
**director whispers to boss guy**
Quit workin' & incite some drama lulz
imagine a new employee shows up with a camera crew and you cannot figure out what is going on. Bahahahahahahaahahahahahahaah
they give them a cover story for like the one day of work. Usually, it's about "following older folks in new career fields"
@@Rhodebunny No that is just what they tell idiot people watching the show.
It is 100% scripted from start to finish.
Dirty Jobs man, just use the same excuse.
Most of them had a cover story of a job swap with someone at that company and they were going to film it... or something similar
People have already said this, but the concept was new at the time. Shows like this and What Would You Do we’re fresh so you could make a fake reality TV/documentary story up however you liked.
It was pretty believable to go “we run a show for homeless people getting into careers they’ve always wanted to try”
God duuuurn!
I've noticed that most of the bosses are incredibly annoying and never shut up.
4 months into the company I'm currently at and I had to teach my supervisor that the way he wanted me to do the work wasn't going to be successful. I told him my plan but he let his ego get in the way so we ended up wasting a whole day doing it his way until he came to the conclusion that it wasn't possible and the way I said it needed to be done was the only way. Ever since then, the guy hasn't second guessed me
Worth the lost day of wasted time. I do this regularly with my supervisor, but he always knows better... its frustrating.
@Mark Cowan I feel your pain brother. I'll admit I'm not the brightest crayon in the box, hell I'm barely in the box. But sometimes my ideas do make way more sense. But he has to pay for whatever don't work, so I usually just don't say anything.
Weird. I did that too my boss avoids talking to me now
@@_Jim-Jim i really felt that barley being in the box part
I bet he's glad he hired you now. Smart employees are hard to find these days.
I heard a boss once say don't ever ask an employee to do something you wouldn't do. He knew how to do all of the work he asked his employees to do
That must be the most simple work in the entire fricking world then.
I had a summer job at a Cash & Carry, which the owner built from Nothing, to driving a Rolls Royce. Both his sons had to work 'on the floor' doing all of the menial jobs, like he did. So, once they took over, the staff knew they had put the work in.
@ Listen My Dad and I had the policy that we would not ask our employees to do something we wernt prepared to do when Dad and I were in business together in the 1980s .
@@michealyoung2777 Prepared to do and able to do are very different things :) That's a good rule to have, though i dont think that has much to do with what makes a good boss either though.
@@melanp4698 you must be simple, if you think it's impossible to know every aspect of a business. You must be a worker, or a really shitty boss.
“GAHH DERRNNN”😂😂😂
Loving the 'Translate to english' option
Dad gummit
Then at the end of the episode…
CEO: “allow myself to introduce… myself”
Guy probably got 20% in the last 2 years alone while his employees are still trying to hit 10% over the past 10 years
That’s not scolding that’s plumbing lol
Honestly. The shot I go through as an apprentice is way worse than that shit 😂
@@CxwBxyFrxmHxll It's definitely the cameras.
Chewing him out for being lazy is the exact thing he is there for, the manager is there to make employees provide value
Yet it’s been proven they are mainly bloat and useless. Not good enough to keep in labor but not bad enough to fire. Instead they get a promotion.
@@IL_Bgentyl There is a difference between someone on the job long enough to get promoted to manager, and an actual manager.
A new employee needs taught. On ly way to teach is be there with him .
Poor manager
@@connie-zm8ws He was told to finish cleaning and wait for him to come back how is that not blatantly disregarding instructions
@@liamparker2590 It's not. Managers mistake is telling someone to do something and then not staying to show how it's done. Very poor mgt skills. Here I go. Gonna toot my own horn. I was one of 42 managers in the continental US for the company I worked for. I was always number One two or three in the nation on a weekly basis. I stayed with each employee until they had a comfort zone with their product. Had to. My bonus depended upon it.
It's Roto Rooter? That'll be 14 thousand dollars!
They literally quoted me 14 thousand dollars for a job I instead had a local plumber take care of for 450.
They dont know what they got and prefer just to quote some randomly high price to do so instead of actually taking the time to figure it out.
Maybe they didn't wanna do you job so they over quoted to purposely make you go to someone, local plumber needed the work so he took the job.
Yeah don't call roto
@@RememberPOGS You may be write but 30x the price? It's usually... 2x, 3x, 4x or so. That way if you get the job it's worth it. You just pass on the jobs if that's not enough.
@@jonny-b4954 nobody can be write
You quit working on a blue collar job site. You’re lucky they didn’t run your pockets and fire you.
What does "run your pockets" mean?
@@AtlantaTerryit means make you pay for the shit you fucked up, or in street terms it means to come off what you have, which in lay mans terms means to give up your personal money, possesions
@@adalEun this guy gets it
Wealthy people make money not by doing things for themselves, but finding others who can do it better and make a profit.
Well the have the money to fund everything. Smart money says hire capable workers.
Roto Rooter will take shit off anybody.
Still waiting on someone to be scolded
That "GOD DARN"! Came from deep within 😂
Dude I got money not brains
and im sure if you tried to do a ceo's job for a day they would say you have no money and no brains.
These shows just prove that CEO's shouldn't be allowed to have massive pays when they stand on the shoulders of all their employees that they pay like shit.
Jetting isn’t easy, he’s a poor teacher. My boss sat there and had me jet and showed me how to get it around corners in the line and then had me do it. Jetting is my go to now!
Jetting is super easy just don’t shove it down the pipe let the head drive it self so you don’t get the thing stuck
he literally says "how hard is it to put a hose down a pipe"
if you needed extra explaining on "put the hose in the pipe" it's no wonder why you're still clearing out shit pipes
I agree he was a piss ass teacher. He has no patience, and he is probably a little abusive with his mouth at the end of the day.
The dude was lazy. He literally stopped he was told to do the work and he stopped. I i probably wouldn't keep you on the job
Jetting is very easy actually, most homeowners can rent the equipment and do it themselves..
Dude calling the office like “ Mr George, how much you pay for the new guy??? It’s too much.
I worked for a dude once and one day we had to hand dig out a whole to free our sinking machine. He legitimately told me that was his first time holding a shovel in his 65 years of living.
Remind me what these CEOs are needed for again? 😂
someone’s gotta get the bonuses
well they have a club and you arent in it
Businesses dont grow themselves
Literally pay the entire workforce's salary and run the entire company
@@mazzaleen6091 not everyone has the talent to manage an entire company and see big picture. A lot of people think they can but never start their own business due to excuses.
There is nothing worse then being at the mercy of an impatient trainer
Nah anybody’s who’s worked a physical labor job knows you do what you’re asked to do until you’re done, and then find something to keep yourself busy.
Literally all he had to do was keep hosing down pavement lmao
Just so you know ... The worker was only kidding around with the guy.
I think he's a company man and deserves a raise
It doesn't mean that he has to act like an ass. He should show him instead acting like fool and trying to embarrass the "boss". Hopefully the boss will not give him the same way. That's no way to train somebody
If that employee trainer got on my case like that, I would chuck that hard hat at him and tell him to jam it! You do not talk to a new employee like that. He should get reprimanded bigtime.
Dude got humbled real quick.
This show made me realize that literally 2% of bosses actually know what their emoloyees do, amd even a smaller percentage can actually do the job they complain at people about
If that were my company, I'd be pretty happy with how that supervisor handled everything. He wasn't disrespectful, but he showed his disapproval and issued corrections to the task. Seems pretty fair to me.
Roto-Rooter fired me for having a panic attack
In the end of times these people will be the most useless.
He reacted pretty good all things considered…
Every boss should know how to do the very job that they instruct/employ you to do.
That’s not scolding that a normal day for plumbers😂😂
"Just work hard and you can be successful and climb."
Yeah, nah, these CEOs are proof they didn't earn it.
LoL. Gave him walking papers in morning. Damnm
That “gawd dern!” Was from the soul.
How do y’all expect him to continue working when he wasn’t told
What to do or even taught how to do it
When someone says "clean up this mess" you keep cleaning until the mess is gone, not until they turn around. I assume that there is a bit that is cut for the short because I doubt he'd say "clean up this mess" without teaching him how to spray it down.
I bet that CEO appreciates guys like that
“If you’d stop fucking up and fucking off I wouldn’t have to get pissed!” Lol
Man if that's a scolding. I'd luv to work for y'all.. maybe I could get a FOREVER home
He ain’t wrong though 😂😂
This is typically how skilled the CEO is
More bosses should do this once a year
he still seemed kinda supportive. Probably expected a modest amount of experience
Yes big bosses ! That's reality work is never that easy !! All bosses need a kick in the butt for reality check
Asking a CEO of a company to do the entry level jobs it's like asking your basketball center to be a point guard.
That man had safety goggles to protect his safety glasses 😂😂
I've pipe welded, diesel mechaniced, run heavy equipment, and crews in the oilfield. Upon hiring on at a drilling company the "office manager"(with a forestry degree) asked if I'd be interested in being a project manager. He outlined the scope of work and I told him what I'd do it for. He hired a guy 3 weeks later.
I got out when my "project manager" didn't show up to a job one day because he'd completely filled his service body powerstroke with gasoline.
Ineptitude and nepotism really seem to rule the world
The ceo stops working as soon as the supervisers back is turned... too funny.
CUT!! Alright guys lets run it back again. This time with more scolding!
Honestly that's one of the best reactions on this show, hes a Lil mad that the undercover boss stopped as soon as he walked away, but was controlled, didn't exactly curse at him just said goddamn. Cus indeed, goddamn.
Can't stress enough the importance of understanding and compassion when teaching. Someone not knowing something makes that person ignorant, not stupid or worthy of cynical treatment. The trainer and company have a responsibility to train their employees to meet their standards, not to demean...
DAYUUUUMMM!
GOT DERN!
YOU HAD ONE JOB!
🤣🤣🤣
I grew up on a farm and heard worst stuff come out of my father's mouth as a kid. That was constructive criticism and that is what people need.
I feel like this manager/ foreman/ boss passed the test with flying colors. He’s trynna get jobs done and bring in that dough
That's the most candyass "scolding" in the history of...EVER!!!
He wasn't out of line in the least,,, you need to spend an afternoon doing yard work with my step-dad to know what it's like to work with a bad boss.
That was the nicest scolding i ever seen
Ever notice the managers, bosses and CEO's never really know how to do the job their company pays it's employees to do???
Is working him, hard, don't stop because I stop, keep working 😂
Scolds lmfao
Just goes to show you why you shouldn’t believe any of the stories of bosses starting from the bottom working up.
Boss man turned into day 1 greenie real quick. Well i..um..you wernt...and I..but 😂
I have never seen a worker get told "Okay I gotta take this call" then when his boss comes vack and says "why u stop working?" The worker FLAT OUT says "you were gone?" LOL did mans just beat the system?
He’s almost laughing calling out hank
Typical boss. They always expect everyone to go beyond the call of duty but don’t expect anything from them lol.
This entire show is just proof that CEO's can't do the most basic jobs in their own companies.
Makes sense to me
So glad that it's those people who are the "successful" "genius" that "deserve" most of the money.
Such brutal language at the end 😂😂😂😂
Southern Louisiana accent
Not a real tradesman. No profanity, teasing, or sexual innuendoes.
Mandrake
Great supervisor 😂🔥🔥
I've worked for a few companies where a coworker would disappear to slack off and get out of doing some of the dirty work
“Gah-dern!” 😂😂
Just another day at work. Boss can't handle it lol.
I never understood the show how undercover Boss can be So undercover when the camera angle says like there's got to be like another person there
“Daaaammmmm” 😂
And yet that "incompetent" employee in reality makes orders of magnitude more money than the very people who ACTUALLY do the work the business demands! Madness!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 That boss needs training. He probably skipped the schooling before going to work under cover.
He's a bad teacher, not telling him how to do it and just expecting him to know how. I'd fire him if I was the CEO.
cant believe your not a ceo
How hard is it to put a hose in a pipe tho...?
@@tomwelshshore I'm definitely CEO material and doing the job of a CEO, but I'm just a boss for now working for a CEO.
That’s probably the reason your not a ceo 🤦♂️
@@simonjohnson514 your probably a labourer working for minimum wage you fool
Never call these people you tube it and do it yourself. They are basically criminals at there price.
Some people just can't remember there first day on the job
Just like a child. "You weren't looking at me anymore so I figured that meant I didnt have to work until you were looking again." 😑
Funniest thing is that he's getting from the blocked side.
Still amazes me that we had this show to show all of us how IMPORTANT all the "lower level" employees that do the hard work are in a multi-million dollar company.. to bad nothings really changed for the workers and only gotten worse .
I just had my second interview with roto rooter I’m stoked
That what you call scold lmao hilarious
Some of these supposed ceos have the literal worst work ethic
Stop saying literal and literally if you want to be taken seriously
Why for the employee sound like Forest Gump. He be like “ok Jenny” “ I love you Jenny”
It’s bs when a boss can’t preform the basic job of an employee they are in charge of, always better with a boss that has previously been in the role they are in charge of
There are some CEOs who have never even had experience at the job they are the CEO of