But leaving aside the scheduling of Boss, I have to say that the show itself isn't completely terrible -- it's just derivative and unoriginal. Am I the only one in the world that watched Secret Millionaire? Well, probably, but it totally existed, I swear.

CBS doesn't air that many reality shows, and the ones they do have (Survivor, Amazing Race and Big Brother) are sort of legendary shows in the reality world. I can understand why they'd want to add to their stable with something different, but this show shouldn't have been it. I can't see it lasting more than a few episodes - much less making it to another season.

The gist of the show is that a CEO or similarly positioned exec at a big company (in this specific case, it was some bigwig at a waste management company) decides secretly work with the little people in his employ to see what their jobs are really like. Along the way, he (or maybe in the future, she) will learn that their jobs suck and will then be inspired to see what the corporate office can do to make workers' lives better.

It's a nice idea. It is. I'm not totally heartless. I got a little weepy when the woman who worked like 40 jobs got a promotion and some well deserved recognition, or when it dawned on the exec that the ladies picking up the trash on garbage trucks didn't like peeing in a glass jar and that they really didn't like being spied on. The problem is that, well, duh. The boss doesn't know that employees are being docked pay for returning from lunch late? Who ultimately signed off on that policy if not him? The boss is also oblivious to every facet of the company and what they actually do? Yeah, I'm slightly skeptical. Even if he had his nose buried in TPS reports all day, he should still know that the core of the business is pumping out waste from port-a-potties and the like and that there's someone on the payroll stuck with that shitty job.

I like that the boss here was willing to get his hands dirty, but Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs does it better and, as I mentioned before, if this show takes off, how will they produce a second season? The workers at major corporations might get wise about that new colleague who acts like he's never been in the trenches a day before and start wondering why this person is just there for one day... with a camera crew. They might also visit their company's website to look up the executive headshots, so they aren't totally caught off guard.

Anyway, to sum up, if I wanted to watch a show about trash after the Super Bowl, I'd rather it have been one of the Hoarders episodes in my DVR, or at the very least a CSI where the murder victim was found in a compost heap.

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