Zandy595
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Really looking forward to this one!
This totally wouldn't work in my company. Our boss started out with a small business and turned it into a multi-branch public company. He's done everything and been everywhere and knows the business top to bottom. He already knows what the Dirty Jobs type peeps in his company do, because he's done it!
I also use to work for a company where the CEO loved to tell everyone that he started working as a dishwasher in kitchen at 15 to support himself and his family, never got a HS diploma and never looked back. It helped that he was in an industry where degrees are looked upon as necessary tools for some jobs, not as a requirement for hiring for any job, and experience is worth far more than degrees for most jobs.
If we had more people at the top like these guys, America would be a far different place.
well, sometimes its good to drop back into those positions to see any errors done...
My old boss who also started down the ranks who was on top didnt know this and that until actually working again with us before realizing what needs to be done on his end.
IE, cappo cart, we been asking for a new can opener for months... one day, the broken can opener finally shatters and we got nothing left to use... only way to open it was to poke holes around the rim and wedge it off. so boss find out that the cappo cart wasnt serving mocha drinks, goes to cart tries to open the can himself, spent an hour with the tool we are given... next day, brand new can opener sitting on the cart... XD
as for Undercover bosses, theres only one episode that brought tears to my eye. the season primere this year, where the CEO pays off the guys mortgage after a selling a business and him and his wife had to work 2 jobs...
Heh. Funny how things happen, isn't it?
At least someone like your boss who came up through the ranks, might have become lacking a bit in understanding what you faced, but when he had to do it himself, he "got" it, and he had the humility to send a good can opener the next day!