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I am usually cynical about these things but the restuarant manager was genuinely surprised when she saw who he was, dont think for one moment her expression was an act.
Not sure what people expected to see … I thought it was entertaining in a "Secret Millionaire" type way but was amazed that considering the jobs he chose to do .. ie., on the turnstiles at Cheltenham and in the £50 a head restaurant, that more people didn’t recognise him.
Would have been more interesting to see the subsequent meetings with his Marketing team to ask them what the hell they’ve been doing with the budget in terms of getting the message out to their regular employees regarding who they were actually working for.
Very difficult to engage casual workers and get them to buy in to the company when most are there for only a few hours a month either as students or to top up their pension. At least he came away recognising that difficulty and just how hard some of the work is. Shows how difficult it can be to work outside your comfort zone when you have a guy who earns at least £50 an hour struggling to cope with supposedly menial £6 an hour jobs.
I have my own views on the family stuff … suffice to say, when you earn that sort of money there are expectations that go beyond the normal 9 to 5 existence of most jobs … there’s a price to pay and ultimately the choice is yours.
Nice to see the cynics hard at work here. Just one question TAPK …… I hope it was all genuine and not just posturing.
Come off it Chis,there was more "take 2"s in that episode than any other this series! The bit where Paul says "If ever i"m going to be spotted,its here" as he walks around Sandown Park with his Inspector Clueless,i mean Clusoe disguise on!!Take 3, take 4, take 22,what a joke! Its a bit like me walking round Nottingham with my Kings Armour on and my special polished helmut,where you can only see my eyes and no one recognising me!
I had to turn the programme off because of the "Phew, it was only a dream!" nature of the exercise.
Like all Trading Places-type shows, the rich/successful/privileged person cannot truly empathise with someone at the merciless cutting edge of an insecure, fragmented, powerless, six quid an hour job, because they know that they’ll be dribbling chateaubriand juice down their double chins by the end of the week. This was no different.
I gave up towards the end of the programme, as I found it rather dull. Slightly irritates me that his idea of ‘working’ at Cheltenham is wining and dining with people. I’ve always felt that to do a management job properly you have to have at taste of what it’s like to work in all departments..when I first started work for the council oh so long ago I worked in every department for several weeks. As for not recognising him, I’ve often not recognised people if I see somewhere that I don’t associate them with, or think it’s just someone who looks like them. mo [who started on the bottom rung of the ladder…and then worked her way down….]
Yeah the not recognising top brass is easy to do tbh. When i was a Corals, the top man Bob Scott came in and i didnt have a clue who he was at all and wouldnt let him behind the counter. He wasnt happy and it was the beginning of the end for me there!!!
Only just watched this back. Must admit I enjoyed the programme.
Having said that I would like to know if this was something he would have done without the television programme and the cynic in me would suggest you cannot always appear to say the right thing as Fisher did without some helpful editing.
When he addressed his team regarding the value of the workers I would have liked to have heard their response beyond smirking at the idea that they would have done the work for nothing.
The tragi-comic anticlimax of supposedly brilliant staff being brought to head office to recieve well deserved recognition which turns out to be incredibly poor has been a feature of all of these programmes so far and apart from the badges for the enthusiastic ( if slightly saddo) postman it seemed to be the same here.
Lots of typical TV deception here I suspect in the name of ‘programme making’,not least nobody seemingly curious as to why a TV crew would be following someone around who is working casually as a waiter,washer upper or gateman etc and the net result was not very interesting anyway IMO.
Yer man seemed most interested in the impossible task of expecting casual workers to be particularly interested in knowing exactly who they were working for.So what?
The fact that Fisher thinks that the temp staff not knowing about the Jockey Club is the problem, was the worrying thing for me. Try and fix the actually sport rather than pi$$ing about with dish washers, and easter eggs. My reason for going to racing does not depend on the ablity of a temp worker handing out the starters in the race course bar. Price money in this country is a joke now, the costs to watch racing are a joke, and the guvnors are so out of touch they cant even see it. "Employee of the month" £200 voucher! Amazing stuff Fisher…… On the plus side me and Grassy can be seen entering the turnstiles on Gold Cup day.
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