『双语』真人秀点子多，《卧底老板》潜伏最底层

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Larry O’Donnell may be president of a Fortune 200 company. But the Waste Management chief operating officer got fired on his first day in a humble job picking up trash when working for his own organization.

A rare television series set in the real-life workplace, “Undercover Boss” hits U.S. airwaves this Sunday, February 7, putting executives to work in everyday jobs in an era when many companies are cutting budgets and employees are working harder for the same pay, or less.

“Anybody who has had a boss, or who has worked in a company, will understand this show,” said executive producer Stephen Lambert. “And for the person in charge, to be able to see what their employees are really doing seemed like an exciting idea.”

The first show in the CBS documentary-reality series features O’Donnell and Waste Management Inc, the leading provider of garbage collection and recycling services in North America with some 45,000 employees.

Future episodes will show senior executives of restaurant chain Hooters, convenience chain 7-Eleven, Inc, family-owned hamburger chain White Castle and horse-race track company Churchill Downs Inc removing their pin-striped suits and getting down and dirty, anonymously, with their own workers.

For O’Donnell, that meant a week of long, unsocial hours cleaning filthy portable toilets, riding a residential garbage truck and joining a fast-moving sorting line in a Waste Management recycling facility.

Larry O’Donnell虽然贵为福布斯全球200强企业的总裁，但这个Waste Management的高管却在伪装成清洁工在自己公司卧底的第一天就被开除了。

本周日，一个独出心裁的电视节目《卧底老板》(Undercover Boss)将在美国播出。片中的公司高管们都要屈身做一些最底层的工作。而现在正是各大公司压缩预算的时候，每个员工都需要为了一样或者更少的收入，更努力地工作。

“所有在公司里上过班，有过顶头上司的人都能理解剧中的意思，对于领导来说，看看员工每天真正在干什麽也是一个不错的主意，”《卧底老板》执行制片人Stephen Lambert说。

第一集将以美国垃圾清理服务公司Waste Management及其总裁Larry O’Donnell 为主角，该公司旗下约拥有4.5万员工。

以后的剧集中，餐饮连锁店猫头鹰餐厅（Hooters）、便利连锁店7-Eleven、汉堡快餐连锁店White Castle以及赛马场营运公司Churchill Downs的高管都将脱下西装，伪装成底层工人。

至于开场的O’Donnell总裁，他的“卧底”意味着整整一周的打扫臭气熏天的移动厕所、开垃圾车，还要去在回收站的快速分类流水线上工作。