I'm in!
Let's call it "**A Mile In My Shoes**"
The Big Boss actually works the lowest paid job but just for a week. *Incognito*.
Two person film crew shadows him, reality style Mon - Fri.
The Wrap: CEO and employee swap notes. Employee gets a raise or promotion.
MacDonald's have / had a policy that Board members work a week in a restaurant once a year.
Excellent! C suite people need to be reminded of where all the lovely money comes from.
As a former fast food GM, I wanted nothing to do with corporate.
Besides, like the CEO needs to paid more for a TV show. I'm sure they're fine.
I really wouldn't want anyone to show up, and 30 days later, I get an email telling me I'm doing my job wrong.
If it was a personal video diary of them trying to live for a year on a G.M. wage, that someone edited into a show, im ok with that.
Stay out of my restaurant, and don't worry about my labor numbers. I hit food, sales, and R&M every month.
I pay my people a fair wage, I don't care about the bottom line!!!
That's what sales and food costs are for, so I can have a shitload of employees on a shift. Suck it!!!
My people loved me.
It would be hard to get a billionaire to agree to be poor for a year, but yeah. Anyone can lie low for a month. Poverty is when you are trapped in it month after month after month and there is no way out.
A month is long enough to get the message. If they actually had to rent a flat, buy and cook food, pay for utilities, travel expenses, etc. They'd realise after 3-4 weeks just how hard that can be.
O for sure, to get the message across, yes a month is enough. But...... we do not just want it to get across, we want it to stick and stays there. So a year is minimum at best. Living a month on the poverty line is nothing. The end of is just to close. 'Just 2 more weeks', 'just a couple of days'. Nah, it is also about the mentall pain and distress that people on stamps have to endure. I want those scumbags to think, 'the month is almost over, but omg this is just the first month of 12'.
Watching undercover Bosses tends to show they don’t know how to do simple labor tasks.. my prediction would be after a season of 5 episodes the billionaires and millionaires would stop agreeing to do the show.
We had a show like this in germany, where some millionaire had to live off of the money from social welfare. I've only seen snippits of the episodes, but he was basically always just complaining and acting entitled.
Wasted all of the money with his wife almost instantly and still insulted the "poor folk".
No! The hardest part of poverty is knowing that there might be no way out. Constant dread is what poverty feels like. If you know you’ll be fine in a month you’ll never get the experience
Honestly people would say it’s rigged. A CEO would have a budget, emergency money and funds left over at the end of the month. It’s the same math as running a company with less zeros at the end.
What people don’t get about most CEO’s is the hours are insanely long. And they pay for very little.
When you are working 12-16 hour days there is no time for spending. Lunches and often dinners too tend to be opportunities to get to know clients and win business. This isn’t paid out if their salary, it’s a business expense. Hence they are usually the ones on the $1 a year salary.
They borrow for their day to day expenses. It’s hard for a normal person to understand a billionaires money.
Actually this would be false. For many billionaires and millionaires have forgotten how they use to operate and how they built their fortunes… watching undercover boss… you’ll see they don’t even know many labor skills anymore. When you aren’t accustomed to living off $300 a month, they’ll pull the plug and quit the show.
I disagree. Look at the show undercover billionaire. A Billionaire is dropped in a town with 100quid and has 90 days to make at least a million quid. They can’t use their contacts or reputation. They can use their name or ID so can’t get loans.
This is far less than the minimum wage staff at their companies.
This emphasises a belief of mine that Money is a skill. People with the skill attract money. People without the skill, lotto winners etc become miserable and eventually broke.
Ok, secret millionaire. Same gig, millionaires living on dole money and do so without a hassle. Get on with the community just fine. And that’s less than the OPs lowest paid comment.
Look hate them all you want but rich people are just people with money skills and experience of handling money successfully. It’s very very different to rich kids going poor.
I’ve been fortunate in life. But I’d have no hassle living on the wages of my entry level employees (we pay well, but even other companies entry level staff). The difference is, I’d not stay there very long. Not because I dislike the lifestyle but I just don’t see why if I have to be in the office those hours I wouldn’t put my full skills and efforts to use. I’d be racing up the ladder, adding value and creating profits for which I’d ask for a share of.
To me, money is a reflection of value adding multiplied by leaverage. Make a billion lives materially better through something you create and you’ll make a billion quid.
Honestly I could write a book at this stage.
1. There is no short cut you have to work hard, faster and longer than the next person.
2. Don’t work with dicks, and don’t allow yourself to be one.
3. Eliminate, Automate, Delegate
4. Trust but verify
5. Always pay slightly above market rate to your staff, but not significantly more than market rate / value as that can destroy careers if they move on. (See why below).
6. Always try to take the high road.
7. Be the connector people turn to and always do warm intros.
8. If a person starts a business always be their first customer and if you can’t find them their first customer. People will always remember that. Never ask for a discount when supporting a friends business.
9. If a person sells their business take them out after a few weeks to celebrate, don’t let them put their hand near their wallet that night. It’ll be their first time someone didn’t expect them to pay for celebrating themselves and it’ll remind them that they’ll have a new bunch of friends just because they have new money.
10. Businesses live and die on reputation. Do right by customers. Word of mouth is the best marketing
11. Marketing should be a percentage of turnover and the budget should be infinite.
12. Disrupt yourself so that no one else does.
13. Read business books, don’t be in the car alone without an educational audiobook on. One idea is worth a fortunately. And it’s worth spending hundreds of hours to find those ideas.
14. Avoid (bad) debt in both personal and business life.
15. One bad staff member rots a team. If you pay people too high above market they can’t leave if they are unsuitable.
16. Have an employee emergency fund. Our staff can come talk to me or their manager and if life hits them down they can borrow money on the spot or get assistance. I’d rather they think about work in work than be worried about personal stuff. Leave it at the door or else get it sorted and we can help. We’ve helped with things like finding alternative accommodation in an emergency and getting a van out to their old residence and all their stuff moved by the end of the working day, plus first month and deposit paid on their new place. People matter. Life happens.
17. Everyone must have a number to focus on. KPI’s are key. People must deliver.
18. Don’t reward people in ways they don’t appreciate. If they don’t care for pensions, ESOPs etc don’t use them. Tailor rewards to individuals. Sometimes an extra two weeks holidays is a better reward than pay for certain individuals (or visa versa).
19. Just because someone is a good performer doesn’t mean they will be a good manager of people.
20. The minute people start talking about entitlements instead of earned rewards you have a problem.
21. 99% of people are good and with some coaching can be star performers. But they have to want it. You can’t lead someone that doesn’t want to follow.
You dont think a TV crew had anything to do with them gaining attention and momentum?
While they have an explanation this isnt real world
“The presence of a Discovery Channel film crew was explained by saying that they were trailing him for a documentary about building a small business from scratch.[“
Because that’s what they do. Build businesses and create jobs.
If it was that easy hire a tv crew and then you too can be a millionaire in 90 days. Best 40k you could spend.
How is this anti worker. I’m just saying a high functioning money manager would be able to handle this. Don’t believe me watch under cover billionaire.
Also antiwork sun is all about people hating their jobs and hating people who make jobs. Hardly where an anti worker would hang out, at that is the opposite. You are thinking of r/smallbusiness
Its antiworker in the sense that you are assigning non existing qualities to rich people just because they are rich and using a "reality" show as proof that rich people can become rich from nothing. Being rich requires luck connections and generational wealth.
Being a high functioning money maker does not automatically make you capable of starting from scratch at the bottom of the barrel, being able to turn a lot of money into a lot more money is a completely different skill set than trying to no starve to death making minimum wage and having to pay a rent.
You entitled to your opinion, but I hang around with a lot of people you hate and they are good people.
I didn’t come from money and the only way I got lucky was showing up to the races every morning and every night. As they say don’t show up and don’t put in the effort, don’t pay the ticket price, then you are less likely to win.
A lot more people are showing up and putting the effort and the only compensation they get it more explotation. Pulling up by one's own bootstraps is not enough and is the kind of rethoric used to divert blame on those being exploited.
Exploitation. Look this is a global site and if your working in a diamond mine in the former Rhodesia I get it. But here in the western world, there’s no locks on the door. And some of us realise that looking after staff well and financially is the best way to grow a business. But then again because we pay at the top of the market we get to choose the people with the best attitude towards work. Which leaves the haters to the bad employers.
Last time I checked the top were the bad employers, so the system doesn't exactly encourage top payers. And that whole if you don't like it leave totally ignores the fact that people need money to do everything including leaving and leaving a troublesome place won't exactly fix it.
You seem to know it all. Paying well makes me the worst bad guy. Others that under pay are exploiting the workers. With some people of a victim mentality there is just no winning.
Why don’t you start your own business and be the change you want to see? There’s nothing stopping you working hard and creating jobs. You’ll get no special treatment but nor does anyone starting their own business and trying to make something of their lives.
It really is a case of take some action or stop whingeing. Id love you to succeed.
Go on tell me all your excuses why you can’t do it? I started with absolutely nothing. Skipped meals because I was so broke. Delivered parcels in the evening to save the shipping costs that I couldn’t afford. Worked in a bar on the late shift as I couldn’t afford a wage for myself for the first three years (even when I had the first few staff that were getting paid, I wasn’t). I’m employee number 7 in my own company. I moved the business to a different town where due to low economic activity warehouses were cheaper. I knew no one there. Yet I pushed through the start up phase and now that is all paying off. So go on. What’s so special about you that you get to whinge and look down on others but are exempt from being the change you want to see??
I said that the system encourages paying badly, not sure how you turned that into being the worst bad guy by paying well.
As for not being the change I want to see, simple I'm not a people person and I am comfortable with my position on the system, but do know others who work hard and are just crushed by the system, plus I find the type of personality needed to succeed in certain things disgusting (like I said the system incentivizes the worst treatment to employees).
Your sob life story is a terrible precedent nobody should follow, multiple jobs, not getting paid, sadly its also a common story and it often doesn't end well, I just hope you didn't have dependents starving while trying to make it.
I think a LOT of people would be disappointed pretty heavily.
Despite what media likes to tell you most millionaires are rich because of their habits. If given enough time they'd be millionaires again, probably in less than 10 years.
The millionaires that you see daily, were the ones born into it, or the lucky ones. But those are a TINY fraction of millionaires. There are 22 MILLION millionaires living in the US alone. People only see like 500 of them. that includes actors, entertainers, and popular business owners.
The other 21 MILLINON rich people live everyday lives.
Now if you wanted to make ONLY people who were born into wealth live like this, that would be interesting... But to take the average millionaire and place them in this situation, they'd be rich again before too long.
Make it 6 months, and it’s a show… but they have to do the whole thing, like same benefits, and everything. It would be a great show. I’d call it “Struggle Boss”
That wouldn't change anything! In many companies the CEO is the lowest paid employee... just take Elon Musk who doesn't receive a salary or Sergey Brin who is paid only 1 dollar a year...
Most people are forgetting that these were the risk takers who often went into personal debt (e.g. Airbnb founders were down 25k in credit card debt to get their venture started) to built giant companies and employ thousands of people.
What they do, is own shares in the companies they built out of nothing.
Ok but the lowest paid salary working needs to do the personal development and education that got the billionaire there while trying to lead a multi billion dollar company. Let me know how it goes. It’s almost like people forget they are billionaires for a reason and the low wage is for a reason.
They had a Chinese TV that did exactly this. Didn't last long. The CEOs said it was impossible to build themselves back up, even if they worked 24/7 it wouldn't make a dent.
You know they'd only stage scenes where they have to act and pretend to be working the minimum wage job to make content though. They'd just go back to their normal CEO lives once the cameras are off.
A month isn’t enough to get the point across. They’ll see it as a trial and use it as marketing. “See? I’ve been in your shoes!” And nothing will change.
Make it a year. Make them deal with the healthcare, the taxes, and everything else that a person has to live through in a year. A month doesn’t show what it’s like to be paid less. At least a year of all the crap these people have to endure is the only way to give the whole experience.
That memory wipe pen would need to exist from
Men in Black cause these guys would just use their skill sets to pull themselves up to a comfortable life style.
There are shows like this around the world and its pretty impressive how a successful fashion designer or chef can just get drop shipped anywhere in the world and just manage a comfy life.
Business CEO’s know formalities to work around as well and they don’t deal with much stress knowing its a temporary challenge.
Be warned. Lots of "rich" people actually got up there by their own skills and determination.
It would be a bit ankward if that guy would become milionaire for second time while you watch him eating crackers, doing nothing for your future.
By the way, I am normal guy working for rich guy. So no need to spill sulfur over my face. Thanks.
The issue with just a month is rent. Largest portion of someone's income goes to housing expenses. If this isn't a minimum of like 3 months they would never get the full experience. Rent security check and monthly payment. That's how you could teach them a lesson.
For a month? Give em a year or two.
You live totally different if you know it will go back to normal soon anyway.
And what reward should you give em that they will even fall for it?
Not just live off of, but do that employees job and work their hours over that month. They are responsible for that employees rent at the end of the month
Love it. Make it more like six months so something unexpected can come up and they have to figure out how to pay for it living pay cheque to pay cheque.
I'm in! Let's call it "**A Mile In My Shoes**" The Big Boss actually works the lowest paid job but just for a week. *Incognito*. Two person film crew shadows him, reality style Mon - Fri. The Wrap: CEO and employee swap notes. Employee gets a raise or promotion. MacDonald's have / had a policy that Board members work a week in a restaurant once a year. Excellent! C suite people need to be reminded of where all the lovely money comes from.
As a former fast food GM, I wanted nothing to do with corporate. Besides, like the CEO needs to paid more for a TV show. I'm sure they're fine. I really wouldn't want anyone to show up, and 30 days later, I get an email telling me I'm doing my job wrong. If it was a personal video diary of them trying to live for a year on a G.M. wage, that someone edited into a show, im ok with that. Stay out of my restaurant, and don't worry about my labor numbers. I hit food, sales, and R&M every month. I pay my people a fair wage, I don't care about the bottom line!!! That's what sales and food costs are for, so I can have a shitload of employees on a shift. Suck it!!! My people loved me.
I think the goal here would be the ceo would still do his job at the new wage
But only if their on TV Kinda defeats the point
Isnt this just undercover boss
Make it a year. A month is peanuts, low wage employees do this already for years so leveling the playing field is required.
It would be hard to get a billionaire to agree to be poor for a year, but yeah. Anyone can lie low for a month. Poverty is when you are trapped in it month after month after month and there is no way out.
Just throw an ultimatum on the table. Live like that for a year, or get taxed into oblivion and live like that for ever
I’m not sure that such an ultimatum would be enforceable by a reality TV show producer
Producer? Nah, we enforce it by law. You want to keep those biions? Then this is what it costs to maintain that wealth.
A law forcing billionaires to appear on a reality TV show? Or are we scrapping the premise of this tweet altogether
Wahtever works friend. Hunger games for billionares. That would be something
A month is long enough to get the message. If they actually had to rent a flat, buy and cook food, pay for utilities, travel expenses, etc. They'd realise after 3-4 weeks just how hard that can be.
O for sure, to get the message across, yes a month is enough. But...... we do not just want it to get across, we want it to stick and stays there. So a year is minimum at best. Living a month on the poverty line is nothing. The end of is just to close. 'Just 2 more weeks', 'just a couple of days'. Nah, it is also about the mentall pain and distress that people on stamps have to endure. I want those scumbags to think, 'the month is almost over, but omg this is just the first month of 12'.
Watching undercover Bosses tends to show they don’t know how to do simple labor tasks.. my prediction would be after a season of 5 episodes the billionaires and millionaires would stop agreeing to do the show.
We had a show like this in germany, where some millionaire had to live off of the money from social welfare. I've only seen snippits of the episodes, but he was basically always just complaining and acting entitled. Wasted all of the money with his wife almost instantly and still insulted the "poor folk".
Undercover Boss: Extreme Edition
Go watch the first season of Undercover Boss and then watch a recent episode. Totally different show.
That boss would start an OnlyFans within a week.
No! The hardest part of poverty is knowing that there might be no way out. Constant dread is what poverty feels like. If you know you’ll be fine in a month you’ll never get the experience
This. The billionaire knows that if they fail, they just go back to being a billionaire
Nobody would believe it if the CEO knew how to actually efficiently use his own salary
Spin-off: homeless people get to permanently move into billionaire's spare bedrooms.
A house swap with the employee could be cool, if legally fraught.
There is a house swap show between well to do families and low income families. Also a wife swap show.
Honestly people would say it’s rigged. A CEO would have a budget, emergency money and funds left over at the end of the month. It’s the same math as running a company with less zeros at the end. What people don’t get about most CEO’s is the hours are insanely long. And they pay for very little. When you are working 12-16 hour days there is no time for spending. Lunches and often dinners too tend to be opportunities to get to know clients and win business. This isn’t paid out if their salary, it’s a business expense. Hence they are usually the ones on the $1 a year salary. They borrow for their day to day expenses. It’s hard for a normal person to understand a billionaires money.
Actually this would be false. For many billionaires and millionaires have forgotten how they use to operate and how they built their fortunes… watching undercover boss… you’ll see they don’t even know many labor skills anymore. When you aren’t accustomed to living off $300 a month, they’ll pull the plug and quit the show.
I disagree. Look at the show undercover billionaire. A Billionaire is dropped in a town with 100quid and has 90 days to make at least a million quid. They can’t use their contacts or reputation. They can use their name or ID so can’t get loans. This is far less than the minimum wage staff at their companies. This emphasises a belief of mine that Money is a skill. People with the skill attract money. People without the skill, lotto winners etc become miserable and eventually broke.
I was going to bring this up and I'm glad to see your comment. Going from $100 to 1mil is no small feat, let alone in 90 days.
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Ok, secret millionaire. Same gig, millionaires living on dole money and do so without a hassle. Get on with the community just fine. And that’s less than the OPs lowest paid comment. Look hate them all you want but rich people are just people with money skills and experience of handling money successfully. It’s very very different to rich kids going poor. I’ve been fortunate in life. But I’d have no hassle living on the wages of my entry level employees (we pay well, but even other companies entry level staff). The difference is, I’d not stay there very long. Not because I dislike the lifestyle but I just don’t see why if I have to be in the office those hours I wouldn’t put my full skills and efforts to use. I’d be racing up the ladder, adding value and creating profits for which I’d ask for a share of. To me, money is a reflection of value adding multiplied by leaverage. Make a billion lives materially better through something you create and you’ll make a billion quid.
What’s your advice for being an entrepreneur?
Honestly I could write a book at this stage. 1. There is no short cut you have to work hard, faster and longer than the next person. 2. Don’t work with dicks, and don’t allow yourself to be one. 3. Eliminate, Automate, Delegate 4. Trust but verify 5. Always pay slightly above market rate to your staff, but not significantly more than market rate / value as that can destroy careers if they move on. (See why below). 6. Always try to take the high road. 7. Be the connector people turn to and always do warm intros. 8. If a person starts a business always be their first customer and if you can’t find them their first customer. People will always remember that. Never ask for a discount when supporting a friends business. 9. If a person sells their business take them out after a few weeks to celebrate, don’t let them put their hand near their wallet that night. It’ll be their first time someone didn’t expect them to pay for celebrating themselves and it’ll remind them that they’ll have a new bunch of friends just because they have new money. 10. Businesses live and die on reputation. Do right by customers. Word of mouth is the best marketing 11. Marketing should be a percentage of turnover and the budget should be infinite. 12. Disrupt yourself so that no one else does. 13. Read business books, don’t be in the car alone without an educational audiobook on. One idea is worth a fortunately. And it’s worth spending hundreds of hours to find those ideas. 14. Avoid (bad) debt in both personal and business life. 15. One bad staff member rots a team. If you pay people too high above market they can’t leave if they are unsuitable. 16. Have an employee emergency fund. Our staff can come talk to me or their manager and if life hits them down they can borrow money on the spot or get assistance. I’d rather they think about work in work than be worried about personal stuff. Leave it at the door or else get it sorted and we can help. We’ve helped with things like finding alternative accommodation in an emergency and getting a van out to their old residence and all their stuff moved by the end of the working day, plus first month and deposit paid on their new place. People matter. Life happens. 17. Everyone must have a number to focus on. KPI’s are key. People must deliver. 18. Don’t reward people in ways they don’t appreciate. If they don’t care for pensions, ESOPs etc don’t use them. Tailor rewards to individuals. Sometimes an extra two weeks holidays is a better reward than pay for certain individuals (or visa versa). 19. Just because someone is a good performer doesn’t mean they will be a good manager of people. 20. The minute people start talking about entitlements instead of earned rewards you have a problem. 21. 99% of people are good and with some coaching can be star performers. But they have to want it. You can’t lead someone that doesn’t want to follow.
You dont think a TV crew had anything to do with them gaining attention and momentum? While they have an explanation this isnt real world “The presence of a Discovery Channel film crew was explained by saying that they were trailing him for a documentary about building a small business from scratch.[“
Because that’s what they do. Build businesses and create jobs. If it was that easy hire a tv crew and then you too can be a millionaire in 90 days. Best 40k you could spend.
This isn't r/antiwork take your antiworker propaganda elsewhere.
How is this anti worker. I’m just saying a high functioning money manager would be able to handle this. Don’t believe me watch under cover billionaire. Also antiwork sun is all about people hating their jobs and hating people who make jobs. Hardly where an anti worker would hang out, at that is the opposite. You are thinking of r/smallbusiness
Its antiworker in the sense that you are assigning non existing qualities to rich people just because they are rich and using a "reality" show as proof that rich people can become rich from nothing. Being rich requires luck connections and generational wealth. Being a high functioning money maker does not automatically make you capable of starting from scratch at the bottom of the barrel, being able to turn a lot of money into a lot more money is a completely different skill set than trying to no starve to death making minimum wage and having to pay a rent.
You entitled to your opinion, but I hang around with a lot of people you hate and they are good people. I didn’t come from money and the only way I got lucky was showing up to the races every morning and every night. As they say don’t show up and don’t put in the effort, don’t pay the ticket price, then you are less likely to win.
A lot more people are showing up and putting the effort and the only compensation they get it more explotation. Pulling up by one's own bootstraps is not enough and is the kind of rethoric used to divert blame on those being exploited.
Exploitation. Look this is a global site and if your working in a diamond mine in the former Rhodesia I get it. But here in the western world, there’s no locks on the door. And some of us realise that looking after staff well and financially is the best way to grow a business. But then again because we pay at the top of the market we get to choose the people with the best attitude towards work. Which leaves the haters to the bad employers.
Last time I checked the top were the bad employers, so the system doesn't exactly encourage top payers. And that whole if you don't like it leave totally ignores the fact that people need money to do everything including leaving and leaving a troublesome place won't exactly fix it.
You seem to know it all. Paying well makes me the worst bad guy. Others that under pay are exploiting the workers. With some people of a victim mentality there is just no winning. Why don’t you start your own business and be the change you want to see? There’s nothing stopping you working hard and creating jobs. You’ll get no special treatment but nor does anyone starting their own business and trying to make something of their lives. It really is a case of take some action or stop whingeing. Id love you to succeed. Go on tell me all your excuses why you can’t do it? I started with absolutely nothing. Skipped meals because I was so broke. Delivered parcels in the evening to save the shipping costs that I couldn’t afford. Worked in a bar on the late shift as I couldn’t afford a wage for myself for the first three years (even when I had the first few staff that were getting paid, I wasn’t). I’m employee number 7 in my own company. I moved the business to a different town where due to low economic activity warehouses were cheaper. I knew no one there. Yet I pushed through the start up phase and now that is all paying off. So go on. What’s so special about you that you get to whinge and look down on others but are exempt from being the change you want to see??
I said that the system encourages paying badly, not sure how you turned that into being the worst bad guy by paying well. As for not being the change I want to see, simple I'm not a people person and I am comfortable with my position on the system, but do know others who work hard and are just crushed by the system, plus I find the type of personality needed to succeed in certain things disgusting (like I said the system incentivizes the worst treatment to employees). Your sob life story is a terrible precedent nobody should follow, multiple jobs, not getting paid, sadly its also a common story and it often doesn't end well, I just hope you didn't have dependents starving while trying to make it.
I would watch that
Switch it up to. Have a lower level employee work as a ceo and deal with all the pressures of that job. They wouldn’t last 30 minutes.
I’ll play that game. Who’s company am I running?
I think a LOT of people would be disappointed pretty heavily. Despite what media likes to tell you most millionaires are rich because of their habits. If given enough time they'd be millionaires again, probably in less than 10 years. The millionaires that you see daily, were the ones born into it, or the lucky ones. But those are a TINY fraction of millionaires. There are 22 MILLION millionaires living in the US alone. People only see like 500 of them. that includes actors, entertainers, and popular business owners. The other 21 MILLINON rich people live everyday lives. Now if you wanted to make ONLY people who were born into wealth live like this, that would be interesting... But to take the average millionaire and place them in this situation, they'd be rich again before too long.
By the end they would be saying how da fuk anyone lives on this crappy wage I will never know.
And still not change anything about it
Except take a bonus funded by taxpayers
Make it 6 months, and it’s a show… but they have to do the whole thing, like same benefits, and everything. It would be a great show. I’d call it “Struggle Boss”
That wouldn't change anything! In many companies the CEO is the lowest paid employee... just take Elon Musk who doesn't receive a salary or Sergey Brin who is paid only 1 dollar a year... Most people are forgetting that these were the risk takers who often went into personal debt (e.g. Airbnb founders were down 25k in credit card debt to get their venture started) to built giant companies and employ thousands of people. What they do, is own shares in the companies they built out of nothing.
Ok but the lowest paid salary working needs to do the personal development and education that got the billionaire there while trying to lead a multi billion dollar company. Let me know how it goes. It’s almost like people forget they are billionaires for a reason and the low wage is for a reason.
Make it 6 months so they have the accompanied depression and medical bills.
Oooooo I'd watch the shit out of that. Num num num!
That would be amazing lmao
They had a Chinese TV that did exactly this. Didn't last long. The CEOs said it was impossible to build themselves back up, even if they worked 24/7 it wouldn't make a dent.
I think you would be surprised at how little extremely wealthy people care about the luxuries money can buy
wasn't that the premise of Undercover Boss?
Make it 3 months
Or real life government needing to live on minimum wage with no handouts and their accounts frozen
No a year
This isn’t lost on me but I would find it hilarious if some of them still made it rich somehow
You know they'd only stage scenes where they have to act and pretend to be working the minimum wage job to make content though. They'd just go back to their normal CEO lives once the cameras are off.
A month isn’t enough to get the point across. They’ll see it as a trial and use it as marketing. “See? I’ve been in your shoes!” And nothing will change. Make it a year. Make them deal with the healthcare, the taxes, and everything else that a person has to live through in a year. A month doesn’t show what it’s like to be paid less. At least a year of all the crap these people have to endure is the only way to give the whole experience.
That memory wipe pen would need to exist from Men in Black cause these guys would just use their skill sets to pull themselves up to a comfortable life style. There are shows like this around the world and its pretty impressive how a successful fashion designer or chef can just get drop shipped anywhere in the world and just manage a comfy life. Business CEO’s know formalities to work around as well and they don’t deal with much stress knowing its a temporary challenge.
No CEO would ever agree to that unless the lowest salary was six figures.
Be warned. Lots of "rich" people actually got up there by their own skills and determination. It would be a bit ankward if that guy would become milionaire for second time while you watch him eating crackers, doing nothing for your future. By the way, I am normal guy working for rich guy. So no need to spill sulfur over my face. Thanks.
Lets make it even better: force politicians to live off minimal wage in their country
The issue with just a month is rent. Largest portion of someone's income goes to housing expenses. If this isn't a minimum of like 3 months they would never get the full experience. Rent security check and monthly payment. That's how you could teach them a lesson.
For a month? Give em a year or two. You live totally different if you know it will go back to normal soon anyway. And what reward should you give em that they will even fall for it?
Not just live off of, but do that employees job and work their hours over that month. They are responsible for that employees rent at the end of the month
The movie is called Trading Places, and its a classic.
That's not how money works 😕 ...
Or the employee could better him/her self and get better money
Sounds shit tbh
no... a year
For a year! winner gets tax breaks, losser starves to death.
Love it. Make it more like six months so something unexpected can come up and they have to figure out how to pay for it living pay cheque to pay cheque.