Undercover Boss

A new show called Undercover Boss premieres on CBS immediately after the end of Super Bowl XLIV tonight.

The concept of the reality show is to put a different CEO in an entry-level job each week to see how they will respond to the pressures of being at the bottom of the professional food chain.

Undercover Boss

The show hides the identity of the CEO from the company where he or she is placed. The first episode will feature Larry O’Donnell, the CEO of Waste Management, Inc., working as an employee of his own company. In this new role, O’Donnell will “clean porta-potties and collect garbage,” according to CBS’s website.

Later episodes will include the CEO’s of Hooters, 7-Eleven, Churchill Downs, and White Castle, among others.

Spoiler alert: If you don’t want to hear any information about the first episode, wait and watch it on CBS.

In the first episode, O’Donnell finds himself working on an assembly line at Waste Management where his job is to take cardboard and other recyclables off a conveyor belt. While he appears confident at first, he soon makes a big error, allowing a large piece of cardboard to go by and get jammed in the machinery, which stops the entire operation. He feels terrible for his error, but also thinks that the company is too harsh on its entry-level employees and vows to improve their working conditions.