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But House is fun to watch!

Except this week's. Sigh.

That pisses me off. How can the employees see the HR files and salaries of their co-workers without opening themselves and the company up to lawsuits? Does FOX have the company and each of the employees sign away their rights in this regard? I suppose people will do anything to get on television. They probably think they'll get a gig on some other vomit-inducing 'reality' show and make a living that way if they get fired.
Fuck you, FOX. I'm only sticking around for Fringe and The Simpsons.

Well, at least when this show inevitably produces America's first TV-taped murder, Fox will probably air it. Always pouring extra grease on that slipperly slope, they are.

How can the employees see the HR files and salaries of their co-workers without opening themselves and the company up to lawsuits?

As you say, the employer (and Fox) would have to get signed releases from every single employee whose file would be reviewed by a non-manager employee or third party outsider. I hope Fox gets sued silly over this, but the likely scenario is that, since it's a small company, Fox gives a nominal payment to every employee to get them to sign a waiver, with each employee essentially gambling, in exchange for this payment, that he or she won't be the one picked, or if he or she is the one, that the payment will tide them over till the next job.

Likely scenario (unless they make it against the rules): If the employees have an ounce of sense, they'll gang up to lay off a manager or supervisor.

Wasn't there an episode of some MTV show where Ol Dirty Bastard went to a food line or cashed a welfare check?

Wouldn't it be just bonkers if there were a FOX show where the REAL Ol Dirty Bastard* won the lottery and went in to collect it but was met by several hundred people holding various sized rocks?

It could be called "Shirley Jackson's The Lottery!!"

*Donald Trump

How about in the first episode, they fire all the fucktards who decided to green light this shit? And Rupert Murdoch, just to wrap things up.

The HR lady in me just cringed. And I immediately started thinking about the legal ramifications of future lawsuits after things are discovered in employee files. Can you imagine what will happen after Employee X discovers that Employee Y didn't get written up for the same thing they gotten written up for? Especially if one of them is in a protected class?

socalled, could that happen after the fact? Like an EEOC complaint?

Wait, wouldn't every employee of the company have to be *willing* to appear in this show? Does this mean there's really a company out there in which each and every employee is enough of a famewhore that they'd be willing to have all of their salaries and HR files made public, let alone risk being fired?

Gah! What the hell is wrong with this world?!

And I here thought that "The Moment of Truth" was some of the most despicable shit. Fox has lowered the bar again.

I wish reality shows would just die already. I would mourn Intervention, but I'd let it go if the rest of this shit would be gone too.

That pisses me off. How can the employees see the HR files and salaries of their co-workers without opening themselves and the company up to lawsuits?
In my previous job I would have been fined if I had told anyone my salary, which I had a major problem with. If anything salaries should be made public (not necessarily attached to names though). If one person is very well qualified and gets paid more, then that should be a goal for others to get similarly qualified. Hiding salaries basically benefits the bosses who get to wait till each person asks to give them pay rises.

Who the FUCK would voluntarily participate in this? Is everybody so fucking confident they won't be the one laid off?
I'm guessing the business tells them that are going to have to lay some people off anyway, and if they let FOX in, that person gets some extra money.

"Hiding salaries basically benefits the bosses who get to wait till each person asks to give them pay rises."

It also perpetuates all kinds of discrimination. I think prohibitions on employees discussing salaries are odious as hell. Imagine my surprise at one of my first jobs when the male receptionist, far lower on the hierarchy than I was, made more money than I did.

I can relate to that one, samantha t. I've worked as a computer programmer for a few years at a place where we can't discuss salary with coworkers. When my friend quit, I was disgusted to learn that she was getting paid the exact same amount as me, except she had her MASTERS degree compared to my DIPLOMA (yeah, not even a full degree). The company's cited reason of "preventing tension between coworkers" was just an excuse to discriminate.

The story has a happy ending though, she got a new job and makes twice what I do.

We really don't need any more evidence of the mean things people can do to other people.

Amen, tamatha--and next time someone asks me why I don't like reality shows, I'm telling them exactly that!

Fox produces my summertime delight So You Think You Can Dance (dance revolution), and House - those are the only significant attachments I have to that network, just like Veronica Mars was my only attachment to the CW. The CW is now dead to me, and I figure Fox's prospects can only grow dimmer, somewhat like NBC's post-ER era.

well thank you socalledonlycousins, that is a nice little bit of information to have tucked away...just in case.

If this was announced a week earlier, I would have chalked it up to an April Fools' Day prank. But then I saw it's going to be on FOX. Then it made perfect sense.

My question--what company will allow their inner workings to be broadcast on network TV? As a potential customer, would you deal with this company after watching the bickering/backstabbing going among among its own staff (at least not without wondering how this same pack of hyenas would screw _me_ over)?

As for people signing up for this--yes, they all think they are too good/valuable to the company to be fired. I run into that all the time (and it's not just the young ones)--people who don't want to put the effort to learn new things but think they are indispensable.

I remember a study done about how dumb people do not realize their dumbness (and thereby refuse to get training/education to improve their skills). Something like that must be going on in this company.