Good PR or a Deluded Mind at Work?

Okay let’s start by talking truth.  Hooters is barely removed from a strip club.  I say that with no malice whatsoever to its customers or owners, but yeah, even if their chicken is good, it’s not what draws in the customers.

So we have this clip from the show “Undercover Boss” where the CEO tells us they are all about respect, and he would want his daughters to work there.  And then he sees a local manager behaving like a pig and dresses him down.  Go ahead watch it.  I admit it is good TV.

But exit question.  Are we really supposed to believe this CEO’s routine?  He is shocked to see women degraded?  That he would actually want his little girls to work there, and get hit on by drunken customers, and be expected to dress in a way that emphasizes their, ahem, assets.

To tell the truth, I fully believe it is possible to be that deluded.  But I personally believe this is really a cynical attempt to soften his corporate image by making this narrative.  “Hey, I am all about respect.  So I am going to kick this guy’s ass and talk about my daughters, and hope you buy it.”  Can’t prove it, but it’s what I think.

Comedy Gold (Update x2: SEC has a Porn Problem and We Meet the Man from the Video)

You have to see this video of a man on a financial show talking while a man in the background works diligently at the computer...  and looks at soft core porn.

Don't worry, its too blurry to get you in trouble at work...  except for the fact that if you are watching it, you are officially goofing off.

Update:  Apparently this is going around.  The SEC (that would be those people who are supposed to keep Wall Street from fucking up), has found out that many of its workers are viewing, or attempting to view porn on work time.  Here’s the money quote:

The work computer of one regional supervisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed more than 1,800 attempts to look up pornography in a 17-day span

You know, I should be mad.  But I guess I am just amused.

Update (II): We get to meet the man in the video, here.  And I will note that my chief objection if I was his boss was not the porn aspect, but the "goofing off" aspect.