I'm rich and look at how great my life is TV shows

[draggar]

What the hell is with these?

My wife is addicted to them - it's nothing but a bunch of self-centered rich assholes who think they life is the most important thing in the world.

"Oh, my life is so hard because when we went to Italy for a month and a half one of our servants didn't speak a lot of English".

"Oh my life is so hard because I have 500,000 dresses but nothing that looks good on me"

"Oh my life is so hard because my cook hasn't learned how to make shark fin soup perfectly"

"Oh my life is so hard because I have to pay someone to walk my (insert trendy toy-breed dog)."

Try STFU and then live a few weeks like the rest of us where we have to work, don't have dozens of servants waiting on us all day, kissing our asses. Try pumping your own gas, buying your own groceries, driving your own car, and making do with a fraction of those dresses.

The sad part is that they get paid to do these shows - so they're getting richer for bragging to the rest of us at how rich they are.

Do something good - sell 499,900 of those dresses and use the money to help build up a run down community. Use your millions of dollars to help build a library. Have your show cameras follow you and spend a day volunteering at the local animal shelter (and I don't mean playing with the animals, I mean getting on your hands and knees - cleaning out crates, feeding them, doing actual work).

[NightWatch]

I like watching those shows cuz I like to see how miserable these people are, even with all their fancy stuff. Where as the bf and I are middle class, so we don't really struggle, but we have to work for what we want. We have plenty of nice things, but they are things we had to work hard for. We're also very happy. We have real stress, like from work, family, taking care of our nephew; the kind of stress that these rich folks could never handle. But unlike them, I'm loving my life.

Also, it can be an escape for the brain. Answer your question?

[Food Lady]

I used to watch those wedding shows where say, the jewelry alone was like $9000. Disgusting, really. How many people could that feed?

[Kara]

When I was in the hospital last month, we watched these shows on VH1 that were all about how celebrities buy a whole bunch of ridiculous, extravagant crap. Things like a castle in Scotland, or a $2 billion car (that doesn't even time-travel), or a swimming pool filled with 500,000 tons of butterscotch pudding.

Yeah, that's just great. The economy sucks, people are losing their jobs, their homes, and everything that ever mattered to them, and these pretentious assholes are spending enough money to fix the national deficit on pretentious bullshit rather than doing anything at all worthwhile.

I do have to give Bill Gates some respect though. He donated billions of dollars to his charity to help resuscitate the grossly underfunded US school system.

[BlaqueKatt]

I do have to give Bill Gates some respect though. He donated billions of dollars to his charity to help resuscitate the grossly underfunded US school system.

He's also the only person funding malaria research-which has not improved since the 50's, because there's no money in it....

I liked the reality show "down the ladder" that used to be on.

It was higher ups at corporations having to do the lower jobs for a day. So they knew what people went through. I remember one episode where the CEO of a hotel chain got to do housekeeping-he was trained and turned loose-failed and was slow-but left with greater respect for his staff and decided it was a good idea to have a monthly "down the ladder day"-meaning everyone at corporate had to work housekeeping/front desk/night audit once a month.

[Aethian]

Is it bad of me to once be glad of a socialite who was getting an eviction notice while on the show?

[draggar]

It was higher ups at corporations having to do the lower jobs for a day. So they knew what people went through. I remember one episode where the CEO of a hotel chain got to do housekeeping-he was trained and turned loose-failed and was slow-but left with greater respect for his staff and decided it was a good idea to have a monthly "down the ladder day"-meaning everyone at corporate had to work housekeeping/front desk/night audit once a month.

If I ever am in a position to make large decisions like that i would require all supervisors to know how to do their subordinates' jobs *and* anyone who is in a position that makes decisions that directly affect other positions to work those positions also.

KFC was (still is?) like that. A friend of mine was hired to be a district manager. First, he spent a few weeks at the register, then a few weeks as a cook, then a few weeks learning management, then a month as a store manager. Then, he was a DM.

[Spiffy McMoron]

I remember one episode where the CEO of a hotel chain got to do housekeeping-he was trained and turned loose-failed and was slow-but left with greater respect for his staff and decided it was a good idea to have a monthly "down the ladder day"-meaning everyone at corporate had to work housekeeping/front desk/night audit once a month.

More businesses need to do this, and not just hotel chains--fast food chains, big-box stores, quick-lube shops, grocery stores, and banks are all businesses that could benefit from white-collar workers getting their hands dirty once in a while.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I've mentioned before how the swamp used to have some of its corporate types visit the stores, usually sometime during the holiday season. The thing I always saw them doing was filling the autopulls we'd pull out of the backroom.

They often didn't do the job right, and still acted like they ran the place. I remember one of the suits yelling at us to get something out of the backroom that a customer wanted, instead of doing it his damn self.

I highly doubt they gained any new appreciation of what we did.

[joe hx]

"down-the-ladder day" would be awesome for most business. it wouldn't quite work for some businesses where the people "down-the-ladder" have technical skills - i.e. auto mechanics, computer programmers, etc.

Back at another store at <old-pizza-place>, the manager there was the only manager. Meaning he worked open-to-close every day. That's roughly 10am-11pm. The big-wigs decided they'd be nice and work a day for him. The horror. The next day he (the manager) walked in and the store was a mess. Apparently the store got so busy the big-wigs couldn't stand it, so they closed the store and just left. No cleaning, no dishes done, no paperwork done, nothing. Luckily the health department didn't show up that day. It's a wonder that manager didn't quit.

[MergedLoki]

reality tv in general is a giant gaping hole of suck.

I mean i get why producers etc. love it.

very low staff, (dont need 50000 writers, a SFX team etc.

but blah. survivor, american idol, whatever that show that had paris hilton on it was.

it's all garbage.

not that everything (or even ALOT of things) i watch on tv are hugely thought provoking or whatever but it seems like all anyone (at work anyways) talks about is 'oh did you see *insert latest popular reality show here* last night?' i cant believe *insert name of obnoxious jagoff drama causing character/contestant* did that thing to that other person!'
AHH

soooo i have no idea why their popular. I personally blame the dumbing down of society as a whole.