How can "Undercover Boss" work?

I've become a fan of the "Undercover Boss" show on CBS, in which corporate CEOs and other seniors execs go out and work on their front lines in fast-food stores, restaurants, retail stores, factories etc. They are disguised and presented to co-workers as candidates to win their own business in some kind of reality show. It's fascinating to watch the unappreciated hard work that goes on behind the scenes in these places, and it's fun to watch the execs struggle to fill customer orders, clean bathrooms and stack boxes. The shows are usually upbeat, and end with great employees getting money, scholarships, promotions and other benefits; in a few cases, execs have been so appalled by what they've discovered that they've stepped out of character and fired people on the spot or shut down franchises.



Question: Why doesn't anybody put 2+2 together and realize that this is "Undercover Boss?" The show's starting its fifth season in prime time every week. A couple of times employees have been suspicious of the cover story, and one customer in a Cinnabon said to the president "Is this Undercover Boss?" (The blonde-wigged company president said "I wish.") But employees have never said "Am I on Undercover Boss?" Are these folks just that oblivious? Or is the show cutting out scenes where that happens? Or are they pretending not to suspect just to go along with the program? Or what?



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