CBS's Undercover Boss Premieres with Dialysis Subplot

I admit I crashed pretty soon after the Super Bowl last night. I actually had some interest in this new CBS show that was highly publicized during the game called, Undercover Boss. Unfortunately the baby needed to be taken upstairs and my wife was more interested in the Karashians which replaced CBS as soon as I turned around after the tenth post-game interview.

Tragically, I missed the premier episode of Undercover Boss. But why am I writing about it? Why should you care? I am glad you asked...

Zipping through some of the blogs I read, I came across an entry in Dialysis From the Sharp End of the Needle. It looks like I indeed missed something interesting last night on this CBS TV show. This new reality show offers different corporate leaders who take entry level jobs at their companies. The premier shows Waste Management (WM) President Larry O'Donnell going undercover as Randy and working a range of job within the organization.

During the episode one of Larry's supervisor is a long time dialysis patient by the name of Walter Settles. Walter winds up firing Larry, the company President and COO. Some of the transcript from the show from DESN:

Walter: I'm on dialysis and that take up three days .. three nights anyway I lost the functions in my kidneys
Randy: I would have never guessed that you have that kinda health issue. I've been marching up and down those hills picking up trash - you come marching up there. How do you do all that?
Walter: I let my spirit tell my body what's going to happen what I'm going to do what I'm not going to do because if I let my body tell me what I'm going to do I'm not going to do very much.
Randy: You have such a positive attitude do you work with other people on dialysis?
Walter: I would like to but as long as I can work and I'm able to work I'm going to work ... when I see a perfectly healthy person dragging around and I can go out there and work circles around them and he can't do this and can't do that really pisses me off there, because I wish I was healthy ... you should be able to do more than I do if I can get out there and fill two bags in 10 minutes then I'm expecting you to do three bags three

I have not have time to watch the show yet, but will. Nevertheless, it is certainly nice to have a dialyzor being portrayed in this way.. working a physically demanding job in a reality show, not a fictional written part (DESN in my opinion correctly points out this never would have been written into a fictional show).