However, I wonder if we still can’t learn something from his actions… Perhaps his actions (and those of his trainers) were contrived for the camera, but that doesn’t mean that the show didn’t have perhaps some merit. What if we tried to learn more about the jobs of those on our teams? Would we learn something that we didn’t know before?

Ron

Something that seems to have escaped Larry’s notice was the readiness and eagerness of the manager’s to agree with Larry, once they know his identity. It’s hard to tell from just this handful of episodes, but is Larry open to suggestions, questions, alternate points of view? The guy who manages the paper-pickers at the landfill even mumbled flattery of Larry when he found out Randy’s true identity, saying “Randy did a good job.”, even though he had fired Randy for doing a bad job. Though I hope otherwise, it looks to me like this may be a top-down company in which nobody expresses a point of view that differs from that of the boss.