Undercover Boss Pays Employee to Stay HOME for 6 Months 

Imagine losing your child, then going to work everyday and watching families just have the best time together. That’s a very strong woman.

OMG that poor woman. I have two kids, girl/boy twins, and the idea of losing them is making me cry writing this. I honestly don't know of I could go on after that, but this woman has. And she's done it with a smile on her face, making other families happy with her sunny personality and good nature. Thank-you to the boss who sent her home, she needs this.

I really liked this boss…sometimes it’s obvious that they are faking the emotion just to make it look good. This lady was genuinely moved. She was unable to keep back the tears. Bless her genuine concern and desire to help this much deserving waitress.

_Two_ good women, assets to society! 🌸🌼 Best Wishes to _both._

God bless your boss. You needed one like this. I lost my son as a baby and I know how you feel.

When you can cry with your boss because they can feel your pain is amazing. Lots of love too you both ❤

Had me in tears. Losing your child at any age is the worst. You see parents with their sick child and when you see the pain in the eyes of that parent, it cuts through your heart. It was so nice to see her positiveness and hard work pay off. I’m so happy for her to get paid her 2nd shift staying home.

I love this show More company owners should do this to improve their companies and to ensure staff are treated correctly.

I lost my daughter to cancer after being by her side for 14 years. I cannot imagine not feeling the heartache that I still carry with me instead of the attitude of this wonderful Mom.

There truly is people on this planet that care God bless you for helping this employee in this way wow!! You touch my heart ♥

When you lose a child....can't nothing else in life shock you or hurt you worse🙏🏽..she's so deserving...God bless this boss....she really is a BOSS 🙌🏽

this is why this show is so deeply important ...

:( my heart feels for her i lost my 16 year old sister due to a guy blacking out on Viagra and he hit her with his car and she died instantly losing someone unexpected and so young it one of the worst things ever and seeing my step mom literally going crazy hurts me so badly this women has an amazing mindset and i wish her the best of everything

Man this really had me in tears.. My goodness... Amazing

My heart goes out to her. She is so strong God love this woman. Working doing her job as a mom. I have nothing but respect for her

I grew up in a restaurant family and it's hard work!! It's unbelievable and your brain gets fried every day at work from all the orders and all the little different things people want, not to mention to keep people happy etc... everyone, everyone is different! You go home exhausted to the bone every single night!

My sister died in November 2020. I remember not crying for myself but what really anguished me was the guttural raw pain and the change I witnessed in my Mother. She is so much better now but I can tell that part of the light that shines from my Mommy is missing to this day. I cannot imagine the pain of losing a child and my heart goes out to all the parents who have lost one....

Tears can’t help it and then more tears when I read the comments. Prayers to everyone who have lost a child, or even any loved one. Grief is real and tough. June 7th was five years for my husband. May 23rd we would have been married 31 years, but we made it to 26. We made it to the silver Anniversary. He collected silver coins. Ironic.

DANG!!!! 6 months pay to stay at home!? That’s incredible! God bless both of them!!!

It absolutely KILLS us when we hear about all of your stories, so we understand that we don’t know your pain like you do but a lot of us are here for you all regardless. ❤️

Two Wonderful Women. God Bless them.

Such an incredible woman……

Such a Wonderful Boss & Amazing Employee..God Bless them Both!!❤🙏❤️

60 year old dude here with tears. Damm!!!

Wow, what a strong person this woman is.

This one made me cry. I have never lost a child but I did just lose my precious granddaughter at birth. Very hard

Beautiful gift to spend time with her family.

Dang this hit so hard...lost my son when he was 4 and that still breaks me till this day..but this woman right here...she is the best example ive seen of "living your life through the pain" Bless to her and her family and also bless to the boss 🙏🏾 got me CRYIN cryin

Her story really hit home for me my daughter passed away suddenly when she was 16 years old 😭💔 it's hard to move on with life knowing that my child is gone. I admire this woman's strength and courage💔❤️ God bless her and her boss 🙏🏾🙏🏾

I honestly dont know how anyone parent can carry on after losing a child. It really is the worst thing that could ever happen to a person.

I would eat there knowing this.

Now that’s a boss who cares not only about the bottom line but the people that make that bottom line for them

If only 😢. My boss asked me to come back a week early. This is so good for her. Six months with her baby ❤.

THAT IS JUST A HEARTBREAKING STORY. I WOULDN'T SURVIVE IT. I LOST MY MOM TO SUICIDE 4 YRS AGO. THAT WAS SO WONDERFUL TO HELP HER LIKE THAT. I WAS A WAITRESS WHEN I WAS YOUNGER. HARD JOB!!! SHE IS SO GRATEFUL TO YOU!!! SURPRISED SHE IS STILL STANDING AND PLEASANTLY SURPRISED YOU ARE GONNA SUPLIMENT HER INCOME SO SHE CAN TAKE SOME TIME TO BE WITH HER FAMILY!!! I WISH YOU BOTH LOVE AND RESPECT...

Great Wolf Lodge forked over a chunk of change to give her six months off if she was working doubles. Good waitstaff like her make bank at a place like that and if they didn't cover her tips, she couldn't afford it. Good on that company and they should look in to moving her into management, she likes the work and she likes the company.

Is someone peeling onions in the room....? Wow, what a wonderful woman/mother.

You will never know how you have touched people's hearts 💕!!

Deanna your a strong human being God bless you my love and the child you lost. You show others what life means and what family means. I'm so proud of you my ❤❤ God has blessed you my dear ❤

Civilized nations have paid family leave for all.

Kindness starts from the Heart.

Two great personnality! God bless you!

Wonderful ladies. May God bless you 🎉🎉

Great gesture from the Boss! Only mother can understand another mother who has to leave her newborn behind and work for money! Americans laws must be changed to protect mothers and babies at least to have a fully paid year off work for a newborns.

God bless them both!!

There are a few things I thought of while watching. First my parents also lost a child. My brother passed away suddenly at 34 from an undiagnosed ❤️ condition. Second is how hard being a waiter is. I’ve done a lot of adventurous and challenging things but not sure I can’t handle it. Social media has made so many diluted fools think they’re the food critic for the New York Times. The final is about a boss showing appreciate for their hard working employees. There is nothing wrong with being a billionaire as long as you take care of the folks you depend on by paying them a living wage.

The glory is to God! Bless this boss for her compassion, and this Woman for her faith in JESUS NAME🙌🏼🫶

I get 8 weeks patetnity leave from my job and my wife gets 12 months. Meanwhile in "the greatest country in the world"...

People matter the most👍👍

AMAZING LADY 👏

My twin sister had 5 miscarriages and carried one child to 20 weeks and gave birth . There is this emptiness in her that is so big . She did have 3 children 27, 18 and 8 😂😂 love the ages right and they are her world but as her twin I feel a emptiness in her and I know nothing will ever fill that.. I feel for mothers that have lost children it’s a lose that can NEVER be filled 😢😢

Sometimes you see something that brings you up short and changes your perspective. I pray that she got to spend some great time with her baby, without the worry of financial hardship 🙏

This is a wonderful boss

That's so cool 🎉 I love the bosses attitude towards the employees 😁

What's funny is that what is seen as a magnanimous gesture in the US is a legal right elsewhere, for example in the UK - with a new baby - you don't just get your 'second shift' off for 6 months, you get a whole year off, and not just one shift, all of your work, for a year . . . it's even longer in places like Croatia and Estonia (65 weeks I think), the two worst countries in the world are the US and Paupua New Guinea (both at 0 weeks). In the UK even fathers get 2 weeks off to be with the mother and the new born . . . it's funny watching people in the US see this as some grand gesture, to most people outside the US it's like a boss allowing a worker a lunch break and the right to go to the toilet, and everyone celebrating their generosity 😂

Bless her

At first, I misunderstood. I thought the boss was covering her just on her second shift only. I watched again and realized she was paying her for 6 months as if she had worked full-time. Not sure if that includes the second shift also or not? Great true story!! Would like to see the moment she finds out that she is really her boss.

I’m in tears now X

God bless 🙌 🙏

Wow, I love great wolf lodge. I will never win. The first one came to Pennsylvania. She deserves it. Good mom

God bless you, you are amazingly among one of the greatest bosses I have heard of so far. Continue to notice hard workers, they are the pillars of your company ❤️

What a beauty story!

It’s just odd that these bosses do this, it’s kind of like a lottery. All your employees have these problems and you just can’t give all of them 6 months off.

In the UK. I was off 3 months after my wife passed away and still got paid .plus still had my 28 days holiday intact . Alot different then America

Ok Great Wolf Lodge. I'm glad this server will get to take some time with family and get some rest.

My mom died at age 16, 2 days after having me. I never met her. My grandmother lost her teenage daughter and on the same day had to take custody of a new born baby and raise him as her own. She was the most amazing person I've ever met and i cant imagine how hard it was for her to lose my mom and not have any time to properly mourn because she had a newborn to take care of 😢 my grandmother was mom to me, she raised me from birth and i was lucky enough to have her around until i was 27. She never got to meet my son and this will always weigh on me. In 2009 my mom (grandmother) passed away from cancer . August 28 2009 i lost the strongest person i ever knew, 3 days before her 64 birthday . Rest in peace Diane Brooks you are in my heart forever❤

We just call it maternity leave here

Omg... is NOBODY asking the obvious here??? The lady HAS to work a double to get by!!!! Why is this shyatty company NOT paying employees decently? More so, WTF does 6 months of "no second shift" do? Nada. Great Wolf Lodge please pay your employees better!

This is on my bucket list!!!

Love is important

Make America Great Again: empathize, and help each other wherever possible. People helping people - not guns and hate.

Very moving

Wonderful!!!!!

Just went to one of these lodges and my grand boy came back with huge pink eye

Beautiful ❤

I wish all moms had the option to stay home until our babies go to kindergarten. I’m really happy for her and I hope she found away to only return part-time.

God answers prayers 👍🙏💕

I love positive

beautiful

Such a shame that the well-to-do and the working struggling have such a great gulf between them still after so much of history showing that it cannot sustain. This country is becoming as it was in the late 1800s during the robber-baron days. So much for learning from history. This worker was lucky, if this was real at all. The vast majority of bosses really don’t give a shit.

I can't believe that their tips are their wages it's so wrong. They should be paid a wage like here in the UK 😢

Ive already had 4 weeks paid annual leave in thd last 12 months, still have 5 weeks left , plus over 3 months LSL, plus nearly 20 weeks sick leave, all accrued. Lucky I'm not in the USA.

OMG awesome ♥️👍🙏

Walmart should do this!!!!

I cry 😭 so sweet

Pitty she couldn't have been moved enough to actually pay her staff so the customers done need to pay massive tips so she has an income.

LOOOOOOOOVE THIS!!!!

I’m crying😢

Getting paid min wage for 6 months sitting at home and giving up your tips isn't what I call a winning deal, absolutely every waitress I've ever known in 40 plus years makes their real money on the tips

I’ve seen this same waitress on a similar video at a different restaurant

Well unfortunately she was fired from Great Wolf I’m guessing after this episode aired. Im not sure why she was fired. The last i heard she was working at Goodwill after she was fired from Great Wolf. Now Kim the CEO did not fired her it was the restaurant manger or hotel manager that fired her.

Give her 100k also

She isn't paying her to stay home she is paying her probably closer to what she deserves and only works one shift a day. It is a shame it is only for 6 months.

This all sketched ! Undercover my ass!

2:22 starts the undercover meeting.

I don’t think anyone who saw this had a dry eye.

This is such a disingenuous offer in exchange for turning her into a billboard for the company. Great, now she gets an unlivable wage from the comfort of her home WITHOUT the possibility of the tips that give her a chance to stay afloat. That $9/hr is not going to give her the freedom spend time with family. Maybe if her employees were compensated fairly and didn't have to rely on tips, this woman and every other server could still work and have time for family without having to work doubles out of necessity.

People's basic rights depend on charity in the USA

I like the outfits. Both pretty women. Good Job. Where is this place. Timber Burgers.

It’s to hard for DOJ. So is her current position. Jesus Saved

What restaurant is this?