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A joint venture by the Oregon Public Broadcasting company and the British Broadcasting Company is giving workers the chance to watch their bosses walk a mile, make that a week, in their shoes---in six half-hour episodes over the next five weeks. In its back-to-back episode premiere tonight, ?Back to the Floor? will show a week of the director of New York?s Central Park reporting to work at 6:45am to confront the crack vials, six tons of trash, and back-breaking work that her employees deal with everyday. Also featured tonight will be the director of Burger King?s British operation, who spills drinks, fumbles the cash register, and forgets to smile and ask customers if they want to super-size---but still gets preferential treatment according to at least one minimum wage worker on the same shift.