Get ready for a heart-to-heart with Hartmann

True Value CEO John Hartmann had a lot of respectable and dignified things to say about his upcoming role on the CBS series "Undercover Boss." But, if the show's established formula is any indication, things are bound to get emotional for the co-op and its leader. If he's like most CEOs who go undercover, we'll probably see him get a little misty-eyed.



Worse things have happened on the show.



In the 2012 series, Rick Silva, the CEO of restaurant chain Checkers & Rally’s, was so disappointed in a manager’s performance that he came in from the cold and shut down the restaurant on the spot. In another instance, pizza purveyor Donatos chairwoman Jane Grote Abell fired a delivery driver who was smoking weed on the job.



But most of the time, the show portrays big time bonding. Case in point: the former Waste Management executive and undercover boss Larry O’Donnell, who learned about his company, his colleagues, and himself, while cleaning portable toilets at a rate of about 15 an hour.







One thing "Undercover Boss" has pulled off with some consistency is cramming multiple tearjerkers into each episode, whether they're tales of hardship from unsuspecting employees or personal traumas experienced by the CEOs themselves.



Then again, given Hartmann's previous experience going undercover as a former FBI agent, it's not altogether unlikely that he'll be one of the few to retain his poker face on the show.



Whatever the case, it wouldn't be the first time Hartmann offered up a never-before-seen side of his personality. Can you find the motocross executive?