{"id":5349,"date":"2022-05-02T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2022-05-02T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T15:22:29","slug":"the-fictional-workplace-it-certainly-doesnt-seem-pleasant-guardian-ameliargh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2022\/05\/02\/the-fictional-workplace-it-certainly-doesnt-seem-pleasant-guardian-ameliargh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fictional Workplace: It Certainly Doesn&#8217;t Seem Pleasant @guardian @ameliargh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia Tait examines popular culture workplaces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2022\/may\/01\/from-the-office-to-severance-fictional-workplace?utm_term=626fc0b981b40400194ca68bf4776783&amp;utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=GTUS_email\">in an article for The Guardian.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She writes in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For all its mundanity,\u00a0<em>The Office<\/em>\u00a0never went full-blown bleak (one colleague might ask you, \u201cWill there ever be a boy born who can swim faster than a shark?\u201d but another might turn out to be the love of your life). But such hope and humanity may be absent from the next wave of pop-culture workplaces. Gruelling gig-economy jobs, timed loo breaks, enforced commutes after months of working from home, rising bills, closing companies, the looming threat of redundancy \u2013 the desperations of 21st-century capitalism have been neatly reflected in Korean dramas such as\u00a0<em>Squid Game<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Parasite<\/em>, and it\u2019s unlikely the depictions will end there. There\u2019s brutality at the heart of the new workplace drama, as there often is at the modern workplace itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia Tait examines popular culture workplaces in an article for The Guardian.\u00a0 She writes in part: For all its mundanity,\u00a0The Office\u00a0never went full-blown bleak (one colleague might ask you, \u201cWill there ever be a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[534,132],"class_list":["post-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-television","tag-law-and-television","tag-news"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1oh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}