The film makers tried so hard to make it young and hip and pretty and exciting but it was a roomful of underpaid kids sitting on computers all day long selling well fitting clothes? That's a cool job? Barf.
shareI thought the whole place looked pretty fun to work! I kind of wanted someplace like that, myself.
I am 60 though. It looked like a lot of them worked really long hours, and I am way past that joke!
It's not as cool as McDonalds, likely where you work, but you know not everything can be as cool as fast food.
shareTheir workplace is exactly like drudge corporate America if you can imagine the whole room is one big cubicle. There is no creativity in that job, especially the intern, he was a servant doing laundry and driving. Everybody else was fixing the website, boooooooooRing. The owner will make a fortune once she sells it. The film's illusion is that everybody who worked there was like her, with the same experience and paycheck. It's all a Hollywood illusion, and a lot of people buy it, but it's a fantasy.
In my business, I see roomfuls of people in their twenties glued to computers all day barely making their rent. It's depressing, it's not fun or lucrative for the 99%.
Waaaaaah. News flash: Very few people in their twenties get or even deserve jobs that pay well enough to afford rent, especially in a city like NYC. That's why roommates were invented. I always had at least one roommate (actually had five at once in college) until I met and moved in with my husband. Scratch that - there was a year in there where I lived alone. In a very small apartment, in a small suburb where I could afford rent on my own (versus the city, where I had previously lived). I didn't whine simply because I was in my twenties and didn't know how to live within my means. Newsflash: Nobody starts at the top. Why do people graduate college believing this?
shareI despise workplaces like this. I find it ironic that it seems they're trying to be exciting (riding a bike in an office), open and encouraging interactions amongst colleagues (no one has an office, rooms with open doors) and prioritising staff (in house masseuse, ringing the bell for praise) when the reality is often far from it. You lose all of those brilliant values and basics of what it means to be valued as an individual at work when you introduce this horse****. Case in point - Becky. Worked her ass off, had relevant qualifications - no recognition. When it was identified she was overworked instead of managing this in an open and thoughtful way she was uninvolved in the undermining decision to have Ben help her. The same thing could have happened but in a much more helpful way by talking to Becky or noticing she was being give too much work and giving new tasks to Ben that would have otherwise been added to Becky's workload. Ha sorry, I really hate places like this, the irony kills me.
shareThere's also the fact that these open plan offices are an introvert's nightmare. To 30-50% of the population, the gleeful 'no one has an office or cubicle' translates to 'welcome to your torture chamber, where you'll never be able to focus and always feel drained'.
There's been a lot of literature and research published on the fact that open plan offices are actually a killer of productivity and creativity. It's a fad that causes a lot of damage.
This is interesting comment.
I agree about it looking like a p.c. nightmare, but I will take it with a grain of salt because writers have always made generalizations about things, professions, people...
Also this is America, we make movies to look how we want things to be (or think that's how they should be.)
Introvert or not, a lot of people talking around you make it almost impossible concentrate. I think the whole thing is an excuse to be cheap and not build out offices.
share> I think the whole thing is an excuse to be cheap and not build out offices.
Yeah, and BYOL too (bring your own laptop) in some cases, though here at least the interns had company laptops.
SHE has an office; he asks if she wants the door open or closed...
The film was like this, but perhaps the writer/director is suggesting it ISN'T a good thing, via Becky's example?
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
Oooh that's interesting. Nice to have objective research back up my subjective hatred of this culture
shareI worked in a place like that bell and everything, and it was the worst place I ever saw to work. Lady in charge was a huge bitch.
shareI argee. I was thinking the whole time that I would have paid NOT to work in an environment such as that! If that's what passes for "fun", empowering, and energizing these days, I'll keep pinching pennies and cashing my pension checks.
I wished also that Hollywood would get more realistic whenever depicting their character's homes. Those brownstones in the movie would have cost upwards of $3M.
Although I did enjoy the movie, I also kept thinking what was wrong with DeNiro's character that he felt compelled to go back to work in a "new" and overly chaotic environment which was in the same building in which he'd spent over 40 years of his life already! To me, that's a bit pathetic and also creepy. How sad that he couldn't think of a more creative and definitely more enjoyable way to spend his time!
I was expecting sort of a Facebook or Google workplace environment, at least spruce it up set wise!
shareYou are a fool. See. 's like a great place to work to me.
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