{"id":5225,"date":"2022-03-31T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/hustle-harder-how-tv-became-obsessed-with-stories-of-workism\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:36:10","slug":"hustle-harder-how-tv-became-obsessed-with-stories-of-workism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/hustle-harder-how-tv-became-obsessed-with-stories-of-workism\/","title":{"rendered":"Hustle harder: how TV became obsessed with stories of workism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shows such as WeCrashed, Super Pumped and The Dropout all retell recent stories of millennial work-life balance going wrong<\/p>\n

The third episode of WeCrashed<\/a>, Apple TV+\u2019s eight-part series on the precipitous rise and fall of the WeWork founders Adam and Rebekah Neumann, gives the viewer a small taste of being a startup employee. It\u2019s 2012, and a nameless female employee arrives for her first day; she\u2019s given a key card, an Apple laptop, a reminder that there\u2019s a 7pm \u201cThank God It\u2019s Monday\u201d meeting, and a mimosa. In one of the most effective montages of the series \u2013 largely because it draws attention away from the two eccentric, delusional founders who take up the vast majority of screen time \u2013 we whirl through the nameless female employee\u2019s hedonistic, exhausting life at WeWork. Coffee, shot, staff party, sex with a co-worker in a supply closet. Adam Neumann leading employees in a \u201cwe!\u201d \u201cwork!\u201d call and response. Another shot, another day, pass out, wake up, repeat. Is it night or is it noon? At a desk or at a party? Doesn\u2019t matter \u2013 she\u2019s at work, which is life.<\/p>\n

This ethos of so-called \u201chustle culture\u201d<\/a> \u2013 the idea that work is life and the self derives value through constant work \u2013 courses throughout a number of recent shows set across the 2010s. It\u2019s most overt in WeCrashed, based on the Wondery podcast of the same name, in which Neumann literally urges workers to \u201chustle harder\u201d (also the title of its fifth episode, which airs this Friday). The Theranos employees in The Dropout<\/a>, Hulu\u2019s eight-part series on Elizabeth Holmes\u2019s fraudulent blood-testing company that was once the darling of Silicon Valley, work through the night, missing kids\u2019 birthday parties and dinners in the name of changing the world. Same for the Uber staff in Super Pumped<\/a>, Showtime\u2019s series on Uber\u2019s relentless, now disgraced founder Travis Kalanick, who berates employees to pursue growth at any cost (and change the world.) Anna Delvey, the scammer at the heart of Netflix\u2019s Inventing Anna<\/a>, is most chagrined that her notoriety as the \u201cSoho grifter\u201d overshadowed how hard she worked at the business plan that ultimately exposed her; the journalist who covers her is so obsessed with the story and its import for her career that she goes into labor in the office.<\/p>\n

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\nShows such as WeCrashed, Super Pumped and The Dropout all retell recent stories of millennial work-life balance going wrong
\nThe third episode of WeCrashed, Apple TV+\u2019s eight-part series on the precipitous rise and fall of the WeWork founders Adam and Rebekah Neumann, gives the viewer a small taste of being a startup employee. It\u2019s 2012, and a nameless female employee arrives for her first day; she\u2019s given a key card, an Apple laptop, a reminder that there\u2019s a 7pm \u201cThank God It\u2019s Monday\u201d meeting, and a mimosa. In one of the most effective montages of the series \u2013 largely because it draws attention away from the two eccentric, delusional founders who take up the vast majority of screen time \u2013 we whirl through the nameless female employee\u2019s hedonistic, exhausting life at WeWork. Coffee, shot, staff party, sex with a co-worker in a supply closet. Adam Neumann leading employees in a \u201cwe!\u201d \u201cwork!\u201d call and response. Another shot, another day, pass out, wake up, repeat. Is it night or is it noon? At a desk or at a party? Doesn\u2019t matter \u2013 she\u2019s at work, which is life.
\nThis ethos of so-called \u201chustle culture\u201d \u2013 the idea that work is life and the self derives value through constant work \u2013 courses throughout a number of recent shows set across the 2010s. It\u2019s most overt in WeCrashed, based on the Wondery podcast of the same name, in which Neumann literally urges workers to \u201chustle harder\u201d (also the title of its fifth episode, which airs this Friday). The Theranos employees in The Dropout, Hulu\u2019s eight-part series on Elizabeth Holmes\u2019s fraudulent blood-testing company that was once the darling of Silicon Valley, work through the night, missing kids\u2019 birthday parties and dinners in the name of changing the world. Same for the Uber staff in Super Pumped, Showtime\u2019s series on Uber\u2019s relentless, now disgraced founder Travis Kalanick, who berates employees to pursue growth at any cost (and change the world.) Anna Delvey, the scammer at the heart of Netflix\u2019s Inventing Anna, is most chagrined that her notoriety as the \u201cSoho grifter\u201d overshadowed how hard she worked at the business plan that ultimately exposed her; the journalist who covers her is so obsessed with the story and its import for her career that she goes into labor in the office. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shows such as WeCrashed, Super Pumped and The Dropout all retell recent stories of millennial work-life balance going wrong The third episode of WeCrashed, Apple TV+\u2019s eight-part series on the precipitous rise and fall of the WeWork founders Adam and Rebekah Neumann, gives the viewer a small taste of being a startup employee. It\u2019s 2012, …<\/p>\n

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