{"id":178,"date":"2016-07-27T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/07\/27\/would-you-work-for-a-fictional-company-dont-mind-us-were-very-tired\/"},"modified":"2016-07-27T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T19:26:00","slug":"would-you-work-for-a-fictional-company-dont-mind-us-were-very-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/07\/27\/would-you-work-for-a-fictional-company-dont-mind-us-were-very-tired\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you work for a fictional company? (Don&#8217;t mind us, we&#8217;re very tired.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euroffice.co.uk\/blog\/where-in-the-world-of-movies-should-you-work\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GQUnC7UXflI\/V5kCjFaOCMI\/AAAAAAAACfo\/IEmLN_0Lh3knggBcr2_jsgGEgtma3Z4GQCLcB\/s400\/ithisgoodfor.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Alright, listen, we&#8217;re drained. The weather has been hovering near 100 degrees all week, and after a few weeks of inescapable political talk, we just need something fun and not-heady today. Maybe you do too.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a silly infographic from Euroffice, a British office supply company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euroffice.co.uk\/blog\/where-in-the-world-of-movies-should-you-work\/\">rating fictional corporations by how great they&#8217;d be as employers<\/a>. We don&#8217;t totally agree with their conclusions (<i>Anchorman<\/i>&#8216;s news community is too sexist and has way too high of a mortality rate), but it&#8217;s funny to think about the Weyland-Yutani Corporation from <i>Alien<\/i> in terms of their pay. Sure, you get ripped in half all the time, but they probably have great benefits<\/p>\n<p>We can think of far worse employers than <i>Office Space<\/i>&#8216;s Initech though. The Ministry of Information in <i>Brazil<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mS5WLkb_Cxk\">doesn&#8217;t even give you a real desk!<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, listen, we&#8217;re drained. The weather has been hovering near 100 degrees all week, and after a few weeks of inescapable political talk, we just need something fun and not-heady today. Maybe you do too. So here&#8217;s a silly infographic from Euroffice, a British office supply company, rating fictional corporations by how great they&#8217;d be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,387],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest","tag-we-just-need-a-breather-this-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}