Last night, some netizens broke the news that due to ByteDance's delay in the best rescue time, a 28-year-old employee died suddenly.
In the screenshot, the employee's wife waited in the hospital for a day and a night without closing her eyes, constantly praying that her husband could wake up, but in the end the doctor judged that the employee's brain was all dead, all organs were failed, and he was unable to return to heaven.
She said: If it wasn't for the child, I would have gone with him.
He said that he was still in the hospital in the early hours of this morning, and then confirmed the death of the employee in the afternoon, saying that after 41 hours of rescue, his death time was 13:43 today.
In the eyes of some people, an Internet giant like ByteDance is a very "good" company.
But what have we seen over the years?
What we see is the unfortunate departure of one living life after another.
Why do businesses suck so badly?
How terrible is the oppression and exploitation of employees by enterprises?
A newly aired American drama recently profoundly presents the bloodthirsty and dirty nature of enterprises, and today it is time for us to take a comprehensive look at this world controlled by capital.
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The story takes place in the future, and the male protagonist, Mark, is the acting director of the macro data streamlining department of a high-tech company named Lumont.
On this day, as soon as Mark arrived at the company, he learned that Petty, the head of the department, had left his job and that he himself had been regularized.
Since Petty had recruited her, and the two had a good time at work, Mark wanted to inquire about the reason for Petty's departure.
As a result, the leader said that there was no comment on this matter, because the provisions of the confidentiality agreement were such that employees must not snoop on the privacy of other employees.
As soon as Mark heard this, he did not continue to ask questions, but formally assumed the position of head of the department according to the process.
The first thing he took on was interviewing a girl.
The whole interview process was very strange, the girl was locked in the next room, waking up from the table in a daze, and Mark needed to monitor her status and ask her questions.
It gives the impression that this is where the interview is, saying that it is illegal imprisonment is not even close.
Faced with a look of trepidation and wanting to escape, Mark followed the instructions in the manual and asked five inexplicable questions:
Who you are, where you were born, say what a state or territory in the United States, what Mr. Egan (who should be someone the girl knows) likes to eat the most, what color your mother's eyes are...
For these questions, the girl's answer is also confusing.
Except for one state in the United States, she seemed to know nothing about herself and had completely lost her memory.
In the end, it was Mark who opened the door and told her that her name was Holly.
What's even more frightening is that Holly's "amnesia" answers are just in line with the company's requirements, and Mark then directly tells her about the introduction.
According to Mark, Holly lost her memory because she had a separation operation.
Simply put, surgery is the implantation of a special permanent device in the brain.
With it, people's memories will be precisely separated, and working memory and life memory will be completely separated.
Once you're in the company, you can't remember everything that happens outside of the company, and once you leave the company, you don't remember anyone or anything you work for.
At Lumont, every employee is asked to perform the surgery before they become employed, and a video is recorded before the operation to prove that they are voluntary.
Apparently, Mark and other colleagues have also undergone surgery, and their work and life memories are completely separated.
At first, the amnesiac Hery had to leave alive and dead.
But after watching the video of her voluntary surgery, she began to believe everything ridiculous in front of her and decided to stay and try it.
Suddenly, when it was time to leave work, Mark attended a party with his sister and decided to spend the night at her sister's house.
Just then, a mysterious man appeared outside the window.
Although Mark was not at all impressed with men, he just told his sister about the situation.
But in fact, this man is the aforementioned departing Petty.
The next day, when Mark arrives at the restaurant, Petty appears in front of him again.
From Petty,We learn that both he and Mark have complained about their work, and now he has found a way to lift the memory separation and is being hunted down by Mr. Granner of the company.
In addition, he said that there was a surprising secret in the company's basement and gave Mark an address, hoping that Mark would be able to find the answer.
Mark in life, naturally, does not know Petty, listening to the other party to say this, he is a bit suspicious.
As soon as the camera pans, it's time for work again, and Mark forgets what Petty and he said in life and actively engages in work.
Who knows, after a while, Holly, because she still feels that this job is, resolutely and resolutely resigns, and rushes out with a note.
As a result, the moment she walked into the elevator, the note triggered an alarm in the elevator (which would be triggered when she went out with the documents), and the Mr. Granna mentioned by Petty appeared.
Since Mark arrived in time and took the blame on his head, Mr. Grana spared Holly and took Mark as the target of disposal.
The disposal method is very special, that is, take him to the lounge for a while.
Don't get me wrong, the so-called "disposal" is definitely not an electric shock, or a violent means such as a violent beating, but a certain mental control of people.
Petty, for example, was asked to say her confession over and over again, while an old employee was indoctrinated with a great description of his life outside the company.
For the disposition that Mark experienced, the episode chose to press the table and directly pulled the camera to after work.
At that time, Mark was working with the blind date introduced by his sister on the road when he met two people who were handing out leaflets.
They were told that Lumont was enforcing separation surgery, trying to separate children's brains, and that they were doing forced labor through the technology.
Although Mark argued with the other side about this, the next morning, looking at the leaflet, he remembered what Petty had said and began to waver a little.
So he simply took sick leave and went to the address Petty had given him.
It turned out that Petty lived there and drew a map of the company floors.
It is conceivable that in the follow-up plot, Mark is bound to go to the opposite side of the company and dig out the ugly truth of the company step by step.
So, what exactly is the company's conspiracy?
Is it as the leaflets say, the use of separation surgery to further enslave people?
Does the government play any role in this?
Interested friends, please look for answers in the chase drama.
At the time I write this, the "Departure" has just aired two episodes, and a certain valve rating is as high as 8.5.
Just like the evaluation of a certain netizen, this drama can indeed be said to be a science fiction thriller about workplace workers.
In my mind, there are many films that reflect the enslavement of capital into the enslavement of man.
For example, in the 2018 fantasy comedy "Sorry to Disturb" written and directed by Butts Reilly, unscrupulous capitalists staged an absurd scene of using high technology to completely "improve" people into horsemen.
"Sorry to bother"
In contrast, this drama does not have the slightest bit of lively ridicule, and the overall atmosphere is extremely depressing and cold.
Through dark, gloomy tones, minimalist symmetrical compositions, and a technological, alienated environment, the series conveys a suffocating workplace scene.
In the play, people are lonely and numb at work, and they are decadent and depressed in life, showing a certain mutual reflection relationship.
To paraphrase the lyrics of Mayday, it would be "you are not really happy".
The separation of life memory and working memory implies that the second personality generated by performanceism is driven by performanceism under the suppression of self-consciousness at work.
This self-alienation, on the one hand, comes from the need for enterprises to multiply as capital in production, and on the other hand, from the "free" choice of employees under the full control of capitalist ideology in the world.
It's like in real life, whether you're in love, your family is sick, or you're in a big disaster, as soon as you get back to your workplace, you have to force yourself to be an instrumental person, putting your private emotions aside.
Of course, there will be the opposite side.
For example, some people will choose to devote themselves to their work out of the need to escape from daily suffering, use work to numb themselves, and achieve a kind of focus shifting forgetting.
In the play, one of the first reasons why Mark came to Work in Lumont is also to forget the pain of his wife's death.
We could see that a second ago, Mark was still sitting in the car crying, but as soon as he turned around and came to the company, he immediately changed into a person full of vitality.
Although as far as the story in the series is concerned, this is because of the role of separation surgery, but in reality, people with two faces of work and life are actually not a minority.
However, no matter how different the motives of individual individuals may be, they cannot be used to obscure and embellish the fact that the logic of capital tries to alienate man from the inside out into a means of production.
This is also the core of the focus of this play.
All kinds of characters in the play serve this theme.
For example, the newly hired Herly, as mentioned earlier, she quickly proposed to leave, and before that, she actually experienced such a thing: team building.
Objectively speaking, this team building is much more normal than the content transmitted by a large Internet factory, and there is no vulgar content of bad taste.
But even so, there are still mysterious operations that will make every worker feel deeply uncomfortable.
Take a picture and say "thank you" to the camera.
Let's say, this kind of "gratitude education" in addition to the boss, who will not say a word outrageous?
Isn't this the argument that "without the capitalists, the workers will starve to death"? Are you bullying people who haven't read "Ma Zhe"?
Similarly, like some large factories that provide employee benefits such as dinner and shuttle buses, Lumont also has many initiatives that are really envied by many workers.
Usually there are free fruits to eat, gift cards will be received due to injuries in the line of duty, work conditions will take you to the lounge adjustment, and even the house where Mark lives is funded by the company.
However, under the surface of these warm pulses, the company has only one purpose, that is, to allow employees to better invest in the operation of the enterprise, so that the enterprise can obtain higher profits.
In the play, when Mark follows his sister to a party, someone makes this rhetorical question about Mark's work:
When you don't go to work, you can't recall what you did in the company, and you can't remember the memories outside the company when you work, is that equivalent to being trapped in the company at work?
For the human nature of the pursuit of freedom, work is undoubtedly a kind of captivity, whether you volunteer it or not.
Therefore, through such a high-concept setting, the episode actually punctured the following truth:
From the perspective of power, the essence of modern social work is a kind of prison that enterprises build for the purpose of capital appreciation and open to the panorama of employees.
In fact, even those nine-to-five jobs, through the full application of technology, companies can still achieve deep control and exploitation of employees.
If you think about it, don't we all see the incredible operations such as going to the toilet and being timed, sweeping the street and wearing a "refueling" bracelet?
I noticed that there was a design in the play that the company was as clean as if it didn't cause dust, but the employees' fingernails were all black.
Remember the old employee mentioned earlier, who even saw the asphalt-like black liquid devouring everything in front of his eyes?
Although the reason for this can only be understood in the subsequent plot, its symbolic significance is very obvious, that is, the evil and dirt behind the company's glory.
Back to the reality, I believe that not all companies are as bad as Lumont in the play.
But even this does not prevent us from examining the work we are accustomed to through this play.
Kant said that man is an end, not a means.
Living in the operating mechanism of modern society, even if it is difficult for us to imagine and create a very different world, we must never forget that people are not tools, and we ourselves are the most fundamental meaning.
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That's it for today!
Bye bye!
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EDIT: Swamp