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The Star Online eCentral (Malaysia)
September 17, 2006
Working life on TV
MUMTAJ BEGUM checks out the TV world of workers and their workplace – just to see how things work.
By Mumtaj Begum
TOMORROW, Monday comes round again. Time to start another work week (moan). For not all of us have the luxury to be like Earl Hickey (My Name is Earl, starring Jason Lee), who need not worry about making a living after winning a lottery. Earl can roll out of his bug-ridden bed at the cheap motel he stays in anytime he likes and make good on the promise to right his previous wrongs.
The thing with work is, we have our good and bad days, but the trick is not to take it out on the photocopier, even though it refuses to co-operate when you want to copy your palm for the 100th time just to make your work life a wee bit more exciting.
It is ironic that after a hard day’s work we go home to turn on the TV and watch all those fictional characters go about their jobs. Perhaps we do this because characters on TV seem to be having it a lot worse than us. Well, in some shows, anyway.
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Or maybe we watch these shows because on TV most people seem to do very little actual work, and a lot more of everything else. And their workplace is more fun than ours.
Here, we take a look at some of the things that TV folk are always up to while on the job:
Romance department
Office romances are a must on TV, it would seem. But like in reality, complications usually arise when two colleagues start dating.
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CIA agents Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan) and Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) of Alias paired up and then didn’t. And then they did. We gave up keeping score after several seasons. The same can be said of Nikita (Peta Wilson) and Michael (Roy Dupuis) of La Femme Nikita who desperately wanted to be together but just couldn’t because office relationships were forbidden by the section they worked for. Anyone who broke this law was conveniently eliminated during one of those secret missions.
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