{"id":7461,"date":"2016-12-18T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=7461"},"modified":"2016-12-19T19:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:50:35","slug":"day-5-get-a-real-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2016\/12\/18\/day-5-get-a-real-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5: get a real job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bLQZtkn83xk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nYou only have to watch the episode above to grasp the essence of <cite>Aggressive Retsuko<\/cite>: put upon office lady\/red panda Retsuko gets harassed by dumb bosses and obnoxious co-workers, the frustration builds and builds until it erupts &#8212; in the form of death metal karaoke. For anybody who&#8217;s ever worked in an office there&#8217;s a lot that&#8217;s recognisable &#8211;female supervisors being more lenient to men than women, co-workers slacking off, though some of the frustration she has to deal with is more uniquely Japanese &#8212; obligatory drinking parties, near daily overtime. However, although <cite>Aggressive Retsuko<\/cite> mocks the daily struggle of office workers, at the end of the day it&#8217;s like <cite>Dilbert<\/cite>, an escape valve rather than a call to arms. Each episode ends after all with Retsuko declaring she&#8217;ll work hard again tomorrow. But who cares, it&#8217;s funnier than <cite>Dilbert<\/cite> ever was.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis was day 5 of <a href=\"https:\/\/perpetualmorning.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/11\/i-hijacked-12-days-of-anime-sorry-12112016\/\">the Twelve Days of Anime<\/a>. Next: <cite>Kuromukuro<\/cite> and <cite>Regalia<\/cite>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You only have to watch the episode above to grasp the essence of Aggressive Retsuko: put upon office lady\/red panda Retsuko gets harassed by dumb bosses and obnoxious co-workers, the frustration builds and builds until it erupts &#8212; in the form of death metal karaoke. For anybody who&#8217;s ever worked in an office there&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[2501,2498],"class_list":["post-7461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-aggressive-retsuko","tag-twelve-days-of-anime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}