9 to 5

The earliest memory I have of thinking about work life is 9 to 5. When you really look at the movie, that's a totally disturbing realization. When it's only supplemented by Baby Boom, Working Girl, and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead, it's a miracle I even make it out of bed in the morning. What does Dabney Coleman in S&M get up teach me about a career? Nothing really. But the movie did a few things for me:

  • introduced me to Lily Tomlin at an impressionable age
  • immeasureable guilt for instinctively being sad that the levels of sexual harassment portrayed no longer exist (so as to be used as a 'poor me')
  • provides a wealth of outfit inspiration

I have no memory at all as to what these womens' jobs entailed, nor what the company they worked for did. All I remember is there was a lot of hostile bondage and revenge. But at least I wasn't watching Disney movies.