(2019) Digital, color, sound, 68 minutes

“What’s the weirdest thing that ever happened at your job?”

Starting with questions like that Mark Street interviews cab drivers, longshorewomen, a farmer, a barista and others from California to New York. A kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States at work emerges with threats from automization, the gig economy and the decline of unions along with a host of unexpected workplace anecdotes.

     “Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”

     – Studs Terkel