Popcorn, Movie… and Deadlines? Woman Working on Laptop in Theatre Sparks Viral Reactions News24 –

Imagine you decided to head to the cinema for a relaxing evening, only to see the person sitting in front of you busily typing away on their laptop. This is what happened during a screening of the Kannada film Lokah in Bengaluru and the image has since gone viral. The original post captioned: “Blore work culture is insane!” on social media platform Reddit, stirred up an immediate and heated discussion around the almost unreal corporate grind in Bengaluru.

The original poster, on r/Bangalore, wrote: “Only in Bangalore! went to watch the Lokah movie and a woman in the row ahead opened her laptop and started working like she was in the office, typing away, in a theatre. Honestly, it says a lot about the chaotic work culture here; people can’t even switch off for 2 hours without office pressure creeping back in. Work-life balance? What’s that?”

Woman working on Laptop in Theater! Blore work culture is wild!
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Images like this can resonate with many people, who experience work coming into all corners of their lives. This reaction touches a raw nerve in the busy city, some commenting it as an extreme case of hustle culture, some joking it’s ‘peak Bengaluru’.

The post from two days ago attracted a lot of likes and comments among Reddit users. “If you are working along with teams in the US and Europe/other time zones away from our working hours, you would need to attend meetings well into the midnight hours daily, after you have worked the Indian working hours. This is particularly true when they are all in the USA,” wrote a user.

“Cultural? This is slavery. I saw a dude working in a salon while getting his haircut,” a second user wrote. “So she is neither working nor watching the movie. Unbelievable, I feel bad for her,” said a third user. “I want to say, whose permission did you click that photo and that it should not be permitted to file a case against such violations of privacy,” added a fourth user.

“it’s a priority, why waste ur time sitting in the theatre while the movie isn’t even playing? It’s a better use of your time,” said another user. “Just looks like she is getting work done before the movie starts, no harm in that to me. The wait before the movie is often boring,” wrote another user.