Journal Response on Microserfs
The main component that gives reason of a “no life” life is from a workplace as a campus. The showers, artwork on the grounds, and all the way to grocery stores, it makes it convenient for employees to not even have the need to leave campus at all. And because of the amount of work that is usually done; especially around shipping times, it’s easy to get accustomed to having a life revolved around the workplace. Dan and this friends talk about how they want to get a real life and they hadn’t even considered leaving the campus (except for going to the gym.. but where exactly is the gym?). Since all the friends work at the same company, it also may seem pointless to do much away from the campus because they’re all together goofing off anyhow.
The entire campus scene is to simulate the real world without leaving the workplace. Disneyfication, for example, is how Disney tries to make the theme park be like where people would go outside of their normal places like the Main Street which is supposed to look like New Orleans. For the campuses, the idea for them is to simulate places at the campus and make them available to the employees that they would usually go to--but without leaving the workplace. While campuses try to take the place of the real thing, it doesn’t work.
