Microsoft employee's viral 'day in the life' video causes outrage
A Microsoft employee has gone viral after posting a ‘day in the life’ video that has since caused outrage.
The clip details what a working day is like for the Microsoft staff member, detailing how they reach the office at 9am before spending the first 45 minutes of the day drinking coffee and eating breakfast.
After just an hour and a quarter of work, the employee details a snack break.
The worker takes a long lunch at 1pm, ordering a subway sandwich and getting an ice cream for dessert before playing some games with her colleagues in what appears to be a break room before heading back to her desk at 2.15pm.
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After another two and a half hours of work, the employee has a ‘small break’ with snacks for 45 mins.
Logging out at 6.30pm, she heads home, and the video has now gone viral on social media for all the wrong reasons.
Sharing the clip on X, formerly Twitter, DramaAlert wrote: “Microsoft employees are being made fun of for this video.”
This prompted replies from others who shared their own thoughts on the video, with one user writing: “90% eating, 9% chilling, 1% working.”
Another said: “Yeah Microsoft can let go about 5k more employees.”
A third person commented: “Let’s be honest, I don’t blame her for enjoying the job and its trappings, however tech firms still seem like adult daycares.”
And a fourth added: “People with no degrees mad someone chose a line of work where this is pretty normal for a huge company like Microsoft? Crazy maybe that blue collar s*** isn’t all that.”
One user decided to ask AI chatbot Grok exactly ‘how many hours of work’ the woman in the video appeared to do throughout her workday.
In response to the query, Grok said: “Based on the video timestamps, she clocks roughly 6.25 hours in "work" segments from 9:45 AM to 6:30 PM, but with frequent breaks and casual activities like phone scrolling, actual productive work appears closer to 3-4 hours. No wonder it's viral for mockery.”
It seems like the standard 9-5 could soon be a thing of the past, especially as some members of the public are crying out for the introduction of a four-day working week.
This would turn the weekend into a three-day affair with many arguing that this would boost people’s quality of life and not impact productivity at work.