(see also here) is a documentary that unpacks the quirks of the Corner Parking Lot in Virginia and its philosophizing owner and attendants. It is currently streaming on Netflix and can be purchased on demand from Amazon.Hanging out is what they do.
The result of overeducated people working a service sector job: they view themselves as the detached priesthood of slacker cool who pass their time playing the invented game of flip cone. Many of the attendants are anthropology or sociology students. In the end, the movie is sort of a limited and narrow field study. One group of subjects is the attendants. Another group is the customers.
It's pretty amazing to watch the behavior of the customers, trying to talk their way out of paying for parking, insulting the attendants, and generally just being stupid.
In some way, the job is so simple and contained that the frustrations of any workplace are achieved in a beautiful and destructive efficiency.
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