JPod

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Douglas Coupland returns to the high tech trenches in this biting satire of modern corporate culture. Set within a dysfunctional Vancouver video game studio, the story follows Ethan Jarlewski and his eccentric team of developers who are exiled to a cubicle wasteland known as jPod. These workers struggle to maintain their sanity while facing absurd demands from clueless executives who insist on ad…

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