I Don't Fire Myself (2021) [บรรยายไทย]

The main protagonist is Jeong-eun. She travels to the countryside where her company transferred her to. There she finds a small subcontracting company with only male employees. Neither the manager nor her colleagues are very welcoming. She is an intruder, sent by the headquarter to judge them, they think. In order to prove her will to be part of the team, Jeong-eun learns what she needs for the job. The problem is however that she has to climb up on the power towers to help with the reparations. She is afraid of heights, but she will not give up easily. Everyone is just waiting for her to resign and stop being a nuisance. However, she shows a particular tenacity that irritates all her colleagues and the bosses sent to discourage her. The only help she gets comes from her co-worker. He is a quiet man, with several jobs at a time, to be able to make ends meet.



 

An unusual friendship develops between the two. They realize that they have much more in common than they ever thought. In their own way, both suffer from the economic system on which they depend. “I Don’t Fire Myself” describes, in an unembellished way, how profit-oriented companies exploit the labor of the individual. Although Jeong-eun’s colleague works continuously, he lives in precarious financial circumstances. Jeong-eun herself has no chance of promotion, although she is more competent than her colleagues.