A Philadelphia reporter is laid off from her newspaper job and tumbles down the nerve-wracking rabbit hole of an Amazon Warehouse, a Convergys call center, and a busy downtown McDonald’s. Adapted from journalist Emily Guendelsberger's gripping nonfiction account, On the Clock is a non-linear nightmare that explores the unending mental torture of low-wage work in America.

On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did To Me and How It Drives America Insane © 2019 by Emily Guendelsberger. Published by Little, Brown & Company & Hachette Book Group. Adapted with permission from the author.

NOW IN DEVELOPMENT WITH THE ORCHARD PROJECT

On the Clock is being developed as part of the Orchard Project’s 2022 Inaugural Adaptation Lab.

Also being developed with The Coop.