Using a fictional worker called Juan as an example, the film shows how the economy affects the daily lives of ordinary citizens -- and how badly it squeezes those who don't have access to hard currency.
Despite its good intentions, when comes down to it, McDonald's, by positing two jobs for this fictional worker, has tacitly admitted that its employees can't live off the wages it pays.
Tonight's story is even more direct, dealing with the psychological and emotional aftermath for the fictional rescue workers who responded on the 11th.
This month "Third Watch," the NBC series about New York firefighters, police officers and paramedics, will do three weeks of related stories, one featuring real-life counterparts of the characters, another dealing with the effect of the attack on the fictional rescue workers.
In the final episode of a three-week arc about the World Trade Center attack, the story begins 10 days later as its fictional emergency workers walk through a landscape of stirring reality, a city filled with posters of the missing and a subdued sense of sorrow.
Near the entrance to the warehouse, a cardboard cut-out of a fictional Amazon worker proclaimed, via a speech bubble attached to her head, that "we love coming to work and we miss it when we're not here".
The final pick of his final term is Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere," a much-acclaimed fictional tale of workers finding wonders and horrors in a fantasy world underneath London.
You might not say "Oompa Loompa" unless you're intending to call up an image of the fictional chocolate factory workers enslaved by Willy Wonka.
Yaffa's seminars use the imagined paycheck of a fictional entry-level worker to teach budgeting and explain how a credit score impacts one's future.
The comic, titled "Living Level 3," for the most severe classification of humanitarian crisis, tells the story of a fictional humanitarian aid worker, Leila, on an aid mission after the self-described Islamic State brutally seized territory there in 2014.
