GOOD JOB - Animation Short Film 2021 - GOBELINS 

"Family delivers on time" might be one of the most low key horrifying phrases I've ever heard lol.

The absolute odds that I'm a greeting card designer who has inadvertently designed her own birthday card AND draws little cat doodles to de-stress. This feels like it was made for me. Thank you.

I can't put into words how close to home this hits me -- the dismissive self-absorption by authority figures, the overlapping frustrations, the looming dread of the burnout you simply don't have a choice but to work through... There's a _lot_ of genuine feelings on display here, and it's put together masterfully.

Perfectly captures modern workplace superficiality. Clichéd platitudes plastered on walls: "Make It Better" in a bathroom stall where an employee is struggling with anxiety, "Embrace Change" while the executive boardroom is filled with one type of employee, all identical. Managers & bosses delegate meaningless work that they don't know well or even care about to overworked subordinates. "We're like a family here" line - when employers want their workers to devote their lives to a job that won't even acknowledge their identity and value outside of labor and would quickly dismiss them if they got sick or died. It's funny and depressing at the same time.

the sad thing is coco seems to be the only one who genuinely cares about her, and yet the management is so demanding she ends up having to shove him aside

This was really great! I love how despite everything around having such silly and almost kid-like design that seems to be so in these days, where the office should be a place for fun and freedom, despite these appearences everything is still only surface level, and doesnt really imprive anything for the majority of workers who actually have to DO the WORK. The animation is very good and filled with a bunch of small details, I love that some are sleeping on the job, while others are working themselves stressed, that despite those silly "chairs" in the meeting room, its no more fun a meeting that others, that the Boss does no actual work, simply walks around letting his secretary handle eveything and so on. Also the animation itself is has a great style. It really serves to drive home that despite all the empty buzzwords thrown around on the jobmarket like "we are a family, we have fun, and designs made for creative thinking and whatever" it really is all just empty fluff, The only ones who seem to have any fun at all is the social media people who get to show it off. And that final knockout about how impersonal and surface level all these niceties are, comes with the reveal that it was Mimis birthday all along, and noone even knew. And the boss so casually going "oho I almost forgot about it" and the way they all treat her throughtout really hurts extra bad on the subsequent watches. Noone but Coco even knows who she is, they just want to be left alone. Im glad Coco is still friendly towards Mimi in the end, but still also sad that even thier relationship is impersonal. The birthday greeting is normal, he likely only found out after the thing was sent out and he saw it on thier social media, and then he follows up with a generic work related meme.

Big companies.. as long as the work is done they don’t care too much about how it is done. Or even the results of it.. It’s like everything have lost it’s meaning.

Yup. Sent a paper to my supervisor at work for a project I was assigned and was given the “good job!” response. I was pretty pleased with how far I had come, and then my supervisor asked me later that week if I had finished it. When I told him I had he said, “Oh, I haven’t read it yet.” It’s the little things like that that make me question the feedback I get.

This makes me reflect a lot about my education and studying. I spend countless hours stressing about things that in a grand scheme do not matter and will not matter going into the future like small assignments and what not. But teachers insist so much to pressure you and think that it's the end of your future if you don't do it, while also being so rude about it. It's kind of egotistical to think like your class is the most important thing in the world and you should be treated like trash for struggling. Only for them to overlook how mentally draining it is to finish all of what they ask especially when they make assignments more complicated than they have to be seemingly just for the sake of it.

Lots of standout moments in this, but I don't see anyone talking about the bit at the end where she types "hahaha" then backspaces out the last ha. That bit is painfully relatable.

The creative director doing absolutely nothing, then making a melodramatic fuss when called out on her own regulation is so accurate.

This is SO realistic. This was my daily life for a decade until my mind and body broke and I quit to get a new job.

As someone who went to school for graphic design, worked an internship and got a job in the industry at a big company, its kinda sad how relatable this is lol. This actually makes me feel better about my decision to have gone the more freelance route not working for one of these companies. I remember projects taking weeks to get done just because I kept having to schedule meetings with people in other departments and them never having time to talk to me when I needed to. And then my boss getting pushy with me. Ugh, I don't miss it! Also I loved this animation style and character design. So simple and expressive with great sound design wowowow.

Suffering depression, dealing with a mental crisis, and making a birthday card for *yourself* for work is like hitting a new low for yourself

Birthdays used to be an exitiment, on how relatives and loved ones gonna surprise you this time. Now it's basically an another work of you thinking what to get for yourself and what even to do, to make it somewhat special, and the only surprise is to get an art or other congratulation from online friends you havent spoken in a while with.

I really like Rino guy. You managed to absolutely capture that, "Slightly intimidating technocrat who's not malicious but kinda scares you anyway." vibe with him.

Everything about this animation is SO SO GOOD, though it has me wondering if this is going to be my future when I graduate from uni and start working as a graphic designer...

Hell yeah. The animation looks OP along with the music. With all the obstacles of the year you guys pulled something amazing through your hardwork and dedication. Please enjoy yourselves today and a big congratulations to all of you.

I like all the small details in this animation that I’m too lazy to notice lol. The only one I caught was Mimi hearting Coco’s text about wishing her happy bday, but not the meme…just shows all she wanted was to be wished a happy birthday :)

If you look carefully into the background, you can find that Mimi isn't the only one dealing with workplace stress.

I don't know if it was intentional but I love the double meaning I took from this. The workplace is stressful chaos that often feels meaningless, but also... we focus too much on our anxieties even when the problem isn't really a problem.

4:35 Bro the shortening of the "hahaha" to "haha" was just such a nice touch

Love how everyone lives in this pastel world of toys to create an artificial happiness in order to increase productivity but it's all meaningless because everyone is miserable cause everything is lead by indecisive people and nothing gets done. Also, the idea that rules matter more than people do, reminds me of SEVERAL companies that shall remain nameless. This short film is a good representation for how irritating the mindless corporate bureaucracy is, especially when it's all tied up in the fake 'heart' behind these huge companies. Corporations don't care about YOU the consumer or YOU the employee. To them, we are all that very punchable bird.

Very relatable when you're actually the one doing most of other ppl task. -u-;

This aged perfectly for me. Already, I adored the colorful, bizarre world along side the unique characters … Thing is, now that I do have a job, I definitely relate to Mimi. I relate to the stress of running around while trying to get a higher ups approval over petty stuff. I relate to the fake “family” corporate crap (why do they even still push that? Do they think people think companies care?). I even relate to getting annoyed with coworkers who don’t seem to be on the same page as me, even if they mean no harm. It was among my favorite shorts on RU-vid when I discovered it a long time ago, and its only gotten closer to spot number one after getting a job. I only wish this short could be shown to more people. More people who relate to mimi, and realize they’re not alone in their feelings. (Okay but seriously. Who is that one person who buys into “we’re a family” company nonsense?)

"We're a family, and a family delivers on time!" that's a red flag and a half.

I've been a design intermediary for arguments between regional and global before, and sadly this happens... a lot.

When companies say “we’re family” I cringe at my core.. No, we’re not, you’re a business, pay me and treat me right, don’t expect to get away with stuff because families tolerate each other.

Once again, another absolutely gorgeous piece! Also, 4:55 HOLY CRAP, Marjane Satrapi was the Patron of the Films Class? As in THE Marjane Satrapi behind "Persepolis"?! That's wild!

For people who worked as a designer, specially as an intern, you know that this is way too accuratte, just wow

I love how almost everyone in the animation has double the letters in their name.For instance, Coco,Mimi,Pipi and Bobo.I also love how the lemonade is just water with a few cut up lemons in it

UGH the little nerdy glasses,, I’m in love

Noticing the dog guy in the elevator, carrying his stuff in a box, poor guy looks so sad.

"embrace change" as a homogenous group of guppies walk by. genius

This truly captures the division in major corporations. They have such a drastic change in power from person to person, none of them get along and they all pretend to be doing incredibly important work. In reality the lower level people do the hard work and never get necessary approval. Even working in IT I can't get one thing done without talking to someone else -even though I should be able to pull the lever. Flat companies really have things going for them when it comes to collaboration.

Not Bianca drinking tea from a cocktail glass.. Icon right here

I feel offened by how much i relate to this haha

I really love this one! The animation and art designer are great, but the story is also amazing! The way Mimi is so focused on getting the higher ups attention, admiration, or any sort of emotion yet they are completely indifferent to what she is doing and are both bored and engrained in company's bureaucracy at this point. Mimi has become so obsessed with the higher ups she seems to completely have lost touch with the people who legitimately care about her and this is setting herself up for misery... and oof -- The boss telling her what a good job she did without even looking at her work maybe one of the saddest things ever. Having worked in the gaming industry for years the rhino and dog's fight over something neither cared about just because I think they want to feel anything anymore is sadly something i've seen =P

I love the fact Mimi's pupils are actually shaped like rectangles because of all the time she's looking at a screen

Like the touch that Luigi didn't really do anything at all, everything was handled by his secretary Pipi. Everytime something was asked of him he just went "Pipi, what do YOU think? :)" Judging from that, she should be higher on the corporate ladder than him

Does anyone think that this has potential to become a full show?

I could relate to the stress Mimi was going through so well. It really sucks that so many people go through all this work either to be ignored and told "good job" even though they don't care or put much interest into the matter. Just the stress of having to go back and forth between two parties even though they're not the one being yelled at specifically, it's... relatable in a way even though I've never had a job like that. It makes me fear what adulthood will have in store for me.

1:49 “I’m busy” *windows startup sound*

One of my all time favorite animated shorts, it speaks to me on so many levels, what a work of art!

I REALLY appreciate that she didn't have that moment of "oh no, I was mean to them" that anyone else would have put in after her pushing Coco aside, because it would invalidate her anger, and the entire point of Good Job, all together. Misdirected or not, she had a responsibility to her job, and it's admirable (but wrong and extremely unhealthy, I will never condone that) that she tolerated everything just to push for doing it right in an entire circus of slackers running meaningless work. (And I'd certainly say it wasn't misdirected, it's a very basic level of courtesy to acknowledge that someone needs to put high priorities on their work. Stopping them from doing so is just disrespectful.)

I'm glad that Mimi and her friend even though she was having a rough day he was being very kind to her

The poodle and rhino going at it over a technicality sums up work life. The job is easy, it's the animals that make it hard.

the voice acting for Bobo was *mwah* perfection

I like so much this animation style

Currently frustrated with the company I work for, I feel like I can relate to Mimi on a personal level here.

there was this org event. joined it, won, then i made the announcement pubmat and caption for it myself :') the caption was like "we are so proud of you" felt horrible

At first I thought Mimi was like Aggretsuko but Retsuko would never break her friend's phone.

The fish are literally peak design like how does humanity come up with such beautiful creatures

I think this one is one of the saddest shorts i ever seen. All the posivity in the workplace is alien to how people are handled there. We are a family, but will not look at your work, and acknowledge your birthday. You are super stressed due to deadlines today that you forgot it was your own birthday. There is funny chairs, creative messages, ball pit, the espace is enormous, instead of a crowded workplace. But i can't feel but wonder why this deep sadness of pepple pushing her around, Giving excusses and bossin her, making her work as a messanger. That this is your job, and tomorrow will be more of the same.

I am happy I tend to work in places with no one having artistic talent so when one who does come along with such they are rather praised for it. Shame that has it's own issues like "oh can you do this for free" or "Think of the exposure!" and bull crap. Good Vid, Gobelins

ahh i loved this! huge night-in-the-woods vibes to me, but like if it was more light. and "happy". And the voice work was phenomenal! How cool would a full show of this be??

You know I watched this while back, a few months before my first job. Appreciated the work but must say, didn't quite relate to it. I recently finished working at a restaurant for 5 months and even though it's my first job I don't think I'll ever work that hard ever again. And I knew damn well I'd have to see this again and my god, it hits so much different. Despite how different the actual job is, they have similar issues. ESPECIALLY with the managers. You really get the feel of how soulless and empty the "preaches" are. Just the sheer frustration you have to power through every day. It becomes pitiful just how used to verbal abuse and being treated like garbage you get. Like I FELT for her when she had to go back and forth to those managers. Stuff like that is just so... degrading. It really takes away you're humanity. Sure as hell took away mine. I really appreciate something like this that puts so many work thoughts in a perspective most can understand. In short, I love this piece. Good stuff.

When I see scenes like this in movies and series. I automatically get scared of big companies. The fear of being ignored and bossed around. Nobody caring about how hard u work because all they care about Is results 😤🎯🧬

Awww that ending really hit home, poor mimi

SO good

Omg poor of her! Even in her birthday she couldn't get a little break! 😭

As a UX/UI designer, the squabbling over styleguide consistency a'la font weight is sooooo true!

Been following Eric Bardord's stuff for a while, which thankfully led me to this. Thank you, Eric, for leading me to this, as well as Satellite Young

Man this is so good! The animation, voice acting and storytelling was incredible! I rewatched multiple times! Mimi was so cute, and my favorite character was definitely Bobo

the set design in this is INSANELY GOOD

il y a vraiment tout qui est incroyable dans ce court-métrage, l’animation, le chara-design et la musique, vraiment un taff incroyable

Cool short film, it would be great to see new episodes about the same characters. Better yet, see it as a TV series.

damn she sliced the phone in half with just her hand

Love the small detail too of how the CEOs personal assistant is running the company and he isn’t since she knows everything and always directs it to her

Amazing amazing film by such a wonderful team of people, so glad to see people appreciating their efforts💗🌼. It's really witty and poignant and animated so so well!!! 💗

Ok but like why is it so sad qwq…Anyways awesome animation and musics, the chara design are damn good too !

This is beautifully designed/animated. Very engaging little snippet of what feels like a much larger world/story. Wish there was more! Well done to the people who worked on this :)

This is almost EXACTLY how my job is. The only difference is I'm in manufacturing. Even on my birthday I was running around like Mimi, trying to get everything done. Really says a lot about how those in charge treat their workers.

I'm sure every perfectionist can relate. We get so wired into the smallest things. While Mr.Luigi on the other hand is aware of how benign details are.

This has become one of my favorite short films. Love the idea and the art style

Also the visual design in this short SLAPS

Fantastic animation quality. Could easily watch a whole movie in this design.

this is gonna be one of those videos that RU-vid can’t stop recommending to people on an annual basis

the fact coco isn't angry is on another level of patience

I'm here with reminder 😅because each and every short films of Gobelins are just Amazinggggg.... And I don't want to miss any of this. 😍 Love from India ♥️🇮🇳♥️anybody else??

I’ve never heard someone say “good job” in a way that could make my heart just DROP before

"There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job." - Terence Fletcher, Whiplash

Did anybody else catch that when the fancy dog lady said "not now I'm busy!" her computer was literally powering up, so like there's no way she was typing anything at that moment 😂 it did the little opening screen sound

This was a really enjoyable watch, loving all the small details sprinkled about the animation! And seeing the phone destroyed at the end shook me a bit, Great!

i love the ending music!

This is journalism in a nutshell, I can't believe how accurate this is.

Hit me in the feels; this is definitely my nightmare as a designer.

Love the punchline !! All that corporate BS, just to send *herself* a B'day greeting. Sick. And the heat-distortion wobbly letters thruout the closing credits was a nice (nauseous) p.s.

Wow, the boss in this animation is just like my thesis supervisor. Never gives useful advice, just says good job, and never looks at the content of the reports we write. The result: we end up getting very harsh criticism from other professors (which might be helpful) but just the same day of the deadline 🙂. Anyway, I loved this video. The animation is awesome.

The boss doesn’t do anything and doesn’t care at all but still is the boss.That’s painfully true sometimes

It’s literally the feelings about my daily work routines. « Why am I still here, just to suffer? »

Look closely at the boardroom scene, amd you'll see that the fishes in the conference room are literally going "back and forth" on rocking horses. Which is kinda the way most decision making at the tiptop levels go 😂😂😂

Woaw ...l'animation est super, les décors sont géniaux ...tout est réussi, tant sur le fond que dans la forme 👍

Yup, this is how my corporate job feels like, but i definitely feel like the rhino, "its wrong...then change the guide!"

When you need help you need things to happen but there's soooo much you need to do and you feel so confused and overwhelmed

"well Biancas wrong" everything about this like, its just perfect

3:08 Love the Fish Expression 😂😂😂

Bobo and Bianca have BIG ship energy.

i love cocos voice, its so passive and fitting for him

coco is the embodiment of that one friend you had in school