I hate that one trope where there's an alien or a guy from an isolated tribe that's never been to America, and they come to America and their new American friends show them shopping malls and fast food and the outsider is all "This is amazing! I love America!"
Just once I'd like this trope to be subverted with the alien or whatever spitting out the fast food and saying something like, "Oh god, what is this shit? It's giving me a heart attack!" or they go to a mall and are mortified by the advertising and that they have to slave away to afford any of it.
Are there any tropes you're tired of? They can be as dumb and petty as you want. It's fun to rip on pointless things sometimes.
I think that probably comes from the sort of socio-economic background of the writers, who generally come from secure (upper) middle class backgrounds where the idea of "we're already comfortable why do you work 80 hours a week and spend the rest of the time golfing with your boss? you should focus on what's important: me," sort of fits as a naïve complaint that doesn't understand all the toxic, patriarchal brainworms that infest the PMC.
To add onto that point, there's also the way the causes of overwork or workplace stress are also shifted from the realities of an endless grind and toxic environment into the sorts of things that cause writers the most stress: preparing discrete projects on a deadline.
That last point is so true. The most stressful jobs usually don't have strict deadlines. They have a constant sense of urgency and "all hands on deck" to either fix the latest disaster or try to get things back to normal after you fixed it.
And the only solution presented to the problem is an individual one. The protagonist should choose to spend less time at the office, the workers of the enterprise shouldn't stand together to put an end to the toxic grind.