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The protagonist, Daníel, drops out of medical school after suffering a nervous breakdown, and takes a job as a pump attendant. His dimwitted co-worker, Ólafur, dreams of fame and riches as the manager of his cousin's band, but his irresponsible antics and subservience to his boss prevent him from achieving his goals. Their boss, Georg, is a dictatorial bully who boasts to everyone about his five university degrees and has an obsession with collecting empty soft drink cans to claim the deposit.
So far, there have been two sequels: ''[[Dagvaktin]]'' (''Day Shift''), set in a hotel; and ''[[Fangavaktin]]'' (''Jail Shift''), set in a prison. There is also a feature-length follow-up movie ''Bjarnfreðarson'' which, on its opening weekend, proved more popular in Iceland than ''[[Avatar (
The show was broadcast in the United Kingdom on [[The BBC|BBC Four]] in 2011.
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