Comment Office Space: the movie (Score 1) 338
Being tech-workers, I assume that most of you have seen the classic anti-tech-work movie, Office Space. How do you feel about this movie's portrayal of our work environment?
Not a week has gone by without one of my co-workers quoting a line from this movie in relation to something in our office. Like when our printer is fucking up, someone will reference Samir's line "This is a Fuck!". When a co-worker was frustrated with contradictory commands from two different bosses, he referred to Peter Gibbons' (Office Space's main character) criticism of three of his bosses telling him to "fill out his TPS reports". Everyday when I stare at the lifeless void of my cubicle, I fondly remember the scene when Peter kicks down a wall of his cubicle to get a better view of the window. Stupid-ass coporate slogans, meaningless yet interminable work, pointless levels of bureucracy, fake-smiles and forced-'good morning's... all of these seemingly unnecessary idiosyncracies of the tech-office remind of Office Space, and make me wonder if the tech-'revolution' has changed anything about the way we work from the kiss-ass-to-get-ahead ways of our parents' blue-chip office jobs. Break down the cubicle walls!
In the words of Peter Gibbons: "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."
Not a week has gone by without one of my co-workers quoting a line from this movie in relation to something in our office. Like when our printer is fucking up, someone will reference Samir's line "This is a Fuck!". When a co-worker was frustrated with contradictory commands from two different bosses, he referred to Peter Gibbons' (Office Space's main character) criticism of three of his bosses telling him to "fill out his TPS reports". Everyday when I stare at the lifeless void of my cubicle, I fondly remember the scene when Peter kicks down a wall of his cubicle to get a better view of the window. Stupid-ass coporate slogans, meaningless yet interminable work, pointless levels of bureucracy, fake-smiles and forced-'good morning's... all of these seemingly unnecessary idiosyncracies of the tech-office remind of Office Space, and make me wonder if the tech-'revolution' has changed anything about the way we work from the kiss-ass-to-get-ahead ways of our parents' blue-chip office jobs. Break down the cubicle walls!
In the words of Peter Gibbons: "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."
