Yeah, people spend decades mocking cubicles, but what they didn't realize is that what cubicles replaced, was a much greater evil. Now the assholes who run corporations get to tell us that a 18-inch wide desk in a massive room "is how young people WANT to work!"
You know what I notice. When Peter is going in late. He still gets there early enough to take his bosses parking lot. (Unless he’s getting there at lunch time)😂
I love the fact that he took the maintenance guy's drill and just kept it. Eventually he used it to take apart his cubicle. But that little detail is great.
I love how Peter's attitude is just 'fuck it. I hate this job and I've hated my life ever since I started working here. That being said, I'm not gonna quit. Nah, I'll just take what time I have till they eventually fire me to get some long overdue catharsis.'
@@hiei_99-48 I learned my entire division was being removed… three months before it was to occur. I was the laziest employee ever and no one noticed. It was both disheartening and awesome at the same time.
This might be one of my favorite movie montages ever. There’s just something about Peter’s new outlook on life, along with everything going Peter’s way that’s sooo satisfying to see. If only it were this easy to have that kind of breakthrough in our own lives.
You know the breakthrough ultimately was to quit the meaningless office job, go talk to the pretty girl down the street and start doing something with your hands? How is that not achievable for everyone?
I had beer stored in the server room under the floor tiles. Perfect temperature and the perfect hideout to drink it. No cameras in that time period. Now I'm happy to find a fucking parking slot.
@Doeray Damn Skippy. Strong players don't take shit, only give shit when it's warranted, and make up their own rules when the current rules aren't making do.
I was 11 and my older brother brought this home from the video store. He was like" hey I rented this movie" I asked "yeah what movie?" "Office space, the guy who made Beavis and Butthead directed it" Then I said "for real?" Then we put it in the VCR. Fuck, the summers in the late 90s were the best with my big bro.
Not right now Lumbergh! I'm kinda busy. In fact, I'm gonna have to ask you to go ahead and just come back another time, I got a meeting with the Bobs in a couple minutes.
I don’t know if I’d consider it ironic although it was definitely comical in the first scene with it, it’s actually from geto boys a criminally underrated group from Houston where the movie was made and is set in
@@coalbag2758 Also fun fact: Mike Judge is a personal friend of the former lead of Geto Boys (Scarface). He made a cameo in Idiocracy as the pimp. But you're right, it's definitely not an example of irony. Irony involves opposites. The only way to make the use of this song ironic is if it played over someone listening to their boss and doing their job.
@@barer7717 nah ur right they've just been secretly designing pandemic viruses and one escaped containment and they didn't tell anyone for months but it's not like it's their fault
Love how Peter slides right into Lumberg's spot like he owns it. And how he slaps Donald on the back just as Donald did him about the TPS reports. And Lumberg getting towed, because well, Lumberg didn't have the jam.
Saw this movie a year after I started working a desk job for the first time. It literally broke me, FAR too accurate. Quit and moved over to construction shortly after.
As per the cubicle wall knockdown, I sort of started a revolution in my office back around 1989. Realizing how modular the components of a cubicle are, I came in one weekend with some very basic hand tools and redesigned my cubicle in a much more interesting way. Others little by little did the same and eventually the whole department consisting of about 100 cubicles were all customized. Some were mega-cubes with multiple employees sharing a large space, some were open-sided with a view, etc. Management were surprisingly tolerant or even encouraging, because well, it was Microsoft which was a pretty open environment back then. But then the company had a huge growth spurt in 1991 and suddenly all these bean counters were recruited from mega-corporations like Proctor & Gamble into middle management and all the cubicles were re-built as per company standards. Goodbye freedom, individuality, and friendly spirit. So I left and moved to Microsoft - in New Zealand where I could still have the feel of a small up-and-coming business, just 20 or so people but with a massive budget. Now Microsoft is so monumentally big, no f'ing way no thanks.
oh man what a time to be Alive that must have been like..to watch the silicon revolution ans being a part of it..most of humanity’s peak occurred in 80s 90s and 2000s...nothing groundbreaking happens anymore...i wish i could have been a part of something bigger like u have been....being a pioneer of an industry....any person who had the privilege to work on a computer in the 80s is probably a millionaire by now(in my country atleast)..
Unimaginative bean counters are the worst. Yes, structure in the office is required to get things done but being too rigid can also have the same detrimental effect as being too loose.
This movie has a simple lesson intertwined into it. Authority only works when you allow someone to have or exercise it. Granted the idea is a bit over simplified.
I did this to my cubical space while working in a large advertising firm in Atlanta. People would walk-through my space ( I was in "traffic") due to me having two ways to enter/exit my work area AND it was a 2-second short cut from one side of the office to the other. It would drive me crazy that so many people would just walk past me without sating anything, so I came into work around 5am one morning and rebuilt the gray carpeted walls to my cubical and blocked off the short cut to better enclose my area. Wow. For the next 10 days, everyone took offense that I did this and they all felt hassled by having to walk an extra 20 feet around my work area. I am a gangsta (small cap).
My mother parks in the handicap spot literally every single time, even if the parking lot is completely empty, and that's pretty much my go-to any time someone tells me I'm too hard on her.
@@OBroIchain - Well... One thing I've learned is you can just as well judge someone by their worst qualities as you can by their best qualities, and in the case of either extreme, any given person will probably surprise you. There are two sides to every coin, like for example, most people are way uglier in their interactions over the internet than they would ever be in person. I know I am.
See the security guard? That use to be me at The Vanguard Group in Malvern, PA. 19 bucks an hour. Easy work, nice scenery, even nicer people. One of the best jobs I’ve ever had.
@@coreyponcavage2732 After spending 7 years working HR for both the healthcare and transportation industries, I could definitely write a book about it all!
They will probably have you leave beforehand which is a good deal. If you ask me as long as they give you all of your vacation and everything they owe you best of luck with your new job or whatever the next chapter brings you
I remember sneaking in to c this as a 12 yo with my boys not expecting much because we weren’t hip to comedy like this and end up laughing through the whole thing 😂 silver spring Maryland what up
Has anyone else had a boss that looks just like the guy with the mustache who pats peter on the back? I swear its such a common look I've had 2 bosses that look like that guy 1:33.
had Lumberg too = totally fake, matching clothes and car - all the time, , , pretty much useless and dwells on stupid sh#t because they have no management skills
People think that the main character is a nihilist, with a “fuck it” attitude. This is not true. The main character realizes the system he was living within was based on fake values. When he made this realization he began abandoning the fake, symbolic value system of a corporatized world for real human values like love, connection, nature, and basic wellbeing and self respect. He is neither destructive nor nihilistic, but a real man, making sacrifices and taking risks to assert real value back into the world for himself, his friends and relations.
To the young people out there, please try to avoid this cubicle life. Contentment comes at a cost. But so does frustration and a wasted life. Only you can control your life.
I've fired many employers over the year's, this is exactly how they need to be dealt with once they disrespect an employee! Life is too short to have to do your job in fear all the time! Love this movie!! 😂🤣
Is anyone familiar with the concept of "suspension of disbelief" in cinema? With that being said, the doorknob would NEVER have the screws on the outside.
00:28 infuriates me because I'm a locksmith and for that scene, they didn't even put a freaking latch in the door l0l you can see it missing... hollywood is a blast
