"Now about this Peter, now there's a sharpshooter with upper-management written all over him" "I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you on that, mmkay? Peter has been slacking off alot, missing alot of work, and also, he's been having problems with his tps reports. So if you could just go ahead and fire him instead of seeing him as potential management, that would be greeat"
@@Surfer041 You wind up homeless and unemployed and civilization grinds to a halt. This is the mantra of the current generation that thinks that they don't have to pay rent or repay loans they've taken out.
@@Surfer041 well, I guess everyone would stop getting electricity, internet, gas, heat, etc. yeah sounds pretty sweet, except most people today can’t survive without that stuff
All About My Mother, American Beauty, Being John Malkovich, Blair Witch Project, Boys Don't Cry, Buena Vista Social Club, Election, Fight Club, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Iron Giant, Magnolia, Sixth Sense, Sleepy Hollow, South Park, The Straight Story, Three Kings, Topsy Turvy, Varsity Blues, The Virgin Suicides...Hell, even Star Wars: The Phantom Menace! A great dang year for movies!
Stop being responsible to narcissistic egomaniacs who don't care, don't contribute, who suppress innovation and motivation, who don't understand but think they do, who perceive every challenge as a personal threat, who deny raises and conflate performance for personal gain, who lie without remorse. Being responsible to to the irresponsible is the sure way to crush one's soul. Get enough of these businesses operating the same way, you have corporate slavery under the illusion of responsibility.
@@exothermal.sprocket I think you're projecting you're own experiences as the experience as whole. Don't have a cow just do the work clock out and get paid
"Quiet Quitting" has been around for over a century. It was originally known as "Work to rule" - originally meaning only performing the duties you were hired to do and nothing extra. It's evolved a bit since then, especially as the rich CEOs complain about not being able to exploit people as easily as they used to.
When I was in my 20s, I did exactly what he said. One day I woke up, took a shower, got ready for work, and as I was sitting on the couch putting my shoes on, it hit me that I hated my job, I hated my coworkers, I hated my boss, I hated the pay, I hated every part of it. So I took my shoes off, followed by my pants and shirt, and went back to bed. Didn't call in, didn't give them a notice, didn't say a damn thing to them. I never answered their calls, and some time later I got my last check in the mail, along with papers saying I was fired of course, and that was that. I ended up moving back in with my parents into their basement (my original bedroom had been converted into an office), and went back to the community college. One hell of a journey later I am now in a job that I hate, but at least the pay is better. Can't wait to die.
Except in the real world a woman would wait until she had her free meal, then say "OK then, sorry I have to go", leave the guy with the bill and never see him again.
I always thought Ron Livingston was an underappreciated actor. He's great in this movie, and he was awesome in Band of Brothers, but his career never reached A-list status. It's a shame, because he can pull off deadpan hilarious in a way a lot of actors can't. Would like to see him make a comeback.
I love the little touch how she's getting bored of his explanation and starts looking around and he gets her attention again by saying it doesn't matter.
Exactly, real life… Face-to-face interactions are necessary to connect with people ❗️ The little “tells” people give We are losing real connections w/ just texting
2020 taught me this lesson. I walked off of 2 jobs this year. I was never the type of person to do that, but last year made me realize how little any of these companies care about you. Life’s too short to get stuck at a job you hate
@@skeevantas I never said you should care about them. It's your job, not your family. Show up, do a good job, get paid, and go home. This constant need for handholding and acceptance is ridiculous.
@@SeraphsWitness I agree, it should be viewed as if we're a mercenary. Do whatever required, collect paychecks, and don't get personal. You don't like it? Stack up resources & strategically quit.
This movie should be taught in history classes, because it's a perfect commentary on American culture in the 90s. The 70's and 80's had factories and blue collar jobs wiped out, and these suburban office buildings sprung up across the entire country to usher in a new economic reality. This reason so many people love this movie is because it channeled what all of us were thinking about these cultural shifts that were happening around us.
@coffeeinthemorning You're implying that fiction cannot convey anything beyond a narrative. That a film or a novel is just simply one thing happening after the next and thats all that it possibly could be. Just because something isn't overtly or consciously acting as commentary doesn't mean that it is completely void of it. No one is saying that Office Space is an avante garde think piece but perhaps viewing the film through a historical perspective isn't without its merit. I think that discouraging people from looking at things in a novel and unique way is provincial and reductionist. It's boring and lazy.
@coffeeinthemorning there's space between taking drastic action like quitting your job and burying your head in the sand. The world could do with fewer all or nothing thinkers.
This movie was about 50% of comedy central's programming for about a decade. Yet the scenes never get old. I relate more to Peter than any other fictional character
Would've been hilarious if Peter not going to his job would've been just the thing to trigger all of the doomsday scenarios of Y2K and the 2000 software switch.
Stopped going to a factory job I had 2 years ago. Didn't quit, never got fired. This past Christmas I received the $500 holiday bonus in the mail. Apparently I still work there, and no one is aware I've stopped going in. I don't get pay stubs obviously because we used a punch in system to track hours. This marks $8000 in bonuses from this factory that I haven't worked at for 2 years. Not gonna lie, I have no plans in telling them.
That's how I do things. I woke up one morning and asked my girlfriend at the time if all our employees came in that day, she said YES. I said, "Ok, I'm going to Kansas City to add another location to the business". She was like.... when did you decide this? I said, "Just now when you told me all the employees came in today. Just wanted to make sure you didn't need my help".
Used to serve him at a restaurant a few years back in North Hollywood. Looked the same, great guy, great wife and great kids (adopted). I’d buy him a beer, for sure.
You gotta appreciate a chick who likes to watch kung fu. Kung fu movies are some of the most enjoyable things to watch and I feel sorry for anyone who takes themselves so serious to not be able to enjoy one of the most pure forms of entertainment we have left.
Sports in general qualifies as the second option. WRC isn't something I'm too familiar with but I'm sure if I was flipping through channels and saw a race on I would stop and watch it for a few minutes at least.
It’s funny how the thing about the flair is the best-remembered part of the movie for most people. I think it really demonstrates the problem with a lot of jobs. You’re not just supposed to wear the flair - you’re supposed to WANT to wear it. They don’t just want your time and energy, they want your soul.
One time, I was having a candid conversation with my boss about the purpose of working. Without getting into it too deeply, she was basically bitching about how her son in law wouldn’t work a job for longer than a month or two. She asked me why I worked when so many people my age refuse to. I said “Well, how else am I going to get paid?” She seemed offended by that answer, that I didn’t drop on my knees and sing her praises for being such a great boss and giving me such a great working environment.
I woke up one Monday morning in Feb 2004 and said to myself, "Anything I do today is better than going to that job." I dropped the demo car off at 10pm, put the keys in the night box, and walked home in the freezing cold. That was one of the best decisions I ever made as an adult- that job was killing my soul. Declaring, "I am more than this," opens new doors in the universe. A year later I was on the other side of the country in a much different place.
@@markl5998 Selling Honda cars and going broke, not even enough money to eeke out a meager existence, and I was good at it. I even had the highest gross per vehicle of my team of seven or eight. I will never forget walking away that night.
@@AB-zc6wy The transition wasn't magic, I drove a truck at night delivering pastries to coffee shops for $12/hour in Seattle for about nine months, back-throbbing work. I screamed at God (in the truck) for three nights, "Is this what you want from me," until I heard a voice that said, "Move to LA." That was early April 2005, and by early June of 2005 I had a job paying $57,000+commission. It wasn't a great job, but it was a step in the right direction and something to be thankful for. I have taken other very radical moves that produce big changes fast as well, and I think that's the part that most people have trouble with, that first, big, uncertain step where you are just trusting in the universe. Most people will stay in Podunk making $7/hr rather than take any risk.
@@anamericanman when you is only you is easy to do, but with mouth to feed is a complete different ball game Kudos for keeping on trucking ... Get it .. truck, you worked on trucks 😭🔥🙈
I was 18 years old when I first watched this movie in theaters. I thought it was funny at the time. It is not until 20 years later in 2019, I realize this is a timeless masterpiece.
I rarely watch movies more than twice. OS I don't know how many times I've watched, but it's great every time and by far my most watched. Next would be the godfather.
computer support in many fortune 500 companies since 1993 - created a successful website and started my own PC support company - why use my talents to make someone else rich?
earned 5X my day job income and yes i paid taxes on it. got the down payment on my house + got married, never would've happened if i stayed on "the treadmill to nowhere"
Office Space still resonates with people 20 years after it came out. It's that good of a movie. If you're reading this and haven't watched it yet, you should! You're really missing out on an awesome movie.
I think I read a story somewhere where a guy didn’t show up for work for something like 11 years before they finally figured it out. That guy is my hero.
I know one where the guy in Spain didn't show up for 6 years because "there was no work to do" (which I 100% believe given that he got away with it for so long) and kept collecting his salary. It was only when they were going to give him a plaque commemorating his long service (he'd previously worked 14 years till he was promoted to a useless position) that they noticed. He got fined around €30,000. Apparently he spent the time off becoming an expert on Spinoza. Spent his time well in other words. His name was Joaquin Garcia for those interested in looking this up.
Honestly really wholesome seeing so many stories in the comments of this movie inspiring people to walk away from terrible jobs/situations in their life. I already loved the movie as a hilarious workplace comedy with one hell of a cast, but seeing how it empowered people like this makes me love it even more.
"So you're gonna quit." ... "Na eh, not really. I'm just gonna stop going." We should all be so at peace with life and all its mundane details. Sounds like something Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski would've said. ....the dude abides.
I literally did this when I quit my last job, was the third week where I was working 12 hours washing dishes and just snapped. Took my apron off, set it down and walked home. Never went back. Love this movie!
Yes because a world where people get money for doing nothing and get to do whatever they want is a totally realistic possibility that we should focus towards!
@@brunsonbacheler Well look at how productivity through automation has increased by an order of magnitude over passing decades, enabling a rapidly growing gap between the average pay of a CEO and the average pay of a basic worker at the same company. With our huge economies, our huge leaps in productivity, how many young people feel richer than their parents were at the same age? Very few is the answer. Pay hasn't even kept up with inflation, never mind the growth that economic profits that automation has allowed. People are still working 40+ hours week for worse money than when this film was made, is that progress? The age of automation is just beginning, inside this century driving jobs will all be gone, which is a huge proportion of the workforce gone because AI can do it better, cheaper and more efficiently. Do you think Amazon will turn away from automation as it allows to taper down their human jobs more and more over coming decades? Without a universal income, ever lowering of relative wages will continue to the point of mass low skilled unemployment.
@@kylereese458 honestly the test of this century will be how do we deal with massive unemployment. Society will no longer require workers, especially not low skilled. So what do we do with low-skilled workers? It will be very interesting.
@@_Wombat Countries like Japan who have the most ageing population on Earth are banking on automation replacing so much work that mass importation of low skilled young labour via mass immigration is deemed unnecessary and dangerous by them. I watched one of their politicians talk about if the Japan is wrong, they can always grow their population again later. If the west is wrong with its policy of population by mass immigration, there will never be a way back. I think that's smart, as many countries flooding themselves with cheap labour from abroad in order to grow or simply sustain their population are being very short sighted indeed. I think a universal basic income and a restructuring of population skill set will be the way forward for most countries that are sustainably planning for the future like Japan. However, many Western countries that are overpopulating themselves with mass importation may find that universal basic income doesn't stretch that far, furthermore, the significance differences between groups within society will see increasing social unrest due to a lack of unifying factors. We see a small snapshot already in the US after a lockdown that has hit the economy hard, rapidly increasing unemployment, when people have nothing to do or work towards they become radicalised on the streets, often outraged and divided on the grounds of race and political ideology.
@@kylereese458 I read an interesting recent article essentially saying that humans could die out by simply not reproducing enough. By 2100, they reckoned that we'd have double the number of over-80s as there would be under-5s. Imagine a world full of old people, being kept alive by automation. It's going to suck. Of course this will probably not be the reality of the situation, but still interesting to imagine. The truth is that no one knows the future, and no one knows the solution. Still, there is a reason that "super forecasting" is becoming all the rage recently - especially in the UK Civil Service, for some reason.
"So you're gonna quit?" "Nooo uh, I'm just gonna stop going." This was me at my last job. I barely showed up used up all of my vacation days, got fired and still got COVID unemployment.
This movie captures what many people feel by the age of 30 and beyond, subject to how much BS you can take or give if you end up in a management position.
I felt this BEFORE I ever entered the work force. I knew it was going to be true. I'm quitting my job at the end of the year. My current job is nothing like his, but we make diddly squat and I've been at it for six years. I'm 35 and I can barely afford a simple dental surgery, even though I've saved. It's a serious wake up call. I know the change is hard and risky, but I know I'm miserable not trying, so here we go.
Similar situation. You earn what you think you deserve. In my experience job interviews are all the same and if you don't ask you don't get. A lot of my colleagues are window licking morons. Those of us who consider ourselves halfway intelligent all have either low self esteem or are just plain lazy. :)
Yes, office work sucks, but during the time period this movie represents, this is where many college grads wound up....stuck in a cubicle with hopes of an office one day, maybe stock benefits, part of a "team", casual Friday, contributions often overlooked, office politics, etc. Add the fact that you have bills and yeah, it goes by fast. A company I worked for actually did hire consultants...all they did was interview people , took their best ideas, repackaged them into a final proposal and charged management big bucks. A co -worker had a fantastic idea how to better manage inventory and had tried to get management to institute it for a couple of years. The consultants took the idea, gave it a great internal process name and bang, upper management thought it was great. My co-worker got zero credit, but I did take him out that night and we got hammered. The reason why this movie resonates so well, is because millions lived through it.
It's nothing new. In 1945 men returned from war to the jobs they had before the war. They spent the next 35 years making cars, steel, electrical products and power and raising families. For the most part, they didn't think anything about it. It was what they did.
I am self-employed. However, I got a Master's degree in a chosen field and found in school and out in the workworld that many people who inhabit that world are really messed up (psychology). They have zero plans of tending to their issues and yet are content inflicting it on people they want to help as well as coworkers. I talked with a psychiatrist once (he was a customer) and relayed my concerns. He said that about 50% had serious issues by his account. I watch this scene and there is a gratitude that I don't feel beaten down by living in this sort of "everyone is a cog" environment. Being self-employed is hard and I'm not rich but I'm better off than some. My morale and state of mind are worth a lot to me. There isn't enough money to replace those things.
Not as cool as airanator's story but I used Peter's strategy when I worked at an amazon fulfillment place for 2 years. One day I decided to stop going (for the most part). I'd show up maybe once or twice a week. Just enough to pay for rent and shit and do enough of my job so that the managers weren't freaking out. I'd sometimes miss a whole week and use vacation after the fact to get paid. It took them a solid 4 months before they fired me. Those 4 months were awesome. I'd show up hours late or leave at lunch and no one ever said shit to me (unheard of for a base level warehouse associate). HR was even apologetic when they finally did fire me. And the senior OPs manager was furious when he found out I'd been fired. I had a weird job there and was the only person in the warehouse trained for it (an awesome scam in itself really, the epitome of a "bullshit job") so I guess that's why I got away with it for so long. Fuck Amazon. I have a job I care about now and gladly show up to work every day.
Imagine if everyone else in the warehouse started doing this too. What else could management do other than actually start treating you guys better to get you back into work? Not like they can just fire everyone and have a functioning place. This is why we need to organize and get together to demand change with this shit.
@@failtolawl Idk man, with all workers getting actually decent pay and having their rights respected, seems like a pretty great deal for everyone involved except the owners of the warehouse - which really makes you wonder why you think so poorly of it 🤔🤔🤔.
I kinda lived this. I worked at a Walmart for 3 years and the bs from the co workers, the supervisors, and especially the customers put me into a deep depression. Talked to a doctor and he put me on disability. My Walmart where I live is where I'd buy food so I'd go in for food and people ask me when I'm coming back and I'd smile and say I dont know. This went on for a year.
I remember being at odds with my store manager and eventually I was fired one day. I shook both the assistant managers hands and thanked them for firing me. They were confused "but we said youre fired" and i said " this is the best day of my life"
@@IMaximusDMI So screw over everyone who used their time and energy to make you a meal because you're too selfish to pay for it? If you aren't homeless or struggling to feed your family, then stop being a lazy, self-centered douche and make yourself a sandwich or something at home!
I like my job. My coworkers and my manager are really nice. The work is very interesting and fulfilling. The pay is great. I won’t be quitting anytime soon 😎
I've done this to a few jobs, just stopped going, or only showed up when I felt like it until they decided to boot me. It's actually such a big relief every time it ends. Some jobs and people are just a nightmare to work with. And only reason they get away with being such douchebags is because everyone just takes it. If more people started to not take that shit, workplaces would actually improve or go out of business because nobody would work there. But people will put up with a lot of shit for very little money. It is a sad world we live in. A lot of pathetic people. I love running into those cunts that think they have authority over me because at their work they are the authority. And then making them realize how little authority they actually have with me outside their bubble.
Capitalism is a death cult. Unfortunately because of the US's terrible social safety nets, some people literally need to work these shitty jobs just to survive. It's why especially we workers need to start organizing with each other and demanding change collectively. If everyone goes on strike collectively - even like managers - there's nothing they can do but give in to our demands because where the hell else are they going to get so many workers on short notice?
@@TheRedKing247 They know that's a possibility, it's why they import 1.5 million foreigners every year to replace you. You gotta overcome the brainwashing and become a racist first, only then can we successfully build a decent society like the other countries in the world that have 95% white populations.
I never had this for work but I had the same feeling once leaving a really shitty relationship. No awkward goodbyes, just walking away during an argument, getting in my car, blocking her number and driving home. Bliss.
Had the same experience in 1998. I dumped her for Ultima Online. Her: What are you doing? Me: Making arrows in this game Her: Why? Me: I don't know. I don't even know if I'm going to use them. I just want a bunch of arrows. Her: ... Me: I just killed an eagle. They give 36 feathers. Her: But eagles are cool! Me: Look, I've gotta' go.
I can't tell you how many shit jobs I've worked where I'd do my job, deal with the BS, then stop and ask myself "Why do I keep coming back here and putting up with this?" Sometimes I'd finish the day and thank them for the opportunity. Sometimes I'd finish the day and never come back. Sometimes I'd just drop what I was doing and walk out. Those walk-outs are some of the high moments in my life, where I stay true to the course and pursue what makes me happy, rather than feeling I need to stay in some dump that makes me miserable. Sometimes I think back on those jobs and wonder if some of those miserable fucks are still glued there, thinking they're absolutely required to stay. Life is short, time is fleeting. Do what brings you fulfillment and never look back.
Yessir same here. Except for me, I’m willing to do a shitty job as a simple means to make money, but if my manager treats me like shit, I quit on the spot. I have too much self respect to be yelled at by someone who spent their life working the same shitty job... I’m still young and I have options. So I don’t take shit from anybody. When I was 18 I worked at Dominos and a brand new manager yelled at me and told me to sweep the parking lot because we weren’t busy. I said no, and she said do it or you’re getting written up... I left as soon as she said that.
Try telling that to the poor slob who barely finished high school and now he isn't qualified to do any job other than the one he has, and needs to find a way to put his 2 kids through school while juggling bills and payments on his house. So yes, there are some people that are required to keep a job that makes them miserable. Because it's not just them that depends on that paycheck, it's the family they're responsible for that counts on it too. I don't have a wife or kids, so I could easily turn down a job I don't want to do and look for something else, because I'm only responsible for myself but if I did have a kid, I'd take damn near any job, even ones that I personally loathe, if it meant I got to afford all the things a kid needs to get through their childhood.
@@Xylarxcode Well, if someone barely finished high school, maybe it's best to not have kids until they've cleaned themselves up. I don't pity people that decide to start a family on a low-wage gig. That's nobody's fault but theirs.
Worked as a order picker at a food distribution center for two weeks in November 2018. Never quit, I just hated it so I walked out one shift an did not get fired. Ive been getting bonus checks an went to three company cookouts for free food on them. Ive even met the CEO of the place at the cookout and got my picture taken with the head office. Best job ive never worked.
The opening scene - with the guy with the walker, and the dead-slow traffic - was filmed 300 feet from my friend's office in northwest office. They didn't see the scene being shot. But we always joked about it as we drove on the stretch of Braker Laner (Austin, TX). Now, that area is all built up and looks drastically different.
Retired from the office life at 35. I work random jobs here and there half of the year. The other half of the time I chill with my retired dad, wife, and travel places. I’ll never be happy in an office and I’ll never make enough money to justify working an office job year round until I’m 70.
I work around a bunch of Lawrences who drink to much and probably talk as much sh$t as guys do around the water cooler. But at least its not in a stuffy office😄
Fuckin love it! I pretty much did the same thing... my boss at the close of our shift said we need to do this better guys by tomorrow, I went home and told my wife I’m writing my resignation letter tomorrow at lunch and handing it in before end of shift, that was 7 months ago and I don’t regret it one bit.
I love this movie. I wish I was as smart as Peter. I used to work at an initech, but I quit instead of just not going anymore. On my last day there I sat in my cubicle and watched "office space" (the whole movie). Was nice. That was 10 years ago. I make more money from investing now than I did working then, so it all worked out somehow.
Having graduated and worked for months, I now feel and think exactly the same with him. I would never wish to be born if I knew there is only surviving and none living.
1:14 I'm with Peter on that one. I don't like that expression or the line of thinking that goes with it. Especially nowadays, an off-puttingly large number of people make it sound like paying bills is your only reason to be alive. Which is why Heath Ledger (may he rest in peace) had these words of wisdom for us: "Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks if you are happy."
Sure is awfully strange I keep getting recommended all these Office Space clips on the same day exact day I was thinking of pulling a Don Draper at my own job. 🤨🤔
Actually this is one of the thing I never really liked about the movie. Like I loved Jennifer's character both thematically and because of how hilarious all the things about the restaurant are. But I didn't like the romantic subplot. At least how it was implemented. Like the whole theme of movie and the basis of all the jokes is just not giving a fuck about things that don't actually matter. But its a bit ruined by the whole actually its all ok because the confidence got you laid. It makes leaving the job and the new attitude on life just another tactic to struggle for some reward rather than the having value in and of it self. #justquitmyjob Now have time to write essays in youtube comments.
This movie is the soul partner of Fight Club. "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need to impress people we don't like."
i am absolutely mesmerized by jennifer's smile. when she smiles, the corners of her mouth go DOWN and not up, like most people. this fascinates me. that and her body.
