OFFICE SPACE - Retrospective 

I could deal with Milton as a cube neighbor, but that woman answering the phone in her sickening chirpy way every-single-time would make me absolutely homicidal.

“Not now, Lumbergh, I’m busy. I’ve got a meeting with the Bobs in a couple of minutes”

I was in charge of ordering office supplies for my department, and so I bought a red Swingline stapler for a new senior project manager. He didn't understand the reference, and I never felt more alone than I did that day.

Peter ending the meeting so nonchalantly is THE power move.

I'm a simple man. I see Office Space content, I watch it and thumbs up.

I think Office Space is Jen Aniston's best work. It's the one movie where she doesn't play the same character she always does.

I watched Office Space before I ever worked in an office, and I couldn't fully appreciate it's greatness. Years later, after working in several offices with a multitude of dysfunctions, I came to appreciate this movie so much more. One of the offices I worked in, required us to wear a button-down shirt and tie every single day. The reasoning was that we might have visitors come through the office, so we needed to look presentable. In the 2 years I was there, there wasn't a single visitor.

My favorite line "What what do you say you do here?"

I love that the red stapler translated from an in-universe gag to a beloved piece of real-life stationary

I was one of the best salesmen in a Chicago based online university for about six months. I felt guilty, and asked my manager to fire me. He refused, because I was making numbers, and I spent three days reading Harry Potter in my cubicle before I got fired. It was totally worth it!

yeeeeah, if you wouldn't mind just going ahead and making more Office Space videos... that would be great

1999 had a lot of amazing movies.

Waiting would be a great workplace movie to cover, it's actually pretty damn accurate to working in a restaurant and it's absolutely hilarious

23:35 "You can wear a Hawaiian shirt on Fridays" I worked at a place that had a business casual dress code. The pay was shit, the workload was awful, but people that I worked with (mostly the middle ages ones) reacted like it was the Moon Landing.

I literally worked in an office where a guy that slept at his desk all the time actually died. Nobody knew for a couple of days. 😮 7:55

I have seen Office Space multiple times. Now that I have seen Silicon Valley, I see the similarities. Glad to see the clips included.

This is a definite classic. A truly hilarious film from start to finish. Cool to see you talk about this.

If I ever see Gary Cole, I am definitely doing the "yeah" thing to him. And then maybe apologize.

It’s not a Applebees it’s a TGIF restaurant

Literally everytime I hear the word stapler “ my stapler” “I’ll burn the fucking place down”

“This is me expressing Myself.” As she flips off the boss and the whole line of customers. God as a restaurant employee I felt that and still do 😂😂

One of the funniest and most insightful analyses of *Office Space*, in my opinion. I love that you call Peter out for whining about what otherwise would be perks in the workplace

I have a meeting with the Bobs

Working remote in 2020 taught a whole lot of people that working in the office is a complete shitshow in comparison.

I think seeing the death woke him up from his slump and the hypnotherapy gave him the excuse he needed to unravel. A little bit of a placebo effect

One of my favorite movies of all time ❤. Also, there wasn’t a Liar Liar magical moment. It was a moment of clarity when Peter saw the hypnotherapist keel over, and he realized how short life is and that we aren’t meant to spend it in cubicles.

This movie is basically Ferris Beuller but after he has grown up and has an office job. LoL

I used to watch this movie for “motivation” whenever I went on interviews for a new position. I’m now self-employed and permanently out of the corporate rat race!

I was watching this movie more and more when I had my cubicle job, but being a star employee and highly productive did not save me from termination by the scumbag corporate so-called managers. Well, now I work concrete construction and totally loving it! I can relate to this movie. Fuckin-A

Loved this. Thank you! I have a couple of thoughts I'd like to share: 1. I may be wrong, but I think the name "Initech" was supposed to sound like "any tech", as in the company could have been any generic tech company in America at the time. 2. I personally think the restaurant Aniston's character worked at was based on Bennigan's, because their uniforms look super similar to the ones we had to wear in the mid 00's, when I worked there and we had two buttons we were required to wear when we were on the clock (one being our name tag, the other being a button that said, "We I.D.!") and we'd get harassed if we forgot them. I couldn't have asked for a better analysis in this vid though. At the time I first saw this, I was 17 and worked at Bennigan's and my dad had THE EXACT JOB the main character has in this movie, updating billing software for the switch to 2000. My boyfriend at the time also worked in IT, so all of us had a deep connection to this movie.

The idea of cleaning a fish without running, or… any- water nearby, is horrifying.

Echoing many previous comments; Office Space is a movie I came to appreciate later in life, once I had sufficient work life experience. It’s now one of my all time favorites that I rewatch often ❤

With Flair!

Lol - loved how you call her Rachel! That's how I refer to her in this movie! 😂

Office Space is absolutely brilliant, I stumbled upon this movie a few years ago totally by accident. The multi boss thing was something that would really grind my gears in a job I had in my younger days. 🥴🥴🥴

I have close to 8 different bosses right now, not too much different 25 years later. This is one of my favorite movies and I actually did see it in theater's back when it premiered.

I got so lucky in that when I worked in offices that were cubicle farms, I spent only a few hours a week in them because I was always an outside rep. But I remember beautiful, thin, young ladies at cubicles in the office, and 3 years later, they barely fit in their chairs from spending all day just sitting and doing reports and answering phones.

Even Neo struggled in an office space in the Matrix.

In the 90's, computers were used to generate reports. If you paid attention, you'd realize what the reports were lacking, thinking management was actually using the reports, and you would create new reports, and the client, would then want both. Because they considered a higher report stack, to be an indication of their importance.

Going fishing and watching tv is literally the definition of doing nothing

This is my favorite movie of all time. I like that you compared it to your personal experiences of working in an office. I think that is one of the main reasons I enjoyed the film so much. Your analysis of Peter was spot on. So much depth there.

Went to corporate head office with 2 co-workers for two weeks of training and we three show up wearing golf shirts and jeans our regular office attire. Walk into class and it's mostly local workers dressed in fancy suits. I only owned one suit for funerals and a yearly awards ceremony. The instructor insisted we go buy some better clothes😂. Us Hicks didn't know how to dress for the office 😮. Like Peter Gibbons I quit office work and am a truck driver now. Much better pay and job security.

I've seen this movie a Billion times... now I'm gonna have to watch it again. Good review Chris!

I got done watching Office Space for the first time literally 3 or 4 minutes ago, and lo and behold, you uploaded this less than an hour ago! Amazing timing lmao

Ya know, Peter is my hero. Breaking out of cube world to a meaningful life where he actually finds some joy in his day - even if it is manual labor. We get boxed into this 8 to 5 world of monotonous drudgery, a drone fitting into the business machine that uses us up, only to be laid off at the next business cycle hiccup. The only thing we strive for is that golden future dream of retirement... assuming we don't have a cataclysmic heart attack slaving away late on a Friday night for yet another Lumbergh.

My favorite movie almost ever tbh, endlessly quotable, a pleasant look back into the era that I grew up in, and also just fucking funny and biting

I just recently took my first step into the unknown, accepting a promotion that i really didnt want and isnt in my safe little comfort zone. But i know there is no reward without risk. Fingers crossed it works out.

one of the things i wondered about the end of the movie is if lumbergs door was unlocked the whole time when peter put the letter and money under the door then tried to get it back. it seems to me that the door had to have been unlocked because the next day when milton goes in for his stapler the note is still there.

The 90s were a time of blissful, weirdly self hating luxury.

"...that would be great." -Bill Lumburgh

I don't like these types of videos much, but your voice isn't annoying and you make very good connections and are good at critically analysis. This was very good.

I don't think I knew it was Texas till the last time I watched it but it definitely never felt like Texas. I live in Texas now and I saw it when I lived in Pennsylvania and it still felt like LA

"Corporate accounts payable, Mina speaking, JUST a moment."

I just noticed that Lumbergh wore a belt and suspenders.

To me this movie and Clerks have at lot in common- trapped in a crap job you HAVE to go to so you can pay your bills, frustration, relationships, stupid people, etc etc. Both movies have a million quotes, both have aged well, both awesome :)

Life got more interesting for Peter when he jumped into Normandy.

Funny, you telling that story about needing to go and change. I once started a brand spanking new job as a consultant. In Sweden, no less. So I emigrated, bought a suit, put it and a tie on, reported to the customer (which was the Swedish pension fund authority) in it, and was met by my supervisor/customer: A guy with a three month beard, shorts, teva sandals, and a batik t-shirt. He looked me up and down, and said "welcome, but where's the technical guy?" Didn't wear a suit again for the next ten years of my life.

I was attending a post-secondary not-college and this movie came on a few days after administrative professionals day (which I would rather nor talk about how the school treated that) and it really spoke to me and was a wakeup call to a 19 year old who had only worked at Burger King which was hilariously corporate!

Worked in an office and was sent home game day because I forgot my jersey. Started to keep one in my car just incase. Our town is football 🏈 crazy LoL

I think this movie came out around the time when most people were starting to realize there’s more to life than going straight to college and working in a cubicle for 35 years. It really starts to expose the reality of this kind of life. These employees are simply pawns to earn a few people more money and they are no valued or cared about for any other reason. I love the movie but this setting always makes me feel sad because you just wonder why so many business are so willing to exploit and treat badly their employees all for the sake of higher profits. The movie really shows that you can be happy and live better and have better experiences and don’t have to conform to a crappy job that doesn’t care about your well being

I worked at an office much like that and yup, had a nail clipper lady. Curious points: When Peter gets out of bed on Saturday to check the machine he has grazed knees. I think that was filmed after the scene where he dives at Lumberg’s door. After a few takes of that he’d have burned his knees up pretty good. When Bob Slydell has Tom’s personnel file we see his surname is spelled SMYkowski but Bob reads it as SIMkowski. Either an intentional flub to show he has no connection to the staff or his delivery is so good they just left it in. When Peter meets with the Bob’s he does his monologue of his day at Initech and he says he only does 15 minutes of work in a week but I would bet that was meant to be 15 minutes in a day seeing that was the question but he delivered it so well they missed it or just left it. Always thought Tom backing out of the driveway was a great stunt and great editing.

Yes, it's my thing. Please continue. 😂

When I first saw this getting hired as a data processor for Southwestern Bell (AT&T) as a fresh college grad. I related so much to this movie But fast forward 23 years later as a professional who worked his way up. Biggest thing I realized is learn to love what other people hate doing, because thats where money is. Best of all, working is not so bad because it gives you purpose in life. Doing nothing and sitting on your ass all day is only fun for the fist 6 mos but after that you feel each day you get dumber and dumber

Thanks for sharing. Normally I would watch a video with this type of theme to the end, and then say that was kind of amusing, but I really don’t want to like and subscribe. However, I appreciate that you have interjected your own personal experiences to show how you can relate to the film. I agree with your summation of the story. I work in a slightly different field, but it was relatable experiences of my my own that fostered my love for this show. I look forward to seeing other content from you.

This is like the strangest analysis of a movie I’ve ever seen. Every new scene he went over was another revelation that two people can watch the same exact same movie and interpret what they’re seeing *totally* differently. It was a wild ride.

i could burn down the building👀

I suggest checking out, "Head Office". ;-D There was an Engineer who complained, I didn't work fast enough, so one day I told him; "I've got two speeds, if you don't like this one, sure as hell, you'll hate the other one. ;-) After transferring to another group, I was in the previous group's building (looking at mock-ups) and was told by some employees that the Engineer was complaining they weren't as productive as I had been. While leaving I encountered the Engineer, who asked if I was coming back to work there, and I replied, "When are you retiring?"

I got myself a red stapler after seeing this film!

Because people don't know when thier happy because they don't recognise the pleasure in pain.. but they do.

Appreciate the angle here. Great work

This movie is in large part why I became a mechanic.

Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays

Kind of a convoluted description of "Initech." I thought it was like we work "In a tech."

Thanks for making my morning slightly better. I’m pretty close to changing companies or buy my own.

One of my favorite movies. Only Movie I OWN.

I've always wondered if hypnotherapy works for things like verbal ticks! I hope it would, but fear it wouldn't. For this movie, I think they're asking us to just suspend a little belief for the sake of the plot. Believe in an alternate universe where everything is pretty much the same except hypnotism is very real.

you nailed it pretty good!!! I love the movie.

I would not have been back that day with the jeans and t-shirt.

Personally I don’t see the hypnotherapy scene as a literal hypnosis. To me it’s more like Peter is lulled into a daydream due to his boredom with the situation, and then when the doctor dies it’s an epiphany for Peter. He realizes what really matters in life and it enables him to finally let go of what doesn’t. It’s like he was hypnotized by the absurd circumstances rather than the therapist himself.

Morningwood Apartments 😂

Office Space is Awesome!!!

5:20 Chotchkie’s is, supposedly, a TGI Fridays knockoff

Excellent dialog! Loved this movie then, and through up to this very day. As i evolve in this crazy-CRAZY-world we are all now living through...this movie's energy appeals differently each time i re-watch. ✌🌱

Everyone compares The Office to Office Space, but I can't help but wonder if anyone has ever tried to do a comparison between The Office and other workplace-from-Hell films. Like The Caine Mutiny, or Glengarry Glen Ross, or even Swimming with Sharks, for instance.

I have bills to pay, that's why.

Gen Xers be like HELP MY COMFY OFFICE JOB IS TOO BORING

office space was a revelation, a life altering experience, like when I read a book by J Krishnamurti. you just arent the same anymore. I saw it for the first time in 2020 when working from home for a bank, it felt incredibly satisfying to see the madness of the office portrayed so well and such humour. I think the concept of work is mad, cruel, and is no different to being a slave except in some cases its worse since many who work cant even afford food or shelter. I hope one day, if humanity doesnt self desctruct, we will look back at this mad world in horror at how we used to slave our days away instead of enjoying and living. this movie inspired me to quit my bank job and travel the world, currently in portugal, not sure where Im headed but will see.

Hey cool I was 14 in '99 too

It's a Bennigans knock-off, lol, not Applebees.. I know it's trivial, but Bennigans was so much more than your average Applebee's 🎉

Sheesh, you look almost exactly like Jackson Galaxy

"Initech" is a joke on "Any-tech". Pronounced identically, is a comment on the universality of the shitiness of the office workplace, as shown, and a metaphor for the lost-in-nowhere gloom that Peter starts out in. Get it? That office scene could be AnyTech office.

Enjoyed this video!👍

Nice take on a classic.

The interesting thing for me is that my job is the only satisfaction I find in my life. If I didn't have my job, I literally would have nothing. I know it's sad, but it's the truth.

I love hiw Rachel puts the name tag on the sexyest part of her uniform.

Make a film like Office Space, everybody.

Great movie.

"fuckin A" -peter

Obviously, i think GREST VIDEO real authenticity in it. A rare and valuable thing.

Office Space was filmed deep in the heart of Texas in Austin 🤘