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Posted: 7/21/2007 6:02:54 AM EDT

[#1]

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Damn, ~~to be young and living at home with no financial worries~~it feels good to be a gangster!

ETA - Is it wrong of me to feel better about a shitty day at my job after watching Office Space?

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:06:36 AM EDT

[#2]

I'm sorry, I do not know anything about any money laundering.

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:06:42 AM EDT

[#3]

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www.jobschmob.com/images/red_swingline_stapler.jpg

I have that stapler. A couple of co-workers from my last job bought me one as a parting gift.

Apparently Swingline didn't make red staplers. But after the movie, the demand for one was so big they started a color line.

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:08:30 AM EDT

[#4]

back up in your ass with the resurrection.

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:10:18 AM EDT

[#5]

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www.jobschmob.com/images/red_swingline_stapler.jpg

I have that stapler. A couple of co-workers from my last job bought me one as a parting gift.

Aparently Swingline didn't make red staplers. But after the movie, the demand for one was so big they started a color line.

I saw this "Office Space Kit" or something in Books-A-Million, came in a box that looked like a manila folder with coffee stains and an Initech logo on it. Had the red Swingline stapler in it, a "Jump to Conclusions" mat, the "What's Good for the Company" banner, TPS Reports and some other stuff. I wanna pick one up for work, but I don't think anyone I work with would get it.

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:12:07 AM EDT

[#6]

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Although it's just a goofy comedy there is much truth in the lessons about happiness and priorities in life.

Definitely!

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:42:04 AM EDT

[#7]

REM Program to account for fractional dollar amounts of less than one cent.
10 IF$<.01THEN30
20 IF$=>.01GOTO40
30 send to acct. "Fuck Um"
40 send to acct. "TPS"

"I must have put the decimal in the wrong place. I always do that, screw up the stupid trival stuff."

"Fuck Um" Account balance = $375,000.00.

Opps.

Off to Federal "Pound me in the ass" Prison.

"Excuse me. I have not received my paycheck in six weeks."

"Uh, you need to talk to Payroll."

"Excuse me, but I spoke to Payrol.........."

"(Interrupting) Uh, just wait at your desk."

"(mumbiling)...But...But... I don't have to take.......I could burn this plac........They don't know who they're...."

P.S. Yeh, I know it's crap code in an obsolete language. I'm no programmer. Fix it.

Posted: 7/21/2007 7:44:00 AM EDT

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I thought that the movie office space was funny but the main character, Peter Gibbons, is a giant pussy.

I know people like him in real life and I cannot stand them. People who complain a lot really suck.

If figure that if a guy cannot cope with having a bad boss then he's basically a waste of time. I always avoid people like that.

He never actually does anything in the movie except a bunch of self-destructive passive aggressive bullshit.

The guy is a jerkoff. If you think he has a real great philosophy of life then you are in trouble.

And let me tell you from personal experience: being a construction laborer is the absolute worst job you can have. Seriously, go shovel asphalt for 8 hours and tell me how swell it is. It sucks.

It's a movie made for childish people who like to feel sorry for themselves.

Like I said, the movie is funny but the protagonist is an asshole and I would avoid a guy like that in real life. I know too many of them already.

One of these days you'll realize there are more important things than slaving away in some box and some people actually have the balls to not put up with being the bosses bitch......then agian, some wont...

Posted: 7/21/2007 8:06:55 AM EDT

[#9]

I did the same thing at Sam's Club(8269).
The managers pissed me off so bad I stopped going.
After a week they called and gave me a $2 hr raise...lol
Left shortly there after to worl at Delta.

Posted: 7/21/2007 9:39:21 AM EDT

[#10]

I used to push carts at a grocery store
how the fuck do they claim cleaning toilets is a promotion?

I had to clean the toilets one time
after that when they asked I refused and said it wasn't my f'ing job to clean up after some lazy ass shit on the seat

Posted: 7/21/2007 9:59:05 AM EDT

[#11]

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I guess I'll have to rent Office space

Don't waste your money.

Just buy it. You'll watch it till the laser burns a hole in the DVD

Posted: 7/21/2007 10:07:05 AM EDT

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I know people like him in real life and I cannot stand them. People who complain a lot really suck.

Irony.

He never actually does anything in the movie except a bunch of self-destructive passive aggressive bullshit.

Does posting here on arfcom count?

JEEPERS CREEPERS!

YOU ARE SMART AS A WHIP!!!

Keep up the good work, killer.

Uh oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.

LMFAO

Posted: 7/21/2007 10:22:16 AM EDT

[#13]

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I guess I'll have to rent Office space

Don't waste your money.

Just buy it. You'll watch it till the laser burns a hole in the DVD

If you rent it, you won't wanna give it back. Just buy it.

Posted: 7/21/2007 10:25:32 AM EDT

[#14]

"pc load letter - yeah bitch, that is exactly what I wanted"

Posted: 7/21/2007 10:30:39 AM EDT

[#15]

Hilarious!

Posted: 7/21/2007 10:38:27 AM EDT

[#16]

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--What would you say... you do here???

It was through Arfcom that I got to hear about Office Space. I always thought everyone meant the US version of The Office.
Finally bought it from Amazon and have watched it many times

Lent it to my friends too and they love it also

Great movie

Mark

Posted: 7/21/2007 10:59:45 AM EDT

[#17]

On the whiteboard in the conference room: Planning to Plan.

Posted: 7/21/2007 5:45:52 PM EDT

[#18]

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I thought that the movie office space was funny but the main character, Peter Gibbons, is a giant pussy.

Like I said, the movie is funny but the protagonist is an asshole and I would avoid a guy like that in real life. I know too many of them already.

One of these days you'll realize there are more important things than slaving away in some box and some people actually have the balls to not put up with being the bosses bitch......then agian, some wont...

Dude, that just the point. The guy has no balls. He's a pushover and a mopey self-pitying bitch.

He lets everything bother him and then he does nothing about it except whine.

Once he gets a backbone installed via the hypnotist, all he does is a bunch of childish bullshit that would get you fired instantly from any actual true life job.

If 5 guys came over to me at work and told me about my TPS report cover I would just nod, smile and not give a fuck. Who cares?

I love the movie, I think it's hilarious but in truth the character is a mope. I don't like that kind of people.

Posted: 7/21/2007 5:50:50 PM EDT

[#19]

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I thought that the movie office space was funny but the main character, Peter Gibbons, is a giant pussy.

I know people like him in real life and I cannot stand them. People who complain a lot really suck.

If figure that if a guy cannot cope with having a bad boss then he's basically a waste of time. I always avoid people like that.

He never actually does anything in the movie except a bunch of self-destructive passive aggressive bullshit.

The guy is a jerkoff. If you think he has a real great philosophy of life then you are in trouble.

And let me tell you from personal experience: being a construction laborer is the absolute worst job you can have. Seriously, go shovel asphalt for 8 hours and tell me how swell it is. It sucks.

It's a movie made for childish people who like to feel sorry for themselves.

Like I said, the movie is funny but the protagonist is an asshole and I would avoid a guy like that in real life. I know too many of them already.

I've been in IT my whole life. I started when I was a kid, so at 36, I literally have 20 years of professional experience working with technology. Now that I am in senior management, I still find myself looking out the window all day wishing that I had a job where I could physically see the results of all my hard work at the end of the day. I have no satisfaction and nobody will ever see what I do. It's all virtual, existing on some hard drive somewhere. It stinks and I have no personal satisfaction with anything that I do. It's not about feeling sorry for myself. I am very fortunate to be where I'm at. It's simply that I do not derive any sense of satisfaction or sense of worth from my career.

The first thing I do when I am not behind a monitor is meaningless, physical labor on one of my properties or go work in the print shop with the production guys on a press or conveyor dryer. At the end of a shift, I can point to the work and say, "I did that right there, and it is damn good."

Amen brother. I miss my 4-color press.

Posted: 7/21/2007 5:53:14 PM EDT

[#20]

So...

Has anyone here seen "Idiocracy?"

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:02:12 PM EDT

[#21]

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I've been in IT my whole life. I started when I was a kid, so at 36, I literally have 20 years of professional experience working with technology. Now that I am in senior management, I still find myself looking out the window all day wishing that I had a job where I could physically see the results of all my hard work at the end of the day. I have no satisfaction and nobody will ever see what I do. It's all virtual, existing on some hard drive somewhere. It stinks and I have no personal satisfaction with anything that I do. It's not about feeling sorry for myself. I am very fortunate to be where I'm at. It's simply that I do not derive any sense of satisfaction or sense of worth from my career.

The first thing I do when I am not behind a monitor is meaningless, physical labor on one of my properties or go work in the print shop with the production guys on a press or conveyor dryer. At the end of a shift, I can point to the work and say, "I did that right there, and it is damn good."

Holy shit. I could have written that. I've said the same thing for a while now, and nobody really ever gets it.

No there are a lot of us here who "get it".

Some of us are just too burned out to even add a "+1" comment.

When I win the big lottery, I'm going to buy a construction company just so I can go back to riding around on bulldozers and heavy equipment. At least at the end of the day you can derive some satisfaction from showing people all the shit you ran over.

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:35:29 PM EDT

[#22]

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I thought that the movie office space was funny but the main character, Peter Gibbons, is a giant pussy.

I know people like him in real life and I cannot stand them. People who complain a lot really suck.

If figure that if a guy cannot cope with having a bad boss then he's basically a waste of time. I always avoid people like that.

He never actually does anything in the movie except a bunch of self-destructive passive aggressive bullshit.

The guy is a jerkoff. If you think he has a real great philosophy of life then you are in trouble.

And let me tell you from personal experience: being a construction laborer is the absolute worst job you can have. Seriously, go shovel asphalt for 8 hours and tell me how swell it is. It sucks.

It's a movie made for childish people who like to feel sorry for themselves.

Like I said, the movie is funny but the protagonist is an asshole and I would avoid a guy like that in real life. I know too many of them already.

I've been in IT my whole life. I started when I was a kid, so at 36, I literally have 20 years of professional experience working with technology. Now that I am in senior management, I still find myself looking out the window all day wishing that I had a job where I could physically see the results of all my hard work at the end of the day. I have no satisfaction and nobody will ever see what I do. It's all virtual, existing on some hard drive somewhere. It stinks and I have no personal satisfaction with anything that I do. It's not about feeling sorry for myself. I am very fortunate to be where I'm at. It's simply that I do not derive any sense of satisfaction or sense of worth from my career.

The first thing I do when I am not behind a monitor is meaningless, physical labor on one of my properties or go work in the print shop with the production guys on a press or conveyor dryer. At the end of a shift, I can point to the work and say, "I did that right there, and it is damn good."

Dude, if you can't feel satisfaction from organizing your 600 gigabyte porno collection by genre, sub-genre, and by special actor/titles...

i'm sure the feeling of satisfaction from making lots of random shit will wane... the only "true" satisfaction from creating stuff goes to artists and craftsmen.

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:39:49 PM EDT

[#23]

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I thought that the movie office space was funny but the main character, Peter Gibbons, is a giant pussy.

I know people like him in real life and I cannot stand them. People who complain a lot really suck.

If figure that if a guy cannot cope with having a bad boss then he's basically a waste of time. I always avoid people like that.

He never actually does anything in the movie except a bunch of self-destructive passive aggressive bullshit.

The guy is a jerkoff. If you think he has a real great philosophy of life then you are in trouble.

And let me tell you from personal experience: being a construction laborer is the absolute worst job you can have. Seriously, go shovel asphalt for 8 hours and tell me how swell it is. It sucks.

It's a movie made for childish people who like to feel sorry for themselves.

Like I said, the movie is funny but the protagonist is an asshole and I would avoid a guy like that in real life. I know too many of them already.

I've been in IT my whole life. I started when I was a kid, so at 36, I literally have 20 years of professional experience working with technology. Now that I am in senior management, I still find myself looking out the window all day wishing that I had a job where I could physically see the results of all my hard work at the end of the day. I have no satisfaction and nobody will ever see what I do. It's all virtual, existing on some hard drive somewhere. It stinks and I have no personal satisfaction with anything that I do. It's not about feeling sorry for myself. I am very fortunate to be where I'm at. It's simply that I do not derive any sense of satisfaction or sense of worth from my career.

The first thing I do when I am not behind a monitor is meaningless, physical labor on one of my properties or go work in the print shop with the production guys on a press or conveyor dryer. At the end of a shift, I can point to the work and say, "I did that right there, and it is damn good."

That's part of my job. I could stay where I'm at for 30 years and my day will be no different than it is now. I just got enrolled in college so I can get into something different, where I can see some results.

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:43:35 PM EDT

[#24]

Office Space is art imitating life.

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:46:28 PM EDT

[#25]

Office Space is probably on of the top 5 movies out there. (next to Red Dawn of coarse)

Posted: 7/21/2007 6:55:09 PM EDT

[#26]

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I thought that the movie office space was funny but the main character, Peter Gibbons, is a giant pussy.

I know people like him in real life and I cannot stand them. People who complain a lot really suck.

If figure that if a guy cannot cope with having a bad boss then he's basically a waste of time. I always avoid people like that.

He never actually does anything in the movie except a bunch of self-destructive passive aggressive bullshit.

The guy is a jerkoff. If you think he has a real great philosophy of life then you are in trouble.

And let me tell you from personal experience: being a construction laborer is the absolute worst job you can have. Seriously, go shovel asphalt for 8 hours and tell me how swell it is. It sucks.

It's a movie made for childish people who like to feel sorry for themselves.

Like I said, the movie is funny but the protagonist is an asshole and I would avoid a guy like that in real life. I know too many of them already.

You need:

1) A couch to lay upon and someone to talk to

2) Prozac

3) Booze

Any one of the three will do, pic your favorite.

Repeat after me, It only a movie, it's only a movie...

Well, I'm just making the point that most people sort of relate to the main character and are sympathetic with him, but he is actually a useless jerkoff with a horrible attitude.

The guy himself is his own worst problem. am I missing something? Is that the point of the movie? It doesn't seem so.

Other than that I enjoyed the movie. It's very funny.

At one point in my life i worked with about ten people who stomped around like kindergardeners at virtually every reversal and I got sick to death of them. They were a lot orse than the managers.

Lemme guess - middle management?

Posted: 7/21/2007 7:00:26 PM EDT

[#27]

Posted: 7/21/2007 7:50:22 PM EDT

[#28]

Red Swindline stapler

And it's the same model as in the movie.

Posted: 7/22/2007 12:21:05 AM EDT

[#29]

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I thought that the movie office space was funny but the main character, Peter Gibbons, is a giant pussy.

I know people like him in real life and I cannot stand them. People who complain a lot really suck.

If figure that if a guy cannot cope with having a bad boss then he's basically a waste of time. I always avoid people like that.

He never actually does anything in the movie except a bunch of self-destructive passive aggressive bullshit.

The guy is a jerkoff. If you think he has a real great philosophy of life then you are in trouble.

And let me tell you from personal experience: being a construction laborer is the absolute worst job you can have. Seriously, go shovel asphalt for 8 hours and tell me how swell it is. It sucks.

It's a movie made for childish people who like to feel sorry for themselves.

Like I said, the movie is funny but the protagonist is an asshole and I would avoid a guy like that in real life. I know too many of them already.

I've been in IT my whole life. I started when I was a kid, so at 36, I literally have 20 years of professional experience working with technology. Now that I am in senior management, I still find myself looking out the window all day wishing that I had a job where I could physically see the results of all my hard work at the end of the day. I have no satisfaction and nobody will ever see what I do. It's all virtual, existing on some hard drive somewhere. It stinks and I have no personal satisfaction with anything that I do. It's not about feeling sorry for myself. I am very fortunate to be where I'm at. It's simply that I do not derive any sense of satisfaction or sense of worth from my career.

The first thing I do when I am not behind a monitor is meaningless, physical labor on one of my properties or go work in the print shop with the production guys on a press or conveyor dryer. At the end of a shift, I can point to the work and say, "I did that right there, and it is damn good."

You need a new career, then.

One of the devices I develop software for was used to capture a high-ranking al-Queda terrorist in Iraq this month. Hopefully, his capture will result in less American deaths from IEDs.

I'm stoked. This is the best job I have ever had. There are guys where I work with 20-30 years experience developing software and they are just as stoked as the noobs, if not more.

Posted: 7/22/2007 1:24:56 AM EDT

[#30]

Best
Movie
Ever
!

Posted: 7/22/2007 1:27:45 AM EDT

[#31]

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img135.imageshack.us/img135/3128/dinnerpic18lt.jpg

I wish I could get Yeungling here.

Posted: 7/22/2007 3:09:55 AM EDT

[#32]

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I've been in IT my whole life. I started when I was a kid, so at 36, I literally have 20 years of professional experience working with technology. Now that I am in senior management, I still find myself looking out the window all day wishing that I had a job where I could physically see the results of all my hard work at the end of the day. I have no satisfaction and nobody will ever see what I do. It's all virtual, existing on some hard drive somewhere. It stinks and I have no personal satisfaction with anything that I do. It's not about feeling sorry for myself. I am very fortunate to be where I'm at. It's simply that I do not derive any sense of satisfaction or sense of worth from my career.

The first thing I do when I am not behind a monitor is meaningless, physical labor on one of my properties or go work in the print shop with the production guys on a press or conveyor dryer. At the end of a shift, I can point to the work and say, "I did that right there, and it is damn good."

Holy shit. I could have written that. I've said the same thing for a while now, and nobody really ever gets it.

No there are a lot of us here who "get it".

Some of us are just too burned out to even add a "+1" comment.

When I win the big lottery, I'm going to buy a construction company just so I can go back to riding around on bulldozers and heavy equipment. At least at the end of the day you can derive some satisfaction from showing people all the shit you ran over.

I think everyone eventually gets tired of their job. I work on cars all day, so I can immediately see the fruits of my labor, good or bad. And after ten years of this shit, I absol-fucking-lutely hate it. I dread every morning waking up to go to work.

+1

I work retail, have since I was young. I hate , absolutely hate the general public, you know like, my customers. I hate going to work, if it wasn't the family business, I would have quit long ago.

Posted: 7/22/2007 7:12:34 AM EDT

[#33]

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Red Swindline stapler

And it's the same model as in the movie.

The one in the movie had white "swingline" script on the side.

Posted: 7/22/2007 7:21:48 AM EDT

[#34]

I quit on the spot one time. Had a second job to pay off some bills. When they were paid I went in one night and they started moving me all over the warehouse. I just looked around and thought" I really just don't feel like being here or doing this". Went to the manager and quit then and there. Man that felt good. Way before office space came out though.

Posted: 7/22/2007 9:31:37 AM EDT

[#35]

Doesn't Office Space take place in Dallas?

Posted: 7/22/2007 10:41:19 AM EDT

[#36]

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Although it's just a goofy comedy there is much truth in the lessons about happiness and priorities in life.

Same thing happened to me when I watched it. I started thinking about money Vs. happiness and began the process of leaving my job for something I would enjoy.

Posted: 7/22/2007 12:11:21 PM EDT

[#37]

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One of the best movies EVER! Mike Judge is a freaking genius. Not only did he capture the essence of working America with this movie and all the BS associated with it, he did the same thing once before with Beavis and Butthead. It's a bit frightening that his depiction of dumbass 14 year olds is closer to reality than many of us would like to admit. LOL.

Yeah, Mike Judge nails it. You should've seen the look on my Mom's face when I told Her that the same guy that does King of the Hill (which she loves) did Beavis & Butthead (which she hates). LOL!

Posted: 7/22/2007 12:12:37 PM EDT

[#38]

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I've been in IT my whole life. I started when I was a kid, so at 36, I literally have 20 years of professional experience working with technology. Now that I am in senior management, I still find myself looking out the window all day wishing that I had a job where I could physically see the results of all my hard work at the end of the day. I have no satisfaction and nobody will ever see what I do. It's all virtual, existing on some hard drive somewhere. It stinks and I have no personal satisfaction with anything that I do. It's not about feeling sorry for myself. I am very fortunate to be where I'm at. It's simply that I do not derive any sense of satisfaction or sense of worth from my career.

The first thing I do when I am not behind a monitor is meaningless, physical labor on one of my properties or go work in the print shop with the production guys on a press or conveyor dryer. At the end of a shift, I can point to the work and say, "I did that right there, and it is damn good."

Holy shit. I could have written that. I've said the same thing for a while now, and nobody really ever gets it.

No there are a lot of us here who "get it".

Some of us are just too burned out to even add a "+1" comment.

When I win the big lottery, I'm going to buy a construction company just so I can go back to riding around on bulldozers and heavy equipment. At least at the end of the day you can derive some satisfaction from showing people all the shit you ran over.

I think everyone eventually gets tired of their job. I work on cars all day, so I can immediately see the fruits of my labor, good or bad. And after ten years of this shit, I absol-fucking-lutely hate it. I dread every morning waking up to go to work.

+1

I work retail, have since I was young. I hate , absolutely hate the general public, you know like, my customers. I hate going to work, if it wasn't the family business, I would have quit long ago.

Try driving truck. It's boring, very boring.

Posted: 7/22/2007 12:18:34 PM EDT

[#39]

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us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/office_space/_group_photos/jennifer_aniston7.jpg

us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/office_space/_group_photos/jennifer_aniston2.jpg

My friend did that after a year and a half of waitressing at Denny's. Despite that she had submitted her school schedule weeks beforehand, the dickhead manager and his wife kept scheduling her to work shifts when she had classes to attend. She confronted them about it, and they told her either she worked when they told her to, or lost her job.

She said, "Fuck you both, I'm out" and knocked over a bin of freshly washed, tediously-sorted silverware on her way out the door.

Posted: 7/22/2007 6:47:50 PM EDT

[#40]

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i186.photobucket.com/albums/x71/1895mauser/office_space_kit.jpg i186.photobucket.com/albums/x71/1895mauser/lumberg.jpg

I learned online that Swingline never made a stapler like the one in the movie in red. It was a one off movie prop that was destroyed in the movie fire. After the movie, demand was high, so they made one in red, but it's shaped differently. Some folks paint the old model red.

i186.photobucket.com/albums/x71/1895mauser/OfficeSpaceMilton1.jpg

I always thought the squirrels were MERRY, as in happy, not "Married..."

But, then again, Steve Miller sings "Bingo Jed had a light on....."

Posted: 7/22/2007 7:21:59 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:

Quoted:
i186.photobucket.com/albums/x71/1895mauser/office_space_kit.jpg i186.photobucket.com/albums/x71/1895mauser/lumberg.jpg

I learned online that Swingline never made a stapler like the one in the movie in red. It was a one off movie prop that was destroyed in the movie fire. After the movie, demand was high, so they made one in red, but it's shaped differently. Some folks paint the old model red.

i186.photobucket.com/albums/x71/1895mauser/OfficeSpaceMilton1.jpg

I always thought the squirrels were MERRY, as in happy, not "Married..."

But, then again, Steve Miller sings "Bingo Jed had a light on....."

Nope. It's "married." This was Milton (the simpleton)'s way of saying he saw the squirrels having sex. Stephen Root says this one of the features on the Special Edition With Flair DVD.

Posted: 7/22/2007 7:26:51 PM EDT

[#42]

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Doesn't Office Space take place in Dallas?

Nope, Austin...though I did hear that they filmed the inside apt. scenes in Dallas.

I lived in the apt. complex they used for the outside shots. It's funny watching the characters drive up and down Metric Blvd. and Burnet Rd. over and over. The Initech building was somewhere close too...and coincidently, Dell and IBM had offices a block or so away at the time.

Posted: 7/23/2007 9:58:40 AM EDT

[#43]

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The Initech building was somewhere close too...and coincidently, Dell and IBM had offices a block or so away at the time.

Maybe not a coincident.......

Probably used folks from those companies as extras; would have been fitting if they did anyway.

Posted: 7/23/2007 10:20:14 AM EDT

[#44]

We had a group of IT guys here, that would go on walks at various times throughout the day, one day my buddy and I are walking to get some lunch and we see them...we were able to point out and identify each co-worker with a character in Office Space...even down to the ethnicity, body type, occular devices, etc...it's one of those things where you would have had to have been there.

Posted: 7/23/2007 12:13:09 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
I thought that the movie office space was funny but the main character, Peter Gibbons, is a giant pussy.

I know people like him in real life and I cannot stand them. People who complain a lot really suck.

If figure that if a guy cannot cope with having a bad boss then he's basically a waste of time. I always avoid people like that.

He never actually does anything in the movie except a bunch of self-destructive passive aggressive bullshit.

The guy is a jerkoff. If you think he has a real great philosophy of life then you are in trouble.

And let me tell you from personal experience: being a construction laborer is the absolute worst job you can have. Seriously, go shovel asphalt for 8 hours and tell me how swell it is. It sucks.

It's a movie made for childish people who like to feel sorry for themselves.

Like I said, the movie is funny but the protagonist is an asshole and I would avoid a guy like that in real life. I know too many of them already.

I spent 5 months as labor on a construction site. I had to wheel 300lbs wheel barrels full of cement, shovels tons of gravel a day, up to my knee in raw sewages fixing a broken sewer line. I know exactly what it is like.

I have spent the last 9 years working an office job in IT. Honestly, some days I miss working construction.

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