Office Space (1/5) Movie CLIP - Did You Get the Memo? (1999) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Peter (Ron Livingston) gets grilled by his bosses for not having the right cover sheet on his T.P.S. report.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a computer programmer working for Initech in Houston. Every day, he and his friends Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman as not THAT Michael Bolton), suffer endless indignities and humiliations in their soulless workspace from their soulless boss, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole). For Peter, stuck in his cookie-cutter apartment with paper-thin walls and IKEA furniture, every day is worse than the one before it -- so every day is the worst of his life. To cap it off, Initech has hired a pair of "efficiency experts" to downsize the company. One Friday night, Peter's soon to be ex-girlfriend Anne (Alexandra Wentworth) forces him to go to an occupational hypnotherapist to relieve work stress. While Peter is under hypnosis, the therapist keels over and dies. As he never snaps out of his hypnotic state, Peter has a new outlook on life. If something annoys him, he just ignores it or walks away from it. He is completely relaxed and enjoying life for the first time in a long time. On Monday, Peter skips work and sleeps in. He gets up for lunch and drives down to a restaurant next to his office and asks the waitress he's had a crush on, Joanna (Jennifer Aniston), on a date. When Peter stops into the office to pick up his organizer, he's called in to talk to the efficiency experts. Relaxed and friendly, Peter charms them as he describes everything wrong with the office, including his boss. Even as Peter now appears at work only as the mood strikes him, the experts decide he's management material and give him a promotion even as they lay off the hardworking Samir and Michael. Peter then convinces his friends to exact revenge on Initech based upon an idea from Superman III. Not everything works out quite as planned. Office Space originated from writer/director Mike Judge's first animated short of the same name, created in 1991. The short was about Milton (reproduced in the film by Stephen Root), a damaged office drone whose complaints and threats about his sufferings go unheeded.
CREDITS:
TM & © Fox (1999)
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Cast: Joe Bays, Gary Cole, Ron Livingston, Stephen Root
Director: Mike Judge
Producers: Daniel Rappaport, Guy Riedel, Michael Rotenberg, Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge
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[@Charlie1821]

Before I entered the work force I thought this was just an awesome comedy. Once I started working I realized it was a dark comedy.

[@63Baggies]

Charlie1821 An absolute modern classic; it speaks to people on so many levels, there are some moments of true genius in this movie.

[@mrchopsticks3]

The longer you keep working you realize its not a comedy at all.

[@MyoclonicJerkCough]

I put Strychnine in the guacamole

[@_baller]

So true

[@morpheus6749]

I don't see how anyone could appreciate or even remotely get this film if they've never worked in a corporate environment.

[@samjames5183]

I love this. It accurately sums up two things about the corporate world: 1) There are more middle managers than people actually doing the work. 2) The managers have no clue about the work their employees actually do, so they focus on tiny inconsequential things that they can understand like cover sheets.

[@HolTukIj]

Yeeaaahhh, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and try to remember to use the new coversheets for the tps-reports from now on, m'kay?

[@iamthechosenone10]

But did you put the cover sheet on all the TPS reports???

[@rogermouton2273]

Precisely

[@garthornspike3648]

I agree 100%.

[@elleb-theragincajun4646]

Say it again!!!!!!

[@lilyblueharsh]

The scariest thing about office space isn't growing up and realizing it's all true - it's realizing that the fact that it's so relevant even decades later means that nothing has changed since then

[@TimmyTheTinman]

What needs to change in your opinion?

[@batgirl748]

YEP! AGREED!

[@themalacast]

It’s a movie about human nature. Of course it hasn’t changed.

[@pepper5128]

@@themalacast Who knows how long this has been true? This kind of BS probably predates the industrial revolution.

[@adammercysystem6450]

Nothing will change, it's part of human nature. Also the environment is incapable of change as the managers don't want it to

[@Holly-tw6bt]

It's the nagging about a minor mistake from multiple "bosses" through multiple communication methods. Once I accidentally copied the wrong person on an email and half the office felt the need to let me know and remind me not to do that.

[@corymackin8723]

Lmao

[@timjones7336]

Did you not get the memo?

[@Anomaly-1]

@@timjones7336 🤦‍♂️😂

[@johnfoltz8183]

Make one tiny mistake, and everyone loses their minds.

[@blackhammer5035]

Yep. This is why if I think I need to talk to an employee about something, first I ask if someone already talked to them about it, and then just which of their supervisors it was specifically. Finally I ask if they had any questions and leave it at that. I now know what I need to (that it got brought up and who did it), they know what they need to know, and we're not wasting anybody's time.

[@TrollMeister_]

The office layout is soo reminiscent of the 90s and early 2000s. Almost makes me nostalgic. In the 2010s corporations realized they could save more money by getting rid of the walls and cramming more people together like sardines in a can and calling it "collaborative workspace"

[@PacTel54321]

Oh my Gosh; that is SO TRUE! Collaborative Workspace, "Because its what Google does!

[@pedroSilesia]

very true, I don't understand why people hating these cubicles in the open office you're exposed to everyone and have twice less space.

[@trysometruth]

Gawd that's true. At the _bare minimum,_ they had the cubicle wall height drastically lowered *to encourage "collaboration"* amongst the poor saps working at the place.

[@michaelpowers6784]

Great point, I hare the open floor no barrier layout! I have social anxiety and despise meaningless conversations and saying bye to people

[@williamshakespeare9815]

​@@PacTel54321and it works wiith the "we're like a family here" thing that everyonne does. So annoying.

[@esasoftware1900]

One of the funniest movies about corp life I've ever seen. (1) They don't listen. (2) They don't care. (3) The most minor thing is the most important thing in the universe. (4) Actual work does not matter. (5) Honest hard working people are shafted. (6) The undeserving are promoted. ALL TRUE!

[@Creaulx]

esa Software Fuckin A!

[@kek23k]

Word!

[@pacibaco]

Yup, but yet somehow these businesses all function. How the hell is that possible?!?!?!?!

[@andyz6994]

Because of honest hardworking people who are either not shattered yet or too faithful in the idea that more work = promotion. Watch Dilbert's cartoon since it was good too

[@stonedprophet2463]

Amen.

[@stockjonebills]

Whats sad, is although things are exaggerated a bit, this isn't far from the truth in most large companies.

[@dieglhix]

+stockjonebills especially banks, law firms...

[@darkstorm207]

+Diego V Consulting firms...

[@dieglhix]

The Researcher depends.. microsoft is a consulting firm and it is not like that xD but most, well yes, they are

[@liberator48]

+Diego V and Ubisoft, well except for those luxurious cubicals

[@xSlashx69]

no not exaggerated

[@psiturbo]

Nothing more humiliating than the pat on the back.

[@Dimensioneer88]

Unless it's a little lower. ;)

[@Bro-cx2jc]

Yeah, if you could just never slap me on the back like that again...*yanks dagger out of invisible sheath*...that would be *GREAT*

[@manictiger]

When I was younger, I couldn't really relate. But after running my own company for years and just having to deal with people WITHOUT being their slave... This really hit me in the dignities. I would literally stab both those middle managers in the neck with a mail opener. This is why I don't hire people. People are trouble. I trade stocks, I make money, I increase the size of my bomb shelter.

[@tadweird1766]

LM Space I think a pat on the head would be a close second. Hopefully nobody does that to grown adults.

[@manictiger]

​@@jasonn1768 Ah, no. I am able to trade stocks because there's gigantic server rooms scattered across the U.S. Although, I do sometimes use the call center, so I guess they qualify as "cubicle workers". But they seem pretty cool. The team I get is higher end, because I give their company about as much money as an engineer makes in a year. That definitely got me internally flagged as "higher tier". You get better people and no wait times. But then you take a look at the people I get from other companies. That's what people are like when you aren't flagged as "higher tier": apathy and disdain. If you're not "one of them", you're less than trash. This is why I like equities. No egos, no judgement and no bullshit. Just candlesticks on a screen; may the best players win.

[@nickmusicman2285]

The way Milton looks at Peter when he first goes over his cubicle. Gets me laughing every time

[@stevenwinterhill3623]

😂

[@heyfucko]

man i had to pause and just laugh at that look

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

👀

[@surfercharlie25]

0:50 - I love how you can hear Gary Cole use the EXACT same greeting and cadence over again. I’ve had so many managers like that!

[@simonebernacchia5724]

Like they are scripted.... JAVAscripted -_-

[@Atombender]

1999: Great comedy movie 2009: Great horror movie 2019: Great documentary

[@ryanjones9498]

I wish my managers where this nice

[@kbanghart]

@@ryanjones9498 same

[@WolfsH0ok]

@No Commentary Gameplay Karen the new middle manager, will soon have cubicles removed While the other Karen, in Human Resources, fills up your mail box with crap events you don't want to attend

[@user-zy9yg2eu5t]

2121: Vaccine make me dumb dumb

[@kremove]

It was always a documentary. Maybe you were too young to realize that.

[@lauriebeckstead5265]

This is isn't an exaggeration, this is reality

[@JackieFuckingChan]

Hi Laurie... (Holy crap. I think i know you in real life)..

[@jaska-jalmarixvi5757]

It pretty much fits the textbook definition of exaggeration. But I guess your comment is also an exaggeration.

[@starscream6629]

Yeah….I’m going to need you to make sure you make it a reality on every TPS report.

[@ernstthalmann4306]

I'd rather be a writer

[@marcelus4848]

@@jaska-jalmarixvi5757nah it’s not an exaggeration

[@kurtdewitt460]

I was told that I could listen to youtube at a reasonable volume between 9 and 11.

[@TheEndKing]

We will never forget.

[@Bro-cx2jc]

So...is the volume 9-11 or is the time of day you can listen to the radio 9 AM to 11 PM? Because I never quite got that. Yeah, if someone could go ahead and explain that to me...that would be great.

[@CR-ke4si]

Bro urmmmm yeahhh... how about 9am - 11am. Yeeaah. I’ll go ahead and see myself out

[@Greendalewitch]

@@CR-ke4si Goddammit you beat me to it lol

[@Mikek88]

Milton caused 9/11...

[@lichtfilme]

The actor who plays his boss gets way too little credit, he’s so great 😄😄😄

[@stephenshelton4267]

He also played Mike Brady in the Brady Bunch movies from the late 90s. He did a masterful job playing the role, as did virtually everyone else.

[@bogarcia1601]

I thought he had plenty

[@katie2893]

well he was vice president in the bartlett administration

[@Maw0]

Which boss? THERE'S 8 BOSSES! 8 BOB!

[@__diosito__]

I watched the movie thinking that guy was gonna have an even bigger participation. It´s a shame the movie isnt at least 20 minutes longer, they had even more space to do even more with some characters.

[@kevinkibble8342]

God, this really sums up office work. No matter how much effort you put into something it always gets nitpicked over some minor detail.

[@overnightdelivery]

It's also accurate for having a wife...

[@Blackmetalmusicguru]

Yep true. Sucks the soul out of you too coming from a person who works office I'm mainly a remote worker but it sucks

[@MountainMan.]

Made in '99 and this movie still perfectly encapsulates what it is like to work in corporate America to this very day. The acting in this movie is elite level.

[@PeaceDweller]

..Not just America, but the Western world. Even I as a Brit in an office job can watch this movie and feel that it painfully hits close to home.

[@sirmount2636]

The Western corporate world has existed really since the 1800’s & probably even earlier. & I don’t think it has shown any signs of slowing. It’s a timeless classic that will endure for centuries.

[@greentooth3097]

To dis DAY

[@plspriska]

Or government agencies

[@simonebernacchia5724]

@@cactusmalone How much would you pay for a Matrix/office space crossover? "Mister Anderson you forgot to put the new cover on the TPS report, yeeeaahhhh"

[@tmrezzek5728]

That "Yeeeaaaahhhhh..." from the boss is (unfortunately) 100% on the fucking money for a corporate workplace.

[@LessTrustMoreTruth]

I love that you can still hear Nina speaking in the background during this exchange. Perfect ambiance!

[@echad6259]

😅

[@hmoore9133]

I really hate micro managers

[@HeyMyLifeIsLibby]

Horace Moore they are actually the worst people alive.

[@jasondyrkacz8270]

Horace Moore It should be legal to punch them if they're breathing down your neck.

[@stevel9627]

Micro managers at work is one thing but i was in a relationship with one and we ended up moving into together. Didn't know she was until we moved in together but the signs were there early on which i ignored

[@KingLich451]

@@stevel9627 well, i'm glad it is *past tense* :D

[@patrickm5217]

did you get that memo?

[@mastercontrolprogram163]

Anyone who has worked at an office can relate to this. At least three people telling you the same thing before your Supervisor calling you into their office, tells you to shut the door then tells you that you have an attitude problem because you lost it on the third person.

[@claradelgado3932]

True😄

[@ryanjacobson2508]

Said manager(s) weren't there to witness the full series of events, but will still blindly and ineptly attempt an "investigation" which often results in the wrong party taking too much blame and getting disciplined too harshly.

[@krisstopher8259]

this is why people get heart attacks lol

[@STMARTIN009]

Lol. It sucks because you can love your job but the people you work with are complete tool bags.

[@evilwillhunting]

Love how he slaps him on the back WAY too hard

[@shambolicrhetoric6143]

This is SO realistic of what working in an office is like. It's basically a bunch of narcissists trotting around poking their nose into other peoples business so they can avoid actually doing work themselves.

[@MidnighttWolf]

The casting for this movie is amazing

[@nicolashrv]

Jeniffer Aniston was misscasted. She was just repeating Rachel, and was so dull and lame, and doesnt even show naked that you can justify her........they could have used some better actress like Sandra Bullock.

[@langdonalger9219]

nicolashrv not sure Sandra Bullock would have wanted to do a small movie like this at the time. She was a pretty big star by that point. Jennifer Aniston was a big tv star at this point, but hadn’t made many movies. I didn’t feel she was miscast. I thought she did a nice job in the movie.

[@DTB1995]

@@langdonalger9219 Jenny was great in office space..shes a character and seems very down to earth

[@TheBluestreak147]

@CF William a great movie!

[@MrSparkle44]

nicolashrv Jeniffer was fantastic in her role

[@thekd911]

Nothing worse in the workplace than a boss who doesn't listen and looks down on the employees underneath him/her, had a few like this in the past.

[@yaboiyaboy9980]

Unfortunately the sad reality is that everyone at some point is probably going to have a boss like this.

[@LusivableM0T]

That’s when you get ready to tell them to screw off and not be afraid to walk out. Don’t worry about difficulties finding a job since they are EVERYWHERE.

[@nopenope8249]

For those of you who never worked in a cube farm. What Lumbergh was really saying was “you won’t be here for long”. It’s all in the tone of voice.

[@stevenwinterhill3623]

🤣🤣

[@Paraprax]

This movie is a strong example of why Oscars for writing and performances should be given out ten years after the film comes out instead of in the heat of the moment.

[@RICKONORATO]

That's a really good idea, actually

[@barkermjb]

Agreed. Superb idea. Like a “life time” achievement award for movies.

[@ryanjacobson2508]

They could have a "senior" award for movies that aged well, esp. if the movie upon their initial release.

[@keithyw]

they should make it illegal to have more than a single manager

[@FuchsiaSquare]

Giraffe Toe Exactly! I’m sick of the hierarchy system in the office. Most people get on their high horse once they become manager.

[@kingmiller1982]

I have 4 above me actually. 😣🔫

[@trysometruth]

You have lost at life when you have multiple bosses. Most of us, based on that, have lost.

[@JohnSmith-xl4sx]

I’m a manager now (moved up from employee) and I hate the hierarchy sometimes especially if it’s not well organized or communicated. Then again, it’s also needed sometimes to have superiors when problems get more complicated/severe. You shouldn’t get an ego though, you only have a job bec of your employees.

[@MaartenvanRossemLezingen]

@@JohnSmith-xl4sx It's not that you don't need superiors sometimes, it's that it should be voluntary. Having total authority over someone is just wrong.

[@postaffe]

I remember thinking these were hilarious moments when I was younger and unemployed but watching this now I find myself cringing and shaking my head more than laughing... Way too realistic.

[@faith6809]

😂😂😂😂😂 yes sadly :(

[@janetpattison8474]

Yeah, the film makes me laugh instead of cry about all the wasted years in “the office”.

[@JordanMgordan]

My favourite part is at 1:53 where he tries his best to explain that he understands his mistake, that it's been addressed to him and avoid reliving the conversation again. Which fails miserably. Ridiculously and painfully relateable

[@cordeliachase601]

VenomShock I always thought it was more the second boss wanted to put his two cents in and seem superior to some degree.

[@hemprope4326]

@@cordeliachase601 He's trying to seem busy like everyone else because that's all he's paid to do lol

[@kurdokolenko]

pure gold

[@mattfoley6082]

Yeah. Mmm. Uh, did you see the part at 1:53 where he tries his best to explain that he understands his mistake, that it's been addressed to him and avoid reliving the conversation again?

[@kevinkibble8342]

Oh definitely. A minor error that's easily amendable is treated like an unforgivable sin in my experience of office work.

[@sambraham4677]

Gary Cole as Lumbergh was one of the best casting decisions to be ever made in movies. 0:30 amazing!

[@hessein]

This movie actually was a huge push for me to quit the corporate jobs and working for myself. it's been 10 years now :D

[@somethingtojenga]

Advice for everyone... if this type of office job is your thing, don't ever turn down a management position. Because if you don't do it, somebody shitty WILL.

[@Sage2000]

Perfect. Most people complain, but dont step up and try to do better at leading.

[@DrHokeyPokey]

"Do you accept this great honor that I have offered you?" "With all my heart, no." "Maximus, that is why it must be you!"

[@DrHokeyPokey]

What if the job requires being shitty, though?

[@Bro-cx2jc]

What if someone shitty read your comment and you've therefore encouraged them to go after that management position? Yeah, if you could just go ahead and consider the audience your comments are going out to...that would be great.

[@Bro-cx2jc]

@@Sage2000 That's not a good argument. Why should people on the lower end of the workforce have to try to become the managers themselves to do a better job, just to have the right to complain about their terrible managers? I've seen terrible management, and I've complained. That doesn't mean it's my responsibility to step up and try to become one myself.

[@ShawnaGraham50]

After all these years I a can point out people I know at work that fit the characters

[@HeyMyLifeIsLibby]

Shawna Graham sadly I’m Milton.

[@oppenheimer8279]

HeyMyLifeIsLibby you're not alone.

[@MyoclonicJerkCough]

have any of them set fire to the building yet??

[@HikoSeijuroXIII]

Why would anyone work in such a place.

[@cordeliachase601]

I’m a Peter in some way. I hate working, I want to be free, I don’t like micro-managers, I day dream and kinda respond to things the way he does about memos and stuff.

[@willminkorea2010]

Gary Cole created a memorable character.

[@samcz1784]

+willminkorea2010 Ummm yeeeaaahhhh. I'll have to agree with you there. Yeeaaahhhh!

[@andyinoregon]

+willminkorea2010 If the Academy had any respect for comedic acting Gary Cole would have won an Oscar for this performance. Ditto for his work in "The Brady Bunch Movie."

[@LEMMYKISGOD]

+andyinoregon And don't forget about him as Reese Bobby in "Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby"

[@driesm81607]

Mike Judge created the character, Gary Cole had said that he was basically doing an impression of Mike Judge doing Lumbergh in this role.

[@kchall5]

I wonder how often he got the Lumbergh treatment by waiters: "Hey Mr. Cole, I'm gonna need to, um, give me a really big tip. Yeah, that'd be great".

[@benzandpour]

It’s only gotten worse in twenty years.

[@PatricksCrazyPlace]

This is the most identifiable scene in the whole movie for me. Whenever I make a mistake, no matter how small, it feels like I have 10 people coming by to ream into me about it. Its irritating. I remember one time, I made a mistake that prevented a system scan from being run. Keep in mind that our team running the scans was still a new process and we were working the kinks out, and I was the only one on the team that had any knowledge of how the tool worked (they let go of the other person I trained to use the tool) and the system had already been scanned a couple of days prior, so while not ideal, it was unlikely that new issues would be discovered had this scan been run. The system team and system owner were not bothered by the lack of a scan and said it was okay to reschedule at my convenience. My managers though? Oh boy. Admittedly, it was my mistake and no one else's, but the main head of the team told the story to everyone over and over and over again. When he dressed me down, he said "I told you twice to do this..." which is a true statement. But then he told the underneath managers and said "I told him five times to do this..." and it worked its way around the office, and then by the time it circled back to me again, it became "He gave you a daily reminder for two weeks to do it like this..." which isn't true. It resulted in an email going out to the team, the top tier manager having a meeting with my supervisors about it, the mistake being the main topic of discussion at that day's staff meeting, me having to write an SOP to prevent this from happening again, and my supervisor and a "Bob" pulling me into a private meeting where I was told if I messed up the scan again, that would be my job. How was the problem resolved? I scheduled the scan for the next day, no time was lost, and everything was fine. By the time the day was over (yes, all this happened in one day) I went from being a nervous wreck that was scared of losing his job to being so irritated about hearing about it that internally, I was practically begging to be fired just to get them to shut up.

[@jonnybirchyboy1560]

So lemme get this straight, if they’d fired you then no one else would have known how to use the tool?

[@PatricksCrazyPlace]

@@jonnybirchyboy1560 Correct

[@jonnybirchyboy1560]

@@PatricksCrazyPlace I gotta say, your team head sounded like a complete bellend

[@MisterMikeTexas]

@@jonnybirchyboy1560 When companies downsize, they often carelessly lay off people at all levels. Many of them are the go-to people, i.e., the only ones in the building, for a given system, application, or department.

[@lukegriffiths4333]

He gave you a daily reminder for two weeks. No he told me twice. It doesn’t matter! Then why’d you say it?

[@Jombo1]

Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking, JUST a moment

[@youtubasoarus]

+Jombo Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking, JUST a moment.... Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking, JUST a moment... ARGH!

[@loloxabc]

I deal with the customers!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE ?!!!!!

[@satchito]

So thaaat's the squeak I kept hearing!!!

[@Baffled-f9d]

I had a fat lady like that Nina lady by me at one time who would also eat Hershey Mini Bites all day. It was pure torture.

[@manco828]

Looks like somebody has a case of the mondays!

[@WikDgunner]

I used to watch this movie as a kid it was so funny. now I'm 23 and work in an office. not so funny. it's my fucking life. I deal with this type of shit all day

[@huskerhammer6325]

"UH...YEAH...."

[@ChrisPierreBacon]

Nah, it's way funnier now cuz it's so on point.

[@torylivingston]

I'll trade with you. I am a college educated 30 year old who has worked for the last 8 years in a printing plant on 12 hour rotating day and night shifts. A decline in the industry has meant massive downsizing (mostly through attrition), which also means I don't have a hope in hell of moving up. Any office job that isn't a call center would be a gift to me. ....I'm just saying.

[@KaneK1234]

Damn, I would be so depressed if i was you.

[@srb9]

Told you so.

[@mr.g3588]

The look on Miltons face in total shock and fear that a coworker is talking to him Lol

[@325xitgrocgetter]

About 20 years ago, I was working at a place where I had two managers discuss my choice of fonts on an Excel spreadsheet....for a half hour!

[@stevenwinterhill7576]

Wow Lol

[@ryebread7224]

This film transcends comedy. It literally gets funnier every single time I watch it. That kind of comedy is rare. Usually jokes will wear out the more you hear them. This is the polar opposite. So incredibly accurate to real corporate work that it is almost scary. It's also scary I feel more and more like Peter every day I work.

[@Akron162]

Man, the atmosphere in that office is so crushing. I happen to work in an office and is nothing like that, thank god.

[@kevinkibble8342]

You happen to work in the only office on the planet that is nothing like that, you mean.

[@simonebernacchia5724]

Is even more crushing now with open spaces!

[@ricepotato7508]

This isn’t just corporate life, this is any job in pretty much any industry nowadays.

[@ardalla535]

I expected a cut away to Rod Serling, "Witness one Peter Gibbons, a man caught up in his own version of hell on earth. What does one do when one can't escape? When the only door out leads to THE TWILIGHT ZONE."

[@Twisted426]

That was good...LOL

[@calisongbird]

Pat Downs I could hear that comment in my head!! 😄👍🏼

[@fromthehaven94]

But then Dr. Swanson comes along...

[@daleva187goligo]

almost flawless, although they would've said cannot instead of can't... and also... do do do do do do do do

[@cosmicgoddess5085]

Oh that’s great!! 😃👍🏻

[@SpaceMonke99]

This movie frightens me more than Alien

[@bobborggreve6803]

The saddest thing of this scene is that it´s not exaggerated at all.....

[@abehaile2659]

That slap on the back 2:08 was assault brother ☝🏾

[@romangerard1326]

love this movie! could watch this 100 times and its still funny...

[@juyalashutoshe]

me too

[@Cryo837]

Top 5 Desert Island movie!!

[@Mitche23]

So you don't work for initech?

[@iand4374]

Did comedy central read your comment? Its on CC like all day everyday it seems

[@phoebecatgirl933]

Initech is more real than you think.

[@kicknotes]

As time goes on, we learn more and more about the true origin of this movie. First, we thought it was a comedy. Then, we began to think it may actually be a documentary. Now, I think we've agreed that it's just actual CCTV footage of a real office.

[@Griffin09275]

This is the human equivalent of Free Willy

[@carlosarias2011]

Once I had a job in banking where 4 hours were spent on meetings, 1 hour writing minutes of the meeting and emailing it to everyone, 2 hours crunching work, and trying to test things before the next day meeting. Next day comes in, and more meetings trying changing things that were correct in the first place. I may exaggerate a little, but office corporate culture is like this nowadays.

[@bncnblrbr]

Movie came out my sophomore year of HS, dad got me a job at his office the summer after freshman year of college. Learned this was my future…it is my present.

[@thetvchannel1203]

37 people didn't get the memo

[@Pokenopoly]

I was going to thumb your comment up but it has 37 likes so...

[@endlessfreedomful]

Yeaaaaaaa, they probably have to come at 9 a.m on Saturday, and Sunday perhaps.

[@trakula618]

That's funny guy in 2017.... because here in 2018, 112 people didn't get it...

[@kingmiller1982]

April 2018, 122 people didn't get the memo.

[@leroylowe5921]

They're mad because someone asked them to turn down the volume.

[@TheAnimatorDave]

This clip gives me work anxiety

[@LiviesLovelies]

lolololol!

[@jxx123]

Pathetic generation

[@jamesleopard8518]

Is it because no matter how miserable 😣😖 Peter Gibbons is?

[@shakespeare4bears]

I can totally empathize with what the guy in this clip is feeling. I also really hate it when people don’t use the correct cover sheet on their TPS report.

[@guepardiez]

I'll go ahead and like this comment, mkay?

[@Sticknub]

@@guepardiez you dont need to tell someone you're liking their comment whenever you like a comment, lmao, you just do it

[@guepardiez]

@@Sticknub I was pretending to be Lumbergh.

[@Mr_Mistah]

@@Sticknub Yeah if you could just go ahead and not be cringe on the internet that would be great

[@atlantaguitar9689]

This captured the tech worker scene of the 80s and 90s amazingly well. Also the Office parks surrounded by chain restaurants each with their own special “flair”.

[@thembones1895]

Yes! Honestly though, I sorta miss that era.

[@atlantaguitar9689]

@@thembones1895 yea, there is a certain appeal that still persists.

[@PeterEhik]

It's like his mouth is moving and no one can hear him lol

[@Irshu]

Yeah..umm....if you could just go ahead and click that "like" button, that'd be great, thhaaanks....

[@thekd911]

And I'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo...

[@BeatJunkie-mq1tc]

Irshu LX I forgot the cover sheet on that like

[@Norcal1990]

😂

[@V0YAG3R]

no

[@EoinFC]

I was going to, but I just forgot that one time.

[@mahlstadt]

Lumbergh’s gold-rimmed glasses, gold brace buckles, gold tie clip, gold ring and gold watch silently send the message “I’M THE BOSS”

[@FreeBird1276]

First you have the CEO. Then the Director. His Assistant Director. Their Executive Secretary who does the bare minimum but believes she runs the place but says “that’s not my job” so she delegates while drowning the office with hairspray and perfume. Then you have the managers. Then the Supervisors. Then the co-workers who are your equal but feel it’s their place to boss you around because they brown nose management. It’s 30 years of never ending misery and working up the line of attrition If you’re lucky. Mostly it’s a job to nowhere. This movie was accurate.

[@sarahberkner]

I don't get why people stay at a job they don't like. That's entirely on the person staying at the job for 30 years.

[@PiroKUSS]

@@sarahberknerGreed/Cowardice, the worst part's when they're infested by both.

[@danthemankhan]

@@sarahberkner You aren't supposed to like your job, if you did they wouldn't need to pay you to do it. I've never heard anyone say they liked their job.

[@danthemankhan]

@@PiroKUSS If it is cowardice to want to have food and shelter, then you're right.

[@PiroKUSS]

@@danthemankhan No, that's why you look for another job while working at the one you don't like.

[@jeremiahdansereau2950]

Hello, Peter...(Spiderman Theme Starts Playing)

[@ATMAnubis]

I could listen to the guy's voice on Milton's radio for hours. If you listen carefuly starting at 0:53, you can catch a bit of what he's saying: "Several centuries later... fourteen thousand Spanish coins would be discovered in an Atlantic shipwreck of the coast of...Spain.. that were bearing the Roman Emperor Caligula on the face of each."

[@lukelichtenthal5407]

Don't you just hate when you are trying to mind your own business but then some jerk comes up to you and starts badgering you about some mundane detail? It's really annoying am I right?

[@RohanAnand417]

preach Luke

[@BurniOwnz]

+Luke Lichtenthal It's almost as if this scene was meant to make fun of exactly that. Weird.

[@lukelichtenthal5407]

Burni O Was that sarcasm?

[@Bro-cx2jc]

*Message pops up on screen* Yeeaah, if you could just go ahead and stop playing Tetris and get back to your spreadsheets... (pauses to sip coffee so loudly you can hear it from your cubicle across the room) *Message pops up on screen* ...that would be GREAT

[@manictiger]

You're missing a comma before, "but then some". You didn't double-space your sentences. You're missing a semicolon before, "am I right". So, yeaaaah, I'm gonna need you to fix that punctuation, thaaanks.

[@moreme40]

Ok thanks Milton

[@TheNighthawk00]

I have a friend who's a software developer ... and he has 9 bosses. He told me on the project he's working on there are 2 developers - my friend is one of them - and 9 Project Managers. Currently they are behind schedule, so instead of hiring a third developer which would increase the valuable workforce of the project with 50% another middle management will join the team. The bigger the company the more useless jobs and tasks there are it feels. Maybe small companies can't afford this kind of waste.

[@manco828]

I know one project has 17 managers and. 1dev.

[@fdk7014]

Everybody needs a promotion after a while so the managers keep piling up. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted to their level of incompetence. I've seen a lot of that.

[@obroni]

I feel that if Peter would just have read that memo correctly, and attached the proper TPS cover page, then this movie would have been so much more popular.

[@MischiefMeerkat]

~phone rings~ "I GOT the memo.."

[@Razl07]

Gary Cole’s performance as Lumbergh is spot on despite the fact that he’s never worked in an office!

[@GhostBestCat]

Anyone search this guy up after seeing the deer cherub from Helluva Boss xD

[@stolasgoetia93]

Yeah no... Sorry... xd Totally did.

[@jenclaire1172]

25 yrs later..still the most realistic comedy ever ❤😂❤

[@chrisnorris2076]

Ugh. I can't imagine working in an office. I've been happily employed as a utility locator, and I've worked outside for 23 years now. Wouldn't change a thing.

[@ChrisCa1601]

Even the galactic empire has to deal with the TPS reports.

[@starguy2718]

It used to drive Lord Vader nuts!

[@celticmco5672]

Look at the dry erase board in the meeting with the Bobs; at the top "Planning to Plan"...this movie is a gem.

[@stevenschiro1838]

reminds me of the meeting room in 'The Stanley Parable'. Check out those images if you haven't played it

[@lotusbandicoot]

The slow and creepy way Milton turns around at 1:02 kills me

[@bambulance2174]

He is the best character

[@michaelelliott1212]

The dude's voice about listening to the radio is so funny. Whoowee! HA!

[@Blaine10024]

Having worked in an office for nearly a decade, this is accurate.

[@ConversationalReceptionist]

As a professional receptionist firm, the way Nina answers the phone for Corporate Accounts Payable each and every time makes us physically cringe!

[@tryhardgamr3262]

Whale Den...

[@JimmyFoxhound]

That scene with Milton hits home for me lol I'll never forget the job I had years ago and they hired a guy who was in the cube next to me who was constantly falling asleep during the day. So his boss got him this buzzer that would buzz if he started to slump over and go to sleep and I would sit there all day with this constant buzzing noise coming over the cube wall and one day he just went to sleep and the buzzing wouldn't stop and I about lost my mind I looked over the cube and was like "WAKE UP!!!!!" He just mumbled like Milton here🤣🤣This movie is funny but it brings back so many bad memories 😫

[@sarahberkner]

I wonder if he had narcolepsy?

[@bryansanchez8448]

I can watch this movie over and over and never get tired of it 😂🤣

[@LeagueofShadows2021]

LMAOO I love how he explained everything to avoid that crappy conversation again and the dude still went on rambling about the new policy 2:00

[@anaashb9838]

One of the few times I talked back to a new manager I said, "I'm gonna have to train you on how to take YES for an answer."

[@danthemankhan]

Manager: Oh boy.

[@anim8r_annie]

Gawd, I think I'm having flashbacks to when I worked help desk 20 years ago! :p lol

[@davidbrusilovsky1877]

They just wait for their turn to talk, not actually listen to their employee. Its pretty frustrating when someone does that to you.

[@20thcenturyrelic]

Perfect description of my last boss. And she thought she was a good listener and people manager.

[@sirsaint88]

This movie is timeless, funny, and painful at the same time.

[@Sully2001]

Mandalorian brought be back here...before that it was a Darth Vader meme lol

[@yamnayaseed356]

Why Mandalorian?

[@danial_amini]

@@yamnayaseed356 I'm also super confused!

[@rapbattlefan2008]

When Peter says he has 8 bosses here is my hypothesis for who they are: -Bill Lumbergh (obviously) -Dom Portwood (again, obviously) -the guy on the phone who asked if he got the memo -Milton, who asserts that he can listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from 9-11 -his two friends that (again) ask him if he got the memo -the two Bobs Just my theory

[@TactileCoder]

There's a strong correlation between the frequency by which I watch this video and my departure from my current place of employment. I guess it's that time again.

[@forman208]

Lmao

[@kayteelove1991]

It's been two years now, did you depart?

[@TactileCoder]

@@kayteelove1991 I did. Best decision I ever made.

[@nik1128]

I just quit today. Feels amazing 😀

[@andrasbrnk7863]

@@TactileCoder Happy for you

[@larrythefitz.9605]

The golden years of silicon valley, version 1.0

[@jt-ff3yx]

They forgot the phone call about the TPS report. That was the funniest one!

[@chillo5687]

I used to think this movie was a comedy, Now I realize it is a tragedy

[@craigjohnson4271]

Documentary.

[@jamesleopard8518]

Why do you think it was a comedy?

[@kellyfeger]

In today's offices, you no longer get your own personal cubical space. It's gotten worse from when this film was shot.

[@pinkfloydfan92]

Yes! The office is very passive aggressive!

[@paulsc4689]

Theres something so depressing about early 2000s late 90s offices

[@HovisSteve]

No doubt they're wonderful places now though, right? Riiight?

[@DarkestKnight111]

I cannot begin to express how accurately this movie nails not only office culture, but the soul-crushing nature of this work. Not much longer before I unplug myself from this matrix.

[@footbaht6401]

Hope you made it, bud

[@rogermouton2273]

0:05 the expression on my face when talking to my boss about the one bit of meaningless, stupid admin work I missed, among all the stupid, meaningless admin work I'm made to do

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Office bullshit. Why I haven't worked in an office or for anyone other than me for over 20 years.

[@Cookieboy70]

+Frankincensed I thought it was a just a joke...then the whole TPS report scenario happened to me with the 2 bosses coming to me b'sing me about a report format. I was dumbstruck.

[@AutomaticDuck300]

+Cookieboy70 Do you need another memo?

[@Frankincensedjb123]

I think I love this movie, one, because it's just so damn funny, two, it's dead on, I know many of these characters, and it portrays the office / corporate bullshit so well. Working in an office for me was the closest I've ever come to experiencing communism.

[@westonstevens3239]

Mad props man. I am working on doing this.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

***** "Flair, more flair."

[@AllHaiLKINGTIsHeRe3]

Yeeaaah, uh, I'm gonna go ahead and say that this is a great movie. And uh, if you could go ahead and sort of....agree with me on this, that would be greeeaaat, mkay?

[@cordeliachase601]

AllHaiLKINGTIsHeRe3 I hate when people say Mkay. It’s OKAY not mkay.

[@ermonski]

@@cordeliachase601 somebody's got a case of the mondays

[@leonusumacinta9190]

No y-yea I got it, its a great movie. I saw it. You know, at home. On my laptop. Yea. *Secretly thinking about wanting to jump out the window and fall to my death, indifferent, face*

[@stephendoherty8291]

2019- now we have laptops/conference calls/smartphones/wireless/hot desking/fancy interior office designs/stock options and yet nothing has changed. Still the same office crap. And we wonder why 70% of workers have no interest in their jobs....

[@ProtoMario]

This is basically how it goes, corporate tells district, who sends an email to everyone, manager tells everyone in metting, asm tells everyone in morning and night meeting, supervisors tell everyone twice, associates tell everyone again, lmao.

[@scf7334]

I love that Lundberg is wearing a class ring - lol! Nice touch that adds to his douchiness!

[@wolverinewx88]

I've always done landscaping and construction work w/ water pipes, drains and such. If I had a office job like that I'd go absolutely insane by the end of my first month.