Thread 212306979

This movie fails to capture how truly awful the office is, where is the woman forcing everyone to do secret santa and then complaining not one of the guys wants to help and they are all sexist? Where is the sound of high heels that sound like horses trotting around from office to office while they make fake laughs that sound like a donkey? Its so much worse than this movie depicts.

>wahhhh i have a stable job that’s not being taken over my minorities my life is so heckin weckin hard
suck my nuts, gen x

This zoomer just tried to turn the sound of high heels into a bad thing. A truly perverse generation.

I absolutely hated office life and construction

Now I work in a small warehouse where I do a mix of driving a forklift and going on the computer. I'm honestly so much happier here

>>212307042
>not being taken over my minorities

>>212307050
He doesn’t speak for all of us anon. I want those high heels to step on me.

>>212307093
i meant to say “by”. i don’t proof-read. such a big fucking deal.

Mike judge thought the idea of manually editing code written in the 70s, on computers from the 80s, in the 90s, so 40+ year old code could continue to be used in the 00s, as a “full time” temporary employee who was about to be laid off by “efficiency consultants” because the job was finished, was sufficiently psychotic/horrifying.

>>212307093
>minor grammar mistake
>”he must be indian”
it’s beyond over. shut this garbage website down.

The worst thing about office jobs is being surrounded by bitchy women. They feed off each others negative energy. They look for weak people and target them behind their back. If that person moves to another job then there is a chance they may turn on one of their own. Their passive aggressive comments and condescending tone really wears you down after a while. I have never heard a group of guys doing that shit.

>>212307042
Manually editing software for y2k compliance in the year 1999 wasn’t “a stable job” and wouldn’t be outsourced to minorities because it wasn’t going to be an occupation after 1999

If you were alive in the late 90s, you’d remember tons of commercials for jobs “in computers” with no degrees/certifications required a 50k a year we’ll train you, because of the desperate crunch to ensure everything was y2k compliant. Then after the date rolled over all these people were laid off.

>>212307071
Sounds comfy

>>212307209
My approach was to call the lead hen on her shit then make it a point to not speak to her again unless it was directly work related; I wouldn’t even acknowledge her presence when we passed each other or were in the break room together. Man that bitch hated me. I also had another job lined up, so maybe do that.

>>212307295
It is.
Can get boring sometimes but I'd fucking take this over breaking my back in 100 degree weather or listening to the women beside me talk about their menstrual cycles

>>212307423

Im attending interviews atm and hoping to move away from a bitchy environment. I havent even told them im attending interviews because they would start in on me. I am so ready to call them out but have to bite my tongue in case im stuck with them another couple of months. One of them actually read my work when i wasnt looking and then said to a friend 20 minutes later than she was thinking about why we write down x on this y form because i hadnt done it.

>>212307800
I’m sorry anon, I know it’s a drag. If you’re forced to work in an environment like that, short of going full nuclear and shutting them down completely I’d say read some Dale Carnegie and put on your fakest shit eating grin but don’t engage. Good luck to you buddy.

>>212306979 (OP)
Giving up 8 hours of your day 5 days a week for something you're only in for the money is always shit, no matter what. Even the best possible office-environment is misery.

>>212307894
This

Most people hate their jobs and will always wish they were doing something else. That's the hardest lesson in life

>>212307887

I have to think though that there is a certain freedom in just ostracising yourself. The same way a christian will live a happy life despite his family disowning him. If I dont get the job I might just come out say that Id rather not have this conversation with you or why are you asking my opinion when you have no interest in what i have to say? At least you've said what you needed to say. Let them talk behind my back, they do it already.

>>212308027
There is and I enjoyed it, but it also made me a lightning rod and would be exceedingly difficult for someone even remotely sociable. The funny part to me was that some of the lesser hens would come to me to try and talk shit about the lead hen. I basically told them to fuck off as well if it wasn’t work related but it was an interesting object lesson in how the “pecking order” works. Have another job lined up, this is important.

>>212307985
>>212307894
This. I have worked both construction and now am working in an engineering firm. Both suck in their own ways. Offices are the worst for someone like me. I hate Teams meetings, the ping noise Teams makes, mandatory DEI training, working with women, working with cucked faggot men, being rewarded for performance with corporate pizza parties. I hate apps nights. I hate team building. I hate the clothes you’re forced to wear. I hate the language you’re forced to adopt. Moving forward, circle back, champion this, close out that. I hate the artificial lighting. Offices are truly the worst.
Call someone a faggot on a construction site and they either laugh or punch you. Call someone a faggot, or a bitch, or a pussy in an office and you’re fired, even if they’re being a faggot, bitch, or pussy. If women were in 100% control, every aspect of society would be some shade of office life.

>>212308296
It’s all part of the same dynamic. The movie is about how office life is so hellish it can break you psychologically. I see nothing wrong.

>>212306979 (OP)
This movie completely falls apart in the third act.

I have never worked full time doing hard labour but anytime ive volunteered to do gardening or landscaping of any kind i have felt more fulfilled. That being said, volunteering is different than having to earn to survive. I have often thought about switching but probably would hate it just as much.

>>212307209
>I have never heard a group of guys doing that shit.
Clearly never worked in construction

>>212308425
You mean when Peter is about to be fast-tracked into upper management because he stopped giving a fuck about his job and pivots because he does still give a fuck about his friends who are going to be fired?

>>212308425
Greasy, spectacled, Upper management hands wrought this post. All you had to do was not take his stapler, Lumberg! You take a man's tools and he has nothing to lose.
>>212308296
Too busy laughing at OP having a melty (and his possible samefriend buttbuddy) because he had a typo, sorry.

>>212306979 (OP)
I work from home now just to avoid all the weird office bullshit:
>colleagues repeating the same phrases and inane chat daily with exactly the same tone
>that one woman so obsessed with her kids, she brings them up every day, even shoehorning them in to conversations she's not even a part of
>the passive-aggressive battle over the temperature, it's like it's never allowed to be cool, even on a hot day
>expected to be a part of the tea run, even if you don't drink tea
>expected to bring cake on your birthday, even if you don't celebrate your birthday
>people avoiding following process and just walking up to you directly and asking for favours that never help your annual review
>random cleaners and workmen turning up, interrupting what you're doing to put a ladder up and check shit like fire-alarms next to your ear
>trying to take a Teams call, and colleagues are listening in and trying to get involved whilst you or the other person is talking
>all equipment is that trashy "ergonomic" shit that isn't actually comfortable and doesn't support you
I hate offices.

>>212310786
I almost forgot one that pissed me off recently when I was going to go in for a meeting
>temperature outside is so fucking hot, but you still have to wear a shirt, tie, and trousers, never allowed shorts... despite women all wearing skirts and dresses
Get fucked, I'll dress how I want.

>>212310833
I'm sure they'll let you wear skirts and dresses in the modern office. If not, sue for discrimination.

>>212310954
I won't debase myself and stoop to that level.

Office jobs are miserably inefficient due to worthless middle management positions.

>>212306979 (OP)
What I’d give for a cubicle. We switched buildings, and go figure part of that involved switching to an “open office.” I work helpdesk taking calls all day, and people calling in tell me it now sounds like a call center in India… what a difference 3 walls makes. I guess gen x/boomers thought they deserved offices? Or were they too stupid to understand that cubicle walls absorb sound?

>>212311241
Because the people who make, write, star in and like movies like this or agree with the sentiment "cubicles bad" actually belong at Starbucks, McDonald's or bartending. They want to be around others, socializing, and don't understand that SOMEone has to do the fucking work. If the social butterflies would just quit, so much more could get done that we might automatically enter a golden age.

>>212311241
My open office has security guards who literally get 5 minutes of action a week if they're lucky, so they do the rounds of standing in front of every single desk to talk about YouTube videos or what they're having for lunch or any number of inane topics.
One of the guards is the biggest Trump guy in the UK. He's constantly bringing up edgy political topics in a government building. He's so unfiltered that all it would take is a single HR report to get him disciplined/possibly sacked.
Then the people who are unofficial hall monitors
>Anon, you can't use a hotspot on your personal phone, even if the internet's gone out. It's insecure!
>Anon, you can't wear trainers to work!
>Anon, you can't plug ANYTHING into your laptop, not even a USB fan in 30 degree heat
Police explicitly says you can, but everyone just believes the bullshit.

>>212307050
Ya because they’re worn by some gen X hag or wall adjacent millenial

>>212307135
That’s why your’e getting jeeted. Too entitled to spellcheck.

>>212311682
>high heels are perverse because girls my age wear crocs

>>212311241
>“open office.” I work helpdesk taking calls all day, and people calling in tell me it now sounds like a call center in India
>>212308268
>. I hate Teams meetings, the ping noise Teams makes,

i have you beat. my last job (in which every step of the interview i asked for telework even saying i would take less pay for it and being told we could work something out) most the managers were telework but all the peons had to be in office so all meetings were teams meetings and my co-workers all sat in semi-open office desks next to me so any time they talked in a meeting i would hear an echo from hearing them irl and then a slight delay to hear them in the teams meeting

females, open office, dress codes, hr, and being autistically against telework are the things killing office work and making it nearly unbearable

best i ever got along at work was a warehouse job with two mexicans and we would spend all day calling each other racial slurs. the only co-workers i still talk to and its been almost a decade since i had the job

>>212312007
>used to be girls would wear heels to make their asses stick out
>now they just wear leggings
Not sure how to feel about it tbqh

>>212307071
This

Even other women hate the intense passive-aggression, and fakeness, and pressure to invest time in pointless shit like Secret Santa or weekly meetings about nothing.

But if you say "that shit is dumb, leave me alone," the women and weak men act like you're a terrorist. It's an insane victim/groupthink cage. If you're strong minded, you're hated for not being a weak victim.

Manual labor is direct. If you contribute, you're immediately appreciated. There's not 5 layers of useless people emailing around. And it usually pays better than a stupid office gig.

>>212307146
>refactor COBOL written by John Smith vs javascript written by Sundar Patel
very, very easy choice

>>212306979 (OP)
I have one coworker who trained me at my office job and I'm relieved when he's not there. He always stops by my desk to talk but only ever talks about "gotcha" games whatever the fuck that is and yugioh. He also asks wildly personal questions like how much I make or how much money is in my bank account.

>>212312386
Things getting worse doesn’t mean they were great before.

>>212312481
Are you his "Secret Santa"?

>>212312544
things getting worse means they were less bad before

>>212312558
Is that some kind of Zoomer slang for buttsex?

>>212312481
I think he likes you and is sizing you up as a partner anon

>start new job
>have 0.3 second interaction with a female co-worker on the first day and can already tell shes an insufferable bitch who i will never be able to get along with and management will never do anything about and it is eventually going to be the single main reason i move on to another job and now its just a waiting game for how long i need to stay on before quitting and have it not reflect badly on me

i hate these re-run episodes

The first time I worked an office job, as a college student doing a summer internship, I quickly discovered a new fetish, panty lines in office skirts. It was a hard summer.

I work in an office. It's such an easy job. People who work office jobs should be grateful. I mean, after all, you are not going to reinvent the wheel if you were set loose upon the world. A greedy motherfucker is paying for your toilet privileges. That's really something.

>>212312614
just bore them. make every interaction like wading through mud. they'll fuck off and keep things strictly professional/need-to-know after that.

>>212312481
normal gatcha brainrot

>>212312567
Being in the employ of people who have no idea what you do or how to improve your working conditions is very much worse than being in the employ of someone with similar certifications.

But hey, keep misunderstanding office space if it helps you cope.

>>212312694
it corrupts your sovl and youre spending the majority of your life there instead of doing literally anything else. its cliché but you may as well talk about how prison is great

>>212312614

I have really no clue how some of these women become the cunts they are. Its not like single cat ladies; some have husbands and kids. They sometimes have a better social life than you but they are just cunts.

>>212312481
This is the one upside about offices. Everything is recorded by email or cameras or both. If someone is fucking with you, document the date, time, and location of each occurrence. Do this quietly for 60-90 days. Then send it to a supervisor. The supervisor will 1000% be a drone idiot. They will be so scared at getting in trouble by the info, they will absolutely retaliate by putting you on a Performance Improvement Plan for a bullshit reason, or moving you for a bullshit reason, or outright firing you for a bullshit reason. This is what you want! Once they do so, file with the EEOC (free of charge) for retaliation. Then find an employment attorney who works on contingency (will take your case for free then collect 40% or so of what you win).

>tl;dr
Make money completely legally by snitching on your company if they violate employment laws.

>>212306979 (OP)
>This movie fails to capture how truly awful the office is
The point is it's not actually that bad so long as you choose to be a good dog. The premise of Office Space is that the office is only a bad place if you actually have the will to strike off on your own way, which 80% of people do not and most people will just take as an excuse to do the bare minimum out of spite, falsely believing they are worth more than they actually are, like the protagonisy who just ends up becoming a debris janny.

I wish I could make something with my hands and feel pride in my work. Unfortunately the only jobs that pay decently are office jobs.

The job search for those are humiliating. The way HR makes you jump through hoops and answer their irrelevant questions is enough to make any man go insane.

>>212312770
The big question: what are you going to do if you are not employed. Become that Dalai Lama?

>>212312722
>>212312722
>just bore them. make every interaction like wading through mud. they'll fuck off and keep things strictly professional/need-to-know after that.

it doesnt work like that zoomie. its not a "personal" thing like i dont know how to be around people i dont like. if a non-white person or female doesnt like you in an office then its just constant HR issues, getting yelled at by bosses, assigned extra work for no benefit, unpaid overtime, passed over promotions, etc until youre fired or you quit

>>212312752
you're making up things in your head to argue with and then declaring victory. unhealthy behavior.

>>212306979 (OP)
>This movie fails to capture how truly awful the office is, where is
agreed, i think the beginning of 'Most Wanted' captures the dread of office work perfectly

>>212312889
the dalai lama is employed by the cia

>>212312889
Yes

When you do know you've hit your lowpoint? When you start to believe those youtube money making ads? When you get excited because work has allowed everyone an extra 10 minutes at lunch? When you date a woman as miserable as you and you are forced to stay in your dead end job to support her and the kids? When you reach retirement age and the young boss drops hints about lesser hours?

I like being employed. I want to utilize every single brain cell available to me, in order to make my employer happy.

>>212312814
>so i see here you worked at Acme Offices in 2023, could you tell me a bit about why you moved on so soon?

>>212312960
Chinese detected

white collar working in 2001:
>humming fluorescent tube lighting
>whirring and clicking of ancient hard drives and fans
>some crappy radio playing top 40 hits all day
>easy, but relatively boring work
>drinks in the pub with the decent colleagues makes it worth it

white collar working in 2025:
>endless teams meetings telling incompetent workers in Bumgalore and Smellsreallybad what to do
>mandatory indoctrination training organised by highlighter gen z girlies
>only company events are some shitty informal stand up in a coffee shop

>>212312991
speaking from my own life, i think its the money making ads thing. proof of how desperate you are and how there are no bright lights ahead you can see

>>212313031
nigger detected

>>212306979 (OP)
Those are problems that didn't really exist back then. They could certainly do a good remake including the girlboss meme, but they wont

>>212308634
Well when ya put it that way

>>212307121
>BACK UP IN YO ASS WITH THE RESURRECTION

>2025
>printers still don't work

>>212308296
>discussing the assumptions underlying the film's premise is not talking about the movie

>>212313028
>Get dicked in the ass for the cred
If you actually believe in this mindset, you have to stop.

Corporations can make money without absolutely fucking workers. It's that simple.

They want us fighting each other to get dicked in the ass. They *don't* want us respecting each other and ourselves and being like "Hey is it really necessary for you to treat me like shit? Let's go to court and find out."

>start new job
>chillest, most competent, and friendliest person is a fat black female

these twists are starting to be impossible to see coming

>>212307209
Maybe because of my industry but I have the opposite problem. I hate how they're always happy all the time, as they come up with the dumbest shit imaginable (for someone else to work on). And of course they giggle constantly because they know their ideas are shit and use cuteness to deflect any criticism. You aren't allowed to make them cry which means you aren't allowed to critique or overhaul their dumbass ideas in any way

>>212312991
I'm not a retard so conditions getting progressively worse at my job pushed me toward and over the edge into realizing it's my own fault I'm in the position I'm in because I failed to take as much accountability for my conditions and life over all as possible

too many manchildren accept that life happens to them and they can't flip the dynamic

>>212313232
same with me but I've been in my position for a few years and it's my assistant manager of about a year

>>212313279
>just put her in her place bro

>>212307042
>Office jobs
>Not being taken over by minorities
lmao I fucking wish, it's even more soul crushing than before

>>212313187
>just make yourself unemployable to prove some abstract point dude

>>212313329
if you're supposedly an adult and you haven't learned from the jews and real life experience that women are supposed to be psychologically manipulated then that is your bad

>>212312991
>When you do know you've hit your lowpoint?
liver test results come in

>>212313432
That's the secret: never go to the doctor and you'll never die

>>212313316
>>212313232

i think its some sort of horseshoe shit where the anger of white men at the state of things and the untouchability of super-POC allowing them to act however they want both result in a similar personality sometimes. someone whos angry at bullshit and just wants to get shit done and leave all the bullshit behind because they have other shit to think/worry about than a dumb fucking office job and its politics

>>212313592
real antivaxxers have fact checked this post as 100% true

>>212313396
What you're forgetting is that females who act and think like women are at home taking care of children, not bullshitting their way up the corporate ladder.

>>212313947
being a federal employee during the time i got to disobey a direct order from the president and be told by the government i was right (eventually)

>do literally nothing
>get to feel like a gigachad badass

its just that easy lads

>>212313232
>negress doesn't care about work performance, wants to talk about her weaves
news at 11

>>212312185
I think I’ve got you beat. I once was in a Teams meeting where every single person in the meeting was in the office sitting next to each other at their open plan desks. We could have gone to a conference room, they were there and available. No one thought this was odd. Work is like high school in that it’s such a historical irregularity to be forced to interact all day in a work environment with complete strangers.

>>212306979 (OP)
Get a better job where you aren't surrounded by retards OP.

>>212307042
the movie literally explains that their jobs will be outsourced to Asia in the movie

>>212314152
I was working at Wright Patterson AFB at the time. I remember a all employees who disobeyed the vax order were let go, then like a year later they had to be rehired with backpay. Chads all of them

>>212307042
>office job
>stable
You're an idiot.

>office work
>all of the work is basically make-work useless tasks for the sake of doing something for someone
>half the workforce (women) literally don't do anything not even answer emails

>>212307042
fr maybe the 90s were bad for them in the moment but they can't possibly fathom how horrible it would get 20 years later

>>212307121
Source please. Googling "office space printer parody brazzers" comes up with jack shit.

>>212313232
I was a walmart assistant GM equivalent, its true there too. They know HR will never touch them so they will call out bad customers shit and tell shitty managers to fuck off. As long as you don't expect above the job description they are good employees. Kind of like union guys, or people who did years as an E3 in the service. They have to be fat and over 35 though.