got a case of the "mundays"??

so i was sitting there in my computer chair watching office space... and i was wondering how right on this movie is..

i know that at the time it was made most likely strait and narrow... when it comes to the office... most notably the suit pants and tie

and another thing... are there actualy people who use terms like

"showing her my 'oh' face"
and
"sounds like someone has a case of the mundays"


so my question for you security officials and office members of AO to share with us the horror stories of buisness life... for thoes of us who are still in school, college, or blue collar

anything is game, stupid people making stupid mistakes, stupid people with stupid phrases, go nuts


there has to be at least ONE bill lumburegh out there... i know it...

Sorry, I can't answer your question as I am not at that point in my life yet. I just wanted to say that Office Space is the greatest movie of all time :). Maybe someone will see this and respond on Monday. Peace.

Well from my 20 years in the IT industry, I can tell you this. Office Space is NOT - I REPEAT NOT a work of fiction. It is a documentary on corporate America and what it's stupidity can lead a person to do.

First. In every environment I've worked in, be it Manufacturing, Health Care, Department Of Defense, consulting, whatever; every entity says the same thing "Our business processes are unique" Translation: "We have no Idea how we do what we do".

Second. If you spend 33% of your time in meetings and 33% of your time reporting on the work you were asked to do in the meetings, and 20% of your time actually working. You're an employee

If you spend 40% of your time in meetings and 20% of you time reporting on work needing to be accomplished. You're a manager

If you spend 50% of your time in meetings and 40% of you time reporting - You're a director.

If you spend 20% of your time setting up meetings and 80% of your time discussing what needs to be discussed in up coming meetings You're senior vp in charge of whatever.


Techs cannot be managers. Programmers can not be anything other than programmers.

Managers will hire recent college grads to do "Code Reviews" on programs written by people with YEARS of experience.

As a network admin, engineer, hardware / software security etc... employee: You are an idiot. As a consultant that has little to no training and is paid 5x the rate of any employee. You are God and can make no mistakes.

Anyone who works in IT (If their good and know their stuff) only does about 15min of actual work in any given day. The rest of the time they are doing what they like - which looks work related.

Senior management will never understand OOP Open Source dynamic or real time. They will never understand the difference between a spread sheet and a database. And while I'm on that subject, how come I can't just store all my old email in the deleted items folder?

I had an "incident" with a work fax/printer that was similar to the scene in the movie. (Where they destroy it)

"PC load letter?! What the ***** does that mean??"

All I can really say in response to Jarrods post is "Damn it feels good to be a gangsta"

Yea its true corporate life sucks. Office space is like peoples court "names have been changed to protect the innocent". Thats just all there is to it.

Oh yea, not only will the dictionary not help but neither will Google

define:Money Laundering =

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&...ney+Laundering

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Anyone who works in IT (If their good and know their stuff) only does about 15min of actual work in any given day. The rest of the time they are doing what they like - which looks work related.

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and that my friends is the gods honest truth of it. Damn it is good to be the king.

i look foward to working in an office... in the IT department... im weird i guess :P

sitting infront of any computer all day is better then sitting in a cramped little ass desk listening to "the civil war pros and cons" and taking notes on "mitosis... the wonders of cell reproduction"....


"damn it.. lawrence can't you just pretend like we can't hear each other through the wall..."

I have the whole office space soundtrack and the DVD... now they are releasing a new DVD with more flair im excited! lol :)

Im gonna make a Jump to Conclusions Mat

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i look foward to working in an office... in the IT department... im weird i guess :P

sitting infront of any computer all day is better then sitting in a cramped little ass desk listening to "the civil war pros and cons" and taking notes on "mitosis... the wonders of cell reproduction"....


"damn it.. lawrence can't you just pretend like we can't hear each other through the wall..."

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LOL --- As far as I can remember, the square root of an isosceles triangle is equal to the 'a sexuality' of Killing a Mocking Bird. Maybe it's How to Kill a Blue Jay; or slaying a Klingon - don't remember.

Maybe it's

P=pRuT over M


where p is pressure, ñ is density, Ru is the gas constant M is the molecular weight and T is temperature.


Either way the only constant in the Universe is beauracacy and there is no flow.

Sorry about this but I love math, physics and Logic. Non of which apply to Corporate America

Peace -- Dino

woot! i love physics

Wnet=*Delta*KE

Ef=Ei
Mf=Mi

E=MC^2 *i actualy know what that relates to know*

i hate... i HATE doing force problems when you have to split Gravity and/or Normal force into components...

Fgx and Fgy... Hnx and Fny... then go into trig... woot... much fun there...


i kick ass at finding coefficent of frictions though :)

and mew is fun to say

Yo hex:

/start tangent

can you add 7+19 in your head?

Can you find the area under the curve without a caculator?

/end tangent

EDIT: and mew is fun to say...... No ****

"You appear to be missing work?"

"I wouldn't say I was missing it" :D

great movie, works for the UK too
and don't you just wish you too could unscrew the cubicle :p

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And while I'm on that subject, how come I can't just store all my old email in the deleted items folder?

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LOL, that's one of my favorites, and I can't tell you how many times that has happened..



I've been a network admin ever since I graduated college (almost 5 years ago now) and I've seen enough stupidity in that short time to last a lifetime. You guys that aren't in that world yet wouldn't believe the amount of dumbass things you'll see in a day - it never ceases to amaze me... :rolleyes:

Ok, on thread - I'd be more inclined to say that Dilbert is much more spot-on than Office Space, but both have their merits.

now off on the tangent -

I opened page 2 and saw all these wonderful equations - and nuclear physics popped into my head...so a challenge to you all:

Outline the volumetric flow rate equation for a closed system and describe how it is applied to nuclear physics, specifically nuclear reactor cooling.

(I actually understand that one too!)

I'm only a repair techie and the amount of stupid sh*t that people want covered under waranty continues to amaze me...

There is one office that I visit a fair amount of times a month and every time it looks like someone took their laptop, peed on it, threw it against a wall, ran it over, peed on it some more, and beat the hard drive with a hammer. Then, after I replace pretty much the whole thing... they'll ask me where they can find their old files. I swear to god, 90% of the crap I replace shouldn't even be covered under waranty.

"Uh, someone shot threw the screen and now it doesn't turn on.... "

woah we are only on ch 5 and 6 in our physics book :P :D

and i thought closed systems didnt exist?... or is that just for the sake of the problem at hand

what i really cant wait to study though is string theory... *drool*.... who DOESNT like the idea that we are all made of pure energy attached to a demensional pancake

"ot a case of the "mundays"??"

I believe you'd get your ass kicked saying something like that.

.... WTF you take a cool movie about... Well, wanna be BOFHs and start **** about MATH???? Ugh

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what i really cant wait to study though is string theory... *drool*.... who DOESNT like the idea that we are all made of pure energy attached to a demensional pancake

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energy is not created or destroyed = only changes form

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Well, wanna be BOFHs and start **** about MATH???? Ugh

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All ANY computer can do is add ones and zeros.

Basic math, Boolean logic, and theory are the beginning and middle / not end of computers.

Logic can take you only so far. Nand gates and Nor Gates were created by people. Don't do the math, don't get the software.

A deeper meaning of Office Space - Those who got it and those who do not.

evergy is constant, therefore conserved... except in the case of friction, but energy is still constant through out the known universe

string theory says we are all made of pure energy .. "strings" or archs of energy attached to a dimension... the only thing not to be a string of energy bonded to the dimension are gravitions if i remember correctly...

and there are 11 dimensions in the string theory...layered together like pancakes...

also goes into calabi-yau spaces... woot

ok im done

/end crazy math - back on topic ;)

I will agree, my office life seems to look a little more Dibertish than like Office Space.

Cant believe noone mentioned TPS reports!

Dom Portwood: Hello, Peter. What's happening? We need to talk about your TPS reports.
Peter Gibbons: Yeah. The coversheet. I know, I know. Uh, Bill talked to me about it.
Dom Portwood: Yeah. Uh, did you get that memo?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah. I got the memo. And I understand the policy. The problem is, I just forgot this one time. And I've already taken care of it so it's not even a problem anymore.
Dom Portwood: Yeah. It's just that we're putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports *before* they go out now. So if you could just remember to do that from now on, that'd be great. All right!

or

Michael Bolton: If we get caught, we're not going to white-collar resort prison. No, no, no. We're going to federal POUND ME IN THE @SS prison.
Samir: I don't want to go to ANY prison!

lastly

Bill Lumbergh: Ahh, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in on Sunday, too...

Friday is Hawaiian Shirt day

The part in the movie that I can mostly relate to is the drive in.

I've swore up and down that I'm gonna quit my job because of the drive. And get this... its only 15 miles! But it takes me an hour of stop and go and people coming so close to ramming into me that my face is full of blood and I'm steaming out of my collar.

I'm IT and I have to dress up to get dirty. What kind of stuff is that!?

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I'm IT and I have to dress up to get dirty. What kind of stuff is that!?

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I know!! WTF ?!? I do not need a button-up shirt and tie to fix a freakin laptop!! Most the time, the tie just gets in my way.

back off topic

A tool for dmorgan and anyone else supporting stupid users.

hi miton, whats happening... say.. where gonna have to move you down to storage B....

...and I used to be by the window and there was a family of blue jay's but then they moved me, and my stapler had a spring action but I could just put strychnine in the water cooler...

AND I said NO SALT, no salt, I'll report you to the bureau of tourism... put strychnine in the guacamole

i just get that feeling looking at her... that she would be the kinda chick to.... buhhhh....
*worried stare*
oh.. im sorry man... im.. im just talking out of my ass

I believe you have my stapler.

I'm going to set the building on fire.

back up in your ass with that ressurection