I've never really understood movie lists. They're always curated under titles like, "The 40 Greatest Zombie Love Stories," or, "Four Dozen Julia Roberts Legal Thrillers You May Have Missed." The ones I really don't get begin with, "The 100 Greatest...
I don't know about you, but I don't think there are 100 movies, total, worth watching twice. A list of 100 Greatest Movies wouldn't need any additional qualifiers. There are maybe a hundred great movies, period. Even a good movie is pretty rare. Office Space is a good movie.
It's good because it played small ball. It used offbeat actors and looked at mundane things in a fresh way. Your job sucks and you're lonesome and your boss is just going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in on Saturday. Galaxy Quest came out the same year, and had the same fresh feeling despite the subject matter being pretty well picked over already.
If I had to explain to an alien what the American cultural and business landscape looked like when the clock was about to strike the millennium, I'd show them Office Space. Since they were aliens, I'd have it dubbed in Spanish. The movie is a Swiss army knife of quotes, too. There's one for every occasion. Let's look at the business news today, and see if the little world Mike Judge invented between the lo-pile carpeting and the drop ceiling of Initech still holds up:
What's More Distracting Than A Noisy Co-Worker? Turns Out, Not Much
I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.
American Apparel Prepares to File for Bankruptcy, Again
I'll bet I'm the first one laid off! Just the thought of having to go to the state unemployment office and stand in line with those SCUMBAGS...
Twitter Shareholder Sues CEO and Board Members Over Inflated Share Price
The ratio of people to cake is too big.
Theranos founder: From billionaire to 'nothing'
I don't know, man. I just get that feeling lookin' at her like she's the type of chick that just... [shudders]
Bank watchdogs hunt for Wells Fargo fake account copycats
We get caught laundering money, we're not going to white-collar resort prison. No, no, no. We're going to federal POUND ME IN THE *** prison.
25 Fastest Growing Freelance Skills
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
Verizon Executive Says Yahoo Deal ‘Absolutely’ Still Makes Sense
Good luck with your layoffs, all right? I hope your firings go really well.
Sex Can Relieve Severe Headaches
I'm thinking I might take that new chick from Logistics. If things go well I might be showing her my O-face. "Oh... Oh... Oh!" You know what I'm talkin' about. "Oh!"
Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4 Billion in IPO
I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything that I thought it could be.
Groupon Buys LivingSocial, a Rival Once Valued at $6 Billion
Milt, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?
Gun Sales Surging in Election Year
That's what I'm talkin' about when I talk about America!
