"M'yeah, I'm gonna need you to..." Gary Cole and Ron Livingston in "Office Space" (1999). When I think of the movie 'Office Space,' I think of...
- "A case of the Mon-days"
- TPS reports
- "Pieces of flair"
- "Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta"
- O face
- Stapler
- A "Jump to Conclu-sions" mat
- PC Load Letter
- Lum-bergh
- "Two chicks at the same time"
As soon as the boss steps out of the office I...
- Get on the Internet
- Text my friends
- Quit pretending to work so damn hard
- Turn up the radio
- Go home
- Get more done with less pressure
- Take candy from his candy jar
- Check Facebook
- Smoke
- Call my friends
Best downtown after-work happy hour
- Brit's Pub
- The Local
- Kieran's Irish Pub
- McCormick and Schmick's
- Rossi's
- The Imperial Room
- Drink
- The News Room
- Pizza Lucé
- Ike's Food & Cocktails
Subtle ways to annoy a co-worker
- Cause a printer jam and walk away
- Listen to voicemail on speakerphone
- Clip your fingernails
- Talk on the phone loudly
- Click on the keyboard loudly
- Eat crunchy things
- Laugh loudly for no reason
- Enter their office without knocking
- Chew gum with your mouth open
- Go into their office uninvited and stare out the window
Items that tempt you at the company vending machine
- Twix
- Snickers
- Cheetos
- Cheez-Its
- Pretzels
- White Cheddar Cheez-Its
- T.G.I Friday's Potato Skins snack chips (surprisingly less evil than most!)
- Milky Way
- Sugary sodas
- Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Things I hate about my job
- Not earning enough money
- Working on projects I'm never proud of at the end
- The gossip is like an old-lady knitting circle
- Being treated like a high-schooler
- My monitor is a 15-incher from 1990
- Boredom
- No window within 300 feet of me
- My cubicle
- Rarely a feeling of accomplishment at the end of a day
- My boss sees everything I do on Vita.mn
Signs you work in an office
- You know who is coming down the hallway by the sound of them walking
- You know people who use background images and pink calligraphy fonts in their e-mails
- You make frequent trips to the water cooler
- You have to schedule everything in Outlook, including the occasional lunch
- Your co-workers take 45-minute "coffee" breaks
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