Office Space
Office Space has an insider's view of the politics, processes, and jargon of working in a large, controlled office space. Procedures and appearances are everything. Someone who does no work can be rewarded provided that he (a) stays nestled in his cubicle, (b) looks busy, and (c) fills out all his TPS cover sheets flawlessly and on time. Then there are the little things we're all familiar with: FAX machines that display a "paper jam" error when no paper is jammed anywhere, bosses whose smooth-talking voices threaten to induce instant catatonia, computers that take forever to shut down, and the use of Tetris as an antidote to the 9-to-5 blahs.The lead character Peter, works at a company called Initech. He is a drone in a cubicle, and he's miserable. His girlfriend is cheating on him, he's stressed out, and his life has all the color of a rain cloud at night. His boss is a manipulative, quintessentially creepy guy who always makes Peter work weekends. In addition, on his way to work, he gets stuck in a mind-blowing traffic jam, and every time he successfully gets into the moving lane, the lane stops moving, and the lane he was just in starts moving miraculously. He glances out of his blind spot and notices the old ma
In the end, Peter becomes a construction worker and Michael and Samir end up working for a company called Initroad, which is kind of like Initech just with a different name. Peter feels relieved that he has less stuff on his mind and he can finally do nothing for days on end. Milton ends up going on vacation to some tropical place and bugs the waiters on the beach with his mumbling. Tom ends up as a millionaire because of the drunk driver incident. Moreover, no one really knows what happens to Lumburgh.
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