Office Space (3/5) Movie CLIP - Motivation Problems (1999) HD
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Peter (Ron Livingston) has a candid discussion about his typical work day with the Bobs.
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Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a computer programmer working for Initech in Houston. Every day, he and his friends Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman as not THAT Michael Bolton), suffer endless indignities and humiliations in their soulless workspace from their soulless boss, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole). For Peter, stuck in his cookie-cutter apartment with paper-thin walls and IKEA furniture, every day is worse than the one before it -- so every day is the worst of his life. To cap it off, Initech has hired a pair of "efficiency experts" to downsize the company. One Friday night, Peter's soon to be ex-girlfriend Anne (Alexandra Wentworth) forces him to go to an occupational hypnotherapist to relieve work stress. While Peter is under hypnosis, the therapist keels over and dies. As he never snaps out of his hypnotic state, Peter has a new outlook on life. If something annoys him, he just ignores it or walks away from it. He is completely relaxed and enjoying life for the first time in a long time. On Monday, Peter skips work and sleeps in. He gets up for lunch and drives down to a restaurant next to his office and asks the waitress he's had a crush on, Joanna (Jennifer Aniston), on a date. When Peter stops into the office to pick up his organizer, he's called in to talk to the efficiency experts. Relaxed and friendly, Peter charms them as he describes everything wrong with the office, including his boss. Even as Peter now appears at work only as the mood strikes him, the experts decide he's management material and give him a promotion even as they lay off the hardworking Samir and Michael. Peter then convinces his friends to exact revenge on Initech based upon an idea from Superman III. Not everything works out quite as planned. Office Space originated from writer/director Mike Judge's first animated short of the same name, created in 1991. The short was about Milton (reproduced in the film by Stephen Root), a damaged office drone whose complaints and threats about his sufferings go unheeded.
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Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Cast: Ron Livingston, John C. McGinley, Paul Willson
Director: Mike Judge
Producers: Daniel Rappaport, Guy Riedel, Michael Rotenberg, Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge
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"that's my only real motivation, is not to be hassled" underrated line there
Bro this.
What is the line rated?
When you get old enough, you will find thatthis is what everyone's lives become. The quest to not be hassled.
@@tylerdurden639 Life goals.
@@jamesmcinnis208 PG-13
Bingo? Nobody? Well, then.
G-17.......
O-19.......
I-21........
"It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I don't care" Our unofficial Dept motto.
Homer Simpson said... "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."
Best quote ever! That’s literally me at school😂
+brashearbeer - Where do I send my resume? You're my kind of people.
Every employee at Walmart
This was my senior yearbook quote in 2006
"I'd say in a given week I do about 15 minutes of real, actual work"
Me watching at work: "Hmm, interesting"
This comment is so underrated 😆
This comment actually made me snort!!
I salute you Craig 😎
Genius
Nearly 20 years ago I had all my computer sounds linked to Office Space sound bites. My staff thought it was hilarious. My bosses wondered why backspace on my computer was Milton asking about his stapler
I used to work at Dish Network’s corporate HQ. In 40 hours during the week, I might do real work for maybe 5 hours. That’s it.
I love how he's the one that stops the interview on his time and terms lol.
“Good luck with your layoffs I hope your firings go really well.”
Absolute Alpha
Like a boss
He started it by pouring the water into the glass.
@@eferrari96 the water that no one drinks haha
I love how the moment bob hears 8 bosses, he perks up. There’s the fat that needs trimming.
8 is pretty damn silly. I only reported to one.
My last job, before this pandemic lay-off stuff, I had four DIRECT bosses ....all with slightly different titles, but same department. Then there were all the other department heads, GM, Controllers, etc. Ridiculous.
But when they give him a promotion, they say "we'll put 4 people under you right away." They are probably already managed by other bosses, so they're perpetuating the $$$ waste and frustration level.
@@kbanghart I technically only reported to one but I know what he means. Because there were peers of his sticking their beaks in. And that was just at our consulting company. There was my "lead" at the client. And the lead's boss, and second in command. That makes five.
@@chessmentor63 I reported to one for 20 years, but that was because of how she ran her shop, she could be a total micromanager and very hard-handed sometimes, so none of the rest of us wanted to stick our necks out lol. And there was no talk of having a "team lead" anyway, and the manager positions were very difficult to get. In contrast to that, now I work at a place where I've got three or four, plus we receive emails from an extra two or three in other positions or above us. One problem with that, is that some of our procedures get changed weekly and it's very frustrating. Fortunately I know how to type and copy and paste pretty well, so I can "cya" most of the time.
Love this. The employee is absolutely honest to an absurd and impractical degree. The people questioning the employee are actually sincere in wanting to know what's wrong with the company. This doesn't happen in real life.
No, but it should, this would fix a LOT of problems if all efficiency interviews went truthful like this.
@@neoasura It *would* work. But only if everyone decided to be honest. Couldn't just be one guy doing it.
@@neoasura Thank for your input, bootlicker
Well, they are a third party hired to streamline the company, consultants. They have no personal involvement in the company other than wanting to fix it.
This is some God level trolling here - I give you credit where it's due, Contakum
Every line in this entire conversation is quotable. That's why it's so great
I don't know I guess
You have no idea how many times my friends and I have quote the entire, and parts, of this scene
Fun fact: John C. McGinley originally auditioned for Bill Lumburgh, but when it was obvious he wasn't going to get the part, he told Mike Judge "I just wanna be in this movie, it's the funniest script I've ever read!" Judge told him he would get in touch about a smaller part later, and McGinley assumed he was just being politely blown off, which was the norm for auditions. He was shocked when Judge actually followed through and offered him the part of one of the Bobs some time later.
I love little tid bits like that...
yeah mcginley killed it. and gary cole IS lumbergh as far as im concerned. perfect casting. mike judge knew exactly what he was doing
McGinley really helped make this a legendary movie. His line “What would you say..ya do here?” Is up there with Lumbergh.
Scene is hilarious.
Well all the secondary male roles read for Lumburgh, because the Bobs didn't have any tryout pages.
The funny thing is that there have been actual studies about this. Most studies have found that in an average 9 to 5 job like this one, workers actually finish their work in less than 3 hours. However because they need to look busy, they space out their work, and schedule meetings about scheduling more meetings. In fact some bosses were even said to have been wanting to fire those employees, because of the fact that it seemed like they did nothing. When in reality they did their job perfectly fine, but it doesn’t “seem” like they are busy.
oh do link me a source on this
why can't the office be 5 hours open then if there is so little work to be done
@@griffinoleary1694 because who would work a job to only get such little hours in a day. And it will happen anywhere you go cause after working so long you can just do it quicker and quicker.
American problems lol
This is Japan in a nutshell.
This was revealed to me by the hundreds of English students I taught while in Japan. Everyone is pretty much done by 1pm but they have to hang around until the boss goes home, which could be as late as 10pm.
One of them even told me the only reason he became a manager was so that both him and his employees could leave at 4pm. They got all their work done well before that.
I hear you've been missing work lately. Peter: I wouldn't say I'm missing it Bob.
Bob:hahahahahha
This scene goes to show what the IT industry really values in employees. Michael Bolton, the good hard-working employee, come off as uncharismatic and insecure when he talks to the consultants, and gets fired - whereas Peter, a do-nothing but overconfident guy, gets promoted. Offices are exactly about that. This movie captures corporate politics perfectly.
Is that Peter doesn't care anymore, he tell them that he is unmotivated, unhappy, can't do that much and probably he wants to get fired even if he says that fears him
I noticed that in interviewing for jobs, I didn't get hired at some jobs I would've excelled at because I'm bad at interviewing, even though being good at interviewing or making a good first impression was not a requirement of the job.
@@sarahberkner I believe that's cause being good at interviewing/ making a good first impression is helpful in any job fr.
IT is just like every other part of an organization that could only be made worse by unionizing. IT departments have tons of bad performers that do very little and just exist to take up good oxygen, same as every other department.
"It's not than I'm lazy, I just don't care"
Most relatable line ever.
It's not that I am lazy. It's just that I'm not inspired to work hard when I see working hard doesn't mean squat.
The hard worker were Micheal and sudeer. They were individual contributors who made more than the average employee because they had the most experience. Instead of the "bobs" or lumbergs of the movie inability to find a way to leverage them to increase total output (train less exp developers, mentorship, building soft skills to increase their leadership abilities, etc) they decided it is better to fire them in the short term.
A good engineer is worth 3 fresh ones and a bad engineer is actually a negative asset.
@@TheBanshee90 Yup. That is basically burn out. It occurs when people doing any job, do more and/or know more than the others to make up for the others' lack of skill/effort, and that extra work goes unnoticed or they get punished for it.
And that good engineer vs bad engineer is true for pretty much any trade. But too many employers do not recognize that. They just look at the noney going out. Not the money the good ones bring in.
I say it in work literally every day for 14 years. I sat it multiple times a day too. Legit drives everyone insane that i still say it
I love how delighted they were when Peter said he'd consider taking stock options.
lacouerfairy and then he leaves like a boss
The first worker they interviewed that gave them useful, tangible information on where to trim the fat, and how to really motivate the cogs in the machine... Of course they were delighted, lol!
Stock options don't really fix the problem Peter mentioned.
If HE works hard and causes another sale then that is an increase in revenue to the company. But stock options are predicated on the valuation of the company across all departments.. so if Peter triggers a sale, and his boss loses five sales, then stock options penalize Peter.
Peter would be best served by some form of actual direct performance incentive from the company.
@@PhrontDoor It does work however on smaller companies I assume.
@@PhrontDoor Yep! What I was thinking.
i love that these guys ask "why" instead of getting pissed off and firing him immediately
After almost 20 years this still holds up...
And it always will. As long as capitalism exists
@Xx BigBoss xX not necessarily
@@walexander8378 As always the useful idiots can't understand the basic fundamental difference between ''capitalism'' and ''corporatism''
This movie is eternal.
@@walexander8378 Wrong. Capitalism isn't the problem, bureaucracy is. There are great places to work under capitalism.
"I have 8 different bosses."
"I beg your pardon?"
"Eight bosses."
"Eight?"
"Eight Bob."
I love that exchange.
Probably because that’s eight full time wages right there.
“So that means that when I make a mistake I have 8 different people coming by to tell me about it”
You missed out the funny sound Bob makes
i used to go late to work and just take my laptop without the bag from the car. So that ppl wud think im coming from a meeting ;)
haha thats gold!
yeah! :) used to know a guy around here that would wander the halls with his datebook/calendar thingy (90's)
I don't remember the last time I came in on time. I sit at my desk, pop open my laptop, alt-tab whenever someone walks by, and... well.... here I am!
I knew a guy who went to the bathroom with his notebook and watched Netflix/Hulu on his phone in the stalls for about an hour or 2. He would just say he was in a meeting if someone asked where he went.
Genius
Nearly every job I have worked, all the headaches came from above. I eventually came to this conclusion, "Most companies succeed because management fails to destroy them."
I now have my own business, and I will never forget.
Just remember where you came from, dont become one of those "higher ups" that made everything miserable for those below them.
Thanks for the advice, no worries there. The way I see it, life outside of work is full of stress, anxiety, turmoil and relationship drama. Work should be a place to let go of all that for a while, a place where one can direct all their energy and focus to accomplish a worthy goal.
Whether it's sweeping a floor or doing budget projections, every task is important to the success of the company.
For me, personally, one of the quickest ways for someone to "fire themselves" is to mistreat someone under them.
@@MJ-ws5bp great attitude 😁👍
“I dunno, I guess. Listen, I’m gonna go...”
Underrated line. Dude just says “alright I’m gonna go play Tetris”
This movie is dedicated to those who’ve had their dreams and self respect slowly eroded over years of suffering in the meaningless hamster wheel of corporate America. There should be a 10-story memorial for all of us in Washington DC.
There is. It's the IMF building on 20th NW. It's actually 11 stories, but true to form, it's dedicated entirely to extracting money from the plebian mass while crushing their dreams for a better future.
Well someone is incapable of being an entrepreneur or able to move up the corporate ladder. Why is that? What's your deal?
@@DavidSmith-pn8ll is the first sentence of your comment a statement or a question? What are you saying or asking here? Are you asking why can’t a person just choose to be an entrepreneur or move up the corporate ladder?
@@SumTingWong1482 ?=question, not sure where I could possibly lose you. In all seriousness, where did a "?" confuse you
@@DavidSmith-pn8llimagine a world where everyone is a boss or entrepreneur, do you think that would work. No, because someone has to do the boring mind numbing stuff, always. And a large fraction of those people will stay there until retirement, they might climb the ladder but they'll never be Bill Gates. And they'll go to retirement old and tired wondering where all the years have gone. Thankfully the corporate market is never short of fresh meat off the universities with big dreams.
I come late, go into the side door so I don't have to say hi to anyone, pretend to work and then go back home XD
+Francixco Robles He isn't mad about anything, could care less, so they promote him...LOL typical.
***** Everything is workers vs management now. Management tries to pay workers the least, so they can get bonuses based on what they save the company yearly. It's a crappy system. Employees are everything, if you have a good product or service, it doesn't matter if you have crappy employees. Most managers aren't worth anything. Most have no accountability or productivity. "Their job is to delegate work!" Really? How many of those do you really need?
grant myers Then how would you have a job??
grant myers Well, if you don't have a lot to retire on, and most jobs don't have pensions, you have to...doesn't matter what is decent or right, you have to survive.
+Gus Grizzel That is not what management means.
I literally say “The pleasure’s all on this side of the table” whenever I get the chance.
What does that mean, actually?
What I truly love about this is.... This is the secret to life....!
Once you stop trying to control every little outcome or situation, (comes off as not giving a damn) you become free, and those around may hate it at first, but then subconsciously love it through a sense of wanting it and relatability....
The art of letting go.....transcend fear... It's a Beautiful thing if you can get there and maintain it. 😁
15 minutes late? Those are rookie numbers!
Ya, I come in a good hour and 45 minutes late every day
I just went home one time
That's why he said "atleast 15 minutes late"🤣🤣🤣
I come in 15 minutes late...twice a day.
to be honest he gives them more insight in how the company runs than I bet they ever heard before lol
Its on paper the company is doing good but what happens behind the scenes and the workers that keep it afloat is where most oreos dont realize the bullshit thats going down.
I love the fact that even though in reality this would not be taken well Peter still gives them the most honest and constructive feedback to help the company
Pete Gibbons is literally me. Amazing how quickly the energy and enthusiasm is drained from your soul after dealing with inept management. I dont think I've shown up to work on time in over 2 years
I haven't been to work on a Friday is over fifteen years...
@@travismcnasty4239 Hal?
Sounds like you got a case of the mondays :)
I'm absolutely in love with how much they like Peter lmao. 1:08 when Peter leans back, Bob shakes his head (acknowledging he can't say where the motivation should come from) and he also leans back, mirroring Peter just a few seconds later lol.
Also at 2:06 the little "Wow..." as Peter is leaving. 😂
I like how in love you are with how much they like Peter.
One of the real gems of this scene is the elaborate flowchart on the whiteboard in the background that says "Planning To Plan"... Effing Brilliant!!
I saw that too, it’s a hoot. This is the kind of movie with all sorts of funny things positioned in the background.
I actually did this once at a company I was leaving. Told them all the things they were doing wrong. Totally disregarded my warnings and now for a second time in less than 5 years they are now one of the failing companies with toxic employees. Lol
Every worker wishes they could say this openly to their own company.
This movie needs to be taught in High School as a study on the souless corporate workplace
We actually did get shown this exact scene in business studies and the teacher asked us "why are the consultants saying the pleasure is all on their side", was a good class and spurred up a lot of group conversations
@@ashm4938 What were the answers/conclusions from those conversations?
And just think of all the products and services that we all enjoy in life that wouldn't exist if no one was willing to work in soulless corporate workplaces. :)
@@marcw6875 unfortunately corporate souless companies do not provide innovative or useful products....hence the souless. I've worked on both sides
And why we need to rebel? Lol
Peter Gibbons: The timeless voice of every under-valued employee.
Love Bob's smile at 1:50 he's just so happy to see Peter say that maybe something would be helpful
"I'm gonna go.." Love how Peter is the one that ends the meeting.
´Its not that I'm lazy, it's just that I don't care´
-Albert Einstein -
He developed the theory of relativity while at work. Checks out.
My favourite from that scene is him deciding that he's had enough of the meeting and telling them he's leaving: it's such an absolute chad power move
“And believe me, THIS. IS. A. HYPOTHETICAL!” 🤣
"Good luck with your layoffs, I hope your firing's going well"
Luckily as a manager myself, I usually let my people work on their own. They can take breaks whenever they want and they don't have to be in front of the computers all the time, as long as things get done at the end of the day. The only time that I actually asked them or even had a meeting about what they were doing was when certain projects took longer than usual (and usually it was because of the amount of challenges they had faced). My motto is treat all employees with respect and give them the freedom to do their work and expand their horizon. Micromanagement never, ever, works.
You are a good boss.
I'd like to work for you pls
@@jedi4049 Good boss with good employees. This can't happen in every workplace
Are you hiring? 😉
You sound like my first manager at my prior job. Then I got the second manager, and now I'm at another job.
I finally sat down and watched this movie for the first time like 3 days ago. remarkable how little has changed over 20 years later
15 minutes of real work = straight shooter with upper management written all over him
There are but a few greater things than pooping on company time.
i cant poop anywhere but home. cubicles man they just gross me out. the idea of someone hearing my farting and splashing away turds i dont know how anyone can do it
You guys should get better jobs.
I've gotten drunk and laid while on the clock... Self-destructive part of my life, but damn it was fun.
@MOTHER PEARL Kitchen life.
Boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime,
That's why I p00p
On company time. ;^)
Ever notice at 0:00 the hilarious whiteboard "Planning to Plan"
"That will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired." Haha. So true.
Is "Office Space" the greatest workplace comedy of all time? We can't think of one that beats it...thanks for sharing Movieclips!
+Conversational Waiting movies are funny as well.
Watch American Beauty...,.
Films that take the piss out of the workplace, comedy or otherwise, are few and far between. Office Space is certainly one of the best.
Well I agree.. however I didn't at all mind the amount of coke they did in the wolf of wall street hahaha
It's one of the best comedies of all time. If anything, it's only held up better over the years, which is unusual for a comedy.
Office workers in the 90s: "there is nothing worse than a cubicle"
Bosses in the 2000s: *invents open floor offices*
Oh no, open floor offices were invented looooooooong before any of us came around, like back in the 1900s. Workers back then didn't care for it either. Frank Lloyd Wright designed a global company HQ with an open layout that exactly none of the employees liked one bit. 50 years after being built, it was knocked down for a parking lot. A better use could not have been found for that nonsense.
So true about working just hard enough not to get fired. That is corporate America for you
Ladies and gentlemen ... quiet quitting. In 1999. Courtesy of Gen X. You're welcome.
"Good luck with your layoffs..." LOL!
I love how the heading on the whiteboard reads "Planning to Plan." Bureaucracy at it's finest.
i'll always remember the first time i saw this movie, couldn't believe my eyes ! I've met so many characters of this movie in real life like the incendiary guy Milton, was the exact copy of my coworker for almost 3 years. When i say exact copy i mean it in every little details, the glasses, the way he talked everything !
I got a job at a new company and many techs came from other companies around town. I was told by another in the industry about a real strange duck that I’d be working with. On Day 1 in a room with roughly 250 employees it took less than 15 minutes to figure out who it was.
This illustrates why I love my current job. I have stuff to do I know about weeks or even months in advance, and I have stuff to do daily. As long as I'm on top of it, I never even see a supervisor. I've had days where I just hung out in the break room for 5 hours cause I was done with everything for the week. (I'm paid by the hour or I'd have just gone home.)
What do you do? Can I come work with you?
it's 2022 and this still and forever will, ring so true....
The reason this film and especially why this scene is so good, is that many people have been in a job working under the same inept, incompetent and shallow management as this guy. We have all seen how some managers want us to spend an hour writing reports about tasks that take half an hour to accomplish. I've also worked for a toxic company where I have "done just enough work not to get sacked"!
I would even say that 90% of people in office jobs do just the bare minimum and are counting down the hours to go home. Nobody wants to be there, they just have to. Having a good management help but the job remains mind numbing and artificial. Sitting all day in front of a computer screen.
I have a full time engineering job that I actually like, but every week my total amount of tasks usually amount few hours (and thats with meetings), maybe at end of sprints I actually have to work 3-4 hours a day lol. And I always do them ontzime, hell I often get commendations on my great job and keep getting raises. I work from home so no one hassles me, I usually just watch movies, play games, or spend time on my hobbies, with my work notebook in sight in case I get messaged. For example there's a gym a few corners away so I always work out there during company time, occasionaly checking my phone for messages.
I absolutely love this situation.
I love the follow up meeting the two Bob’s have with Lumbergh. This guy(Peter) has management (manager?) written all over him. Lumbergh can’t believe it.
way back in university, we had this clip and my lecturer asked "why are they saying "the pleasure is all on this side""
12 years down the line and working in consultancy, I can only dream of an employee being this honest
I got it just now.
I tend to be too honest in jobs. I've been too honest with customers, too. I was godawful at pushing extended warranties on people at a store that I will not name, but has the word "office" in it, when I thought they really didn't need one.
Took me getting, well, to just now to understand it (I'm 28). If I'm hired to help a company optimize I'd probably kill for a guy like peter
Look for the ones serving their notice period....
I saw this movie when I got my first job out of college. Every year it rings more and more true.
I have a coworker that loves meetings. You can't have enough meetings. Of course nothing ever gets done because everybody is always in a fing meeting.
I love that part with the two guys in the background walking by with the gigantic folder... like, you just KNOW they're both looking up some meaningless company SOP so they don't get hassled by their 8 different bosses.
0:15 That look they gave each other like we got a real winner here, mind you everyone else there tries to convince them how useful and vital they are to the company.
Every employee's dream right here.
I love the smile Bob gives when Peter says "I dunno. I guess"
There is something in this movie that may be familiar to anyone. Like, I 've never worked in an office, still a student, but the 8 bosses thing and the lack of care sounds pretty familiar.
5 years ago when I was finishing my Bachelor I would never expect that this is the actual everyday reality of most office workers. Now, having worked in 3 different companies I see indeed it is. This movie is very close to reality unfortunately :/
I lived with my parents until I got married (27 years old) and I had to do everyone’s laundry, dishes, etc. And if I missed something, I had at least 3 people come after me! (And it wasn’t even my mess)
So I’m glad it’s just me and my hubby now! We don’t have any bosses! lol 😉
I have 6 bosses.
I've worked in factories and warehouses and, with a VERY few amount of changes, it holds up with those jobs too.
My only motivation is to just not be hassled, 100%.
I love how he’s like “listening im goina go” 😂 such an underrated movie
Never gets old, never stops being funny; somehow, never stops being any less accurate.
This movie and Idiocracy get more and more prophetic every year that goes by
Everybody loves the line, "It's not that I'm lazy..." but the real zinger is Peter's subtle, "I'm gonna go," as soon as the Bob's start offering stock options
I was honest once lol I didn't care. The bigger managers asked why we have a high ideal time between calls and long bathroom breaks. I said I need a break so I don't lose my mind and the bathroom breaks is I need the coffee to give me a boost but then I get a stomach attack. My buddy was laughing and everyone else mouths were open
I love how Peter laughs at the Bob saying it’s a big “what if” like he already knows where he’s going with the sentence.
I worked like 6 or 7 jobs so far in my life.
Every time i was insulted,taken advantage of.
My first job was the best job.
I did that job for 6 years.
I liked it.
But then the managment started taking advantages from us workers.
They made us work more for the same amount of money.
So i quit.
I so wish I could talk like this to a board of directors or CEO of a company I work for lol
Just get hypnotized!
I've done it (I actually WANT to get fired because we get a great severance package, and if I quit I get 💩)...and it's still pointless. NOTHING changed and I'm STILL employed. After rewatching "Office Space" I wouldn't be surprised if I even got promoted 😔
@@SweetJeopardy Where do I apply?
From an outside perspective, he gave them an honest portrayal of how the company works. If they can't compensate the workers, the workers can't care about their company. Money loses value in a job that demands too much or too little.
He was "quiet quitting" before they came up with a name for it.
What's a nice touch is that having two efficiency consultants doing the interviews is redundant.
I love how the idea of workplace morale is completely foreign to the Bobs.
One of the most quoted movies ever Someone has a case of the Mondays
I just quit my office job today and i can totally relate.
This movie gives me a clear goal in mind after finishing college: to never step foot in an office space to work in.
Yep, same. Bullshit around reddit, check stock market, listen to podcasts and UA-cam, get up walk around to a different plant’s vending machine. Sometimes yeah, there is work to be done. But all the computer stuff I can blow through in the last 15-30 minutes of my day. From ages 21-27 I worked night shift 50-60 hours a week, going to college part time, occasionally picking up serving on the weekend. I did my time. Now I’m in a position using my degree, but also not doing almost anything. And truthfully, nobody else in my department cares. I get done what I’m suppose to do, and unlike past jobs, they don’t keep stacking “other responsibilities” on me just cause I’m quick or efficient.
Lucky
"Planning to plan" - golden
Love how the movie made the down-sizers out as sincere, hard-working trouble-shooters.
A guy I knew back in the seventies worked as a skilled trades in one of the big three in Detroit. He worked the midnight shift, he kept a small pillow in his tool box and would do what he needed to for the first hour then would disappear for the rest of his shift. Good pay, benefits, what more could you want?
"A smart man knows when to be seen as a hard worker, and when not to be seen at all" - me
Costanza! Where the hell is he? He was humming a tune earlier I gotta know what it is...
@@BCaTTenterprises Just saw that episode the other night.
This movie is so true that it’s painful. I remember the first time I saw it and couldn’t wait to see the resolution. Sadly it offers no hope or relief.
Why isn't Ron Livingston a bigger star? Bad luck? Casting directors not like him? He's amazing in this film.
Band of brothers too
He was great in Band of Brothers, but you are right, he should be bigger. Have you seen Loudermilk on Amazon I think?
Probably his agent
What an absolute legend.
this film aged so well !!!
I’ve been through this in real life. A third party comes in to try and find out what a “typical” day of yours looks like. Yes it exists and it’s terrifying because you know your job is at stake. I just wish I could go back in time 5 years ago and be as cool as Peter😂
When this movie came out I was working for one of the biggest computer companies in the world. The one line from elsewhere in his conversation with the Bobs was my sig line on my email footer. "You've been missing a lot of work lately..." "Well, I wouldn't say that I've been missing it, Bob."
The smile he has, is the perfect fake smile ive ever seen. Sold that flawlessly
I love Bob with glasses response to space out
The funny thing is he’s probably the only guy who gave them useful data to work with for their consultation. Everyone else is on their best behavior and trying to feed the Bobs what they think will save their asses from getting fired and a lot of them were caught.
Working in a large, large company - factory, car production, my responsibilities are foreign workers HR...one day I get a memo from top managment to check what would improve the workers morale, how to make them happier ect., ask them what kind of changes we can do as a company - however, they CANT ask for three things 1. Anything to do with salary, payment increase ect 2. How hard the work is 3. How fast the work is... in the end we added teas to the vending machines...
Haha - 0:00, 'Planning to Plan' on the whiteboard. Been in so many meetings like that.
Ngl, the really smart move would of been to the bobs poaching him for their consultancy. Clearly he has the on the ground experience to root out the major problems in a company :L
I watched this movie when I was in high school and it literally changed my life.
How?
Back when I worked on a cube farm one of the “bosses” with shoulder length hair came to my cube and asked for suggestions on how to raise productivity. The company was going under anyway so I decided “screw it” and said, “Well, you could offer to shave your head if numbers are met.”
Her: Well I can’t do that…
Me: Well offered to shave his head if numbers were met but he doesn’t have much up there anyway. I figured everyone would be more motivated if you offered the same deal.
🤔🤣
I love the part where the bobs propose the stock equity thing. It shows how they have no clue what the hell the main character is talking about.
Well, they're trying to address his "lack of motivation" . Hypothetically, if he's financially invested in the company, then he'll be more personally invested in doing his job well. If his contribution helps the company grow and profits go up, then Peter makes more money via the stock options. Microsoft used to offer stock options to its employees as well.
Problem is, at a smaller place like Initech, the stock options aren't going to be worth hundreds of dollars like they would be at a giant tech company, plus Peter knows he can't move that needle much on his own. Stock options are a better motivating tool for management to "get the most" out of all the workers and raise productivity and profits across the board. For Peter it's basically "tip pooling", his potential efforts would likely be negated by some other slacker not pulling their weight. As somebody who worked under a tip pooling system for over 3 years, I hated it for that reason.
(Plus management was almost certainly dipping into our tip pool to purchase decorations and other miscellaneous items to "increase the department's profit margin". In my 2nd year we'd had a big meeting where the department heads had told us we could go into overtime but we'd be making 94% of our regular pay instead of time-and-a-half. After that fiasco we didn't trust them to handle our pay for anything.)
@@specialwhenlit8435 Exactly. That's the problem - even if he works harder, he won't have any real effect on the stocks, but the bobs don't understand that despite it making perfect sense.
"I hope your firings go really well!" hahahaaha