Shep Grignard I’ve actually got the piece of paper that required two years. Regardless I actually like my job, and I learn new things everyday and I get paid fairly.
@@skapitapita I got a job as a business analyst 2 years after finishing high school :3 depending on your environment, full time uni can be a waste of time
"That's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him!" I love that line, and every time there's like a performance review at work, I can't help but think of that scene, lol!
Dude Watch John C. McGinley acting chops starting at 1:19 and even the other actor that has to hold his hand and stop McGinley's character from having a obvious outburst its pure gold that acting is so on point its frightening
I just love how they immediately go from "We always like to avoid confrontation whenever possible" to immediately get into one to bat for Peter being upper management and calling out Bill on the TPS report bullshit. New life goal: Find a partner that loves me as much as the Bob's love Peter.
Him leaning back in right before they go at him for the TPS reports is cracking me up so hard right now. That body language says to me “ how dare you talk about Peter like that!” rofl
Has me thinking the point was "we're not the ones who fired him in case the employee comes around wondering what happened, you did that". Evasive consultant logic. Blame shifting on another level.
The way the camera gradually moves around to show Lumberg in the exact same shot that the other employees were in to face the questions from the Bobs is absolute cinematic genius. Peter completely turned the tables on his own boss.
+KiloByte69 Yes, that could get ugly really fast. I've seen people go off on the payroll personnel because of minor mistakes. I couldn't even imagine what would happen if they didn't get paid.
John McGinleys body language acting when Bill says he disagrees with him is phenomenal it's almost like he's resisting grabbing Bill by the throat and slamming him through the wall
Another genius part of this movie were the costumes. Suspenders were about eight years out of date by that point in '99, but of course middle-aged office managers have never been known for their fashion.
I had a boss at an O'Charley's when waiting tables in 2001-2002 who wore suspenders. He was a portly, funny looking middle aged man. Yeah I guess he never "got the memo", no pun intended. Btw, he later was arrested for defrauding the restaurant (his employer).
kinda sounds like what wcw did with the iron shiek... they hired him, put him on payroll, he did a few shows at first, and then they sort of just forgot about him, and didn't book him for a long time, so he just sat at home and collected a paycheck for like a year, or however long his contract was
@Martin Shkreli You obviously love shithead trolls like Martin Shkreli which makes your opinion worthless. Your comment doesn't relate to anything I said anyway.
I had a senior manager last year who loved to talk about 'stakeholders' all the time. When she couldn't think of anything else to say that was her go-to throwaway word.
"We always like to avoid confrontation whenever possible" Working in an office space with scummy colleagues and managers... this is so true. They never tell you things upfront. The norm there is always backstabs and hypocrisy.
I love the tension in John C McGinley's character in this scene when Lumbergh starts to denigrate Peter. McGinley's character feels this almost reverence and paternal fondness for Peter. His colleague can sense that he's about to burst and has to calm him down. Then they turn the tables and Lumbergh realizes that even his job might be at risk. This scene is brilliant.
Aw man, the other Bob lowered his blood pressure. I mean, you can clearly see that he's pissed that Lundberg is not seeing eye-to-eye with him on Peter being upper management material. In this day in age, Lundberg would be gone after this meeting.
Actually is because Lumbergh was confronting his idea.......notice how when Bob mustache suggested Peter about his "share rewards" and he said "yeah I guess it could work" Bob smiled excited, clearly because he felt good about someone liking his idea.Then Lumbergh came and said he was wrong about Peter, was like confronting his intelligence.
What's funny is that Gary Cole said in an interview he's never worked in that kind of environment so he doesn't know what it's like, yet he absolutely nails the type of boss in an office you look at everyday thinking to yourself "What the fuck do you actually do here on a day to day basis?"
Does anyone else notice that two efficiency experts aren't really necessary? You could easily lose one of the two Bobs and still get the job done. OH THE IRONY!
Spike Spiegel Well it's a matter of having two different point of veiws, one might see something but can be corrected by the other. That's why it's important to have a team, because one person can make a mistake and not notice it.
@@aquarius4884 and thats the joke, because that is the exact justification they would use to get their buddy from princeton a cushy, well paying consulting job with them where they literally do nothing but tell management who to fire. and it works. because why not, everybody else is doing it!
I disagree, if there is only one person, someone getting fired can claim harrassment or some other kind of inappropriate behavior. With more parties, that situation is avoided. I go thru it with work all the time, any performance review requires more than the reviewer and reviewee to protect everyone involved.
+billnye69 That passive-aggressive "yeaaaaah" is very important :) It's hilarious when Mike Judge does it too, "going 'yeaaaaah' which means 'no'"... Ha ha even Jennifer Aniston does it once or twice I think...
@@clairestark9024 I am not one to quote Scott Adams given his modern political bend, but his original Dilbert Principle book still stands as a measurement of the trend: Management found in the 80s that they could replace financial incentives for above-standard work with pithy, useless ones (achievement certificates, pizza parties), and employees would just tolerate it, because jobs were hard to get. It hasn't changed, except now there are no pithy incentives, it's basically a, "do your job" mentality. If you're lucky, your company does annual bonuses other than the Jelly-of-the-Month Club, but as far as cost-of-living increases, it's been the same for the last 25 years.
As someone that has sat in these types of meetings, I can assure you this is exactly how it happens! HR departments try to make it sound like they fought for you but they just couldn’t win. That’s bullshit! I guarantee every HR employee has a pre-typed layoff letter. All they have to do is change the name and the dates.
Usually it works like this "We need to save X amount of money. You can either fire 10 of your staff, or we can fire you". Obviously the managers and HR always find other people to fire than themself. It's why the rot at the top never goes away. Delegation of authority always means it's the managers who pick are fired. You basically have to remove an entire division/group for a manger to be let go, unless they get transferred.
Depends on the Company. I don’t specify in lay-offs, but it’s not a big conspiracy. HR does more than fire people. At least in the Netherlands, they try to help former employees find new work that better fits them, because they don’t want an employee who was recently fired to be badmouthing the company.
This movie is so good because it is about so much more than just the hell of working in this type of office. It satirizes so many sacred cows in the business world. Management in business is filled with Lumbergs.
They probably asked him to leave but didn’t show it, that’s why the cameras pans on Lumbergh being the main focus to show that they started to review him and it isn’t a meeting between the four anymore
I did notice. And I think it's the kind of detail that we'd only see in movies by someone with an understanding of USA culture on the level of Mr. Judge.
Peter made a strong connection with the Bobs so to see them get upset when Lumberg starts trashing their homie always makes my day lol. Bob was like “Hold my beer bro I got this” 😂
I worked at a company just like this and we literally had the Two Bobs (different names) come in to interview everyone in the company. Word got around pretty quickly that you were going into that interview to justify your job and try to keep it. The questions were exactly the same! It’s so close to what happened to me it’s scary!!
I find the most frustratingly realistic part of this scene is the "he's been having some problems with his TPS reports." To a bad boss like Lumburgh, his entire perception of Peter is derived from one mistake.
What a great movie! And it shows you don't need to spend a bazillion dollars to make something that so many people can relate to. I know a VP just like Limbergh (and a few of us laugh every time he speaks) and so many other characters. This should be a movie for ALL the business schools in the USA on how NOT to run a business.
There's such brilliant subtleties in Mike Judge's best work. I love the timing of the quick shot showing mustache Bob's hands moving Peter's file to the side, thus revealing Lumbergh's. Made me burst out laughing.
This film changed my life. After watching it a couple of times, I pulled the trigger on a new career. I have not been sorry and never looked back, so thank you, office space, for helping me see I was at a dead end.
A co-worker of mine was in a similar situation when Wal-Mart brought in some sharks like this to clean house and get the already stressed skeleton crew to be as thin and as efficient as possible in the store and they crossed him on the wrong day. He not only wrote a letter to their bosses and the upper management for the regional offices of Wal-Mart but, he made a very detailed report to OSHA about the store...needless to say no one from upper management ever touched him again.
That's what happened to all the people I worked with at Wal-Mart. They all just vanished. People that were there for decades just vanished in about a year. I wondered what happened. They just got raises too.
I work for 3M and there’s literally people that have been there for so long, that if any of the management wrongs them they immediately call corporate and corporate calls management on site telling them to not F with that person ever again. I see hundreds of new hires come and go every year, so it’s crazy seeing some people who simultaneously walk around completely untouchable.
BOOM !! Lumberg didnt think he would be subject to the chopping block on a count that he is a boss but he doesnt look like a boss to the two consultants !!
The guy that played Lumberg said that he feels that Lumberg is so used to being "The Boss" that if anybody ever flat-out ignores him, he's puzzled. Like he doesn't understand the concept of people not doing as he says. And so to see this power dynamic switch is real good for his character
@@jimchumley6568 Accurate. I work in a factory and the banal, useless, waste of time bullshit that management focuses on sometimes borders on staggering.
Yeah ,I am glad contracting has finally bit them in the ass, they had to make me a full time employee because they could not afford me as a "contractor " anymore my contract would be up, I would ask for more money, they would say no I would go some where else at higher pay, they would beg me back, then next thing you know same discussion a year later, took about 3 years and they were like we cant afford to keep re hiring you.
The most important plot point is that " avoiding confrontation whenever possible" turns out to be a bad decision. In fact that problem that was supposed to work itself out ends up with the business being burned to the ground. Well it did work itself out. One of the best movie scripts in a long time. So many great moments.
And similarly to the movie, no one in real life would feel bad if one of these corporate monstrosities was burned to the ground. At least, not for the company.
I taught for 12 years (high school physics) after working as an engineer for 20 years. I told my students that this movie was pretty much a documentary of life in a Silly Con Valley high tech company. I'm back to doing engineering in Silly Con Valley, and it has only gotten closer to this movie. One of my all-time favorites.
@@wiscgaloot my senior year physics teacher (back in 2001), was his first year teaching and I believe he was an engineer for a propane company prior to that. I'm not sure if he's still there, but he definitely was for 12-15 years or so.
LOL!!!!!! One of the best scene's EVER! "Whoa hold on their professor, we fixed the glitch, so he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore so naturally it will just work itself out." LOL!!!!!!
Stephen Root! I loved him as Jimmy James in News Radio! He's been in lots of movies and tv shows. He was Bernadette's Boss in The Big Bang Theory who hires Penny. He wasn't going to, until he realized he was just as terrified of Bernadette as Penny was! That's a great scene, and he nails it! I've always loved him as Milton too! The cake scene! LMAO!!!
I think the video was just briefly paused. If you watch it carefully/slowly, there is a brief mouse click in the upper left corner, and his entire body pauses for the tiniest moment. It's not reversed, since he's leaning forward during the shot and his body doesn't change direction.
So my Organizational Behavior and Human Resources professor actually showed these consultant parts of this film and surprisingly was able to relate it to course content really well. The conversations they have are actually good insights on certain aspects of the business world!
It's a great display of what operating in isolation does to a system. All the people stop being good employees because the system conditions them against it. Even the boss. It's metastesized cancer in social-psychological form.
The best thing about this scene is the Lumbergh sits there in the beginning as though he is part of the panel in charge of this going along with and content with the firings with that stupid self satisfied grin, then when they say that Peter is upper management that shit changes real fast and he's put under the microscope LOL!
At 0:40, you see Lumbergh and the other boss (called Portwood) sitting nearly shoulder to shoulder. Yet, when the camera pans around at 1:58 to focus on Lumbergh being challenged by the Bob's, Portwood is no longer there.
The way McGinley had murder in his eyes when Peter’s honor was threatened. Brilliant.
1:34 That exhale 😂
He went from surprised to deeply hurt with a smidge of denial, then to full red-hot anger in the span of two seconds. He's an amazing actor
That's hilarious. I never noticed that before!
thnx i never noticed that before
Which is why he was the perfect actor for the Belko Experiment
Literally no one in the movie was safe from being fired except for the one guy that desperately didn't want to be there the most 😂😂😂
the irony is sickening. i should stop caring when i go to work, maybe i'll finally get that raise
Shep Grignard if only it worked that way in jobs requiring physical labor
@@P8P89 that's why you get a degree or otherwise a piece of paper that says you're willing and able to put up with bullshit for at least four years
Shep Grignard I’ve actually got the piece of paper that required two years. Regardless I actually like my job, and I learn new things everyday and I get paid fairly.
@@skapitapita I got a job as a business analyst 2 years after finishing high school :3 depending on your environment, full time uni can be a waste of time
"That's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him!" I love that line, and every time there's like a performance review at work, I can't help but think of that scene, lol!
And he gets kind of rowdy when bill lumbeigh disagrees with him! He takes a deep breath and leans back, more action in is eyes,lol!
Dude Watch John C. McGinley acting chops starting at 1:19 and even the other actor that has to hold his hand and stop McGinley's character from having a obvious outburst its pure gold that acting is so on point its frightening
@@munkirtokage4816 Exactly, he does the same little rage spasm and blinking that I've seen people do when they can't believe what they're hearing
I've never filled out a self appraisal. They're meaningless junk made to look like they make a difference.
It’s so applicable.
I just love how they immediately go from "We always like to avoid confrontation whenever possible" to immediately get into one to bat for Peter being upper management and calling out Bill on the TPS report bullshit. New life goal: Find a partner that loves me as much as the Bob's love Peter.
I think you need to keep your expectations realistic as far as the kinds of females in your neck of the woods, Anders.
@@NateB yeaaahh.. Ima have to go ahead and disagree with you there
They meant in terms of letting someone go.
@@NateB Says the dork who's never touched another real, live human's genitals.
Him leaning back in right before they go at him for the TPS reports is cracking me up so hard right now. That body language says to me “ how dare you talk about Peter like that!” rofl
"He's also been having some problems with his TPS reports" typical manager who sees one tiny problem in a worker and makes it the biggest deal ever
goodguynow he is trying to cover his own incompetence
Especially when the worker makes that mistake a grand total of one time.
Yeah...the real issues is the useless TPS reports and the 9 managers that "manage" them
Especially when the problem apparently was not with the reports themselves, but with the cover sheets.
sct913 I know right!
"Just a second there, professor..." is the most underrated line in probably this whole movie. So much sass on just a second of time. 😂
Lmao it really is, I came here just for that line. The immediate, unyielding snark of it.
@@The_Alex_Murphy clearly the greatest performance of the film
Has me thinking the point was "we're not the ones who fired him in case the employee comes around wondering what happened, you did that". Evasive consultant logic. Blame shifting on another level.
The way the camera gradually moves around to show Lumberg in the exact same shot that the other employees were in to face the questions from the Bobs is absolute cinematic genius. Peter completely turned the tables on his own boss.
Yeeeeaah!
“Absolute cinematic genius”?
…..yeahhhhhhh….
There is a continuity mistake.. in the final shot, Lumberg is sitting by himself with no one to his left anymore...
@@rickfox4068 intentional
The tables were literally turned on him!
I love how the camera shifts to show the change in power dynamic. Man, this movie is gold.
The tables literally turn!
Yeah….
Jokes aside, I would be far more concerned about a possible confrontation if a guy doesn't receive a paycheck after performing work.
+KiloByte69 Yes, that could get ugly really fast. I've seen people go off on the payroll personnel because of minor mistakes. I couldn't even imagine what would happen if they didn't get paid.
+joyr36 I imagine he'd burn the place down ;)
Joseph Dickson LOL He probably would.
joyr36 He did.
+KiloByte69 it's easier to fix the glitch to avoid the confrontation.... LOL
"He's useless...gone."
Still cracks me up every time.
gb032645 he’s got people skills though
"It's a mat you see, where you...JUMP...to conclusions!"
Stop the clip at 0:07--they actually wrote "useless!" in the upper right hand corner of his personnel form. Lol
muzik dude 😂😂😂😂 they sure did!
and also his boss putting up ZERO fight to save his employee. "Sounds good to me!" lmao
John McGinleys body language acting when Bill says he disagrees with him is phenomenal it's almost like he's resisting grabbing Bill by the throat and slamming him through the wall
Extremly Coxian if you ask me
That's because he was thinking of when J.D. gave him a hug...
He does such an awesome job. He always has a way of making scenes stand out.
“….I’ll handle this here”
Experiencing an overwhelming flashback from his Platoon days.
Another genius part of this movie were the costumes. Suspenders were about eight years out of date by that point in '99, but of course middle-aged office managers have never been known for their fashion.
What happened in 1991?
he also wears belts and suspenders at the same time.
Its the last year 80s style fashion was still in full effect
@@codymoe4986 suspenders went out of style
I had a boss at an O'Charley's when waiting tables in 2001-2002 who wore suspenders. He was a portly, funny looking middle aged man. Yeah I guess he never "got the memo", no pun intended. Btw, he later was arrested for defrauding the restaurant (his employer).
“We like to avoid confrontation whenever possible.”
*Business burns to the ground*
Makes you wonder if Milton would have worked without pay if Lumbergh didn’t damn them all by stealing his Swingline
I love how exasperated Bob gets when Bill badmouths Peter 😂
He’s like Michael Bolton to him.
Let me handle this.
@@rd8370 He celebrates Peter's whole catalogue.
The Bobs were excellent in this movie. They truly embraced the characters they portrayed
@@rd8370 Is he related to the singer?
I love the notion that Milton was laid off 5 years ago but no one ever told him. That concept is hilarious!
i cant remember, but i thought mike judge said that was based off of a true story.
I quit working 5 years ago, just never told my boss.
@@nicksewell6642 Hahaha 😂😂😂
kinda sounds like what wcw did with the iron shiek... they hired him, put him on payroll, he did a few shows at first, and then they sort of just forgot about him, and didn't book him for a long time, so he just sat at home and collected a paycheck for like a year, or however long his contract was
@Tyler Durden I have to ask, but are u blck? cuz that sorta sounds like a token quota thing
"We feel..." So much corporate talk in that line, it makes me cringe.
The Royal We
This isn't corporate talk. They are the consultants and they were trying to be polite.
@Martin Shkreli You obviously love shithead trolls like Martin Shkreli which makes your opinion worthless.
Your comment doesn't relate to anything I said anyway.
@Martin Shkreli Your comments are as productive as Tom. Troll someone else.
I had a senior manager last year who loved to talk about 'stakeholders' all the time. When she couldn't think of anything else to say that was her go-to throwaway word.
"We always like to avoid confrontation whenever possible"
Working in an office space with scummy colleagues and managers... this is so true. They never tell you things upfront. The norm there is always backstabs and hypocrisy.
Seriously, I'd be worried about a person not paid for work they already done. Sounds like a confrontation about to happen to me
“That’s just a straight shooter with ‘upper management’ written all over him.”
I love the tension in John C McGinley's character in this scene when Lumbergh starts to denigrate Peter. McGinley's character feels this almost reverence and paternal fondness for Peter. His colleague can sense that he's about to burst and has to calm him down. Then they turn the tables and Lumbergh realizes that even his job might be at risk. This scene is brilliant.
And there it is….
Thanks for the commentary. We can all see the clip you know!
@@TomUK7 haha You're welcome! We can always count on UA-cam comments to see someone being negative for absolutely no reason. ;)
Hahah he starts to twitch as he leans in his chair 😂 the details!!
true ningas wanna try, weak ningas wanna buy, cuz ningas wanna die, and us ningas lookin fly!
I like the little touch of the left Bob getting worked up at Bill talking poorly of Peter and the other Bob has to put his hand out to calm him down.
Aw man, the other Bob lowered his blood pressure. I mean, you can clearly see that he's pissed that Lundberg is not seeing eye-to-eye with him on Peter being upper management material. In this day in age, Lundberg would be gone after this meeting.
I love how at 1:33 Bob Slydell looks almost ill at the fact that Lumbergh insulted Peter haha
I think more rage, than ill.
I think he was about to come unglued lol
The Bobs have reached a conclusion and younger Bob is mad that Bill is pissing on it in his condescending way.
Actually is because Lumbergh was confronting his idea.......notice how when Bob mustache suggested Peter about his "share rewards" and he said "yeah I guess it could work" Bob smiled excited, clearly because he felt good about someone liking his idea.Then Lumbergh came and said he was wrong about Peter, was like confronting his intelligence.
and his stare of death at the end of the scene haha
"oooohh... uhhhh, yyeaahh... I'm gonna have to go ahead and sort of... disagree with you there."
EPIC. 5/5
lol yea it is. btw u alive? it's been 11 years- meaning u saw this in 09.
@Atarilover2600 lmao
This movie is one of the greatest reflections of white collar society ever made.
@Jack Berry "Office Space"
i love how offended he gets when lumberg starts talking about peter
What's funny is that Gary Cole said in an interview he's never worked in that kind of environment so he doesn't know what it's like, yet he absolutely nails the type of boss in an office you look at everyday thinking to yourself "What the fuck do you actually do here on a day to day basis?"
I used to laugh at this movie in college. Then it became my life. But I'm not gonna go anymore so it's fine. It'll work itself out naturally
Lol, you sure about that? Let's hope you've got a great business idea.
it was my life for 8 years. I quit.
@Mathilda I'm sorry I angered you. Personally, I'd prefer workplace harassment to homelessness or subsistence on welfare. Someday, you'll understand.
@@johnnyvivic8730 Did both, definitely preferred being homeless. More "freedom"
Problem is solved from your end.
0:50 "...work itself out naturally" Milton burning the building to the ground and getting away with it.
milton had a right to burn the building down. they took away his stapler.
Lumbergh talked back to Dr. Cox, bad move.
Thank god for the other Bob.
Harvey Birdman vs. Dr. Cox
i mean that guy is a tet offensive nam vet.
I am surprised Lumbergh did not get his earlobe flicked!
How would dr. Cox respond : okay princess it's all back on you I'm out of here !
Office Space is one of my all-time favourite movies. Its brilliant the way Lumbergh gets a big dose of his own medicine.
Are you still alive?
Does anyone else notice that two efficiency experts aren't really necessary? You could easily lose one of the two Bobs and still get the job done. OH THE IRONY!
Spike Spiegel Well it's a matter of having two different point of veiws, one might see something but can be corrected by the other. That's why it's important to have a team, because one person can make a mistake and not notice it.
@@aquarius4884 and thats the joke, because that is the exact justification they would use to get their buddy from princeton a cushy, well paying consulting job with them where they literally do nothing but tell management who to fire. and it works. because why not, everybody else is doing it!
I disagree, if there is only one person, someone getting fired can claim harrassment or some other kind of inappropriate behavior. With more parties, that situation is avoided. I go thru it with work all the time, any performance review requires more than the reviewer and reviewee to protect everyone involved.
Spike Spiegel bobs only come in pairs.
Would you hack off one foot to save money on shoes?
I actually think they needed more Bobs. Maybe even a 4th or a 5th Bob. Throw in a Randy too.
90% of the dialogue in this movie is people going....."yeaaahhhhh"
+billnye69 yeeaahhh LOL
+Jan Davis and grrreeeaaat
+billnye69 That passive-aggressive "yeaaaaah" is very important :) It's hilarious when Mike Judge does it too, "going 'yeaaaaah' which means 'no'"... Ha ha even Jennifer Aniston does it once or twice I think...
***** No
"Ooooo yeah, um I'm gonna have to sort of disagree with you there"
1:40 that little table tap...I love it
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@@jasonsaraf9123yeeeeeah....I'm just not sure about that right now...
HAHAHA, Lumbergh's picture in his file is the same outfit he is wearing, lol!
The fact that this film is so painfully relevant 22 years later speaks to how the corporate world matures in dog years. And that is a compliment.
People are still people.
That would mean they evolve mroe quickly...
A glacial pace is more apt, if you think things aren't improving.
From their perspective its a feature not a bug
@@clairestark9024 I am not one to quote Scott Adams given his modern political bend, but his original Dilbert Principle book still stands as a measurement of the trend: Management found in the 80s that they could replace financial incentives for above-standard work with pithy, useless ones (achievement certificates, pizza parties), and employees would just tolerate it, because jobs were hard to get. It hasn't changed, except now there are no pithy incentives, it's basically a, "do your job" mentality. If you're lucky, your company does annual bonuses other than the Jelly-of-the-Month Club, but as far as cost-of-living increases, it's been the same for the last 25 years.
The hand on Bob #1's arm to calm him down is such a great, understated touch
As someone that has sat in these types of meetings, I can assure you this is exactly how it happens! HR departments try to make it sound like they fought for you but they just couldn’t win. That’s bullshit! I guarantee every HR employee has a pre-typed layoff letter. All they have to do is change the name and the dates.
Usually it works like this "We need to save X amount of money. You can either fire 10 of your staff, or we can fire you". Obviously the managers and HR always find other people to fire than themself. It's why the rot at the top never goes away. Delegation of authority always means it's the managers who pick are fired. You basically have to remove an entire division/group for a manger to be let go, unless they get transferred.
Depends on the Company. I don’t specify in lay-offs, but it’s not a big conspiracy. HR does more than fire people. At least in the Netherlands, they try to help former employees find new work that better fits them, because they don’t want an employee who was recently fired to be badmouthing the company.
"Just a second there Professor...we fixed...the glitch."
classic Dr.Cox that line
Love how Bob Slydell has a fundamental primal instinct to defend Peter.
Still one of the best movies ever.
This movie is so good because it is about so much more than just the hell of working in this type of office. It satirizes so many sacred cows in the business world. Management in business is filled with Lumbergs.
Anyone notice that when they start reviewing Lumbergh the other guy literally just vanishes and Lumbergh is left sitting there alone
They probably asked him to leave but didn’t show it, that’s why the cameras pans on Lumbergh being the main focus to show that they started to review him and it isn’t a meeting between the four anymore
I imagine the dude was like "I'm getting the fuck outta here."
The dude didn't want the Bobs asking him about HIS job.
can't get fired if you're not there
I did notice. And I think it's the kind of detail that we'd only see in movies by someone with an understanding of USA culture on the level of Mr. Judge.
The Bob with the white shirt and suspenders looked like he was going to leap over the table and hit Lumberg lol!
blockmasterscott I genuinely think he was about to until the other Bob intervened 😂
Good Bob, Bad Bob
He was getting really emotional. The guy loves Peter.
Peter made a strong connection with the Bobs so to see them get upset when Lumberg starts trashing their homie always makes my day lol. Bob was like “Hold my beer bro I got this” 😂
they take their job seriously and hate when people disagree with their advice lol
I worked at a company just like this and we literally had the Two Bobs (different names) come in to interview everyone in the company. Word got around pretty quickly that you were going into that interview to justify your job and try to keep it. The questions were exactly the same! It’s so close to what happened to me it’s scary!!
brilliant script! brilliant comedy! brilliant cast! brilliant movie! one the best comedies EVER!
It seriously is too perfect
I find the most frustratingly realistic part of this scene is the "he's been having some problems with his TPS reports." To a bad boss like Lumburgh, his entire perception of Peter is derived from one mistake.
“We fixed the glitch” is probably the funniest line
It’s insane how accurate this movie is at times. The dialogue and actions are nailed.
I so love the little hand gestures of the older Bob (Paul Willson). The little tap on the table (1:42) - pure genius.
The reaction at 1:33 always cracks me up
+forman208 Me too ... and also the 1:09 reaction, that raising his eyebrows, sucking in through his teeth and going "ooooooh, yeaaaaah uuuum..."
lol yeah....he's all like "H...HOW DARE YOU!"
He was about to go IN!
“There it is” lol
*I love how visibly angry Bob gets while Lumberg is talking about Peter's lack of productivity*
I laugh my ass off every time Bob says, “There it is.” As if, they’re so into him, they’re just being ridiculous lol
1:42 “there it is” ……..I’m dead 😂
LOL. Tom's sheet actually says "USELESS!"
Haha....and with an exclamation mark as well just to really stress how useless he is.
don't jump to conclusions mack
Samir naga...naga...not gonna work here anymore.
McGinley is unbelievably funny in Scrubs. He also did a pretty amazing job in Identity.
He alternates between funny and serious really well.
What a great movie! And it shows you don't need to spend a bazillion dollars to make something that so many people can relate to. I know a VP just like Limbergh (and a few of us laugh every time he speaks) and so many other characters. This should be a movie for ALL the business schools in the USA on how NOT to run a business.
You don't like Hawaiian Shirt Fridays?
I love how they actually wrote "USELESS" on Toms paper.
Love John C. McGinely's reaction to Lumberg's disagreeing with him
Honestly, he's a very underrated actor
Everyones got a boss...and Lumberg is no exception
There's such brilliant subtleties in Mike Judge's best work. I love the timing of the quick shot showing mustache Bob's hands moving Peter's file to the side, thus revealing Lumbergh's. Made me burst out laughing.
Small detail but I love that Lumbergh is wearing the exact same outfit he's wearing in his employee file photo
This film changed my life. After watching it a couple of times, I pulled the trigger on a new career. I have not been sorry and never looked back, so thank you, office space, for helping me see I was at a dead end.
I love hearing that man. Hope it's continuing down a good path. Am in a similar transition.
Here's to new begginings
Cut to "Dam it feels good to be a gangsta"... I just love the heck out of this movie....😂😂
A co-worker of mine was in a similar situation when Wal-Mart brought in some sharks like this to clean house and get the already stressed skeleton crew to be as thin and as efficient as possible in the store and they crossed him on the wrong day. He not only wrote a letter to their bosses and the upper management for the regional offices of Wal-Mart but, he made a very detailed report to OSHA about the store...needless to say no one from upper management ever touched him again.
That's what happened to all the people I worked with at Wal-Mart. They all just vanished. People that were there for decades just vanished in about a year. I wondered what happened. They just got raises too.
It’s amazing how a few words written on paper can have such an effect
@@worldview2134 The Pen is mightier than the sword.
@@SiouxTube well until the sword gets in a room with the pen
I work for 3M and there’s literally people that have been there for so long, that if any of the management wrongs them they immediately call corporate and corporate calls management on site telling them to not F with that person ever again. I see hundreds of new hires come and go every year, so it’s crazy seeing some people who simultaneously walk around completely untouchable.
BOOM !! Lumberg didnt think he would be subject to the chopping block on a count that he is a boss but he doesnt look like a boss to the two consultants !!
Exactly happens everyday put a boss on the spot they are clueless
@@jemeeladams1197 Boooyaaah! And another worthless sack o' shit, know nothing middle manager gets called out.
The guy that played Lumberg said that he feels that Lumberg is so used to being "The Boss" that if anybody ever flat-out ignores him, he's puzzled. Like he doesn't understand the concept of people not doing as he says. And so to see this power dynamic switch is real good for his character
I’ve been working in IT for 20 plus years and I can tell you this movie is accurate for any larger corporate IT environment.
Mark Turney Its this way everywhere, even in factories.
what the hell is a tps report
@@daleva187goligo www.acq.osd.mil/log/MPP/ATS/.ats_library.html/CASS_Family_OTPS_Sustainment_Process_-_Version_1_1_FINAL.pdf
@@jimchumley6568
Accurate. I work in a factory and the banal, useless, waste of time bullshit that management focuses on sometimes borders on staggering.
Yeah ,I am glad contracting has finally bit them in the ass, they had to make me a full time employee because they could not afford me as a "contractor " anymore my contract would be up, I would ask for more money, they would say no I would go some where else at higher pay, they would beg me back, then next thing you know same discussion a year later, took about 3 years and they were like we cant afford to keep re hiring you.
I've worked at a corporate job in the Dallas area (where the movie was filmed) for the last decade, and this movie 100% nails what it's like.
One of the best documentaries I have ever seen.
The most important plot point is that " avoiding confrontation whenever possible" turns out to be a bad decision. In fact that problem that was supposed to work itself out ends up with the business being burned to the ground. Well it did work itself out. One of the best movie scripts in a long time. So many great moments.
And similarly to the movie, no one in real life would feel bad if one of these corporate monstrosities was burned to the ground. At least, not for the company.
Yea sometimes the "work itself out" situations make national news.
"We tend to let these things sort themselves out"
It def sorted the building on fire
I taught for 12 years (high school physics) after working as an engineer for 20 years. I told my students that this movie was pretty much a documentary of life in a Silly Con Valley high tech company. I'm back to doing engineering in Silly Con Valley, and it has only gotten closer to this movie. One of my all-time favorites.
@@The_Unwise_Mortal We make semiconductor inspection machines that are sold all over the world. You lose.
@@wiscgaloot respect on keeping up with your comments
Did you happen to teach in NJ because that's EXACTLY what my high school physics teacher did.
@@stormtruppo Nope, mostly taught in WI.
@@wiscgaloot my senior year physics teacher (back in 2001), was his first year teaching and I believe he was an engineer for a propane company prior to that. I'm not sure if he's still there, but he definitely was for 12-15 years or so.
I just... I, I haven't, I I have, haven't r-retheived my, m-my paycheck...
912pinkturtle ok Milton that's great
It kills me when the camera pans to face lumbergh. So great
yeeeaaahhhh.... I got the feeling that the pleasure wasn't "on this side of the table" anymore.
After 23 years in corporate IT, I can say that this is extremely accurate
"yeahhhhhh....I'm going to have to go ahead and umm disagree with you there.......yeahhhhhhahhahaa
LOL!!!!!! One of the best scene's EVER! "Whoa hold on their professor, we fixed the glitch, so he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore so naturally it will just work itself out." LOL!!!!!!
“I’ll handle this.” (While preventing the other Bob from lunging at Bill.) lol😂😂😂😂😂
The way McGinley shakes his head when they talk about Peter makes this scene for me
People get riled up when it comes to TPS reports
When he takes the last file off the stack and Lumberg’s one is revealed. Such a genius scene! 😂
"Just a second there professor"
Lmao I love how the bobs get angry and defend Peter:
“Mm-mm.....there it is”
54 people haven't challenged Peter enough to get him really motivated.
Out of the whole cast, the guy who plays Milton is getting the most work nowadays. Great actor, that one.
So true.. a serious actor in a comedy role.. he’s guy in no country for old men who hires woody harrelson to find the money and tells him of chigurgh.
Stephen Root!
I loved him as Jimmy James in News Radio! He's been in lots of movies and tv shows. He was Bernadette's Boss in The Big Bang Theory who hires Penny. He wasn't going to, until he realized he was just as terrified of Bernadette as Penny was! That's a great scene, and he nails it! I've always loved him as Milton too! The cake scene! LMAO!!!
@@smc1942 I think of him mostly from King of the Hill.
@@jeffreym.8957
Yep, he voiced Bill, and other secondary characters. He's a talented actor.
Small detail but does anyone notice that the shot of Bob at 1:28 looks like it has been played in reverse, if you look at his eyes, it is kinda weird.
hmmm yeeaaaaahhh....
I think the video was just briefly paused. If you watch it carefully/slowly, there is a brief mouse click in the upper left corner, and his entire body pauses for the tiniest moment. It's not reversed, since he's leaning forward during the shot and his body doesn't change direction.
Yes, the weird blinking i think gives it away.
Good call. They played the video in reverse for continuity sake.
Yup. it's a common editing tactic in many movies.
1:32 Lmao the way he goes to rush the table
00:40 - "Great" - The delivery of that line never gets old. 😆
1:32 ‘I’ll handle this.’ 💀
So my Organizational Behavior and Human Resources professor actually showed these consultant parts of this film and surprisingly was able to relate it to course content really well. The conversations they have are actually good insights on certain aspects of the business world!
It's a great display of what operating in isolation does to a system. All the people stop being good employees because the system conditions them against it. Even the boss. It's metastesized cancer in social-psychological form.
Such an excellent movie. Highly under-rated.
I work in an org that was too senior management heavy. They did a reorg offered some buyouts and now it is even MORE senior management heavy.
"You seem to be missing alot of work lately "
Peter:" I wouldn't say that I've been missing it" LMFAO
The best thing about this scene is the Lumbergh sits there in the beginning as though he is part of the panel in charge of this going along with and content with the firings with that stupid self satisfied grin, then when they say that Peter is upper management that shit changes real fast and he's put under the microscope LOL!
Yeah its pretty great but why were the Bob's so anxious to defend peter?
@@Spongebrain97 He's a straight shooter with upper management potential, of course. He told the Bobs all the dirty secrets that nobody else would.
@BobPants SpongeSquare because they saw the real inefficiency. The manager was just putting his work onto Peter.
I LOVE the way Lumbergh's attitude and face changes when he realizes that he's now interviewing for his job.
When he pulls out Lumberg's file, power shifts rapidly
At 0:40, you see Lumbergh and the other boss (called Portwood) sitting nearly shoulder to shoulder. Yet, when the camera pans around at 1:58 to focus on Lumbergh being challenged by the Bob's, Portwood is no longer there.
Its like he knew the Bob's were pissed off and found a excuse to leave which was smart.
Bob's intensity when Lumbergh disagrees with him always kills me.
“We like to avoid confrontation whenever possible.” 😂😂😂
Man I’ve been watching and rewatching this movie for years, and it still boggles my mind how great the acting is. The Bobs were awesome
“We fixed the Glitch. So it will work it self out.”
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I love how the bobs get angry when the manager says that Peter isn't upper management material.