The question is for each and every professional who sits in a 3x3 ft cubicles staring at the monitor 24hrs and 7 days a week. If you haven’t then you have missed a stunning and eye opener movie. The plot is hilarious, the characters are hysterical, and it's just a fun movie. If you hate your job want to feel at least a little better about it, this film is for you.
The movie was released in 1999, Second year in college. Movie was about a bunch of software engineers who hate their jobs, a manager, and couple of consultants the Bob's. It’s about life in a cubicle. The movie made a big buzz with the Y2K changes going on and the reviews were too good, didn’t hesitate to watch it. But then in second year of college, the only thing that hit me or was funny to me, was how they manipulate the banking software to steal money, screws up and the money ending up in hands of the dumb guy Milton Waddams played by Stephen Root. In college movie didn’t make any sense, not more than a bunch of guys trying to steal some money.
Then I watched it after joining an IT company. I watched it in the first year at work. All the cribbing and IT crap still didn’t make any sense, because I was thrilled of the first job. But a year later it all started making sense when I watched it again. Like when
Peter Gibbon Played by Ron Livingston says
“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.”
Or like when the manager Bill Lumbergh played by Gary Cole says
“Yeah, um.. If you would just go ahead and come down to work on Saturday that would be great. Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too...”
You can correlate or assimilate each and every incident, each and every dialogue in the movie on a day to day basis in office.Even when Peter is flirting with the coffee joint lady Joanna played by Jennifer Aniston, where he tries to explain what he does
“Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter.”.
“Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.”
Where he explains how many people he has to report to and how many are there to point finger.
The person who doesn’t do any work at all gets promoted and the others get fired, this correlates to when Bob gives his assessment report about Peter “I'd like to move us right along to a Peter Gibbons. Now we had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.”
Every day the thought comes to the mind to be like Peter to not go to work at all and go fishing, driving, drinking tequila, like the dialogue in the movie when one of the Bob’s (the consultants) says “Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.” And Peter replies “I wouldn't say I've been *missing* it, Bob”. This would be a dream answer for me to say to any manager without losing Job.
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