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* EveryoneHasStandards: The Bobs aren't nice guys, but they are genuinely astonished by Initech's inefficient bureaucracy. They also end up giving their usual treatment to [[PointyHairedBoss Lumbergh after getting an inkling of how poorly he operates the company]].
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** The Bobs aren't nice guys, but they are genuinely astonished by Initech's inefficient bureaucracy. They also end up giving their usual treatment to [[PointyHairedBoss Lumbergh after getting an inkling of how poorly he operates the company]].
** Anne is a completely despicable person, but when the therapist blithely tells Peter that how much he hates his job is "messed up" even she looks put out.
** The Bobs aren't nice guys, but they are genuinely astonished by Initech's inefficient bureaucracy. They also end up giving their usual treatment to [[PointyHairedBoss Lumbergh after getting an inkling of how poorly he operates the company]].
** Anne is a completely despicable person, but when the therapist blithely tells Peter that how much he hates his job is "messed up" even she looks put out.
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** Bill Lumbergh is a PointyHairedBoss par excellence, but he rightly points out that Peter, the main character, is a shitty worker who isn't getting anything done, doesn't follow instructions, and seems to be ''trying'' to get fired. ** The Bobs also have moments of this. They're AffablyEvil hatchet men who will casually joke about the people they're firing, but they also rightly recognize that Lumbergh himself is an idiotic asshole who's doing nothing but dragging down the company. They also surprisingly avert ThePeterPrinciple by recognizing that Peter being upfront and honest about his problems with Initech would make him a good manager.
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** Bill Lumbergh is a PointyHairedBoss par excellence, but he rightly points out that Peter, the main character, is a shitty worker who isn't getting anything done, doesn't follow instructions, and seems to be ''trying'' to get fired.
** The Bobs also have moments of this. They're AffablyEvil hatchet men who will casually joke about the people they're firing, but they also rightly recognize that Lumbergh himself is an idiotic asshole who's doing nothing but dragging down the company. They also surprisingly avert ThePeterPrinciple by recognizing that Peter being upfront and honest about his problems with Initech would make him a good manager.
** The Bobs also have moments of this. They're AffablyEvil hatchet men who will casually joke about the people they're firing, but they also rightly recognize that Lumbergh himself is an idiotic asshole who's doing nothing but dragging down the company. They also surprisingly avert ThePeterPrinciple by recognizing that Peter being upfront and honest about his problems with Initech would make him a good manager.
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** Bill Lumbergh is a PointyHairedBoss par excellence, but he rightly points out that Peter, the main character, is a shitty worker who isn't getting anything done, doesn't follow instructions, and seems to be ''trying'' to get fired. ** The Bobs also have moments of this. They're AffablyEvil hatchet men who will casually joke about the people they're firing, but they also rightly recognize that Lumbergh himself is an idiotic asshole who's doing nothing but dragging down the company. They also surprisingly avert the PeterPrinciple ThePeterPrinciple by recognizing that Peter being upfront and honest about his problems with Initech would make him a good manager.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Bill Lumbergh is a PointyHairedBoss par excellence, but he rightly points out that Peter, the main character, is a shitty worker who isn't getting anything done, doesn't follow instructions, and seems to be ''trying'' to get fired. The Bobs also have a moment of this: they're blatantly incompetent at their jobs and kind of total jerks, but they also rightly recognize that Lumbergh himself is an idiotic asshole who's doing nothing but dragging down the company.
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** Bill Lumbergh is a PointyHairedBoss par excellence, but he rightly points out that Peter, the main character, is a shitty worker who isn't getting anything done, doesn't follow instructions, and seems to be ''trying'' to get fired. ** The Bobs also have
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* UltimateJobSecurity: Parodied extensively.
** Peter is a crappy worker who by his own admission "works just hard enough not to get fired." What happens when (due to his hypnosis) he goofs off even more and plays Tetris in front of his manager? He gets ''promoted.''
** Lumbergh seems to be such a lousy manager that it's a wonder he was never held to account for it until the events of the movie when the Bobs end up potentially putting him on the chopping block.
** Milton was laid off five years prior and [[ButtMonkey nobody ever told him about it]], but through a payroll glitch he kept getting a regular paycheck and kept returning to work as though it were normal. At least until the Bobs fixed the glitch without telling Milton.
** Peter is a crappy worker who by his own admission "works just hard enough not to get fired." What happens when (due to his hypnosis) he goofs off even more and plays Tetris in front of his manager? He gets ''promoted.''
** Lumbergh seems to be such a lousy manager that it's a wonder he was never held to account for it until the events of the movie when the Bobs end up potentially putting him on the chopping block.
** Milton was laid off five years prior and [[ButtMonkey nobody ever told him about it]], but through a payroll glitch he kept getting a regular paycheck and kept returning to work as though it were normal. At least until the Bobs fixed the glitch without telling Milton.
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* HumiliationConga: Peter's hypnosis results in a massive and [[KickTheSonOfABitch entirely deserved]] one for Lumbergh. Lumbergh has his authority undermined and disrespected by Peter, get grilled by the Bobs for his terrible management and has his car destroyed by a tow truck after parking in a handicapped space. If you count one deleted scene as canon he [[spoiler:dies in the fire set by Milton, whom he had gone out of his way to abuse and bully.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Peter’s interview with the Bobs. All the other interviewees are shown to be nervous, uptight, angry, and more than likely lying about what they do, how hard they work, and how well the company works -- essentially, just telling the Bobs what they think the Bobs want to hear. Peter, meanwhile, is relaxed, charming, easygoing, and [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]] with the Bobs. But the Bobs made it perfectly clear from the start that brutal honesty is ''exactly'' what they're looking for. They're not looking to hear good things; they're looking for ''bad'' things so that they can see what needs fixing. And Peter is the only one who listens to them and gives them what they ''actually'' want. It's no wonder they identify him as the one most likely to fix things. His honesty and easygoing attitude probably ''would'' make for a great manager. (He just has to fix the whole "zoning out and being late" thing.)
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* AffablyEvil: The Bobs. While they are somewhat heartless hatchet men, they do reward people who genuinely impress them, pushing for Peter's promotion after he talks candidly about Initech's managerial problems.
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* AffablyEvil: AffablyEvil:
** The Bobs. While they are somewhat heartless hatchet men, they do reward people who genuinely impress them, pushing for Peter's promotion after he talks candidly about Initech's managerial problems.
** Dom Portwood. He's less of an smarmy asshole than Lumbergh even though he participates in the same bloated office management that Peter despises.
** The Bobs. While they are somewhat heartless hatchet men, they do reward people who genuinely impress them, pushing for Peter's promotion after he talks candidly about Initech's managerial problems.
** Dom Portwood. He's less of an smarmy asshole than Lumbergh even though he participates in the same bloated office management that Peter despises.
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* ThatSatisfyingCrunch: Trope inspiration. Michael beats the faulty fax machine to a pulp with his bare hands. The whole sequence is set to [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic entirely appropriate music]].
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* ThatSatisfyingCrunch: Trope inspiration. Michael beats the faulty fax machine printer to a pulp with his bare hands. The whole sequence is set to [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic entirely appropriate music]].
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* RantInducingSlight: Milton ''really'' loves that stapler. Also, getting his desk moved to Storage B and being asked to take care of the cockroach problem down there. "Well … okay. That's the last straw."
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Averted, but only by a few subtle on-screen cues. Initech is implied to be in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. For more experienced viewers, you'll be able to spot all the Texas references peppered throughout- Lawrence mentions he's working on a new [=McDonalds=] in the town of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Colinas Las Colinas]], Lawrence's boat has Texas registration, and when Peter and Joanna discuss watching ''Series/KungFu'', they reference "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXTX-TV channel 39]]", which did show a lot of Westerns back in the day. Outside of that, casual viewers wouldn't know, as they don't make any explicit locational references, likely because it's unimportant to the story, and all the license plates seen on cars are generic ones with US flags on them.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Averted, but only by a few subtle on-screen cues. Initech is implied to be in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. For more experienced viewers, you'll be able to spot all the Texas references peppered throughout- Lawrence mentions he's working on a new [=McDonalds=] in the town of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Colinas Las Colinas]], Lawrence's boat has Texas registration, and when Peter and Joanna discuss watching ''Series/KungFu'', ''Series/KungFu1972'', they reference "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXTX-TV channel 39]]", which did show a lot of Westerns back in the day. Outside of that, casual viewers wouldn't know, as they don't make any explicit locational references, likely because it's unimportant to the story, and all the license plates seen on cars are generic ones with US flags on them.
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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Dom Portwood, the other manager with the most screen time behind Lumbergh, has a habit of delivering heavy-handed claps to the back regardless of Peter's comfort level. Peter [[LaserGuidedKarma returns the favor]] when he stops caring about work.
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* HollywoodDressCode: Bill Lumbergh and his infuriating suspenders.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: both the scene in which [[https://youtu.be/GyB6ffmXsZo they install the virus]] while Down For Whatever by Ice Cube plays, and especially [[https://youtu.be/N9wsjroVlu8 the scene in which they destroy the printer]] with Still from the Geto Boys playing.
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* FictionalCounterpart: Chotchkie's, the casual dining restaurant where Joanna works as a waitress, is based on T.G.I. Friday's. Rumor has it that after ''Office Space'' was released, T.G.I. Friday's quietly removed the part of their dress code requiring employees to wear a certain amount of "flair" on their uniforms.
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* FictionalCounterpart: Chotchkie's, the casual dining restaurant where Joanna works as a waitress, is based on T.G.I. Friday's. Rumor has it that after ''Office Space'' was released, T.G.I. Friday's quietly removed the part of their dress code requiring employees to wear a certain amount of "flair" on their uniforms.
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* MeetTheNewBoss: [[spoiler:A deleted scene has the foreman supervising Peter's cleanup of Initech come up to Peter and [[HereWeGoAgain talk/act exactly like Lumbergh, making Peter miserable again]]. Rumor has it that no one liked this ending so it was dropped.]]
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* MeetTheNewBoss: [[spoiler:A deleted scene has the foreman supervising Peter's cleanup of Initech come up to Peter and [[HereWeGoAgain talk/act exactly like Lumbergh, making Peter miserable again]]. Rumor has it that no one liked this ending so it was dropped.]]
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** [[spoiler:A deleted scene has the foreman come up to Peter at the end and talk/act exactly like Lumbergh, making Peter miserable again. Rumor has it that no one liked this ending so it was dropped.]]
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** [[spoiler:A deleted scene has the foreman come up to Peter at the end and talk/act exactly like Lumbergh, making Peter miserable again. Rumor has it that no one liked this ending so it was dropped.]]
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*** It's implied that Peter, Michael and Samir, between them, are writing the software that '''controls''' both those bank transfers and the approval mechanism. Also, they mention that the various Y2K issues should conceal these shenanigans--discrepancies will be dismissed as a Y2K glitch. This is also why they panic when [[spoiler:the program siphons off far more than expected--a small amount could be written off as a Y2K glitch, while the larger amount '''would''' be immediately noticed.]]
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''Heeeeey, Troper. What's happening? Yeah, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and [[DescribeTopicHere describe ''Office Space'' here.]] If you could get that done by Monday, that'd be greeeeeaaaat. Mmkay?''
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''Heeeeey, Troper. What's happening? Yeah, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and [[DescribeTopicHere [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere describe ''Office Space'' here.]] If you could get that done by Monday, that'd be greeeeeaaaat. Mmkay?''
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**Eh, not necessarily - even though most accounting systems can handle 4 decimal places, many are set to only 2 because fractions of a cent are immaterial. The part that doesn’t work is actually moving the money. Banks don’t let just anyone from a company open an account, and making any sort of transfers is similarly restricted to specific employees and usually requires 2 people, one to initiate the transfer and one to approve.
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This is all just wrong, 7 day workweeks are not broadly illegal and OT is based on total hours worked, and wouldn’t apply to software engineers anyway
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: It's actually illegal for people to have to work 7 days a week (technically, 12 consecutive days). It's unknown if that actually happens, but Lumburgh asking Peter to come in Saturday ''and'' Sunday would run right up against that. And in some states, working on Sunday pays double-time (2x normal pay), which a manager ''damn well'' better justify to accounting as necessary. (Then again, it's also really not unheard of for managers to ask their employees to do exactly this, under the assumption that they either don't know or aren't in a position to protest.)
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Not to be confused with [[Series/TheOfficeUK either]] [[Series/TheOfficeUS versions]] of ''The Office'', a much more lighthearted comedic take on office work.
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* PetTheDog: While the Bobs are somewhat callous hatchetmen, when Peter impresses them with is candor, they actually seek to give him a promotion and grill Lumbergh when he badmouths Peter.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Peter's candid "I don't give a damn if you fire me" attitude straight to the faces of the people who could cost him his job. If he'd been less over-the-top, Peter could have been canned on the spot.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Peter's candid "I don't give a damn if you fire me" attitude straight to the faces of the people who could cost him his job. If he'd been less over-the-top, Peter could have been canned on the spot. In fact, his incredible honesty about his lack of work ethic actually gets him promoted by the Bobs.
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Got a mobile, IdleGame adaptation in March of 2017 called ''Office Space: Idle Profits.'' You play as a new intern at Initech just as Peter, Michael, and Samir start their PennyShaving scheme, having you install the virus in the system. Help the virus spread and rake in more and more pennies while working your way through the events of the film. Available on [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/office-space-idle-profits/id1163059158 iOS]], [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.mobile.officespace.google Android]] and Steam.
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Got a mobile, IdleGame adaptation in March of 2017 called ''Office Space: Idle Profits.'' You play as a new intern at Initech just as Peter, Michael, and Samir start their PennyShaving scheme, having you install the virus in the system. Help the virus spread and rake in more and more pennies while working your way through the events of the film. Available on [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/office-space-idle-profits/id1163059158 iOS]], [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.mobile.officespace.google Android]] and Steam.
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: A running theme about what makes modern employment so unbearable is that pretty much all of the bosses have got this down pat; they want to assert their authority over the people who they manage in any way possible yet are also conflict-adverse, so resort to passive-aggressively badgering and wheedling and "suggesting" their employees into doing what they want while pretending they have some sort of choice about it when clearly they don't. This turns out to be far more insufferable than if they just came out and told their employees what to do.
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* PennyShaving: As revenge for [[spoiler:Michael and Samir being fired]], the three protagonists develop a virus which is supposed to shave pennies off every transaction the company does. [[spoiler:Due to a bug it shaves significantly more then they wanted.]]
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* PennyShaving: As revenge for [[spoiler:Michael and Samir being fired]], the three protagonists develop a virus which is supposed to shave pennies off every transaction the company does. [[spoiler:Due to a bug it shaves significantly more then than they wanted.]]
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* InformedAttribute: Michael is described by himself and Peter as one of Initech’s best programmers, however, his virus has a fairly substantial bug that causes a massive over-withdrawal of funds, due, in his estimation, to “some mundane detail” that admits he misses frequently, so who knows if he’s actually a good programmer or if Peter just likes him.
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* InformedAttribute: Michael is described by himself and Peter as one of Initech’s best programmers, however, his virus has a fairly substantial bug that causes a massive over-withdrawal of funds, due, in his estimation, to “some mundane detail” that admits he misses frequently, so who knows if he’s actually a good programmer or if Peter just likes him. Of course, considering how inefficient Initech is, he really could be the best they've got, while still being mediocre overall.
