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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I watched this for the first time the other day, and thought it was absolutely awesome.

While it's a comedy film, it surprisingly touched on a lot of areas seen in David Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' concept, 14 years earlier.

Well acted, supremely funny and well written, and a particular joy to anyone who's worked in an office, or had a family member who did. There's not really any low or slow point in the film, it's steadily excellent the whole way through.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Surprising in the sense that I just wasn't expecting it, as I wasn't really familiar with it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Ah, my bad, I saw it decades ago, and you did say you just saw it, I was needlessly hostile.

IIRC, ... I think the movie actually did inspire a number of people, in real life, to attempt to do the ... fractional penny slush fund.

Yep, here's a more recent case:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/us/office-space-inspired-washington-software-engineer-thief/index.html

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

... he said that once they fired him, his opinion was, ‘Fuck ‘em,’” the report said.

An inspiration to us all

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

No worries man :)

I love that someone actually attempted that!

this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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