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I wonder if the recruiters for these “totally optional roles” are the sort who would also provide helpful reminders that wearing 15 pieces of flair is just the
by heroprotagonist 8y ago
I wonder if the recruiters for these “totally optional roles” are the sort who would also provide helpful reminders that wearing 15 pieces of flair is just the bare minimum.
> Look, we want you to express yourself, okay? Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to wear more and we encourage that, okay? You do want to express yourself, don't you?
-- Office Space, 1999
I can almost feel the soul leeching sensation behind the forced cheerfulness. Though that could be a bit of projection if these are PR people pretending to be workers instead of workers acting as PR people.
But it's still disturbing in a more direct way than news reports about workers peeing in bottles to help shave time to hit performance targets.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoOn the upside, I recently learned that the actual restaurant chain that inspired that bit quietly did away with flair after the movie came out. /apropos of nothing
- mtmail 8y agoThat was TGI Friday's according to http://mentalfloss.com/article/61686/20-things-you-might-not-know-about-office-space http://mentalfloss.com/article/61686/20-things-you-might-not...
- erikpukinskis 8y agoYou seem very disturbed about a hypothetical situation you made up.