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"Today, effective immediately, I, Gavin Belson, founder and CEO of Hooli, am forced to officially say goodbye to the entire Nucleus division. All Nucleus person
by discordance 4y ago
"Today, effective immediately, I, Gavin Belson, founder and CEO of Hooli, am forced to officially say goodbye to the entire Nucleus division. All Nucleus personnel will be given proper notice and terminated. But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure."
- cdolan 4y agoSV from HBO I’d really something else
- TchoBeer 4y agoFor how long it is, it's incredible how high the hit rate for jokes were.
- rbanffy 4y agoIt was disturbingly accurate for parody.
- lazide 4y agoI couldn’t watch it - I lived through far crazier stuff than what they showed, and it was just too painful. One of those cases where they had to tone down reality so people would believe it, but still came across as unrealistic!
- samstave 4y agoWhats your dick to floor ratio?
- papito 4y agoRewatched all of it recently. It actually got better and more on the nose with time. Incredible.
- cableshaft 4y agoFor someone who barely ever worked an office job, Mike Judge is an expert at portraying office space.
- tuyiown 4y agoI suspect he mainly had to figure out that it’s the same as everywhere else, but the displayed politeness of office managers make it especially delectable satire. In Office Space there is the «pieces of flair» argument with the waitress (Aniston), it’s much more bitter, and I suspect much harder to keep it funny, because in truth those worker endured much more violent management, there is little space to spin it in a funny way.
- samstave 4y agoYeah.... I'm going to have to ask you to come in on Sunday... thanks.... -- When I was an early IT manager my team would make fun of me and compare me to the manager from office space... because I would always say "thanks" when I would ask them for something... But I learned to say "thanks" because at Intel - in the 90's it was company culture to always close an email with "thanks" When I worked at FB though it was a hostile environment. so no Thanks.
- blaser-waffle 4y ago> because in truth those worker endured much more violent management, there is little space to spin it in a funny way. what? no one got beat over flair, and having worked in a lot of serving jobs, the level of violence serving drinks was roughly on par with the number of fights I've seen in the data center.
- hindsightbias 4y agoA number of us were convinced Judge just hung out in a booth at Applebees and local bars in Austin and wrote down everything we were saying. Living in Richardson explains Beavis and KotH.
- tyingq 4y agoThere's an interview here that covers some of how it happened: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/2/19/18228673/office-space-oral-history https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/2/19/18228673/office-s... It does mention he worked for a military contractor, which probably provided an accelerated environment for learning corporate bs.
- sytelus 4y agoSV should start new season. Writers will have no shortage of material.
- blaser-waffle 4y ago11000 people lose their jobs -- "let's make more shows about it!" to quote an old guy: "first as tragedy, then as farce"
- sytelus 4y agoI am imagining a scene were Gavin Belson takes over Pied Piper and installs his VC friends who immediately fire half of the people. Then website crashes in next hour and they are frantically calling back people to re-hire them.
- r00fus 4y agoSometimes times are so bleak you need humor to really process it all.
- tifadg1 4y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeYaQGbD6Xc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeYaQGbD6Xc Hilarious, yet the way corporate PR is heading it could be real and none would be the wiser.
- cloutchaser 4y agoI wonder how many of the people who say “musk is just an investor and Tesla and spacex exist because of the engineers” now say Zuckerberg is clearly the responsible for the failures of Facebook. You can’t have both.
- Eisenstein 4y ago> you can't have both. Why not? Nothing you wrote suggests that we cannot have both. In fact, Musk bought Tesla, is not an engineer, has no engineering training or education or engineering accomplishments (the code he was writing for the company that became PayPal was notoriously terrible and had to be scrapped). Say what you want about Zuck, but if you plopped him down at a terminal and made him do the job of one of his own senior Devs I bet he would be able to do it. Musk couldn't do the same for any one of his companies in any of the technical positions. I find it interesting that someone states something like 'you can't it both ways' without thinking it through and while presenting no reasoning for it, and then just leave it there like it is now a rule we must accept.
- cloutchaser 4y ago> is not an engineer, has no engineering training or education or engineering accomplishments You should probably fact check this statement. There are plenty of people on quora or even here who worked with Musk. You are completely wrong on this.
- Eisenstein 4y agoAre you one of those people?