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“ Judge and Tunbjörk were depicting the same kinds of spaces, but Tunbjörk’s work proved the more perceptive. Part of what separates them are their respective t

“ Judge and Tunbjörk were depicting the same kinds of spaces, but Tunbjörk’s work proved the more perceptive. Part of what separates them are their respective theories for why the office had become hostile. In “Office Space,” Judge suggests that the problem is managerial; in a pivotal scene, Ron Livingston’s character complains that he has eight different bosses. This was hardly a new complaint, however: people had been making fun of middle managers for decades. Tunbjörk’s photos in “Office,” by contrast, point to a more contemporary culprit: technology.” Uh, as if Office Space doesn’t have the iconic “PC LOAD LETTER? What the… does that mean?”

ghaff 2y ago
Latterly I increasingly worked remotely. But once, for various reasons, it got to the point of VCs with people I had never met and was never going to meet in person, engagement pretty much fell off a cliff.
neilv 2y ago
My nerd side objected to the artistic license there. The computer programmer character should know it's instructions to the user (necessarily terse on a very small character display), to load more blank US Letter size paper into the Paper Cartridge. What a programmer would more likely be complaining about with a corporate workgroup page printer is someone spooling a huge job that DoSes it, piles of other people's printouts that they never picked up, toner out (and it's not in a sealed cartridge, so you're risking staining your clothes and hands as well as the carpet), paper jams (including paper that must be ripped out, and job reconstructed, after backlog of others' jobs), failing pickup rollers, some software they have to use that sometimes overloads the renderer RAM, the smell of ozone from heavy printing with no openable windows, etc.
- wrs 2y ago
  Well, I’ve been a nerd and programmer for many decades and just now found out PC stands for Paper Cartridge. Thank you.

ghaff 2y ago

Latterly I increasingly worked remotely. But once, for various reasons, it got to the point of VCs with people I had never met and was never going to meet in person, engagement pretty much fell off a cliff.

neilv 2y ago

My nerd side objected to the artistic license there. The computer programmer character should know it's instructions to the user (necessarily terse on a very small character display), to load more blank US Letter size paper into the Paper Cartridge. What a programmer would more likely be complaining about with a corporate workgroup page printer is someone spooling a huge job that DoSes it, piles of other people's printouts that they never picked up, toner out (and it's not in a sealed cartridge, so you're risking staining your clothes and hands as well as the carpet), paper jams (including paper that must be ripped out, and job reconstructed, after backlog of others' jobs), failing pickup rollers, some software they have to use that sometimes overloads the renderer RAM, the smell of ozone from heavy printing with no openable windows, etc.

wrs 2y ago
Well, I’ve been a nerd and programmer for many decades and just now found out PC stands for Paper Cartridge. Thank you.