Don't leave and put them in a bind. Stay and keep them in one.

Preach it brother 😎💨

BEST Quote EVER! 👌

@@matthewerwin4677 I have a friend who was a buck sergeant in my National Guard Unit 30 years ago. He caught a lot of crap because he was honest, and gave as good as he got no matter who was giving. He was thinking about quitting. Another friend told him, “No, don’t leave...that’s what they want you to do. Stay and be a thorn in their side.” He retired not long ago as a Sergeant Major.

“If there’s a task that must be done, Don’t turn your tail and run, Don’t pout, don’t sob, Just do a half-assed job.” - Shary Bobbins, “Cut Every Corner.”

🫡 me too. I saw this in HS. I really get it now.

It’s the first time they are actually getting something honest told to them. Something that matches the numbers in front of them. And he actually gave them a bunch of different insights on how to ramp up productivity and limit administrative redundancies

"I have eight different bosses, right now." "Uh, I beg your pardon?" That said it all for me.

@@HopeisAnger they now have 7 people maybe 8 they know they can lay off without effecting company performance

@@Realbobo Like: get seven of these eight bosses fired or initiate a bonus system (which is by now pretty much the standard for many companies).

Amazing. He ends the interview lol

Good luck with your layoffs, I hope your firings go really well 😂

Upper management move right there

I know it's beautiful :D

Yeah, lol. Same with "The pleasure's all on this side of the table"

Hmmmm yeeahhh I’m gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there....

Pirate Labs legend lmao

I love it when the higher ups get off there asses and try to tell us little people we are doing a shit job lol

​@@willyjoel about how much time do you spend dealing with these tps reports?

@@krtlkid Was about to ask him the same thing! Now he is going to watch Overland One play tetris and not give a shit about him....hahah..

Actually rather strange. Normally they would be suggesting more management to raise the efficiency of the workforce. Which, of course, they turn around and do by suggesting Peter for upper management. Come to think of it, maybe that's why they balked. "What? Only eight? Well, we'll just have to double that..."

It's the "Too many chefs, not enough cooks" conundrum. or Banking - 75 vice presidents and two pesky bank tellers....or so I heard.

@@rcslyman8929 No we don't. Not more, better. It's just that, in the end, those managers who knew the plan, who knew what we were trying to achieve, get replaced by people who shouldn't be there. People who do a lot of damage trying to hide the fact they shouldn't be there. Part of the problem is that being a good manager is actually really difficult. There aren't enough suitable people going around, so the ambitious get to have a go instead.

@@AdmiralBison Nah, banking just went online and the vice presidents all go a big redundancy payout and are living in luxury in the Bahamas just before the bank went bankrupt.

He was unafraid to pull the sheets off of the things that made Initech so awful. These guys were interested in stock equity to offer to employees to give them skin in the game and see some real results from their own work. 8 bosses? Sounds like the cuts need to happen a little higher on the totem pole. They had the right ideas once Peter got involved. I used to hate the Bobs but they were more of a chance for positive change than anybody else like Lumberg.

Indeed. My lack of motivation is my driving factor in life. Which is kind of sad if you think about it. I

What truly makes people motivated then, money (ie personal benefit)? Or deeper?

@@kavanbrown3149 Mindset. Personality. Outside factors like, yes, money, your lover, shame etc Personally I'm pretty sure I destroyed my rewards center of my brain through my addiction from first year of high school until like age 26-27. Final years of brain development and I was confusing my brain.

My life's motto.

Yep. Same boat.

I ended an interview the other day like this with a few old school executives who just stared at me for an hour, sans the good luck with the firings part

I like how the bobs don't even mention firings.

"Listen I'm gonna go" So casual about it lol

Done in such a casual confident manner, I don't even think the Bobs fully realized Peter ended the meeting for them. They just kind of naturally thought "That's the end of the meeting, guess our time is up"

LOL. Yea, like he runs it. LOL.

I do this for a living. You are 100% right

​@@DrEhrfurchtgebietendwhat's your job title? I'm in marketing and would love to do analysis like this

@@tylermckenzie2067 Principal consultant. Apply at McKinsey, BCG or Bain.

I have been told that management consultants really enjoy their work. They get to find the lazy and useless and send them packing.

​@@scandalouspanda7489but in the real world there is a need for such a system to detect and filter out the bad apples. And if you worked anywhere and any time you fast learn there is always some - on various positions

Only works in movies, lol

@@akshaynatu6568 Yeah, unfortunately.

@@Caitanyadasa108 However, the 8 bosses thing would have quickly gotten the attention of any "efficiency expert". They would appreciate and respect him having the balls to tell them that. But acting overly flippant, coming in in jeans and rumpled flannel, saying "I'm gonna go", that would never fly.

It's usually more about how much people like you than competence. This movie nails it

not really, One dumb psychopath Bengali American (new sheriff in management) who tried to cut my pay by $15 per hour. He tried to twist my wrist in a meeting and said you will be out of the project (not mentioned fired) if I don't agree to his demands. I responded calmly, "alright. when's the last date? today or some other day". The moron just stood up and said I'll let you know and then went out of the room mumbling. I was there for another 11 months, which I shouldn't have. Anyone can do this when that person decides not to take any more abuse and is ready to walk out. I left that toxic boss when my contract was over (after 11 months later). It was one of the good decisions I made.

Good points. Im a consultant myself, the interesting problem I have is that I do a combo of interim staffing, and as needed work. Some clients want me to come and do the work permanently, and I say hell no due to the exact systemic problems you mentioned. So my question too, is one of the problems that can emerge in a company like this, is that many managers never worked their way up in the line of work they are expected to manage? Ive been at places that were totally dumpsterfires cause the managers didn't know what the actual job entailed, and only questioned folks on why things weren't working, they basically went to school, graduated, and were on a fast track, they didn't drag their knuckles.

I lived and worked in Silicon Valley for 14 years; from 1996 until 2010. What is interesting is that type of problematic company organization and corporate structure is really a product of those times. Companies nowadays are far more efficient and many have 360 reviews of managers and constant surveys of employees to ensure people are well motivated and productive. It's to say companies like that don't still exist. But many would go out of business as tech workers are still a sought after commodity and it is in the best interest of the company to keep them happy. With that being said, in the late 90s, I got to see a lot of what is depicted here firsthand. One of the big issues in Silicon Valley at that time was the fact that middle managers often came from other sectors or backgrounds. Because Dot Com caused such a massive increase in companies and demand for workers, there just weren't enough skilled, technical managers to fill the gaps. So I had scenarios where I was a programmer and my manager had a background in something entirely non-tech. And they were utterly clueless. Made for some interesting times when it comes to giving them estimates on how long it took to get work done. I coined something I used to call 'Scotty Speak' (named after Scotty from Star Trek) where I would just run off some tech sounding zibberish to the manager and let him/her know it would take several days to do what they asked of me. When in fact, it would only take several hours. ;-)

@@Diomedes01 I had the inverse experience working in tech, also in San Jose. Boss would give me a task, ask me how long it would take. I’d say one hour, knowing it would really only take 10 minutes. He would then tell me that I have three hours, because that’s how long it would take HIM to do it, and he thought I was being cavalier with my estimates. So 10 minutes of work and 2 hours and 50 of just dorking around online. Well not exactly, right around 2 hours and 10 I’d turn in the work and catch praise for being so quick. This went on for 7 years. Good times.

@@Diomedes01”Scotty speech.” You brilliant (insert appropriate word here).

Now we have new kinds of inefficiencies. Where I work I have like 10 different usernames and pwd's for all sorts of things, including things that have zero security implications if they were just left unprotected, but since the tech exists we must use it on any and every device that draws electricity. Each of those usernames and pwd's periodically have to be updated, but at different intervals, so every week i'm having to make at least one new one, which I can't do until a 2nd person w/their own higher level username and pwd brings up the screen to allow me to do so. And if he's not around, then I can't do my work until he is so I can make a new pwd and get into the needed device. Then there's outsourcing. As an example: our own mechanics used to be in charge of changing light bulbs if lights burned out. Now we outsource it to a 3rd party. Not that we replaced the mechanics, they are still around, they just don't do lights anymore, even though we have plenty of lights on site if any are needed and no one needs any expertise or certification to perform the changing of a light. They aren't special sci-fi lights or anything just normal lights to make a space brighter. They work just like the lights in your home. Its been decided that outsourcing must be good, so that's what we do where its contractually allowed, but randomly and w/no rhyme or reason or perceivable benefit in either time or cost. Same employee count as before the change, plus now the added cost of the 3rd party as well, actually increasing costs lol. Maybe the 3rd party who got the gig is a company owned by someone's favorite nephew or something. Anyhow, what once took a mention to a mechanic and 5 minutes of work to replace a dead light, now involves about a dozen people, phone calls, emails, frustrations, phone tag, interactions between 2 organizations, and an interminably long wait before anything gets done. And if you get exasperated and just change the light yourself you get yelled at. Then we'll have meetings saying its unsafe to work in poorly lit areas, ran by the same people who would be the ones to yell at you if you didn't follow procedure and just changed the light yourself, lol. The bobs would have no shortage at all of fun things to look at where I work.

'Out on a limb' had "the Jims", 2 brothers named Jim. One was named after their dad and the other was named after their grandpa. They were very dumb. Jamming to classical music:"you sure you got the right station? This don't sound like Iron Maiden." "It's live concert, it always sounds different live." This is the first movie I ever saw John C. Reilly in.

​@@txgunguy2766 this is Darrell, and my other brother Darrell

​@@txgunguy2766 The TV show Shoresey has 3 Jim's. They get bulked together as one character.

In major league back to the minors they had 2 Juan Lopez’s

True dat

That's how it should be

Angsuman Bhattacharyya Honestly.... Probably.

@@Bangla_te_Shob That's how it is these days

No joke, that happened to my friend at a casino that he worked at. To skip the politics of Native American Tribal elections, let's just say they were doing their rounds of firing people because of the elections and cash flow and crap, my friends saw his friends get fired and he knew he was on the chopping block. So he he worked half ass that week and just knew he was getting fired and at the end of the day, he was called into the office. This moment, he knew he was fired and instead, they gave him raise.

Snake Plissken My feelings about school.

@@lukelichtenthal5407 My feelings about life

fail

Luke Lichtenthal hey. I think 🤔 we are siblings😉😉😉😊😊😊🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

Corporate America beats the give a shit right out of you

8 really isn't that many. Manager and assistant manager. Regional and/or district manager, with potentially the board of directors. Then you have a department head and ones for the other departments and technically they outrank you and can give you tasks to complete.

​@kyleellis1825 I agree but its bizarre that so many members of Upper management would be taking time out their day to call Peter about something that only his line manager and project manager would need to remind him about once. You'd only commit this much time if it was recurring and needed corrective actions. Those bosses have nothing better to do if they're chasing up on a cover sheet being forgotten. Just trying to pad their timesheets or show to their own bosses they're "improving" procedures.

@@kyleellis1825I’m fairly certain that by “8 different bosses” they mean 8 different managers/people he reports to. The whole point of the Bobs is that they were brought in to cut down on inefficiencies which is why they perked up. Because that would be grossly inefficient. Whereas with a hierarchy, while technically being a boss of everyone below them, isn’t someone you’d really call your “boss” as a grunt

No, it was definitly set up as pointles redundancies as you say. Just pointing out hat 8 bosses alone isn't necessarily a bad thing.@@will_from_pa

@@kyleellis1825 But it's 8 bosses that didn't notice how little actual work Peter does at the office. If 8 bosses shows up to hassle him about tiny mistakes but none of them ever noticed how little work he does, chances are at least some of those bosses aren't doing their work of supervising the employees.

It’s quite genius actually.

Oh so true. I work for govt. This could be a reality TV show.

I work in publicist we all get our own floor and elevator. Never seen these farms before.

The same elements apply to nearly every job I've had.

I'm from Europe. When I want to the states on business my first point of call was to see the 'cube farms', as we work in open plan offices, with massive windows. They didn't disappoint. It was baffling to see people in adjacent cubes talking to each other on the phone ;)

oh wow man youre the first person ive ever seen or heard say that... its almost like Mike Judge filmed the movie with that in mind. lol fucking idiot.

You're goddamn right

Honestly, it's more current for me today than it was back then! Just a masterpiece through and through.

Actually it did after about 45 seconds.

@@baronvonnembles For you.

Best and most realistic movie about working!

I think that they are just so taken aback that someone for once told them the truth. Everyone else embellishes to make themselves seem more valuable. Human nature is to value rarity and Peter is the most rare thing they’ve ever seen in this corporate world. Honest and forthcoming.

I think you think too much and it's just a movie and a comedy at that.. created by Mike Judge, who is known for his factual comedies like Beavis and butthead and king of the hill.

Administration is a cancer that eventually grows to the point where it starts replacing healthy tissue in important organs until the organism is destroyed.

​@@ralphythegeneral Have you never heard of interpreting works of fiction so that you can learn from it? There's entire high school and university courses based on it, there called English classes.

Clearly, it's for managing the sheer talent of one stapler obsessed super man named Milton.

no, actually addresses each of them individually

@@davehasenford3985 yup, he says Bob twice

@@davehasenford3985 you must be young

NOT! 😁

anything more than that is already too much work

I never noticed that about the two guys going in circles until today! Thanks!

It is something you notice a lot when you are doing office scenes in TV shows. You have about 10 extras whose only task is to look busy in the back ground. I use to chuckle because nobody walks that much in a office setting. There are practically no paper files. And it is just people chugging data into PCs, BSing with co-workers, or talking on phones. Yet in the TV shows and movies, it is always people walking back and forth.

It’s not often you get the strait skinny from someone. He wasn’t trying to save his job, he just didn’t care anymore.

I've worked in the software industry since the '80s and they really captured the feel of the office. Also, the supporting characters are perfect...every one reminds me of someone I've worked with.

Amazing actor. He's great in everything I've seen him in.

My favorite quote from him on a late night interview was him explaining whenever he worked with an unprepared scene partner... Every item they would mess up he would let them try until the fifth take, then he would lean in and say "Every time you mess up, they're just going to use my coverage, so keep it up."

He’s never done poorly in any role

He can do any part you give him.

He was awesome in Ground Floor !

Thomas Tague omg I’ve seen this movie a million times & never noticed that before 😄

This movie is Art.

Milton already has his plan. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

You need to plan strategically after all! lol

Whoooooo......yeeeeah. Ummm, I'm gonna have to go ahead and sort of......DISAGREE with you there? Yeeeeah.

@@akshaynatu6568 That would be great

That was me in high school.

​@@jerrykinnin7941that's the definition of lazy

Sounds like Dudeism to me.. Dude abides 🎳✌️

So they hired all these people and then ended up with a bunch of people they don't need. How does this happen?

This movie is 100% spot on!! Genius script!

@@JR-bj3uf A lot of companies will over staff when they are doing well to expand rapidly, but eventually things taper off and maybe even drop a bit as the market becomes saturated. Investors, especially, scrutinize over every little fluctuation in profit and overreact, and in turn the company over-corrects to keep the board of investors happy. Mass hires and layoffs, are the easiest ways to boost profits and cut costs in the short term. In their eyes, the workforce is expendable. There is a saying in business, "The ad for your replacement will be posted faster than your obituary."

@@meltedplasticarmyguy There is truth in your statement but I have been wondering, in a time of shrinking populations and fewer trained and motivated individuals is this management model even sustainable?

@@JR-bj3uf I would say no. The world has changed. There is no incentive to be "skilled" anymore. No more drive to be better. I work in construction, and for the past 27 years there have been fewer and fewer quality apprentices. All the "old timers" are retiring (being forced out) and no one is replacing them except for inexperienced people who think they know better. We have moved to a society that thinks having a college degree is a "be all, end all". Here in the next few months, I will be running a multi-million dollar project that will have a few hundred workers working at the same time, all without a degree, I worked my ass off to get where I am. People need to realize that "getting rich quick" never works. You need to crawl before you can run. Be able to accept criticism, and be hungry to learn. Managers needs to elevate potential and cut loose any anchors. Not everyone can be a doctor, a lawyer, or an astronaut, but that's ok.

Same here

Me too

Me too

I think it's everybody's favorite movie at some point at our lives. I really felt like Peter at one point in my life when I felt unappreciated at work and this movie did it for me 👍

I stole a banner from a place of business with an Initech-type name that was titled BOLD STEPS. I planned the heist and returned home to my roommate who had been fired from that place a week before.

One tech company I worked for had a "Pre" meeting. To make sure everyone was using the correct Tech-Speak for the "Real" meeting. Made the manager look very professional. Which wasted at least a half hour and the meeting which wasted another hour. EVERYDAY. They eventually failed and closed the place. $150M down the drain.

Reminds me of a post where someone talked about walking past a meeting room with a white board that just had profit, circled and underlined, written on it. The three occupants were yelling at each other

Yes. His portrayal of Dr Cox was spot on. What could have been a one-dimensional a-hole of a character was very nuanced. We kept getting to see more and more of his vulnerabilities yet he never turned into some soft, nancy boy. He's been great in everything.

Agree-best wise ass character ever to be on tv.

Help me to help You....Help me to help you....Help me to help you Barbie.

@@mikejohnson9118 love that scene!!

My observation has been most toxic employers would rather endure the setback inherent to the loss of an employee who fills a vital function than give that employee any kind of power. It appears to be a worthwhile trade off to them to lose your.productivity, so long as they can still intimidate the person who fills your place, even if they do it badly.

@Tyler Durden congrats on being in breach of contract and it getting your last month's pay

@@Cowcow211 not in an at will state. You can leave it anytime with no notice. They can let you go at anytime with no notice

@@yossarius That depends on the job, if a company is big enough, there is no way a single person is the one running the hole show, so even if you do your job exceptionally, you are where you are (In every company I had work on, I ask for lateral promotions, so the boss knows that I am not after him and I just want more money for more efficient work) or if you are in a small company, if you are good you can easily outgrow your current value and what the company even can pay you, so they are also prepared to let you go... and toxic employers are not toxic to every employee, they know what workers they can attack.

Worse, they are passed over for promotion because, and I quote, "You have a wealth of technical skills that Dewayne lacks, so we can't backfill your position with Dewayne so it makes more sense from an organizational standpoint to put Dewayne in a management position that is more people rather than technical oriented, while also promoting diversity among management." Mike was a SUPER skilled network engineer who knew all systems inside and out, and Dewayne was pretty much useless, but because he was a black male and all L5 staff at that point were white or jewish males they felt they needed diversity. Mike quit that day when they basically told him he would never advance because he was too smart and too white. I told him to pretend to be homosexual at his next job so he can at least tick one diversity box, lol! BTW, Dewayne proved so incompetent, they replaced him after 5 weeks, but only with an equally incompetent even MORE diverse manager who was Mexican gender-queer (dressed as a man) lesbian woman, so she ticked off all the boxes. She lasted for 9 months before the entire department was outsourced to a IT company to work as contractors.

Haha my older brother who has been pretty high up in a couple companies calls those jobs the ejection seat lol.

Yassss..that's awesome 👌

Your wife a freaking boss!

It's the whole reason I came back to watch this clip.

Not as funny as the way you spell it!

Half of being a good manager is knowing when to shut up and get out of your teams way!

No, him being a hypnotizes pathological truth teller being direct honest and to the point makes him qualified for upper level management.

- I think it was how calm he was despite his job being on the line, along with how honest he was about the environment he works in. Their job was to figure out what the work environment was like and determine who is dead weight, who is critical, and who is exceptional. Everyone they would have talked to in that kind of situation would be feeeding them bullshit to try and maintain their position. Him being so honest and upfront, helping them accomplish what they needed to do was actually showcasing a leadership attitude, even if in his honesty he admits that due to the climate of his work he was unmotivated and even demotivated to go out of his way to help and improve the company.

If he is getting the same amount of work done as everyone else but casually admits he's really only working like 15mins then they must realize either A. He is very efficient, or B. everyone else is lying about how much they do

@@nraketh And the other half is removing obstacles and barriers holding your team back. The best PM I ever had the pleasure of working for did a fantastic job mediating the expectations of management and the constantly changing demands of clients. I didn't fully appreciate him until he took a month vacation. Suddenly every day became a crunch day and our lead/best developer had his hands tied up attending impromptu phone conferences and nearly having a nervous breakdown from management breathing down his neck. Good mid-level management is essential for not only helping a company achieve its productivity goals but also looking out for the wellbeing of the employees.

That no talent ads clown

people foget Mike Judge has a degree and worked in silicon valley

same actor, John C. McGinley

I quit my office job today because of this movie.

So you both just said, "I don't think I'm gonna go anymore." Good to know! LOLOLOL

😂

Jesús Acosta: And got a job as an English teacher? :)

xD

Yeah! I just stare at my desk; but it looks like im working...

I do that for another hour after lunch too

😂😂😂😂

I did that for 3 years at my job and got promoted 4x. 😏 Gotta love jobs that don't require a lot of effort 😎

Kinda like Full Metal Jacket

Okay glad I'm not the only one who thought that. It's pretty much downhill after this scene.

Agreed. Same can be said for Idiocracy - brilliant satire in the first half, and half-baked second half.

They built an excellent satirical world setting in both Idiocracy and Office Space and then didn't seem to know what to do with it to make a full run-time movie. That's ok though because the first 45 minutes of both are timeless.

No the whole movie is great.

Just doing something you like is good enough. An own business is tough and you will have to trust others while there is no reason to.

YOU GOT THOSE TPS REPORTS?

Yep, it's actually gotten worse now.

Yep, and it's actually gotten worse now. I miss early 2000s corporate life now, as masochistic as that might sound now, lol.

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

It's one of many reasons why you should every two years you move on to some place new.

Uh, yeah, uh, I'm going to have to go and disagree with about that...

@@michaelr3583 Yeeeeahhhh.