Man, today was just rough. You know how people say "Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today!" Screw that! I just had to wake up to be in a bad mood. I've no idea where it came from, but i was just aggravated from the get-go, and I absolutely didn't want to go to work to edit those crap reports i have to look at everyday. It's the first time in a while that I really loathed going into work and editing those shiite reports. I have to do 25 a day, and the fact that I even had to do one made me want to do like in the movie Network: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
By late in the afternoon, I was growling at the computer screen, and by 5, I was prepared to claw my way out of there.
Overall, I had an "Office Space" of a day today, so in honor of that, here's some great quotes from that movie:
"PC Load Letter"? What the fuck does that mean?
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Joanna : So, where do you work, Peter?
Peter Gibbons : Initech.
Joanna : In-yeah, what do you do there?
Peter Gibbons : I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.
Joanna : What's that?
Peter Gibbons : Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits instead of four. So like 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.
Joanna : You're just not gonna go?
Peter Gibbons : Yeah.
Joanna : Won't you get fired?
Peter Gibbons : I don't know, but I really don't like it, and, uh, I'm not gonna go.
Joanna : So you're gonna quit?
Peter Gibbons : Nah-uh. Not really. Uh... I'm just gonna stop going.
Joanna : When did you decide all that?
Peter Gibbons : About an hour ago.
Joanna : An hour ago... so you're gonna get another job?
Peter Gibbons : I don't think I'd like another job.
Joanna : Well, what are you going to do about money and bills and...
Peter Gibbons : You know, I've never really liked paying bills. I don't think I'm gonna do that, either.
Joanna : So what do you wanna do?
Peter Gibbons : First I'm gonna take you out to dinner and then I'm gonna go back to my apartment and watch kung fu. Do you ever watch kung fu?
Joanna : I love kung fu.
Peter Gibbons : Channel 39.
Joanna : Totally.
Peter Gibbons : You should come over and watch kung fu tonight.
Joanna : Ok. Ok. Can we order lunch first? Ok.
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Bob Slydell : You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time at work so if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons : Yeah.
Bob Slydell : Great.
Peter Gibbons : Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh - after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob Porter : Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons : Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
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Peter Gibbons : So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
Dr. Swanson : What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
Peter Gibbons : Yeah.
Dr. Swanson : Wow, that's messed up.
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Peter Gibbons : Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday, and you're not feelin' real well, does anyone ever say to you, 'Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays'?
Lawrence : No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
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Peter Gibbons : Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.
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