Office Space

This movie is hilarious for anyone who's ever worked a job. Period. I don't think there is any other requirement to identify the ridiculousness of being someone else's idea of a subordinate.

The movie opens with the stars (victims) being stuck in a miserable big city traffic jam. If you don't relate to that, there are plenty of other job frustrations to relate to. Instructions being passed "down" to you endlessly by the "superiors" who strangely seem to outnumber, make more money, and do no work other than what is necessary to suggest they are superior to those they actually "work" around.

I think the funniest part of the movie is carried on the shoulders of a middle-aged employee at the company (Intech, or something like that). He is so worried about the possibilities of being considered dispensable. When a couple of guys are brought in to make the company more "efficient", he is forced to explain what it is he actually does, which he finds difficulty in making it out to be much of anything. He insists he has people skills. That is why he's there. The engineers don't have this skill, he frustratingly and irritably shouts at his anal reviewers as if the company would fold without a guy who has the temperament of a badger.

Good stuff for anyone who has found themselves frustrated by impossible demands of working for people who only care about the bottom line and could really care less about anyone besides themselves; people who think and believe in workers mechanized for production and without emotion; people who believe in working hard as long as they are not the ones doing it. Good stuff for anyone who has ever been around or worked for a company that has treated them as if they were nothing more than someone who could quickly be replaced by any other available mammal or primate, or so worthless to not even be replaced at all.