Office Space (1/5) Movie CLIP - Did You Get the Memo? (1999) HD
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as shorthand for pointless corporate nagging and soulless office life.
What it is
The Office Space scene where Peter is grilled by his bosses for missing the cover sheet on his TPS report.
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What Hacker News said
Cites 082349872349872 · 2024-04 · on “RMS Lifestyle”
> I remember people dressing what today would be quite formally in the office I remember the cubes in Office Space (1999) characterising IniTech as depressing (people dropping by without even needing to knock on the door) and soulless, but maybe today's open plan workers think they look like privacy incarnate? [this video]
Cites swat535 · 2025-03 · on “I'm done with coding”
> It was three hours of nearly-continuous meetings, all with the same subject of how bad it was to email a higher-up without first emailing every single person in-between first. There is a famous scene, in the movie Office Space (1999), where the low level coder is constantly harassed about an idiotic memo because he forgot a cover sheet on his TPS reports.. he is reminded of this 3 times and then some by other people.. It's unreal how the "modern" corporate environment, remains the same as it was in early 90s.. [this video]