Jucius Maximus's Journal: The Office

Here I sit at the office in my first big-company office/tech job ever. I am developing software for internal corporate use.

A small message to those who read Dilbert but haven't had a big-company office job: Dogbert and Catbert are right. Cubicles. Office Politics. Real Work. Real Benefits. Real boring. Meetings. Managers. Deadlines. Departments. Yes, you never understand the true ironies shown in the Dilbert world until you live them.

Rent 'Office Space'

[mshiltonj]

Office Space [imdb.com] -- It's not a comedy; It's a documentary.

Re:Rent 'Office Space'

[Jucius Maximus]

Office Space - I loved it. Especially that scene where they took the troulesome fax (?) machine out into the field and beat the crap out of it. But I will have to look into that other video you mentioned.

Re:Rent 'Office Space'

[Jucius Maximus]

Uh, whoops. Skill market is a web site, not a video. Duh.

Re:Rent 'Office Space'

[Peyna]

I found Office Space even reminded me of a factory job I had a few years ago. My only motivation for working hard was to keep from having 4 bosses come up to me each time I put the wrong part on. Since I was a part time employee, I just worked to keep my job and get a paycheck. Most of the other guys there actually took pride in their work and I believe there was a profit-sharing system setup to motivate them to work harder, as well as other incentives.

Anyway, I've often wondered how long it would be until someone noticed if I just stopped showing up to work. Maybe I'll give it a try someday.

june 11th eh?

[Jacer]

That's was my 16th birthday, and the day I started work as a pc/lan tech....two years ago, the most true part about office space "in a given day I do maybe 15 minutes of real work"

Re:june 11th eh?

[Jucius Maximus]

"That's was my 16th birthday, and the day I started work as a pc/lan tech....two years ago, the most true part about office space "in a given day I do maybe 15 minutes of real work""

Well I did't start on June 11th ... at that time I had already been on the job for ~5 weeks, which is still a relatively small amount of time. For some of the jobs at this company, the skills take so long to learn that you're not truly useful until after about 4 years.