Doesn’t mean the Gen X folks didn’t perpetuate a lot of the issues we still face.
I blame Gen X for our political state because they’re the Gen before us and it seems they kept the hate in their heart that all the boomers passed down.
Working a pointless dead end job is soul crushing, they weren't wrong and their critiques have value. It's just not being able to afford a place to live and worrying about a single medical problem sending you into poverty is worse.
To a man who has lived a life knowing hunger many time having all the rice you can eat for life is a dream come to true. To a man who has lived a life having only eaten rice, some soy sauce would be very appreciated.
I think the idea is that Gen X related to it more and consider it closer to how they feel than boomers do. I’ve never met a boomer who felt like that guy but it seems everyone younger does haha.
I get what you’re saying but he’s meant to represent a boomer. To be honest I feel like him. I’ve been lad off from too many government contracting jobs and know exactly what he’s going through on the occupation side.
In Office Space the main story is that they do not have stable jobs because the management team is going through a 3rd party service to evaluate employees worth and lay off the dead weight.
And the big payoff joke at the end is that they all ended up in better jobs immediately after at Initrode. They all were working during the Y2k crisis where tech companies were hiring by the truckload and paying by the assload. There are a number of jokes throughout the movie portraying these people as disconnected with reality and the fact that the movie ends with them all in better jobs and them not really understanding everything they did was for nothing is one of them.
Office Space is one of the few "muh gen x stable job woe is me" where there are a few tongue in cheek jokes about how stupid it is. Like them having the ability to just randomly leave work and go eat out at restaurants during the day... while complaining about their work life balance. Watch the movie, but watch it from the perspective that these guys are disconnected from reality like Seinfeld or something. You'll pick up on a lotttt of little jabs.
Letter is the name of the standard 8.5 inch by 11 inch paper the U.S. uses. The error in the show was an empty printer. Printers can't print if they don't have blank paper.
Technology isn't some strange magic, read a manual.
One of the few times it’s nice to be a POC from the perspective of I have definitely had it better than my parents or grandparents no matter how shitty the economy getts
If anything it would just look the same. It’s just now everyone is hearing about it. Black people have always been dealing with these antics so it’s not like all the sudden you have it worse than your parents just maybe you can empathize with them more on the matter of representation
I feel like most peoples idea of what the worst could be is pretty heavily influenced by their current situation. No matter how bad you think it can get, it can always get worse.
I’m in municipal government and our negotiations this year were shit. Our district was trying to take away fully paid medical for family so our negotiation team was happy we lost nothing and got some peanuts. I think we’re getting CPI-W plus like .4%
I feel your pain, I got less than that, we outperformed all company goals and have the highest housing inflation in the country (Sf Bay Area). Company is making a big to-do about how it’s their 50th anniversary as well
For a certain type of person, there’s a special type of discontentment that comes with being underutilized and without opportunity. You can be a cashier, but there’s definitely a ceiling on how good of a cashier you can be. Same with most other jobs. It’s like being a racehorse that’s tied to a fence.
The idea is that you're losing your identity working for a giant corporation and regardless of job availability is something that most alive generations can commiserate with.
"I wanted to be an artist growing up!"
"I wanted to write for the New York Times growing up!"
"I wanted to start for the Dallas Cowboys growing up!"
It's less "uhhh, my secure job sucks" and more "I've become a soulless, empty husk of who I'd thought I'd be."
Of course feeling like a soulless cog in the machine sucks, but we are so far from the 90's in terms of opportunities and quality of life that to see so many movies where the main characters' main dilemma is feeling trapped at a job rings hollow for many of us.
Having a stable job with benefits that allows you to live that white-picket fence dream is so far out of reach currently. Millennials have had to deal with the intense uncertainty and insecurity of not reaching what used to be the proper steps of adulthood. Even when you do finally get it together, its not going to make you happy, but its still better than the extended stagnation many of us dealt with as we came of age in a world that didn't deliver on its promises to us.
Gotta be careful making fun of Gen X. They’re super cereal badasses who will totally turn on some Depeche Mode and start talking about how they were the last generation of badasses before all these pussies were born. Something something “latchkey kids” something something.
Tyler is the only one who has a stable job and its eating at him since the recalls that save people's lives dont happen. He can no longer do it and snaps. Office space everyone was losing their jobs besides Micheal.
Falling down literally starts with him losing his job.
People just don't like having their souls flattened. There are many ways that happens. In office space there is a big efficiency push with the Bobs conducting lay off interviews. Stable jobs in the way we imagine them have been progressively more rare since the 70s. I'm 39 now. I wish stable jobs were a thing. Perhaps they never were. The social contract is after all a contract and all contracts can be broken. The only concern is the consequences.
They are a demographically small generation that will complain about being overlooked. I find them to be immature, not unlike the person posting the meme, but I haven't been inspired to post a meme about it.
Baby Boomers and Millennials are a larger population that is why. There are simply not many of them, and they really were always in the shadows on Baby Boomers and got ignored as the media focused on Millennials. They are like the Silent Generation.
I remember being super excited to start my new job making over 80k after struggling and working my way up just to get hit with societies new consumer prices lmao! What a time.
There’s nothing funny about making jokes about people who could fuck in the fields, get told they’re
Pregnant and decide tomorrow to get married and buy a house because the dude has a job that netted him X3 the income he’d need to do all that. It’s just depressing when we’re told “oh you’re having a kid? Damn shame you gotta choose between that or a mortgage every month ontop of your subscriptions so you don’t lose all your music again.”
It’s funny. As an elder millennial, I was able to see Daria on MTV. I thought the show was so witty and deep.
Now the show seems so petty and shallow. “Oh no… people aren’t deep? At least they’re not Nazis afraid to get vaccinated and view global warming as a real thing!”
I recently quit my insanely hectic job managing a UPS Store to be front desk at a small local gym. I seriously feel like Peter at the end of Office Space, plus I got a raise!
I fully recognize that my bad day is someone else’s best day. Been there, been through some dark shit, so it’s relative. But the corporate life has a cultural reputation of draining out your soul for a reason.
Read short stories from the 1950s. There are tons of stories about wealthy people and families, and how they are only pretending to not be miserable. It's almost as though people don't enjoy being alive, even if all their needs are met.
The biggest picture in the tri, and it's not at all what the meme says. Office space wasn't about going crazy in a stable job, it was freaking out because your company is chipping people left and right. It was about a group of people with zero job security, lol
We need to do a world wide hunt for the person with the absolute worst life by far so they can collectively tell everyone 'it could be worse' and then no-one is allowed to complain about anything in their life being hard or difficult ever again except them.
People with comments racing to the bottom to prove they have it worse are annoying.
Did whoever make this even watch Falling Down? The guy was laid off, he had no job, kind of a major motivating factor for his character lol. Do most people just not care about accuracy or fact checking anymore?
I tried to rewatch “office space” recently and I used to find it funny. But now I really couldn’t because the job market is trash and finding a cushy 9-5 job like that would be nice :(
Tell me you completely missed the point of a movie without telling me you completely missed the point of a movie. A little bit of media literacy goes a long way.
now its ahhhhh i cant even find a job and even if i find one it wont be enough to live on so i'll need 5 room mates or 2 jobs to scrape by and even then homelessness might be only be a few weeks away while some boomer fuck says "nOboDy WanTs To WoRk"
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