Guest Blogger: Josh 2

Office Space is a movie about working in a cubicle all day and how it crushes the spirit. When the movie opens, we see the main character, named Peter (Ron Livingston), being told by his supervisor (Gary Cole) that he had forgotten to put a cover sheet on a report. Peter tells him that it was a silly mistake and it wouldn’t happen again. Shortly after the obnoxious supervisor walks off, another supervisor strolls up saying the same thing, followed by another. This movie is basically a satire of cubicle office employment. At the office Peter has two friends, Michael Bolton (David Herman), and Samir (Ajay Naidu) who flee the office to Starbucks with Peter often for coffee breaks. For them Starbucks sells escapes from the office, not coffee. While at Starbucks they discuss how Peter’s girlfriend is cheating on him and that she wants to go to an “occupational hypnotherapist”, they also decide to plant a virus in the company’s network once Samir and Michael get fired due to downsizing. The virus is programed to take a fraction of a penny from each digital transaction, represented in the virus as a decimal. The plan works, but way too well because they end up putting the decimal in the wrong place. The three friends become worried once they find a ridiculously large amount of money in their account and start trying to think of ways to give it back without going to prison. During his session with the occupational hypnotherapist he gets hypnotized into not caring, before the doctor can snap him out of the daze he has a heart attack. Peter is stuck as completely careless and decides to stop going to work and somehow keeps his job while his friends are fired. I agree with the critics opinion of it being a good movie, it’s very funny and I highly recommend watching it yourself.