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You just outed yourself as somebody who did not watch 'Office Space'; We very much recommend it. ;)

+1 for Office Space. Or Dilbert, for that matter. I always thought they took a situation and exaggerate it to the absurd. Now I know that they were actually being conservative. Truth really is stranger than fiction...

My vicarious televisual office stapler antics have so far extended only to hiding them in jelly and throwing them out of windows.

Brazil, Office Space, Dilbert, and The Office are all in my pantheon of corporate/cubicle/office comedy. I wrote a little homage in a recent sci-fi comedy novel of mine, just because. A homage to Dwight in particular.

Oh yeah, Brazil was kind of confusing. I think I'll have to watch it again. :)

I always thought they took a situation and exaggerate it to the absurd. Now I know that they were actually being conservative.

AFAIR, Dilbert creator Scot Adams always made sure to keep Dilbert vague and a bit extreme. But people would write into him recognising some absurd part of a current strip and ask if he was really writing about Company X?

My favorite from Scott Adams was Mission Impertinent: When he teamed up with Logitech co-founder Zappacosta to prank Logitech staff:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000817044342/http://www7.mercur...

(To Mercy News eternal shame they seem to have taken these pages down during some redesign or rebranding or whatever...)

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