Just watched this

*similar

Being a code monkey isn't so bad. I wish I was still doing it. The real hell is SRE work. It pays extremely well but is not worth the long hours and frustration imo. Transferring back to regular development later this year.

>construction
>manager making you work
?????

The sad thing is this movie holds up perfectly, but at the same time the working environment that is portrayed as stale and soul crushing would today be kinda appealing for the amount of money and stability it offers. The average worker today dreams of being bored out of his mind in an office.

It really makes you think...

nah. Anyone who thinks a mind-numbing office job is appealing has never been in one.

>Not an open office
>Not even shared cubicles
>Actual, personal, individual cubicles
>With full height walls
>They still complain

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I wish i was phd biotech or did cryptography in cs

>Just watched this
>I'm so fucking glad I didn't fall for the STEM codemonkey meme
Working in the office is GREAT!
Hot office babes who are down to fuck
Air Conditioning
No heavy lifting
Coffee and tea available
You can eat in your office
Internet access
You can be lazy and nobody really cares
Standard hours
Lots of friends to have lunch with

So what were the minuses again???

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Not STEM, but every job you have should be a 2 year stepping stone to a promotion or a new company moving up the totem pole.
And work in a city, not a suburban cubicle farm

>managers being on a construction site
>managers giving a fuck if the work gets done on time
They realized it was too unrealistic

Good movie, though I would kill to work in a cubicle and not have to speak to people if I didn't have to. Fuck open-plan offices.

>>managers being on a construction site

What was cut out of the movie was at the end, Peter had a construction supervisor who was identical to Lumbergh.
I think he wanted a happy ending so it was left out.

>should

That's the problem with today's world. SHOULD has no bearing on how things are actually done. These corporations SHOULD give a fuck about their employees and SHOULD provide the same benefits that were given to the fathers and grandfathers and SHOULD focus on vertical promotions, but they simply do not. They are nationless, faceless, uncaring machines that will be entirely indifferent to your existence and sacrifices. Best comparable to a tornado that rips through a town or a hurricane that floods a city.

crunch time
changing requirements
CEO/CTO/other muckety-muck wants something done/changed immediately
web filtering on corporate firewalls
compliance paperwork
dependency hell
breaking changes in libraries
normies not really understanding or caring what you do
having to work for some vile industry (advertising, banking, real estate, corporate B2B)
working in a sterile office forever with guys who would've worked in sales 20 years ago but chose tech for the money
sedentary lifestyle makes you fat

corporate dev jobs are cushy as hell though, not gonna lie

seems better than retail or fast food desu

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FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO EXPERIENCE (SIMULATED) OFFICE WORK FIRSTHAND: pippinbarr.github.io/itisasifyouweredoingwork/

WARNING: You may want to kill yourself after 5 minutes.

If your job isn't leading to a promotion, then be actively seeking a promotion at a new job

If you are competent at your job, an office job is pretty easy. I've fucked 15 women from work over the years. FIFTEEN. Its better than going to bars and finding random bar sluts, and safer.

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if you're shitting where you eat that often, it must be a big office and/or have a lot of turnover

not that personal when you're hearing Ms. "Case of the Mondays" for 8 hours straight. I want a true personal cubicle with a door in it. So personal I can jerk off in it

There are literally zero problems with "shitting where you eat". The only rule to follow is don't fuck a supervisor or somebody you supervise, or a contractor.
These days office romances lead to marriages, its quite common.

Its just retarded PUA instructors say don't do it, but nothing in the PUA world is ever correct.

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based

I mean, if you're fine with adding awkward interactions to your work life, with people you might have to be around for years, then fuck away

A lot of places have rules against this and one or both of you can get fired.

That's called an office, Don Draper.

Office space is one of those movies that creates its own world with its own rules. King of the hill and trailer park Boys are other bits of media that do this.

How come?

The reality is most jobs like this now have an open office floor plan with no privacy and constant noise, not comfy at all. The stability also isn't there since what most companies do now is farm out the bulk of the work to vendors and contractors with their own full time employees serving as middle managers or technical resources.

Middle managers have no decision making ability, all they can do is allocate resources (read: employee working hours) to different projects. Their primary duties are ignoring complaints, rejecting vacation requests, and committing to work on behalf of people who do the work before they know what it is. Their average work day is 10 hours, 70% of which is spent in meetings. Lastly, your head will be the first to roll if the project fails and the VP who proposed it has to save face.

A technical resource can come in a variety of flavors. There's the Single Point of Failure role which is generally comfy because you are the only one who understands how something vital to the company works which means your salary is 300% market value and you take as much vacation as you want. The trade off is you are responsible for that vital service and if it frequently breaks or needs maintenance you're expected to be on call to fix it whenever. If it's generally smooth sailing though, you've got it made. Infinite job security with an easy job, until they ask you to train a replacement who is cheaper than you.

Another variant is the consultant, a high level expert paid for his knowledge rather than any specific task he performs. This sounds great, except you're typically assigned to multiple projects and spend every waking moment answering questions from people who think you're a google search bar. Communication is roughly 100% of your job and you will work minimum 60 hours every week.

As for contractors, they're basically serfs. First to get cut if the budget needs shoring up, last to be informed of anything.

Eh. I worked at an office and it really is terrible. I even had the window-seat and sat far from damn-near everyone but it's just terrible to do every day. I literally worked with boomers who only stayed for benefits/retirement, and that shit depresses you really quickly. Just people who are conspiring and ultimately have nothing better to do but "work" all day. And by "work" I mean, gossip and try to move work on to others for the next eight hours.

This is somewhat better than "start-up" offices that play souless music, have beer, people bringing dogs and have no sense of privacy. But, it's the same thing. Offices are just trash because you can't leave or go in when you're done, unless you're a manager and have your own office.

Computer jobs were ungodly during the late 90s-early 00s. Fuckers got paid. But now billions of chinks and poos can do the same shit for nickels

I'm admin in the Navy and it's the same shit. People dumping their work on to you but you can't say no because they outrank you, and having to sit around for hours after you've completed all work "just in case."

Don't forget contractors at least get really strict hour limits. Anything over 40 and the company flips its shit at the budget.

Lol you have no fucking idea how good it gets. Land on the right project and you make 6 figures doing a couple hours of actual work a week from wherever you want. I feel like I've been on spring break for over a year while still saving a couple grand a month to blow in Vegas.

Boo fucking hoo, try working minimum 80 plus hour weeks. There is literally no worse office job then public accountant or BIGLAW associate

Contractors are also micromanaged to hell, their every billed hour examined for evidence of productivity. I don't even bother to attend every daily stand up, meanwhile contractors have to log hours on individual tasks and frequently get "audited" by managers to make sure they're being productive.

Thats why you read the employee handbook.

Office work is grueling, boring and stressful.

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40k a year is less then fucking Verizon Wireless clerks kids make......

i became a mailfag and its somewhat of a comfy job desu

buddy. the parents of the children pay 40k/year to send them to the school. i can see how "they pay" was unclear though.

Open offices seem like a nightmare, surrounded by a bunch of people and their noise. The boss walking around all the time and being able to see what your doing on your computer. Fuck that.

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Who doesn't like making an easy $170-250k a year?

>Hot office babes who are down to fuck
work place drama, false rape accusations, bitches scheming to ruin stacy's life and your life because she's jealous
>Air Conditioning
any indoor job really
>No heavy lifting
ya, no nothing. Just get fat and weak
>Coffee and tea available
caffeiene addiction and insulin resistance
>You can eat in your office
if you have an office, but hey, let's go out to lunch!
>Internet access
any indoor job
>You can be lazy and nobody really cares
depends, same with all jobs
>Standard hours
usually
>Lots of friends to have lunch with
you get to associate with the most normen of normies and talk about capeshit and game of thrones

>seek new job
>never hear back
>job is outsourced to H1B

Such is life

you fucking illiterate mutt

>pippinbarr.github.io/itisasifyouweredoingwork/

that was hilarious. I just mashed my keyboard for all those emails and hit the min character limit

We're going to need to discuss that at your next quarterly review, user.

>Working in the office is GREAT!
>Hot office babes who are down to fuck
>Air Conditioning
>No heavy lifting
>Coffee and tea available
>You can eat in your office
>Internet access
>You can be lazy and nobody really cares
>Standard hours
>Lots of friends to have lunch with

I agree with most of this apart from the Lazy part. Maybe in the 80's and most of the 90's. But these days everyone is under a fucking microscope to make sure you're being productive.

Also on the hot office babes. It really depends on the office, i've working in offices where it's full to the bream of hot totty to the rafters (usually city corp banks and money companies) and i've been in offices where there's not a single attractive female anywhere.

yes all I did was type nigger over and over but my productivity is up 400%. Look at the numbers! Remember, it doesn't matter what you do, just that you do more of it.

>movie made in the 90s has a character that works in an office
>everyone is wearing suits and/or ties

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>Software Engineer at [defunct tech firm]
>everyone else in my group is Indian except the manager
>work 6 hour days including a 1 hour lunch and no one cares because I match the workload of my peers
>comfy salary and benefits
The key is to actually be good at your job

I just posted to jewbook
>What is the point of open offices
A female friend replied
>Collaboration?
And there it is. Once women entered the work force they took their biological need to socialize with them. Under the guise of team work done toasties diversity hire in HR needed some busy work and came up with the open office idea. Presumably there is no hard data to show actual benefits of this set up other than other toasties saying how great it is.

This is all speculation, but I begin to hate the very being of women as I grow older.

I work in a elementary school computer lab and there's 30 5-8 year olds in there for 6 hours straight. Pretty shitty work environment.

"no"
not where I work at least

It doesn’t seem like there’s any realistic way to make decent money without sitting in front of a computer all day. Unless you eventually own/manage some trade company. So you end up in front of computer anyway. Really sucks.

>managers arent on site

What is a foreman

tick tock wagies

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A!aaa!rrrggghhh!!!!
I gotta wake up to work my ass off another week with no benefit in sight!!!!!!!!
AGAIN
Screw this life man

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Inter-departmental collaboration is a very important thing, actually, and an undervalued thing. Firms with poor or no good communication between critical points don't do very well.

HOWEVER, with that said, this whole modern meme "collaboration" where modern corporate culture tries to force socialization between individual coworkers through bullshit exercises and shit, the type of collaboration I assume you're referring to, is a fucking meme and has little reason to exist except to satisfy women and their bullshit gossip.

Cringe. He will get to dick down sorority sluts who are desperate for a bump in their grade

>tfw you work for Microsoft as a senior software analyst
>make over $100k/year
yeah, heh. some meme, op.

>tfw working on my novel
>longshot of it ever getting published and making me money but it gives me an outlet for my frustration and something to hope for

I've been a teacher for 1 year and this is the truth of it. I even work at a higher end prep school. It's all the same. If it's publicly funded, it's trash. Someone help me.