Nice Until We're Not (Office Space Spoilers).mp3

00:00:00 If you're familiar.
00:00:00 With my channel, you know that I.
00:00:02 Usually reveal this subversive nature in films that are pumping propaganda into the soft little minds of the audience.
00:00:09 And while in some ways this video is no different, in fact it probably has the most effective propaganda in terms of compelling the audience to action then.
00:00:21 Any other film I'm aware of, but I hesitate to call it a subversive film.
00:00:28 This film, when I first saw it, I was working for a large computer company that had grown way too big, way too fast, and the baby boomers and management in classic boomer capitalist fashion.
00:00:41 Became so blinded with greed.
00:00:45 Despite record profits, they decided to put all their focus and energy on enriching themselves and the shareholders at the expense of the employees and the customers who had made the growth happen in the 1st place.
00:01:00 This would eventually lead to that company imploding in on itself, but.
00:01:05 Not before they hired efficiency experts to come in and and try to squeeze every penny of profit out of their employees by tracking every second other time literally every second and their customers by nickeline and dining them for services that used to be.
00:01:24 Three, the working conditions became so unbearable that many of the best and brightest left the company, and in an effort to to stave off the brain drain that had begun in response to these efficiency experts, the company instituted carefully timed and condescending.
00:01:44 Corporate team building activities like pizza parties and and movie lunches like an elementary school teacher would for their classroom if they if they would just behave.
00:01:55 It was during one of these movie.
00:01:58 Luncheons that my manager made a fatal mistake.
00:02:01 She brought us into the conference room and we gathered around the TV, and we watched this film.
00:02:07 We're about to talk about the very next day, completely independent of each other.
00:02:12 Three of the most senior employees.
00:02:15 Didn't show up for.
00:02:17 Never called in, and were never seen or heard from again.
00:02:21 I was one of these employees in that movie.
00:02:24 If you haven't guessed already, is the 1999 film by Mike Judge office space. I've actually spoken to several people who have their own variation of the story after watching the film, in fact.
00:02:38 The lead actor was interviewed about the film recently about office space becoming kind of a cult classic, and he remarked that to this day, people come up to him on a regular basis to tell him the.
00:02:51 They quit their job immediately after seeing this film.
00:02:54 People will come up to me from time to time and say, you know this movie and you were the reason that I quit my job.
00:02:59 And and walked.
00:03:00 Away from my livelihood.
00:03:02 Changing job is one of the most stressful things a man can do, and yet this film, after telling the story for 90 minutes, has motivated countless Americans to do.
00:03:14 Exactly that, and not just quit, but in many cases, just stop showing up for work completely.
00:03:21 So what made this film so powerful?
00:03:25 What was it about office space that could account for this phenomenon?
00:03:32 It's because it.
00:03:33 Told the truth.
00:03:35 It told the truth about corporate America, but also the truth about an aspect of white men that makes many people who write films uncomfortable.
00:03:46 You see, office space wasn't written by people that typically write films in Hollywood.
00:03:51 It was written and directed by Mike Judge, a white male who didn't come from Hollywood.
00:03:56 Earn money and had worked in the real world before he understood white men better than most of Hollywood and an aspect of their behavior that's relevant today.
00:04:06 Lately I've heard people say the phrase and I've said it myself, that white men are nice.
00:04:13 Until they're not.
00:04:15 Now to some people, that sounds like maybe a passive aggressive threat, but it's not.
00:04:20 It's descriptive of how many white men process conflict.
00:04:25 Some people, when they attempt to describe this behavior, will conjure up the image of a kid getting bullied and bullied and bullied.
00:04:33 And until one day.
00:04:34 Maps they may get seem as if.
00:04:36 This kid, who obviously is a metaphor for.
00:04:39 The white man.
00:04:40 Is like a canister of volatile material that's just getting shaken and shaken until the pressure builds up and it explodes.
00:04:49 But this totally misunderstands the process off this space walks us through.
00:04:55 The real steps of what's going on in the minds of white men when faced with conflict.
00:05:01 And acknowledges that the extreme reaction to the outside danger isn't something that slowly develops.
00:05:09 It's it's not the product of pressure being applied over time that makes their solution to the conflict more and more extreme is, you know, the pressure builds up until.
00:05:21 They snap, but instead, if you really understand the process, you understand that the initial solution in the minds of these men is extreme.
00:05:33 And there is no snap.
00:05:35 There is simply a slow erosion of the self-control that's containing.
00:05:42 That initial instinct to deliver a devastating response, the initial extreme solution is rarely acted upon because it's typically so extreme, so severe, that given time to rationally weigh the consequences of of carrying it out and assessing.
00:06:03 The collateral damage, the rational mind often concludes.
00:06:08 That enduring the problem and tolerating the danger seems safer than executing the extreme solution from the very start of the conflict.
00:06:19 That is the equation these men will will table what seems like an extreme solution to a problem in the hopes that the problem will resolve itself.
00:06:29 Or that a less extreme solution presents itself later and they will delay, delay, delay until the stress generated by the conflict or the problem with the perceived danger outweighs.
00:06:43 The perceived or predicted collateral damage that might come with being assertive and taking the extreme action that they have in mind.
00:06:53 I think a lot of you know what I'm talking about, but if this seems confusing, it'll make more sense as we walk through the film, because this is at the very heart of the film.
00:07:03 It's white.
00:07:03 And traced with conflict, who come up immediately with extreme but effective methods of resolving the conflict.
00:07:11 But wait until.
00:07:12 They can no.
00:07:12 Longer justify waiting or sense that danger might be eminent, and then they enact these extreme solutions.
00:07:21 Let's dive in.
00:07:22 The movie starts out immediately, developing the ultimate problem or the conflict that the main character has the dehumanizing conditions that existed for people unlucky enough to work in an office job in the 90s that was micromanaged by profit centric boomers.
00:07:40 The first challenge of this?
00:07:41 Way of life is of course being stuck in traffic with countless other office workers going to their various office space.
00:07:49 Changing lanes and then watching the lane you were just in begin to move and then changing back, only to have the traffic inexplicably stop for no reason from the very beginning of your day.
00:08:01 It's just frustration after frustration, we're introduced to Peter, the protagonist, and briefly, some of his coworkers.
00:08:08 Next we see an establishing.
00:08:09 Shot of the office space in question, a place called Initech, A buzzword Y generic name typical of the the countless tech companies that sprang into existence in the 90s, Peters, Boomer boss Bill Lumberg.
00:08:25 Has made sure, of course, that he has a reserved parking spot and he drives a Porsche.
00:08:32 The massive wealth inequality that we see today is something that's been in the making for a long time, and this was kind.
00:08:40 Of the the beginnings of some of.
00:08:42 That we see the inane modern corporate.
00:08:45 Art that adorns the outside of many of these office buildings.
00:08:49 And well, I'm not positive.
00:08:51 If it was intentional.
00:08:52 It's interesting to note that it's a square peg that is being.
00:08:56 Put through a round hole.
00:08:58 Which is exactly.
00:08:59 What it felt like to work in many of these one-size-fits-all type of corporate.
00:09:05 Peter, wearing his security badge and business appropriate shirt and tie, starts his day dreading.
00:09:13 Opening the doors to the office thanks to the static electric shock he receives when.
00:09:19 He touches the handle.
00:09:20 He works in a.
00:09:21 A drab, bland Gray room of cubicles that looks identical.
00:09:29 To many of the offices in the 90s, including the office where I worked, it literally looked exactly like this room.
00:09:36 Each cubicle is like a a little Gray prison cell that features all the negative aspects of being surrounded by walls, with none of the benefits.
00:09:46 Benefits like blocking out the voices of everyone else.
00:09:50 Around you or stopping your boss Bill Lumberg from just dropping in, Bill tells Peter that he forgot to include a cover sheet on his TPS.
00:10:02 Report, and we easily infer from the context that whatever that means, and whatever a TPS report is, it's clearly some mundane micromanagement, busy work that's likely completely pointless.
00:10:17 After that we meet Milton.
00:10:19 Milton is the 1st and clear cut.
00:10:22 Example of the extreme problem.
00:10:24 Resolution strategy that we discussed earlier.
00:10:27 Also, many people don't know this, but Milton is modeled after a cartoon character that inspired the entire movie in.
00:10:34 The first place.
00:10:35 Milton is also because in some ways he's the main character.
00:10:38 Even though the film doesn't seem to be really focused on him, he is close to encountering his conflict and and generating this initial.
00:10:49 Action to the.
00:10:51 But first, Peter now encounters another boomer boss, Dom, who berates him about the same TPS reports, followed by a phone call about the exact same reports.
00:11:03 This is highlighting the source of the real inefficiencies that existed in these offices.
00:11:09 All too often, micromanagement was a weapon wielded by the Boomers, who, despite a complete lack of tech skills, we're managing these tech workers.
00:11:22 So what they would do?
00:11:23 I saw this in real life at several different company.
00:11:27 They would have to justify their existence and their salary, which was usually twice that of their workers.
00:11:33 And So what they would do is they would just micromanage the hell out of everything and just add as much paperwork and and unnecessary steps to justify their existence and make it look as though.
00:11:47 They were doing something and in attack it's it's no different.
00:11:51 We now meet Samir an H1.
00:11:53 B Visa holder back when there were so.
00:11:56 Few of them.
00:11:57 We could still kind of have a.
00:11:58 Sense of humor about it.
00:12:00 And back when our culture was still dominant so we could make fun of the the cultural differences without anyone losing their minds.
00:12:07 One of those differences is happening right now.
00:12:09 It's important to note that Samir.
00:12:11 Is reacting differently.
00:12:14 Then the white character is due to conflict.
00:12:16 Instead of coming up with an extreme, elaborate, oftentimes solution to be acted upon later when all other options have run out.
00:12:25 When this printer, for example, has a has a paper jam, or when he's driving to work, he reacts instantly with anger and violence.
00:12:33 This is part of the.
00:12:34 The honesty of the film, this violent reaction is the joke.
00:12:38 And it's funny because it's true.
00:12:40 It's believable.
00:12:41 His reaction is foreign to the wider culture.
00:12:45 We also meet Michael, who's also frustrated with his job and hates that his name is Michael Bolton, because.
00:12:52 He hates the singer Michael Bolton.
00:12:54 Peter, Samir and Michael go to a chain restaurant called Chott skies to.
00:12:58 Get some coffee.
00:12:59 The chain restaurant is the unbearable workplace for wage slaving.
00:13:05 Corporate Gen.
00:13:06 Xers of the blue collar variety.
00:13:08 The environment might seem different than the office at Initech.
00:13:12 But as we'll see, it's just as dehumanizing and micromanaged by the same kinds of people.
00:13:18 This is where Peter reveals the theme.
00:13:20 Of the movie.
00:13:21 Everything we've been discussing about extreme responses to problems.
00:13:26 One of the first thing that happens after being introduced to the characters.
00:13:30 Is Peter the main character?
00:13:32 Jokes that his solution to his problems in attack might be just coming into work and shooting up the place.
00:13:38 Obviously this is a joke, but this is what I mean by white men come up with an extreme solution.
00:13:45 First, he didn't slowly build up to this solution.
00:13:48 His initial reaction to the bad day that he's having.
00:13:52 Is to to shoot the place up now.
00:13:54 Obviously the risks heavily outweigh the benefits, so there's no chance he'll act on this extreme solution, but it's the first one.
00:14:04 That came to mind.
00:14:05 His rational mind then assessed as ridiculous, so he laughs it off and and continues to endure the problem rather than act on this extreme thought.
00:14:15 But it doesn't change the fact that he had the thought.
00:14:20 That was his first reaction, and that's what we'll see again and again and again in the film, The three office workers complain about the.
00:14:27 Work and this is where we're introduced to Michael's extreme solution to the problem that he's.
00:14:32 Having in a tech.
00:14:33 He mentions that he could program a virus that would rip the place off, but just like Peter, the rational part of his mind sees this as way too risky a response given his current situation, so it's simply repress.
00:14:48 Rest until conditions change.
00:14:51 We also briefly see a young Jennifer Aniston, who plays the waitress named Joanna, that Peter has a crush on but is afraid to approach.
00:15:00 We also learned that Peter has a girlfriend who is likely cheating on him and who wants him to see a hypnotherapist.
00:15:08 To help him get out of his rut.
00:15:11 The three run into Tom and Tom essentially sets up the major conflict of the film.
00:15:18 He's another white guy who later deals with problems with extreme solutions.
00:15:22 He tells them that efficiency experts are coming in to streamline the office, and he's afraid.
00:15:28 They're all going to.
00:15:29 *** **** off at the end of the day.
00:15:31 Peter comes home and we see the typical ****** 90s apartment.
00:15:37 After working all day in your cubicle prison cell, you go home to your IKEA furnished apartment prison cell clump together just as closely as the cubicles at your office, Peters neighbor Lawrence, who can hear everything that goes on in his apartment through the wall, is a blue collar worker, the kind of guy that.
00:15:57 The popular culture likes to present as uneducated, uncouth, and dirty.
00:16:02 You don't want to do jobs like Lawrence.
00:16:04 That's for people.
00:16:05 Like him.
00:16:06 Although in a.
00:16:07 Few years, those jobs will go to hordes of illegal immigrants.
00:16:11 This is where Peter talks about his problems with his job and he reveals his extreme solution to the problem.
00:16:18 It it's to simply stop participating, to stop consenting to being micromanaged.
00:16:25 The next day, the efficiency experts have arrived with a huge banner that reads.
00:16:31 Is this?
00:16:31 Good for the company.
00:16:33 All the employees are gathered around Bill Lumberg to listen to his condescending corporate pep talk about not wasting post it notes and working extra hours for free.
00:16:45 Next we see Milton and now Milton reveals his extreme solution to his problem, Bill Lumberg.
00:16:53 Pushing him around, he tells Peter on the phone, who is completely ignoring him, that he is going to burn the building to the ground.
00:17:02 That's Milton's initial extreme response to the stress he's under. If he reaches a certain threshold where he perceives the consequences of burning the building to the ground as having less of a negative impact on him than the humiliation that he suffers at the hands of Bill Lumberg, he will.
00:17:22 Execute this initial.
00:17:25 Extreme response.
00:17:26 Again, this is not a situation where Milton is slowly pushed off the edge and then he snaps and and then decides to burn the building.
00:17:35 To the ground.
00:17:36 His starting point is burning the building.
00:17:39 To the ground.
00:17:40 And he will exercise all the restraint that he has to keep from executing this solution until, of course, certain conditions are met, and that solution seems reason.
00:17:53 Cable Bill Lumberg catches Peter before he can sneak out for the weekend and tells him that he needs to work both Saturday and Sunday.
00:18:01 This was something that Peter was trying to avoid because he wanted to go fishing, dejected and depressed.
00:18:07 He accepts these orders from Bill Lumbert and then goes with his girlfriend to see the occupational hypnotherapist.
00:18:15 Later that night, the therapist begins to hypnotize Peter.
00:18:19 He tells Peter to forget his worries, his cares, his inhibitions.
00:18:25 But before he can move on beyond that.
00:18:28 He drops dead of a heart attack.
00:18:30 Peter is now stuck in a state of hypnosis in a way he no longer has the ability to assess the risks of acting upon these initial extreme solutions to different situations.
00:18:42 In a sense, Pete's brain has been hacked and relieved of this process.
00:18:47 He will now just act immediately.
00:18:50 On his first impulse, when faced with problems, so the next morning he wakes up and instead of going to work, he listens to his first impulse to just.
00:19:00 Go back to bed.
00:19:01 He also ignores the several phone calls when Bill Lumberg starts calling him to see where he's at because his initial response is to just not answer the phone.
00:19:10 When he does finally get up, it's three in the afternoon his girlfriend calls and she's complaining to him for missing work and acting strange.
00:19:19 His first solution that he comes up with in his brain is.
00:19:23 To just hang up on her.
00:19:24 And that's what he.
00:19:25 Was this of course causes her to break up.
00:19:28 With him but he.
00:19:29 Doesn't care.
00:19:29 He just goes back to bed where he stays for the.
00:19:32 Rest of the.
00:19:33 Weekend Monday morning comes around and they're having another soul crushing corporate ethics meeting on how to save money for the company.
00:19:42 At at initech.
00:19:43 Peter is nowhere to be found because instead of going to work.
00:19:46 His first.
00:19:47 Impulse was to go next door in Shotski's and asked out the waitress, yet a crush on while that's going on, Tom and Michael are forced to defend their jobs in front of the new efficiency consultants.
00:19:59 Back at Shotski's, Joanna and Peter seem.
00:20:02 To hit it off.
00:20:02 The idea, of course, is that Peter is just being really direct and unflinchingly.
00:20:07 Confident and women find that attractive because he's no longer tied up, weighing the risks and and consequences of every little thing that he does.
00:20:16 And he's just simply acting on his first impulse unapologetically.
00:20:20 He's taken on the traits.
00:20:21 Of an alpha.
00:20:22 This is another important aspect of the film.
00:20:25 It explains with simplicity something that connected on.
00:20:28 A really deep level with.
00:20:29 Several young men who would watch this and then later model this behavior in their own lives.
00:20:35 Peter says very matter of factly.
00:20:38 I don't like my job.
00:20:40 And I don't think I'm going to go anymore.
00:20:43 Joanna seems surprised and and asked doesn't he think he'll get fired and she says it in a way that really illustrates the ever present paranoia of Gen.
00:20:53 Xers working pointless jobs, living paycheck to paycheck with no savings.
00:20:57 They took the.
00:20:58 Humiliation, for one reason and one reason alone.
00:21:00 The fear of being fired and unable to pay.
00:21:03 This growing stack of bills, Peter responds.
00:21:07 I don't know.
00:21:08 But I really don't like it and I'm not going to go anymore.
00:21:12 So you're going to quit?
00:21:13 She asks.
00:21:14 Not really.
00:21:16 I'm just going to stop going.
00:21:18 Joanna is shocked and says well, how are you?
00:21:21 Going to pay?
00:21:21 Your bills, to which Peter replies.
00:21:23 You know what?
00:21:25 I don't really like paying bills either.
00:21:26 I think I'm going to stop doing that too.
00:21:29 Joanna is so impressed with his presence that they make a date for that night.
00:21:34 Now we go back to Milton.
00:21:36 Amber is the character that the film is based on.
00:21:39 He has decided that his solution to burn the building to the ground is is not yet appropriate.
00:21:44 However, one of the boxes in favor of burning the building to the ground gets checked off when Lumberg comes and takes his favorite stapler. Now that Peter has Joanna's phone number, he comes into the office to get his.
00:21:56 Address book, something that probably seems weird because everyone now has an iPhone.
00:22:00 Michael is shocked to see him because he's been gone for two days and just walked in at noon wearing casual clothes.
00:22:06 He tells Peter that.
00:22:08 He's supposed to be meeting with the consultants.
00:22:10 Peter thinks this actually sounds kind of fun.
00:22:12 So he walks into the conference room where they're waiting and he behaves the exact same way he did with Joanna instead of seeking their approval or or constantly calculating and and trying to say the right thing or or what he thinks they they might want to hear.
00:22:28 He just confidently tells them the truth.
00:22:30 He tells them that he sneaks in late to work all the time.
00:22:33 He spaces out at his desk and in any given week, really only accomplishes about 15 minutes of of real work.
00:22:40 Once again, we see the power of being.
00:22:43 Straightforward of being an.
00:22:44 Offer the consultants respond positively to this straightforward approach as he tells them why nobody cares about their jobs at initech and why they work just hard enough to not get fired.
00:22:57 Which, by the way, is someone who worked at a company very similar in in tech.
00:23:00 I can tell you that's precisely what managing a business like that.
00:23:05 Produced it produced people that did essentially just the bare minimum, just enough work to where they wouldn't get fired.
00:23:13 So Peter describes this phenomenon to the consultants, and then he excuses himself.
00:23:21 We now go to Joanna's demeaning workplace and her manager complains that she only has the minimum amount of buttons on her uniform that the regulations call for. He suggests that she express herself and use more buttons than the minimum required number of 15 buttons.
00:23:41 He mimics the corporate mind games that management would often play on their employees.
00:23:45 He wants her to wear more buttons, but instead of just telling her wear more buttons, he wants her to make the choice to wear more buttons.
00:23:56 He can't just raise the minimum he has to make her think that.
00:24:00 It's her idea.
00:24:02 But at the same time, shame her if she doesn't have.
00:24:05 The idea.
00:24:07 This is a bizarre management tactic that I often saw in the 90s.
00:24:11 You wouldn't be shamed for only being in the minimum requirements of.
00:24:14 The pointless rules.
00:24:16 Like the number of buttons on your vest but.
00:24:18 Your only reward for.
00:24:20 Exceeding these pointless guidelines was the absence of being constantly shamed.
00:24:26 These big corporate workplaces work completely dehumanizing and cult like, no matter where you worked, whether it was an office or at A at chain restaurant back in Antech, the consultants tell Lumberg.
00:24:38 They need to.
00:24:38 Lay off, Tom.
00:24:39 They also informed him that Milton was actually already laid off five years ago, but has still been receiving checks.
00:24:46 Through a glitch, so they just fix the glitch.
00:24:50 They have no plans to tell Milton that he's been laid off.
00:24:53 They're just gonna let the problem work itself out.
00:24:55 The scene is comedic because like most of the comedy in this film, it's just brutally honest.
00:25:02 The complete lack of human compassion they have for the workers is obvious.
00:25:06 Lumberg largely agrees with the consultants, and things only get awkward when the consultants tell Lumberg they actually like Peter and want to give him a promotion.
00:25:15 This is followed by a montage of Peter behaving completely without fear of consequences at the office.
00:25:23 He parks in Bill Lumberg's reserved parking spot.
00:25:27 He unscrews the doorknob that shocks him.
00:25:29 Every morning, he tears down the corporate propaganda.
00:25:34 He cleans a fish at his desk and takes the walls off of his cubicle because of his alpha behavior with the consultants.
00:25:42 He's immune from interference from management, who now kind of are afraid of him.
00:25:48 That's another truth.
00:25:49 This film reveals the raw power that just being honest.
00:25:53 And assertive has.
00:25:55 So many people, intelligent people, make the mistake of thinking that the way to success is through constantly plotting and manipulating and don't understand the power of just being unflinchingly honest.
00:26:09 It doesn't just attract women because it's a characteristic of a true alpha it.
00:26:14 Changes your relationship with men.
00:26:16 Too, men don't like other men that are always plotting and scheming because.
00:26:22 Quite frankly, it's kind of feminine behavior.
00:26:25 A man's man is someone who's honest and confident, not cocky, but sure of themselves.
00:26:31 And this movie does a great.
00:26:33 Job of showing the.
00:26:35 Difference in how people respond to Peter the beta.
00:26:40 And Peter, the Alpha as well as showing that he didn't really change who he was, he just stopped letting the fear of consequences change his behavior.
00:26:50 Now we go back to Milton.
00:26:52 He's no longer receiving paychecks and lumberg plans to just keep making his life uncomfortable until he stops coming in because.
00:27:00 He's too much of A corporate coward to actually fire him.
00:27:04 Milton, of course, is getting closer and closer.
00:27:07 To executing his extreme plans next, the consultants tell Peter that they're going to layoff Samir and Michael and replace them with entry level people that will work for nothing and outsourced overseas labor.
00:27:21 This movie is 20 years old, but the current crisis.
00:27:27 In the workplace has been brewing for a long, long time.
00:27:31 I mean, simply because the way the capitalist system is structured, you're always going to end up with sociopaths at the top.
00:27:39 Only care about the bottom line.
00:27:41 That's just simply the way it is.
00:27:43 Peter doesn't like this, so he tells Michael that an attack is going to lay him off.
00:27:48 And just like that, the conditions have now been met.
00:27:53 For the extreme solution that Michael came up with at the very beginning of the movie, there is a virus that they can install that will slowly siphon money from each transaction.
00:28:05 Their banking software makes and it will eventually after years, earn them lots of money.
00:28:11 Peter, Michael and Samir.
00:28:13 Install the virus on the mainframe.
00:28:15 And the extreme solution to their problem has been sent into motion to celebrate the execution of this extreme solution.
00:28:23 The three are now feeling reckless and execute another extreme solution by executing the printer that kept jamming on them, and now we get to Tom's extreme solution.
00:28:36 In response to getting laid off, he tries to commit suicide to get insurance money for his wife, but then his wife finds him in the garage trying to gas.
00:28:46 Himself, Tom decides to to change his mind, but he is instantly hit by a drunk driver.
00:28:52 He survives and wins a big settlement and throws a party on the way.
00:28:57 To the party.
00:28:58 Peter tells Joanna about their plan, and she disapproves because it's stealing.
00:29:03 Also, while at the party, Tom's lawyer makes Samir and Michael.
00:29:06 Extremely nervous by talking about prison. This is when Peter's friend Drew tells him that Joanna used to date and has had sex with lumberg. This sparks a fight and to break up.
00:29:19 The next day, Peter nearly has a heart attack when he checks the account balance on the account they set up for the virus to siphon money into.
00:29:27 After one day it has over $300,000 in it, when there really should be closer to $3.00 or maybe $300.00, Peter tells Michael and Samir. And they close the account before it can get any bigger. But now they have to figure.
00:29:38 Out what to do about this?
00:29:40 The company will certainly notice that kind of money missing from.
00:29:43 Their accounts, once again Milton is pushed even closer to his extreme solution when he is the.
00:29:48 Only one to.
00:29:49 Not get a piece of cake at Bill Lumberg's birthday party and they move.
00:29:52 His office into the basement.
00:29:54 After thinking about what he got his friends into, Peter decides once again to do the alpha thing and to take responsibility for the heist gone wrong.
00:30:03 He decides to return the money and take all the blame. He tells Joanna and makes up with her and finds out that it was actually a totally different bill Lumberg that she was dating and then he leaves the money along with the confession note under the real bill Lumberg's.
00:30:18 More Peter is ready to accept his fate.
00:30:20 He's ready to face the music.
00:30:22 But then something unexpected happens.
00:30:25 When Peter goes into the office the next morning, the building is on fire.
00:30:31 Milton has finally executed his extreme solution.
00:30:34 To his problem.
00:30:36 The solution that he didn't slowly form overtime, but the solution he came up with.
00:30:44 His initial solution that he placed on the back burner as he searched for another way out.
00:30:50 But Milton, having exhausted all of his other options.
00:30:55 Eventually, he was able to justify taking his extreme action and burning the building to the ground, just like Michael, whose initial solution was to write a virus.
00:31:05 He eventually got to a point where the unreasonable seemed reasonable.
00:31:12 This is the.
00:31:12 The way these men think this is how they process conflict.
00:31:16 When faced with a problem, their initial thought is an extreme and thorough solution, and it's only the restraint of these men that prevents this solution from being carried out.
00:31:30 And if the problem isn't resolved.
00:31:33 That restraint, little by little, gets undermined.
00:31:37 It forms cracks like a dam until one day.
00:31:42 That restraint is no longer strong enough.
00:31:46 To prevent the extreme from being acted upon.
00:31:50 With the building burning down, Peter.
00:31:52 Realizes that the evidence is gone.
00:31:55 Through this twist of fate, he is now.
00:31:58 Off the hook.
00:31:59 And of course, because this is a comedy, essentially everyone lives happily ever after.
00:32:04 In the last few moments of the film, we discover that Michael and Samir go get jobs at another tech company, but Peter has learned a valuable lesson he has learned.
00:32:16 That his quality of life.
00:32:18 Is more important than the status of having your own cubicle.
00:32:21 He no longer wants.
00:32:23 To be a cog.
00:32:24 In the huge global machine, a cog that the globalist bosses view as a tool subject to arbitrary rules to be replaced on a whim when the globalists think that it might make them more money, Peter decides he'd rather just.
00:32:38 Working construction then.
00:32:39 Deal with that.
00:32:39 The sad irony, of course, is that in real life, the globalists will do the same thing to the construction industry that they did with everything else.
00:32:48 They just slowly replaced the working class, skilled American tradesmen with cheap illegal immigrant labor.
00:32:55 All so they can enrich themselves at the expense of the American worker.
00:32:59 In the last scene, we discovered that Milton must have found Peters envelope full of money before he burned down in attack and is now living it up on a beach somewhere.
00:33:08 However, he's unhappy with the service, and once again his mind goes straight to an extreme solution.
00:33:15 The solution that he Mumbles to himself to the bad service at the resort is to put strict 9 in the guacamole and the audience is left to imagine whether or not Milton's dam will burst once again. If his restraint will be.
00:33:29 Undermined the movie is a comedy and the ending is a bit formulaic and somewhat of a joke.
00:33:35 Nobody just lives happily ever after in real life.
00:33:38 But I can tell you one thing.
00:33:40 After watching this film, I never again worked in a cubicle or memorized a mission statement, or met with an efficiency consultant.
00:33:51 This film made me understand the humiliating reality of being a corporate America beta cook.
00:33:59 And prevented me from ever again becoming a wage slave for the bill lumberg's of the world and taught me the value of understanding your instincts, understanding that the mind comes up with solutions almost immediately, and the only reason people don't act immediately is the fear of consequences. But if you're honest.
00:34:19 And forthright with your intentions.
00:34:22 And you have nothing to hide.
00:34:24 People will respect you.
00:34:25 And eventually you learn to trust your instincts and most importantly, respect yourself.
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