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Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms, and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements!

Peter Gibbons

Office Space · 1999

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Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

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