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Topic·Alienating work✕clear

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, um, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.

Peter Gibbons

Office Space · 1999

★ 3.5

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

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

★ 3.5

Novel

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

House of the Dead · 1862

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.

Female Temp

Office Space · 1999

★ 3.7

Standup comedy · Comedy

When you got a career, there ain't enough time in the day. You look at your watch, time just flies, like God damn, whoa, it's 5:35! Damn, I gotta come in early tomorrow and work on my project. Cause there ain't enough time when you got a career. When you got a job, there's too much time. That's right, you look at your watch like, ah shit. 9:08.

Chris Rock

2009

★ 3.7

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · 1876

★ 5.5

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