Thursday, September 22, 2005

Office Life Is Like a Movie

Office life can be just like a Hollywood movie. Here’s why:

• Groundhog Day: When you feel you’re doing the same task over and over.
• Rambo: First Blood: When it all depends on you, once more.
• Casablanca: When you’re doing the wrong thing for the right reasons (or the other way round).
• Matrix: When your boss slowly circles around you, keeping you in focus, and time stands still.
• Batman: When some of the smiles you get look like Jack Nicholson’s impression of arch-enemy Joker.
• Napoleon Dynamite: When you feel you should smile back, but you can’t.
• Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark: When you need to find that important PowerPoint from two years ago somewhere hidden deep in the file system.
• The Godfather: When salary’s that offer you can’t refuse.
• Star Wars: When you feel your boss bought you like a plastic action figure to play around with.
• Rear Window: When looking out of the window offers more suspense than your actual job.
• The Usual Suspects: Whenever something goes wrong, they suspect the false ones (and never get the right ones).
• Goodfellas: When your day’s just as stressful as having a drug business.
• Fight Club: When you wish you’d just sincerely beat each other silly instead of sending mean and subtle emails.
• Vertigo: When everything’s spinning on the way down to the cafeteria.
• Modern Times: When, just like Charlie Chaplin, you’re trapped in a big messy factory where everything seems to go wrong.
• Saturday Night Fever: When the weekend just beats the non-weekend.
• The Sting: When nobody in the project ever really understands what’s going on.
• The Wizard of Oz: Whenever you’re sick, you feel life has more colors than before.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey: When your fingers hammering on the keyboard make you look like a monkey.
• Jaws: That dum-da dum-da sound playing in your head whenever your boss nears.
• The Sixth Sense: When during a meeting, you’re talking, but no one’s listening.
• Back to the Future: When you wish you could go back in time to alter how you handled the beginnings of that disastrous project.
• 48hrs: When you’re working overtime.
• Seven: When you need to work on the weekend, too.
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: What you do when you have problems getting up in the morning.
• Life of Brian: When you feel in your office everyone’s following the wrong messiahs.
• Gladiator: When meetings become all heated and aggressive and you’d rather be eaten by a lion now.
• Blade Runner: When you’re never sure if you’re talking to a robot.
• Scarface: When you’re under a nagging suspicion your career is not gonna end nicely.
• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial: When you use the office phone to, well, phone home a lot.
• Tootsie: When you suspect someone is not quite what they try to make you believe.
• The Truman Show: When your boss hides a web cam in the kitchen to find out who steals the orange juice.
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind: When clients visit the office.
• Forrest Gump: When the undo key doesn’t work but you did something horrendously stupid.
• Pulp Fiction: When there’s nothing but fast food to eat for lunch in a two-miles radius.
• Saving Private Ryan: When you need to help a colleague on a project in trouble.
• Basic Instinct: When you feel on any given day at work, there’s just about 10 seconds of excitement.
• Scream: When something unpleasant happens and you want to, but just can’t, scream.
• The Exorcist: When your boss bangs the phone in anger and starts bad-mouthing loudly.
• Reservoir Dogs: Whenever a bunch of professionals sink a project.
• Bloodsport: When others are winning with dirty tricks.
• Ghostbusters: When your team is ordered to fix a problem you don’t even believe exists.
• Final Destination: When everything that can go wrong does go wrong.
• Dawn of the Dead: When a project you thought was finished just doesn’t seem to go away, ever.
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show: When you’re sure you’re in the wrong building.
• Top Gun: No, I don’t think office life ever is as cool as Top Gun...

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