I sure hope the sketch artist is ready to capture precisely when the Peter Gibbons realization hits
...so I was sitting in my [ COURT ASSIGNED SEAT ] today...
And I realized, ever since I started [ BEING FORCED TO SHOW UP AT MY OWN CRIMINAL TRIALS ]
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.
"To this day, there remains no better Rosetta stone for deciphering the Nirvana generation's view of work than 1999's 'Office Space,' Mike Judge's paean to the plight of the X-er cubicle drone," says Melanie McFarland, writing for Salon. 25 years after its release, she looks at what the movie tells us about work in America, then and now. "It reminds us that we've all lived some version of Peter's frustration and thus relate to his dream of doing nothing," she says.
#Cities#Urbanism#RealEstate#Housing#OfficeSpace: "Swapping commercial space for residential space has the long-term potential to be a transformative, net good. Empowering workers to choose how they work and from where is a welcome shift, as is easing the housing crisis, particularly to the extent the public is involved in projects and keeps an eye on nonmarket and low-cost options. But the decline of the office will also threaten middle- and working-class jobs, which is why state leadership in development, job creation, and transferring power to workers is critical. It will also require an effort to prepare urban spaces to meet the needs of residents.
In the long run, the opportunity to rebalance commercial and residential space should be welcomed. But the details will matter. As ever, there is a serious risk that the most vulnerable are left behind, even if many conversion advocates have the best of intentions — and surely, not all do."
I'm trying to understand the problems converting office buildings into residential. One problem is just duplicating plumbing (bath/kitchen) from a few locations into one each in multiple apartments. Ok.
The other is that modern office buildings (post Wright/Johnson Wax I guess) use forced air ventilation primarily, and artificial lighting, such that there would be large areas away from windows for air and light.
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And yes, #WeWork are at least in part responsible for the #Greedflation that increased espechally #OfficeSpace but generally all #rent prices across the board!
Genuinely curious what a version of Office Space might look like if made today.
Instead of printers, would it be shouting at Jira/trello etc.?
Instead of someone being fired but not told, would it be a bug bounty hunter who never gets payed but keep getting strung along? Or maybe a Kernel dev who keeps being asked to revise {patches} to hit arbitrary ideas from the maintainers?