Movieclips
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1:35 · 2M views · Aug 11, 2015
A short clip from the 1999 film Office Space in which Joanna quits her restaurant job with flair after her boss's demands. It is a comic scene about disaffected workers.
HN uses it as a joke reference in threads about quiet quitting and unreasonable workplace demands.
4 comments from Hacker News
While this is practically the best-case scenario for enforcing RTO (generous severance if you answer "no" and plenty of time to plan and get relocation support for "yes"), I can't help but feel like this is yet another instance of extroverted people who end up in management and leadership positions judging the importance of in-person collaboration for other people at the company's jobs based on their impression of how important it is for their jobs. As a SWE who does IC and planning / TL design work, I find it immensely easier to work from home. I don't have to find a meeting room, I have one stable multi-monitor setup that I'm comfortable with for running and participating in meetings, and I can make myself available for "emergencies" early and late in the day without having to work my commute around that. The leaders making this decision at Roblox have generous compensation packages (even for tech), and can likely afford to buy a new house every single year based on how much they earn. The reality for a rank-and-file SWE trying to secure housing in the Bay Area, especially near San Mateo, is much more precarious. No joke, if these companies offered to factor in a cost-of-living adjustment to compensation based on rent rates in the area surrounding the office, I'd go back in a heartbeat, but I spent enough time as a new grad commuting 90 minutes each way saving less than 10% of my paycheck after rent and basic living expenses, to where I would literally quit SWE work before
I appreciate the nod to the prophetic movie Office Space, but I think they missed the most appropriate scene about wearing the minimum pieces of flair. this video If people are doing the minimum work required by their employer, it hardly seems like a problem to me. If they decide to miss out on the "rat race" then that's how they choose to participate in their employee relationship. Maybe I'm missing something about this.
Is this expectations disconnect recent? Or is “quiet quitting” a PR campaign by certain economic cohorts? Work to live, don’t live to work. this video
To quote Office Space: > Well, I thought I remembered you saying that you wanted to express yourself A/V reference, for those inclined: this video