LaserFloyd
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2:06 · 1.1M views · Jul 13, 2013
A two-minute clip of the printer-smashing scene from the film Office Space, set to its rap soundtrack. The uploader assembled it as a cleaner version.
HN mentions it only as a joke or shorthand for the urge to destroy a frustrating printer or device.
3 comments from Hacker News
I'm not at all surprised by this article because I recently purchased a new TP-Link router (Archer something IIRC) and it's quite honestly the worst router I've ever run. I goes down several times a day, dropping all network traffic that isn't TCP. Thus DHCP, UDP DNS and ICMP echo all fail. My old router is > 5 years old Asus (possibly as much as 10 years old!!) and literally held together with electricians tape. I've had an array of physical failures due to age from the antenna no longer standing up to the power button no longer functioning and I've used electricians tape to fix all of them. But for the stuff that matters it still works extraordinary well. So I figured it was only a matter of time before that router died completely and I'd need a new one. And I figured it has been so many years since I last upgraded that my new device should be amazing in comparison. But man was I wrong. After getting kicked out of an important Zoom call last week (and weeks of issues and debugging too) I finally lost my temper, unhooked the router and went full on Office Space[1] on it. I'm now back to running the old router. A router that's older than both of my kids. A router that had earned its retirement. I'm going to replace it with a Draytek device in the new year. Given I'm mostly working from home these days I want something reliable. But I'm also thinking Draytek will last me another ~10 years so it will work out cheaper than the TP-Link crap. In fact I'll never buy another TP-Link
I once worked as a developer at a newspaper that had an open floor plan. The biggest issue was the darn emergency scanner radio squawking in the background all day! I often fantasized about taking a baseball bat to it, like they did to a printer on Office Space ( this video ). It's one of the reasons I no longer work for a newspaper.
When I first saw the title it reminded me of the film Office Space and turns out that it is indeed from the 1999 film featuring Jennifer Aniston and of course the infamous printer smashing scene ( this video , clean SFW version) and Family Guy's take on it [LINK]