Friday, November 12, 2004

Table of Contents for IniTech Employee Manual

What makes the movie Office Space, which starred Ron Livingston (pictured) as a software developer for evil company IniTech, a cult classic? Its handling of job situations in a way that's not true (for most of us), but close enough to be true that we all recognize it. If you are reading this, you have probably said at one time (or are about to say)
...my only real motivation is not to get hassled, and the fear of losing my job. But you know what, Bob? That will only make someone work just hard enough to not get fired.
It is well past time for Livingston's character, Peter Gibbons, to work for a company with a good employee manual. It should boost morale, right? So here is the table of contents for IniTech's new employee manual:
  • Helping you do your job
    • Organization charts
    • How to prepare TPS reports
    • How to carry requests from customers to software engineers
    • Importance of working weekends on request
    • How to operate the fax machine
    • Ordering office supplies (e.g. staplers)
    • The role of consultants (e.g. Bob and Bob)
    • Why you have eight managers
    • Why telephone receptionists are expected to have cheerful yet loud and annoying voices
  • Office behavior
    • Guidelines for designated parking spaces
    • Care of cubicles and dividers
    • Game-playing on company time
    • "Hawaiian Shirt Day" and other employee celebrations
    • Why security escorts are required for employees laid off
    • Why you must not clean fish at your desk
I dunno. Did I miss anything?

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posted by Ron @ 4:12 PM

1 Comments:

At 11:43 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

classic movie...I happened to be web surfing (instead of working at MY software company...) and came across a 'real' company called Initech - an Asian company, and whoever named it obviously had never heard of, let alone seen, Office Space. I found their site particularly amusing, since there's typical corporate management-speak gobbledegook all over it, eg, this classic: 'In these times of change, e-business created a new paradigm for living in the information world.' Here it is: http://www.initech.com/english/index.html

 

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