Ask HN: What do you think of the movie Office Space? I personally think Peter wasn't cut out out for the role of software engineer. He seemed lazy and not driven. |
Ask HN: What do you think of the movie Office Space? I personally think Peter wasn't cut out out for the role of software engineer. He seemed lazy and not driven. |
Office Space was not about a lazy guy, it was commentary, at the time, about how the faceless enterprise software shop can burn a person out, at it's heart is was a fairly accurate portrayal of burnout, something a majority of developers experience at least once in their life.
It struck a cord with developers of that era and is why it became a cult classic with them. The cast of characters had an uncanny familiarity to may people one would meet in these bad software shops. I think some may be lost in translation now due to the fact that the "Innotecs" where the first shops that packs up and went to Asian.