what we learned from office space

the last post started an interesting line of thought here in the home stretch today at work. the movie "Office Space" is pure and total genius. It was funny when I saw it in high school. Frighteningly accurate, as I now know all too well. However, certain lines and concepts have permeated the corporate and public world. Here is a short list of things that have been imbedded into pop culture:
--A Case of the Mondays: this saying is widely used by anyone who has the pleasure of working a 40hr/week job. after the weekend is over, monday seems like the longest and worst day of your life, with no hope in sight. the last thing you should do on a monday is ask someone if they're having a 'case of the mondays.' People get shot that way.
--PC Load Letter: this is a saying which easily replaces any other random error message spouted by any random piece of holier-than-thou office technology which only 1 person in the department can successfully operate. usually precedes, "what the FUCK does that mean?"
--TPS Reports: this is a general all-encompassing term which describes all forms of irrelevent and mindless tasks which anyone who works in a cubefarm will perform or process. Mine are called 'prints.' As in; 'did you recieve those prints? ...i'll just send you another print of that policy.' Yes, send me another print. I'll put it in the file with the first one you sent me.
--Federal pound-me-in-the-ass-prison: I think this is self explanitory. Not county jail. The other kind.
--The 'prairie dog' effect: this happens when an associate stands up just enough to rise head and shoulders above their cube and communicate with other prairie dogs/associates. Which, interestingly enough, causes more praire associate dogs to pop their heads up, to see what the commotion and merriment is about.
"a cubicle seeks to give a degree of privacy to the user while taking up minimal space in a large or medium sized room. " -wikipedia