Lumbergh Office Space

Peter is wearing shorts sandals and a paisley shirt with his feet up on his desk munching chips and playing tetris on his computer.

Lumbergh office space. Office space is a 1999 american black comedy film written and directed by mike judge. A caricature of corporate management lumbergh is a division vice president of the software company initech based in texas and serves as the main antagonist of the film. Everyone in office space thought that this movie had died.

In fact look i m gonna have to ask you to just go ahead and come back another time. It s been 20 years now since the movie premiered the mike judge satire film about cubicle life and the struggle against corporate overlords resonated with a wide swath of the working public but if one character struck a particular chord it was the oh so punchable boss bill lumbergh. I got a meeting with the bobs in a couple of minutes.

Scene from a fantastic film. In 1999 cole starred in the film office space in which he portrayed the sadistic office supervisor bill lumbergh. It satirizes the work life of a typical mid to late 1990s software company focusing on a handful of individuals weary of their jobs.

Lumbergh s relentless focus on the tps reports and their formatting in office space represents some managers obsession with pointless paperwork and trivial details that are disconnected from. I wasn t aware of a meeting with them. Not right now lumbergh i m kinda busy.

When asked about the oft quoted character cole said. William lumbergh is a fictional character who appeared initially in the milton animated shorts and later was portrayed by gary cole in the 1999 film office space. Office space 1999 gary cole as bill lumbergh.

The minutiae of tps reports and the sad corporate culture of initech made their way into mainstream culture with the 1999 cult classic office space. It stars ron livingston jennifer aniston gary cole stephen root david herman ajay naidu and diedrich bader.