entertain audiences. The episode “Stress Relief” written by Paul Lieberstein is no exception. This episode was first aired on the 1st of February, 2009 to national audiences. One of the main scenes of the episode was the fire drill where a main character, Dwight Schrute, unhappy with the office’s competence of fire safety decides to take matters in his own hands. He simulates a fire by burning some paper, creating chaos in the office. He blocks all exits and cuts the phone lines only further panicking his
“The Office” is a critically acclaimed comedy television series spanning nine seasons. The show is a “mockumentary” a style of satirical comedy that is crass in nature. But uses its platform to shed light on the hazards of societal norms that reinforce stigmatic ideals. This particular show follows salesmen’s lives around the workplace in a dying work field of a small town. Michael Gary Scott, regional manager of the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. On the surface, he’s
After interviewing several possible suspects, Dwight arranges for the entire office to be drug tested. Unfortunately for Dwight, the culprit turns out to be his manager, Michael, whom Dwight is very loyal to. In order to pass the drug test, Michael begs Dwight to donate some of his urine to him, and Dwight complies. When both Dwight and Michael make it safely out of the screening, Michael has no response from his conscience, while Dwight’s
In 1999, Hollywood writer and director, Mike Judge, wrote and directed a movie entitled Office Space. Office Space is a satirical look at the human experience in the workplace environment. Although the scenarios presented in this comedy are far-fetched, they do shine a light on several industrial and organizational psychological principles. Some themes that are touched on in the movie are leadership, communication, motivation, job analysis, groupthink, and counterproductive workplace behaviors
The video is an extract from the UK television show called the Office season 1 episode 1 by Gary Stapler. The part of the video was taken from Ricky Gervais ground breaking comedy The Office and it was published on the 12 March 2013. The video is set in a workplace environment and the overall view of the clip demonstrate unsafe space workplace environment by which Gareth is subjected to a hoax, which he did not like and made him feel uncomfortable and angry. Moreover in an attempt to solve the
1. Gather the Facts The premise of the movie Office Space is about a group of workers, Peter, Michael, Samir, Tom, and Milton, work at Initech who are fed up with their jobs. The movie starts with Peter, the protagonist, going through his typical day of work at Initech. Various annoyances have been accumulating and Peter views his days at work as a waste of time and has no motivation to do anything productive. In addition to these brewing issues, Peter’s boss, Bill Lumbergh, is known for being a
Reading and Though In Dwight MacDonald’s Reading and Though, he disagrees with Henry Luce’s Idea of functional curiosity. Luce coined the term “functional curiosity,” meaning “the kind of searching, hungry interest in what is happening everywhere.” MacDonald’s opinion of functional curiosity is that it only encourages practice in reading rather than giving beneficial information. He considers today’s literature as flimsy and overwhelming. MacDonald assumes that all reading done in today’s society
Office space is a movie that is directed and written by Mike Judge. The movie is about employees who are not very happy in their jobs. The movie is set in a firm that is called Initech. The movie has a character name Peter Gibbons. He works for the company Initech. His job is not very exciting for him. On top of his job not being very exciting, he also has outside factors that are in his life. The other characters in the movie are Milton, Samir, Bill, and Michael. Bill is the boss and does not have
The average American has seen the sitcom The Office, or at least had someone ask if they have seen it, as it focuses on a paper office in Pennsylvania. Each character has a very different personality and outlook on their what most would think boring desk jobs, some see it as the best job in the world while others can not wait to leave as soon as the clock strikes 5. The show is known for turning everyday activities seen in every workplace into a hysterical twenty minutes. The show probably would
comfortable, welcome, and safe. This means that there is no discrimination on grounds of biological sex or sexual orientation, cultural background, age, physical or mental ability, race, or gender. This work explores the clip where Jim performs a prank on Dwight in the film The Office. This scene shows unsafe working environment. This report provides a brief overview of the clip, synthesis of the clip in relation to safe space with recommendations