The Office

pO157.

Posted to Diary on Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 09:30:06 PM EST. RSS.

My sister went corporate shortly after her college graduation and makes a metric boatload of money. She thinks "The Office" is utterly hilarious because as per her it "represents all that will happen in the lives of a large segment of society." Hilarious.

Editor's Note: The following is likely a waste of your time. I would suggest not reading it.

So, tonight, buoyed by the confidence and joviality that comes with completing a minor accomplishment in ones quest to add more initials to the end of their name, as well as five (5) celebratory aliquots of Vitamin Y, I sat down and watched The Office. This is the second (2nd) time I got to watch that series. The first time was the hilarious episode where the Boss decided to get away from it all and journey into the Pennsylvania wilderness for some reason.

I thought tonight's episode was kind of funny. The boss guy thinks he is unlucky because he is middle aged and single. But, he has a random survivalist to follow him around and play the straight man to random middle management shenanigans that occur. I wish I had a random survivalist to follow me around throughout my day-to-day. And get drunk and sing Don McLean knockoff songs with me at random graveyards. Hell, if anybody here wants to go hangout at graveyards and sing random Don McLean songs (or whatever, I'll take requests be they CCR, Foreigner, Journey, ABBA, whatever) that's cool too. You don't have to be a survivalist.

The cringeworthy part about having his employees give him the contact info of "hot babes" to hook up with and bear his seed was... exciting. I thought the references to eating at a Wendy's outside of Wilkes Barre were funny because I have actually done that twice in my life, ironically in the same restaurant at the same table five years apart. Nothing had changed except for the employees due to the extremely rapid turnover of the service industry. Do people really do that to get dates? The whole time throughout the relationship I would just keep thinking of her in my head as "index card girl." Also, the boss needs to get over his relationship with this "Jan" chick.

What is up with the insistence of "The Office" in having constant asides and monologues? It just doesn't seem realistic. If somebody was talking off into space to some unseen, nebulous, narrator or something I would think they were suffering from schizophrenia and perhaps should obtain appropriate medication.

As I sit here listening to an amalgamation of Nine Day's Story of A Girl (which, if I recall correctly, I once worked security for them Back in the Day during a concert. Good Days.) and the cacophony of sirens and emergency vehicles in the distance I'm browsing the NBC "The Office" website. It amuses me because the blog purported to be assembled by the random survivalist guy (or his designee) usually ends in the phrase "That is all." That kind of irks me that people find that funny. You see, I occasionally sign e-mails off that way, and my parents tell me when I was a kid I always ended every written assignment with "THE END" in big bold letters. Except for a short period during 5th grade when my teacher told me it would be more professional to finish compositions with "By, pO157 <of course I struck my online nickname and replaced it with my Christian Name>." What a bunch of copycats. I think one of the writers went to school with me or something.

In other news, a new X-Files movie is due to come out soon. Interesting. I used to love that show back in the day for its dry hilarity and oddball shenanigans. It will be interesting to see if they can still sell it a full decade after the last movie. Perhaps I will review it and entitle my review with a pertinent yet classic quote from the bloodhound gang song "Discovery Channel."

So, I guess the final question is: For those of you who work in an office type environment: Is that show actually indicative of your everyday lifestyle and challenges as postulated by my sister?

THE END.