Office Space and Organization Culture

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The American worker, his coworkers and his bosses are implicated in the movie Office Space. The movie was directed and written by Mike Judge who wanted to give a humorous look into the cubicle life of the average American. This movie gives you the idea of a typical workweek, and not so typical workweek, for your everyday white-collar worker. Office Space deals with the life of working in cubicle and how a lot of people dislike their job, which effects their lives even outside of the workplace. Mike Judge wanted to make the characters in this movie relatable to the audience. The movie is filled with every type of worker in an office job, including the good worker who does his best and is always doing his job but never receives any credit for the work her does, the less motivated employee who is always getting away with his slacking, the boss who is always looking over your shoulder and those coworkers that are annoying sometimes that you just don't want to talk to at times. Almost everyone has interacted with people who are similar in a workplace. Through time and space, culture is always changing. To get a better understanding of the cultural norms most people would study artifacts. An artifact can have many different meanings so it can be interprted in multiple different ways. If you don't know much or anything at all about the culture before viewing the artifact, than it might be hard for you to understand what your studying. An example of a cultural artifact, in America in the 90's, is the movie Office Space. It shows us the complexities of the cubicle and office life and brings us into the life of an average American white-collar work enviroment in an office. This movies shows how your job can effect the things you do outside of your job. This movie shows you the intricacy and diversity in American life in a funny and realistic way when broken down. Several

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