My Office Life…
March 8, 2006 11:04 pm
It’s Scary.
It’s scary how well I identify with a 5 year old BBC show about office life.
For all practical purposes I am Tim.
The only real difference between Tim and myself is that I am in the 6th season of my show where as he got out after the second season and one Christmas party special. Ya, it’s funny tongue in cheek office life humor … but it is far more terrifying if you happen to be living it out. These 12 episodes are a masterpiece of modern desperation. People trapped in a mediocre existence of daily nothingness. I remember the moment when my heart sank as I realized that Tim was going to settle for the meaningless promotion and the 5 year hope of becoming his boss. Anything would be better. He wants to go back to school and study psychology. He talks about it often, at one point he has all but quit his job to pursue it… he finally got fed up with the nothingness of his job and he is done. But then his resolve slowly turns to complacency and he has done nothing. The office has him.
I am not sure if it is supposed to be, but for me this whole show is about Tim.
Will he survive?
Will he escape?
Will he do anything?
Some days I know that my life is about more than this, but that’s just some days. Don’t give up hope Tim, because my hope is that we both get the heck out of the office come next season.
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