Letters from Quarantine, Vol. 2

Step Away from the Broken Printer in Your Life

It’ll be OK later. I promise.

Remember that famous printer scene in Office Space?

Mike Judge’s 1999 black comedy cult classic featured Peter, Michael, and Samir as white-collar, middle-class nobodies in a forlorn office setting.

Remember offices? Most of us have left them behind for home quarantine, thanks to a 2020 world where Coronavirus has changed literally everything.

But in this Initech office, quaint red Swingline stapler aside, there’s just one piece of technology that bothers the living daylights out of the entire staff: the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad printer.

“PC LOAD LETTER… WHAT THE F*** DOES THAT MEAN?”

And with one last error message, Michael Bolton (no, not that one) has had it. He and the guys kidnap the printer that night, take it out into the country, and absolutely unload on it, complete with baseball bats and an extremely NSFW song from Geto Boys.

Last week, I nearly had an Office Space printer moment of my own.