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Office Space - Printer Scene (UNCENSORED)

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Cited on HN 5 times, 2016–2024, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Posted as a joke or visual reference in threads about printers, office life and frustrating technology.

The uncensored printer-smashing scene from the 1999 film Office Space.

5 jokes · Comedy

5 Hacker News comments

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@DanBC Mar 2016 Makes a joke
on HN thread DOD officials say autonomous killing machines deserve a look
> * Robots do not act cruelly unless specifically instructed. Well, sure, but have you used computers recently? It's often a fucking awful experience and while the computer clearly isn't trying to make your life frustrating that's often the result. PC LOAD LETTER [link] [this video] Do we really want the people who make printers to make autonomous killing machines?
@masonic May 2020 Makes a joke
on HN thread A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case
"There's an internally famous video inside Google in which a particular well-known machine was unracked, dragged out into a field, and ceremonially smashed to pieces by some hardware techs..." Are you perhaps thinking of the printer execution scene from "Office Space"? [this video]
@jansan Jul 2023 Makes a joke
on HN thread People are paying to break printers with sledgehammers in smash rooms
Office Space is from 1999, so people under 35 had little chance to watch it when it came out. It is a classic for those in the know, but not like Big Lebowski in the sense that everyone is talking about. To our young people in IT: Watch "Office Space"! It is still hilarious and you may find it easier to recognize some more or less subtle repferences (for example to red staplers, tps reports etc.). Also, it features some solid rap songs by Scarface, Geto Boys etc.. Edit: Here is the printer scene [this video]

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