Offica Space

Final Project: Office Space

By: Amanda Crystal Casillas

Prepared for Omid Eric Furutan

Organizational Behavior

October 27, 2013

Introduction

Work: exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil. Something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking ("Work," 2013). Growing up I watched my parents get up early every day, get ready, leave the house, and come home exhausted. I was so anxious to grow up and participate in this thing called work. After all, I wanted money too and in the mind of a five year old minimum wage is a lot of money. I remember thinking that people who wrote checks were rich and always demanded that my dad wrote one when he claimed to be short on cash. I never realized that checks were backed up by money in the bank and that money in the bank was earned through work. Most importantly, I never realized how much their effort and exertion would take from them and what it took for them to go to work every day.

As a child work seemed like a mystical place that parents went off to the way kids go to school. I never would have imagined the things that my parents put up with to put food on the table and clothes on my back. I never imagined that work is not just physically exhausting; it can also be mentally exhausting. I never thought that as an adult I would wake up to the “grind” day in and day out. Unlike the movie, most of us don’t have the luxury to stop caring about what happens to our job, responsibilities, and obligations. While watching the film I had an epiphany. I, like the characters asked myself what I would do if I had a million dollars. Unfortunately, for me like many of us, the answer is not what I am doing now. If someone would have told me ten years ago what my life would be like I would’ve laughed a long and hearty laugh. I never would have imagined that I’d be working a job I dislike, with people I dislike, and with a less than capable management team. I left high...