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Peter Gibbons Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be.”
— Peter Gibbons, Office Space
Tagged: cubicles, Life Is Short
“Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

Peter Gibbons: Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been missing it, Bob.”
— Peter Gibbons, Office Space
Tagged: missing work
“We don't have a lot of time on this Earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way! Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements!”
— Peter Gibbons, Office Space
Tagged: cubicles, Life Is Short
“Joanna: So, where do you work, Peter?

Peter Gibbons: Initech.

Joanna: Ini—yeah, what do you do there?

Peter Gibbons: I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.

Joanna: What's that?

Peter Gibbons: Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.

Joanna: You're just not gonna go?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah.

Joanna: Won't you get fired?

Peter Gibbons: I don't know, but I really don't like it, and, uh, I'm not gonna go.

Joanna: So you're gonna quit?

Peter Gibbons: Nuh-uh. Not really. Uh, I'm just gonna stop going.

Joanna: When did you decide all that?

Peter Gibbons: About an hour ago.

Joanna: Oh, really? About an hour ago... so you're gonna get another job?

Peter Gibbons: I don't think I'd like another job.

Joanna: Well, what are you going to do about money and bills and...

Peter Gibbons: You know, I've never really liked paying bills. I don't think I'm gonna do that, either.

Joanna: Well, so what do you wanna do?

Peter Gibbons: I wanna take you out to dinner, and then I wanna go back to my apartment and watch Kung Fu. Do you ever watch Kung Fu?

Joanna: [surprised] I love Kung Fu.

Peter Gibbons: Channel 39.

Joanna: Totally.

Peter Gibbons: You should come over and watch Kung Fu tonight.

Joanna: Okay, Okay, can we order lunch first? Okay?”
— Peter Gibbons, Office Space
Tagged: Quitting, going off grid, i would prefer not
“Peter Gibbons: You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't even care.

Bob Porter: Don’t—don't care?

Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's another thing, I have eight different bosses right now.

Bob Porter: Eight?

Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.”
— Peter Gibbons, Office Space
Tagged: pretending to work, motivation, don't care, Lazy
“Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.

Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah.

Dr. Swanson: Wow, that's messed-up.”
— Peter Gibbons, Office Space
Tagged: anomie, Ennui, worst day of my life
“Bob Slydell: Would you bear with me for just a second here?

Peter Gibbons: Okay.

Bob Slydell: What if—and believe me this is hypothetical—but what if you were offered some kind of a stock option equity sharing program? Would that do anything for you?

Peter Gibbons: I don't know, I guess. Listen, I'm gonna go. It's been really nice talking to both you guys.

Bob Slydell: Absolutely, the pleasure's all on this side of the table, trust me.

Peter Gibbons: Good luck with your layoffs, all right? I hope your firings go really, really well.

Bob Porter: Excellent.

Bob Slydell: Great. Wow.”
— Peter Gibbons, Office Space
Tagged: Aloof, don't care
“Bob Slydell: You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time at work so if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah.

Bob Slydell: Great.

Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door—that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh—after that I sorta space out for an hour.

Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.”
— Peter Gibbons, Office Space
Tagged: missing work, spacing out, pretending to work
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