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Very hard to find anything funny here.

posted 9 years ago by Good-Will
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I just finished watching it and all it does is annoy me.
Probably because I worked for Intel for 18 years, and saw it becoming a little bit like this and had enough dosh to resign and retire. Some of the MBA graduates that Intel hired were bullsh*t spewing arrogant wastes of carbon like this lot, but worse.

Back when I started there in 1984 then anyone who behaved like anyone in this series in a meeting would be swiftly eviscerated by everyone else in the room.

I do realise that this is satire but find it impossible to believe that nobody would question all the vacuous automatons masquerading as bosses of anything at the BBC.

So if you want to satirise something then at least make it semi-believable which this clearly isn't.

If the opposite of Love is indifference, what's the opposite of Hate?

[–] Queenbee60 9 years ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't find it funny.
I tried to watch the first 4 episodes, but fell asleep several times.
A lot of people will find it smartly written, but there's nothing to actually laugh at. Plus some of the characters (like the intern) are downright irritating. I have a feeling that those who like the Office (UK), will probably like this. I hated that too!

[–] ajdhome 9 years ago

I agree, this isn't funny. I just watched a few episodes and found it to simply be incredibly stressful. Not too pleasant as entertainment! I think there are just loads of references and cameos that contain the main part of the humour, and not getting these pretty much means it's not funny to me.

[–] Ms_Q 8 years ago

And yet, you say that Intel was becoming like this, meaning that it is semi-believable.

In fact, it is utterly believable to anyone working in any corporate atmosphere today.

[–] goldsac 8 years ago

The "nobody is wrong, every idea is a good idea" atmosphere is what I identified with the most. Definitely been maddened by this disease of professional settings a fair bit.

[–] Sidewindr 8 years ago

This show is totally believable and unnervingly close to accurate to anyone who has ever worked in Government or for a big company in the past 20 years. These fads have always been here and have come and gone, it just seems that over the years the fads have become more and more ridiculous.

I recall back in the early 90's when ISO 9000 was all the rage and the latest thing, too much time and effort was put into it for too little gain or result. Then the late 90's it was the Millennium bug and the amount of time and money that was flushed down that white elephant was mind boggling.