Office Space: From Cooler Talk to Cult Hit
watching Office Space were motivated and inspired to quit and find better employment.
The cult following is also manifested in the availability of non-official merchandise related to various props in the film. For example, it’s possible to purchase Initech mugs and mouse mats, but perhaps the most unlikely item to receive a cult following came from the stationary world.
One of the central characters Milton, an overweight paper pusher who is constantly bullied by upper management who relocate his desk whenever they feel like it, has one love in his life: his Red Swingline Stapler – about which he is constantly mumbling.
Swingline are a real life stationary company who do manufacture staplers, but prior to the making of Office Space, they had not produced a red model in years (a member of the props team was instructed to
