From the "Missing the Point" file:

[jane_pippin]

Right now on NPR the local station is talking about "problem employees." In order to set up the segment they played a few moments from the movie Office Space--you know, to be "hip" and/or "with it."

Except the part they chose was the part where the boss is calling up the main character on a Saturday to tell him he needs to come in, and "it's not a half day so if you could, ah, go ahead and get here as soon as possible..."

Maybe it's just me, but I thought that would be an example of a problem boss.

[Bunny]

1. Wow they really stepped on their (expletive deleted) with that one!

It was SO an example of an asshole boss, not a problem employee. Although if you've never seen the movie, you maybe wouldn't understand that.

[Hugin]

2. Exactly!

What a stupid movie to pick if you're on the bosses side!

BTW... Where's my stapler?

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. LOL...

NPR, the inspector clouseau of entertainment soundbites

[jane_pippin]

4. Especially the locally produced stuff...oh my god!

I love 'em, but this particular local show is an hour of the most inane, pointless, goofy stories dressed up as news. And even when they do have good stories they find a way to make listening to them annoying.

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. here in NH we have an occasionally great program called "The Front Porch"

where local people who have some claim to fame are featured for a half hour. Sometimes we get an author which is great, sometimes it's a local political writer which is okay depending, and sometimes they book the most baffling goddamn radio guests -

An award winning photographer
A moderately famous painter
A curiously well received contract mural painter in restored houses
A modern sculptor

It's RADIO!!!! We can't see the photos/paintings/scuptures!!!!

We had an author on lately who wrote a fictionalization of time as an AWACS pilot in the First Gulf War, which is an interesting subject from an interesting point of view, but her presentation was so flat as to render the material unlistenable...