William Lumbergh, commonly named Bill Lumbergh, or referred to as just Lumbergh, is a fictional character played by Gary Cole in the 1999 film Office Space. A sort of everyboss, Lumbergh is the division Vice President of the software company Initech, and serves as an unassuming antagonist to the other characters.
Lumbergh is known to micromanage and often asks his employees, such as Peter Gibbons, to come in to work on Saturdays. He is obsessed w...
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William Lumbergh, commonly named Bill Lumbergh, or referred to as just Lumbergh, is a fictional character played by Gary Cole in the 1999 film Office Space. A sort of everyboss, Lumbergh is the division Vice President of the software company Initech, and serves as an unassuming antagonist to the other characters.
Lumbergh is known to micromanage and often asks his employees, such as Peter Gibbons, to come in to work on Saturdays. He is obsessed with making sure all the office's paperwork (such as TPS reports) is done perfectly, no matter how pointless it may be. His character is known for saying "What's happening?" as a greeting, and when telling an employee they're going to have to do something undesirable starting his sentences with, "m' yeah, I'm gonna need you to" or "if you could just go ahead and", as well as ending these requests with "That'd be great". A Wharton Journal perspectives article opines that the character "brilliantly exposed the emptiness of linguistic conventions...
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