Bill Lumbergh quotes from Office Space (1999)

Bill Lumbergh

Uhhh, yeah...

Bill Lumbergh

Oh, and next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to you can go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.

Bill Lumbergh

Hello Peter, what's happening? Listen, are you gonna have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?

Bill Lumbergh

Milt, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, mmmK?

Bill Lumbergh

Ah, ah, I almost forgot... I'm also going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too. We, uhhh, lost some people this week and we sorta need to play catch-up. Thaaaaaanks.

Bill Lumbergh

I'm going to need those TPS reports... ASAP...

Bob Slydell

Milton Waddams.

Who's he?

Bob Porter

You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.

Oh, yeah.

Bob Slydell

Yeah, we can't actually find a record of him being a current employee here.

Bob Porter

I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him, but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck.

Bob Slydell

So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.

Bill Lumbergh

Great.

So um, Milton has been let go?

Bob Slydell

Well just a second there, professor. We uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it will just work itself out naturally.

Bob Porter

We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem solved from your end.

Bill Lumbergh

Hello Peter, what's happening? Listen, are you gonna have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?

Peter Gibbons

No.

Bill Lumbergh

Ah. Well then I suppose we should go ahead and have a little talk.

Peter Gibbons

Not right now Lumbergh, I'm kinda busy. You know what, in fact I'm gonna have to ask you to just go ahead and come back later, I've got a meeting with the Bobs in a couple minutes.

Bill Lumbergh

I wasn't aware of a meeting with them.

Peter Gibbons

Yeah, they called me at home.

Bob Slydell

I'd like to move us right along to a Peter Gibbons. Now, we had a chance to meet this young man and, boy, that's just a straight-shooter with "upper management" written all over him.

Bill Lumbergh

Oooo... yeahhhh, ummm... I'm gonna have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there. Yeah, uh, he's been real flaky lately, and I'm just not sure that he's the caliber person that we would want for upper management. He's also been having some problems with his TPS reports.

Bob Porter

I'll handle this. [To Lumbergh] We feel that the problem isn't with Peter.

Bob Slydell

Mmm-mmm.

Bob Porter

It's that you haven't challenged him enough, to get him motivated.

Bob Slydell

There it is.

Bill Lumbergh

Yeah, um, well, I'm just not sure about that right now.

Bob Slydell

Yeah, Bill, let me ask you a real quick question here: How much time would you say you spend each week dealing with these TPS reports?

Bill Lumbergh

Yeahhhhhhhhh...