What are you doing for lunch today?
Joanna Well, the specials today are... uh, blackened chicken and... the menu's actually right there. [walks off]
8th most-quoted character in Office Space (1999): in 8 of its 91 quotes
Most scenes with: Peter Gibbons (6)
Scenes with Joanna
8 scenes Joanna Doesn't it bother you that you have to get up in the morning and you have to put on a bunch of pieces of flair?
Joanna Yeah, but I'm not about to go in and start taking money from the register.
Well, maybe you should. You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.
Joanna So, where do you work, Peter?
Initech.
Joanna In... yeah, what do you do there?
I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.
Joanna What's that?
Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.
Joanna You're just not gonna go?
Yeah.
Joanna Won't you get fired?
I don't know, but I really don't like it, and, uh, I'm not gonna go.
Joanna So you're gonna quit?
Nuh-uh. Not really. Uh... I'm just gonna stop going.
Joanna When did you decide all that?
About an hour ago.
Joanna An hour ago... so you're gonna get another job?
I don't think I'd like another job.
Joanna Well, what are you going to do about money and Bills and...
You know, I've never really liked paying Bills. I don't think I'm gonna do that, either.
Joanna So what do you wanna do?
First I'm gonna take you out to dinner, and then I'm gonna go back to my apartment and watch Kung Fu. Do you ever watch Kung Fu?
Joanna I love Kung Fu.
Channel 39.
Joanna Totally.
You should come over and watch Kung Fu tonight.
Joanna Ok. Ok. Can we order lunch first? Ok.
Joanna You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there Brian, why don't you make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?
Stan, Chotchkie's Manager
Well, I thought I remembered you saying that you wanted to express yourself.
Joanna You know what, I do want to express myself, okay. And I don't need 37 pieces of flair to do it. (flips off her boss)
Brian
[Brian sees Joanna and Peter kissing]
Woah! Hey, get a room you two!
[Imitates Joanna flipping everyone off] Heh, heh!
Joanna I really hate that guy.
Um, the 7-Eleven, right? You take a penny from the tray.
Joanna From the crippled children?
No, that's the jar. I'm talking about the tray, the pennies for everybody.
Joanna How dare you judge me! You are just this penny-stealing, wannabe criminal... man.
Well, that may be, but at least I never slept with Lumbergh.
Joanna Why don't you call me when you grow up! Wait a minute, that will never happen, so why don't you just not call me, yeah...
Say hello to Lumbergh for me!
[Explaining the plan to steal from Initech to get revenge for him, Michael and Samir being mistreated]
Alright, so when the sub routine compounds the interest it uses all these extra decimal places that just get rounded off. So we simplified the whole thing, we rounded them all down, and drop the remainder into an account we opened.
Joanna [Confused]
So you're stealing?
Ah no, you don't understand. It's very complicated. It's uh it's aggregate, so I'm talking about fractions of a penny here. And over time they add up to a lot.
Joanna Oh okay. So you're gonna be making a lot of money, right?
Yeah.
Joanna: Right. It's not yours?
Well it becomes ours.
Joanna How is that not stealing?
Joanna Okay.
Um... the 7-11. You take a penny from the tray, right?
Joanna From the cripple children?
No, that's the jar. I'm talking about the tray. You know the pennies that are for everybody?
Joanna Oh, for everybody. Okay.
Well those are whole pennies, right? I'm just talking about fractions of a penny here, but we do it from a much bigger tray and we do it a couple a million times.
