While researching for the Gunmen post a couple of weeks back, I found it reassuring that when asked if being known mostly for Highlander
bothered him, Christopher Lambert said that in some ways it’s good to
have at least one thing for which you could really be immortal. To many
women, Ron Livingston may always be Berger, the Post-It guy thanks to Sex and the City,
but for the majority of us he will be forever remembered as the
disgruntled Initech programmer Peter Gibbons. Today, on his forty-fifth
birthday, the vault salutes Ron Livingston and his role as the desk
jockey’s hero.
Every single day that you see Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston), that’s the worst day of his life. It’s because as a programmer at Initech, every day he is subjected to the annoying quirks of his cubicle neighbors and reminded by eight different bosses of the importance of doing his TPS reports correctly. He’s not alone, his buddies Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman) suffer right along side him. To squelch his malaise, Peter sees a hypnotherapist and the session overhauls his outlook. Meanwhile, his boss, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole), hires a pair of consultants to streamline inefficient procedures, a.k.a. downsize, the company. With his friends’ jobs up on the chopping block, Peter devises a plan to set the three of them up with a healthy severance.
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