The forty unemployed tech workers who made it to this “job search club” meeting are prepared to chant. Arranged in folding chairs with styrofoam cups in hand, their eyes are fixed on their lines, projected on a PowerPoint slide: “I'm not over-qualified, I'm absolutely qualified!”
The bubbly presenter orchestrates: “Let's say it all together!”
The crowd looks like a twenty-year reunion of the characters in Office Space: not its scheming anti-work hero, but the background cast, the characters who decided to stick with IniTech until the layoffs came around. We chant together in drab, office-birthday-party tones:
“I'm not over-qualified, I'm absolutely qualified!”
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