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If you can name this quote, you’ve worked in a cube farm too long. Or had an annoying boss with poor fashion taste. Or you’ve heard a co-worker answer their phone the same way for 6 years in a row and you want to strangle them with their phone cord and then hanging them in the lobby at a corporate chandelier.

Office Space, stands as the best tech company movie of all time. There is no debate. (I don’t want any comments on why you think Boiler Room is better, that’s a tech stock movie)

But perhaps my favorite scene, (who am I kidding, I soak up the lines like a Mexican sun tan after six margaritas) happens to be completed by two essential props - Cheetos and Tetris.

In my office, there hangs an ever changing screen printout of the latest high score. I have held the title, but Ryan stands supreme currently with a high score of 80,569 and a whooping 128 lines. It won’t stand forever, but it remains the current challenge.

The game is a simple, and a classic. There’s great strategy and excellent combinations. There’s bad luck and faith that “the game will provide” and then there’s just raw, unadulterated talent. The only office rule we have, your tall tetris tale of towering pixel precision must be accompanied by a screencap. (yes, we are designers and could photoshop a fallacy, but we take tetris as seriously as the AP takes their photos.) As a fair example, Ryan posed a claim that he scored over 100,000 but in the process of his last gasp to eek out an extra couple of puntos positivos, he hit the back button and lost his heroic effort. And he willingly does not press us to accept his score.

Now that some tetris integrity.