Hate Your Office Job? This Overlooked, Free-To-Watch, Absurdist Comedy Gets It

The best part of working a horrible job is complaining about it. Family members, friends, coworkers, and strangers in line with you for coffee—it doesn't matter who; nothing hits quite like kvetching about your horrible workplace after a long day. Food service workers have Waiting, journalists have The Devil Wears Prada, and office workers have Office Space. But another film that highlights the casual drudgery of the contemporary workplace is somewhat obscure Bartleby. Bartleby is a 2001 absurdist comedy based on the short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Moby Dick author Herman Melville. Following the titular Bartleby (Crispin Glover) as his oddities begin to grate on The Boss (David Paymer), Bartleby captures the exact late capitalist malaise that plagues the modern workplace.