Stressed Out

1. Emerson
   June 4th, 2008 at 12:04 am

   This dude rocks.
   He really knows how to live.
   His cellmates should’ve joined in the rebellion.

2. graffiksguru
   June 4th, 2008 at 12:05 am

   Wow, that guy went from 0-60 in no time flat, I wish I knew what set him off! Here it is from a second angle:
   http://www.break.com/index/office-worker-meltdown-second-angle.html

3. Taylor
   June 4th, 2008 at 12:10 am

   I like how absolutely no one helps the one guy restrain him. Looks like those motivational posters about teamwork don’t work after all.

4. Ali S.
   June 4th, 2008 at 12:13 am

   Hulk no like cubicle life! Hulk smash corporate greed! Hulk fights against authority figures! Rawr!

5. roger
   June 4th, 2008 at 12:17 am

   I’m surprised anyone would try to restrain him, or linger around in the room so long after he threw a computer monitor at a woman in a chair and started swinging the coat hanger. He should have urinated on someone’s desk and then set off the sprinklers for a finale, though.

6. Edward
   June 4th, 2008 at 12:19 am

   No question that this is staged. While I could point out a number of things, the most obvious is that the monitors that he throws are not attached to a computer.

7. Britt
   June 4th, 2008 at 12:20 am

   Jesus. The guy who restrained him and took him down has serious balls. Worker of the year for this guy!

8. SenorMysterioso
   June 4th, 2008 at 12:28 am

   Im inclined to believe this is staged. A dozen men just let some guy go on a rampage? Even after knocking out some woman with a computer monitor?

   The first guy just lets him hit him over the head with the keyboard because he accidentally knocked over some papers and does nothing about it. Some dude smacks me with his keyboard Im not just stepping back and letting him go.

9. Jayce
   June 4th, 2008 at 12:36 am

   This SMACKS of viral advertising. Especially with the employee cell video turning up. I call shenanigans.

10. Fresh
    June 4th, 2008 at 12:38 am

    If you look at the surveillance video carefully, you can see two guys around the corner whipping out their cell phones and videoing the incident.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOMAUjuIKb0

11. Thomas
    June 4th, 2008 at 12:41 am

    Looks fake to me.
    1) monitors thrown are not connected either to power or computers.
    2) the only monitors thrown are not facing the camera, we cannot see that they are probably blank.
    3) the time is 12:10. That’s lunch time at most offices (not all though).
    4) The video is only from a week and a half ago. I’m pretty sure the police would take the video as evidence, and probably not release it yet.
    5) the break in the middle, right after the man falls off the desk looks suspiciously like they cut out the part where everyone makes sure the actor is OK.

12. SenorMysterioso
    June 4th, 2008 at 12:45 am

    that would be kind of an interesting marketing device, release this video and then a few days later release the video from the phones

13. superbad
    June 4th, 2008 at 1:02 am

    He’s just pissed off because his cheap ass company still makes him stare at a CRT monitor all day. I’d go mental too. Maybe it’s a viral ad for Viewsonic.

    No way this is real. In real life, if someone goes batshit crazy and starts looking like he’s going to kill people, the sensible ones head for the exit and take the rest of the day off. Restrain him? I’ve had a cubicle job, and I certainly wouldn’t have risked my life for it. Call the cops if you want the crazy man to stop breaking shit. But first let him mess up my papers and break my PC so I get a few days to surf the web in peace get my work organized.

14. lux
    June 4th, 2008 at 1:14 am

    I agree. Looks fake. If it were real, I’d head for the squealing stupid woman ( you can hear her on the link from graffiksguru, since it has audio) and smack her hard if I was that guy. Ya know… since he’s rampaging anyway.

    Its gotta be a viral, probably playing on the rainyday fantasy of anyone who has worked in a cubicle for far too long.

15. Garbanzo
    June 4th, 2008 at 2:01 am

    Anyone know what language they are speaking in the alternate clip? This totally feeds my prejudice that people who don’t speak english are more prone to irrational and extreme behavior.

16. LisaL
    June 4th, 2008 at 2:39 am

    Well… IF it is real… what a loser. Destroy property.. whatever.. but don’t start harming the ppl around you. Not cool

17. Smap
    June 4th, 2008 at 2:40 am

    How can you tell the monitors are not connected to anything? The resolution is too low to see a cable and a cable pulls out the back of the crt pretty easily. The other end is likely screwed into the computer so it stays. Sorry, nothing about this video makes me think it is staged. Otherwise they are some good actors.

    “that would be kind of an interesting marketing device, release this video and then a few days later release the video from the phones”

    marketing what exactly?

18. Larfin Jackarse
    June 4th, 2008 at 3:05 am

    Yeah I think the language is American, man they go apeshit on whole countries what with their irrational and extreme behaviour. I mean they are prone to it.

19. sam
    June 4th, 2008 at 3:09 am

    I could go either way on this being staged. My first though was that it was a viral video, but so far it has failed to market anything. Although I could see monster.com or something doing something like this.

    Good find on the alternate videos, btw - I could see the people filming in the security footage and wondered if we’d ever see the cellphone view.

    Regarding the monitors, I think if I had lost it and was going crazy, I might be more inclined to see the monitors that were facing me. Monitors facing away from me don’t catch the eye as much.

    If it’s fake, it’s well done. But if something like this happened in my office, we’d have a couple people pull out their cellphone cameras too, and if the company was small enough you KNOW all that stuff would end up on youtube. Curious that none of the footage came from a first person though.

20. sam
    June 4th, 2008 at 3:14 am

    A second viewing of the security footage (the break.com one seems better quality): http://www.break.com/index/office-worker-goes-absolutely-insane.html

    I’m ready to say that there is a higher chance it is real than not.

    Although he does take out at least one monitor that is facing us and it is off. But nobody was sitting at that desk in the beginning.

21. Eugenio Martínez Sierra
    June 4th, 2008 at 4:13 am

    He won the lottery.

    Or he was fired.

    Or he is idiot.

    Or that´s a fake.

22. ted
    June 4th, 2008 at 6:02 am

    Staged. We don’t have to wonder where to look - will it be the two guys at the calendar at the chart? Will it be someone in the back? No, it happens exactly on centre stage.

    I can believe the reactions. People are clueless how to react in unusual situations. And curious.

23. ak
    June 4th, 2008 at 6:05 am

    “This totally feeds my prejudice that people who don’t speak english are more prone to irrational and extreme behavior.” <- i assume this is a joke…

24. Miss Cellania
    June 4th, 2008 at 6:14 am

    ak, that comment has to be a joke. Just because they are not speaking English doesn’t mean they can’t. It’s only in America that we assume people only speak one language.

25. Algonkin
    June 4th, 2008 at 6:42 am

    I like your thinking Thomas

26. xana32
    June 4th, 2008 at 6:59 am

    How funny! I left the audio from “The Flower Duet” post playing while watching this. Really seems to match well. Try it.

27. Quiet
    June 4th, 2008 at 7:22 am

    watch the underrated movie “He Was A Quiet Man” (see IMDb for info.) and you’ll love the ending

28. Capella
    June 4th, 2008 at 7:47 am

    Yeah, I call shenanigans too.
    Although incredibly funny - my favorite part is at about 1:30 mins, when he kicks the cubicle dividers and falls.
    But just the way people are acting around him - makes me think this is fake. I mean, people are running by, even coming int he room and running right by where he is throwing huge panels from the desk - that’s just stupid.
    And not a single person seems to be talking on the phone, calling the cops.

29. SenorMysterioso
    June 4th, 2008 at 8:03 am

    re: marketing what

    well just about anything youd like

    I remember a viral video, maybe one of the first, called Bad Day aka Computer Rage where a guy sitting at his desk smacks his computer monitor then bashes it with his keyboard.

    That video was an ad for Loronix Information Systems

30. Adam Stanhope
    June 4th, 2008 at 9:09 am

    Note that there doesn’t appear to be a single LCD flatscreen monitor in the place. All of the monitors appear to be appx. 15″ throwaways from years gone by.

31. konshuss
    June 4th, 2008 at 9:26 am

    maybe i’ve got the gene that keeps me from being a p****y, but that guy would be in a world of hurt the moment that monitor hit that woman. look at those shmoes just standing around. even a little guy runs in and takes him right down. how emasculating it must’ve been for everyone who did nothing. and if it’s fake, good job, it got me riled up

32. Miss Cellania
    June 4th, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Adam, I was about to say that’s because it’s in Russia, but… the last place I worked has nary one flatscreen either. We had 15″ throwaways in every room. Even though our engineer owned a computer shop. Just cheap.

33. Smart Guy
    June 4th, 2008 at 9:44 am

    I agree, fake.

    -Old monitors,
    -no cables attached,
    -cubicle walls that don’t seem to be screwed together,
    -the woman who gets hit initially doesn’t LEAVE and in fact, several times seems to move closer to the guy when he is standing on the desks,
    -although her injury appears to be the head, I don’t see the monitor actually hit her head,
    -center stage action
    -weapon very easily taken away by hero #1

34. Ant
    June 4th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    Video is gone.

35. Matt
    June 4th, 2008 at 11:23 am

    I can’t believe that almost everybody is so cynical, and ready to say it’s fake.

    1. My Office, (In America) still has a few 15′ monitors left. Not every company has a big budget for fancy flat screens.

    2. I’ve seen people go ape-sh*t in my office or other places. People tend to stare, because they are shocked or want to watch. Especially here in NYC.

    3. If a Man is going psycho, he can easily pull a monitor loose from a computer. Remember, there are two tiny little screws holding it in place, and a man raging would be able to rip them off.

    4. If you are a woman, and a raging hostile guy hurls a monitor into your lap, who’s to say you wouldn’t be in shock and just freeze? I say it’s real.

36. Tyrone
    June 4th, 2008 at 11:25 am

    Emerson, I miss you in my cell, luvah.

37. dermot
    June 4th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    I vote fake.

    Look at the two women in the cubicle where he began his attack. Having narrowly escaped death, they stand there, watching?

    Wouldn’t any woman in that situation want to flee? To get away from the psychonaut? Yet they remain, even as the attack escaletes, even moving closer at one point.

    Seems bogus to me.

    There were similar TV ads back on ZDTV (aka TechTV) back around 2000 - a cube slave takes his CRT monitor and drops it down the stairs. Remember those?

38. Dorothy
    June 4th, 2008 at 11:35 am

    This is why I am a Buddhist.
    Please breath darling.

39. gmgfarrand
    June 4th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    Fake, just like countless others like it.

    None of the monitors that get thrown are ever plugged in.

    Ever try to throw a CRT monitor that is hooked to either power or a PC?

    It just isn’t real…

40. boris
    June 4th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    they speak russian, was on the news

41. Aundrea
    June 4th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    I still don’t know what it could be an advertisement for. I’ve read the comments about other campaigns depicting people raging against their computers, but that seems fundamentally different than raging against co-workers using computers.

42. Dave Barak
    June 4th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    I vote for fake. I can’t see anyone going ape for that long without realizing they’ve just screwed up big-time.

    Maybe it’s a viral video to advertise pepper spray, Thorazine or pre-frontal lobotomies.

43. kid_icarus
    June 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    fake or not it is incredibly beautiful when played in conjunction with the ‘leo delibes lakme: the flower duet’ posting

44. Allen
    June 4th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    This isn’t fake. It happened in a small office in Vladivostok, Russia (the language spoken in the second, cellphone clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOMAUjuIKb0 , is Russian.) The story made the news in Russia, too:

    http://news.ntv.ru/133544 (Russian site, but you’ll see the video)

    http://www.1tv.ru/owa/win/ort6_main.main?p_news_title_id=122571&p_news _razdel_id=1

    No details yet on what set him off, but I’m following the Russian blogs where this was originally reported — once there’s more information, I’ll post here.

45. wscribbler
    June 4th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    anyone who thinks this a fake because everyone is standing around needn’t look to far for examples of people failing to come to the aid of others … remember the puerto rican day parade in new york a few years ago? … still not convinced, look up Kitty Genovese … she was murdered in New York in the late sixties after her killer attacked her outside her apartment, left and came back. Almost every one of her neighbors reported hearing the confrontation. Nobody called the police.

46. wscribbler
    June 4th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    the phenomena is used to be known as “bystander effect” or “Genovese Syndrome.”

47. Sniperman
    June 4th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    whoa guy really lost it.

48. Brayden
    June 4th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    that is hilarious, i also had the flower duet playing when I watched this. it totally made it worth it for me.

49. Puck
    June 4th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    Yeah… there’s no way this is fake. Even actors wouldn’t be interested in acting this one. The guy on the left who gets attacked second gets shoved forcefully into the cubicle wall. The whole thing falls over. Even the monitors don’t look like they’re fake and i’m pretty sure the girl across from him gets hit because she flew back pretty quick too. And to all the people saying that they wouldn’t stand around while this happened and that they wouldn’t let some guy do this, think of it this way: noone expects to get hit with a monitors and various other office equipment at work - the first thing you’re gonna do is be shocked, not be interested in fighting, least of all if it’s someone you work with. Someone you might even be on good terms with.

50. Batspit
    June 4th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    This video goes well with Carmina Burana (from the opera post today) playing in the background…

51. Lea
    June 4th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    This whole video felt weird. It seemed like it was going in slow motion to me…did anyone else feel that way?
    I feel like it’s fake but then, people do seriously crazy things. I wouldn’t be surprised either way.

52. sonora
    June 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    somebody has a bad case of the mondays…

53. My Life In a Cube
    June 4th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    If I was there I would have joined in the fun and started bashing stuff too. Boo-yah!

54. Ben Eshbach
    June 4th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    Wow. It seems that only a decade ago the people who couldn’t discern fake from real tended to return a preponderance of false positives - by judging “real” when in fact fake. Now that same cross-section is returning false negatives of “fake” when in fact real. Does anyone know why this is happening? Are there just more and better fakes out there, so if you have no choice but to guess it’s safer to guess fake?

55. Thomas
    June 4th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    Who’s to say. Looks awfully staged to me. That chart in back looks like every picture of how a chart should look. Was there a presentation in back? No — just a random chart.

56. Jimbo
    June 4th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    Fake Fake Fake

57. Jayshun
    June 4th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    It’s been said before but it seems extremely fake to me

58. ChrisW
    June 4th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    They blocked Neatorama!

59. Miss Curly
    June 4th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    I watched one of the links on this with audio and it sounds like Russian to me.

    I don’t know, the whole thing made me just…sad.

60. Peeves
    June 4th, 2008 at 11:40 pm

    The woman hit by the first monitor was holding the same spot on her head (another coworker also holds it) so I think she was actually injured. It may just be a set accident since the behavior of everyone is just strange (multiple cell phones, no one leaving, that injured woman walking back and forth and seriously interested in the man for way too long) but Russians just may do things differently.

61. Enigma644
    June 5th, 2008 at 6:11 am

    It’s a fake. You can tell because none of the monitors have any cables in them.

62. Caryl
    June 6th, 2008 at 10:48 am

    it’s all fake!

63. Protoplast
    June 11th, 2008 at 9:50 am

    Looks to be faked:
    http://gizmodo.com/5015249/cubicle-farm-rampage-video-was-just-a-viral -marketing-stunt

64. GB
    June 12th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    Just saw this was posted today on youtube… Interesting.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBXytUKh0g8&feature=user

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