Bill Lumbergh of Office Space Is Back, and Still a Clueless Prick, in Ads for HipChat Software

He prefers email

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Given how much advertising loves office humor, it's a bit surprising that characters from Office Space haven't been revived more often for commercials. Bill Lumbergh, in particular—the 1999 film's most broadly drawn corporate caricature—is great for a laugh. Yet the character, played by Gary Cole, has shown up only once in an ad—for State Farm, a few years ago—and didn't even deliver much of his signature drawling babble.

Now, Atlassian corrects that with this campaign for HipChat—software that facilitates internal communication at the workplace, including live chat.In

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