Lester, Kevin Spacey’s character, is unhappy with not just his job but with the entire suburban existence that comes with it. A “boring, faceless and easy to forget” advertising executive, the only thing that brings him joy throughout the day is fantasizing about his teenage daughter’s friend rolling around naked in a bunch of rose pedals. He’s either really creepy or just gets really excited by botany. He grows so frustrated with his well-paying but unfulfilling job that he abruptly blackmails his boss and quits, taking up a new lifestyle of smoking pot and working at a fast food joint. Sure, it’s not long after that things go south for poor Lester, but even then he is pleased with his choice to abandon his predictable and boring existence. Apparently, deep down every executive wants to be a slacker teenager after all.

Driving a taxi in New York can’t be a pleasant job. If the traffic doesn’t drive you insane, the clientele surely will. Especially if you take on the all night shift like Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro’s character in this bleak look at what driving the bad streets of New York will do to your mindset. You may end up taking dates to porn theatres, obsessing over underage hookers, and even giving yourself a poorly done mohawk. Bickle becomes disgusted by the crime and prostitution he sees while driving through the city and decides to become a vigilante to take out 12 year old Jodie Foster’s pimp and the Presidential nominee he blames for ruining his budding romance with Cybill Shepherd (it couldn't have been, say, taking her to that porn movie). Despite his insane behavior, the movie is still a more glamorous portrayal of the taxi profession than any episode of Taxi Cab Confessions. Now that is truly disturbing.

Most workplace comedies take place in an office environment, but Charlie Chaplin made Modern Times before these more modern times. This silent film, made in 1936, is instead set in a factory during the great depression. And wouldn’t you know it, Charlie Chaplin (as his famous Little Tramp character) working in a factory means that chaos and what once passed as hilarity ensue. Chaplin is forced into degrading acts that are usually reserved for reality TV, like having food stuffed into his face against his will and screwing a bunch of nuts as quickly as possible. He quickly suffers a mental breakdown from his work and ends up in the hospital, proving that work really can drive you crazy. Well, either that or he just had a headache. It’s hard to tell without dialogue.

For a man that’s taken on Predator, terrorists and even Danny DeVito, you would think that no job would be too tough. That is, until Arnold Schwarzenegger has to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher and control a room full of bratty kids without drop kicking them or crushing their heads between his biceps. He is instantly annoyed by the children’s constant screaming, rough-housing and insistence that he has a tumor (and let’s be clear about this, it’s not a tumor). He finally gets them under control by running the classroom like an adorable boot camp and yelling “Shut up!” really loud. Take note, future teachers.

Nine to Five is the perfect film for any strong-willed businesswoman who feels like she got the short end of the stick because of her gender. The movie focuses on three women (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton) that work in the most vaguely named fake company ever: Consolidated, which apparently…consolidates? What they do doesn’t matter; the important part is that they work under a boss that is sexist, egotistical, hypocritical and just plain mean. So after a series of weird office events that nearly lead to their boss’ death, they end up kidnapping him and holding him prisoner until they figure out what to do. They use his absence to shape the workplace into a friendlier environment and all end up getting their dream jobs/lives, including Vice President of the company, country singer (what a stretch for you, Dolly!) and the wife of a Xerox representative. Additionally, their boss is rather inexplicably kidnapped by natives in the Amazon; a fitting fate for many bosses.

Many of you out there have probably claimed to have the boss from hell at one point or another, and plenty of movies have laid the claim on one of their characters, but Miranda Priestly (played with icy excellence by Meryl Streep) is pretty close to fitting the bill. We all know that individuals in the fashion industry are terrible people — just look at Mugatu in Zoolander. When you get down to it, they’re all out to assassinate the Prime Minister of some Asian country. But Priestly, the head of Runway magazine, makes those kinds of actions look tame by being the bitchiest boss imaginable and treating poor little Anne Hathaway like garbage. Worse, she begins to rub off on her. The only thing more awful than enduring the boss from hell is starting to act like her.

Can you imagine showing up to this dreadful job every day? Having to work alongside horribly annoying people pushing out a disgusting, ill-prepared product to people eagerly waiting to eat it up? And that’s just making a movie with Dane Cook and Ryan Reynolds. The job the movie is actually about is pretty bad too.

Before he dedicated himself to making the Batman franchise a neon-colored nightmare, Joel Schumacher made this film about Bill Foster, an engineer for a defense contractor that gets laid off and goes off the deep end. He gets fed up in traffic and abandons his car to traverse L.A. on foot, leaving a trail of destruction and violence behind him. With a sense of self-righteousness that only designing missiles can create, he takes on gang bangers, fast food employees and Neo-Nazis on the way to visit his daughter for her birthday. He even upgrades weapons throughout the day, eventually ending up with a bazooka. And they say people that get fired from the Post Office are hostile.

If you're stuck in a dead-end job, especially on a day off, Clerks is the film for you. Dante works at a Quickstop convenience store and spends most of his time complaining about the customers and exclaiming “I’m not even supposed to be here today!” His friend Randall works at the video rental place next door, where he spends most of his time watching dirty movies and yelling at customers. Together they represent the deadly black hole that is growing comfortable at an awful job and never moving on. Though Kevin Smith went soft years later in Clerks 2 and had them suddenly love these jobs, in the original they are two of the most cynical and unhappy workers to ever grace the big screen. At least they got free movies and Gatorade.

The ultimate film for anyone that has worked in an office environment, Office Space perfectly captures the daily routine at a soul-crushingly boring workplace. Whether it’s a jammed copy machine or Lumberg insisting that they work on the weekend, the employees of Initech suffer not-so-silently through the neverending annoyances that crop up in an office. Peter Gibbons, a programmer with a permanent “case of the Mondays,” takes his life into his own hands after a hypnosis session gone awry and begins a series of wish-fulfilling activities for uncaring office drones everywhere. Ignoring his boss, playing video games and liberally re-arranging his cubicle, Peter decides he would rather do nothing than work, and does it well. The film even includes the company being robbed of hundreds of thousands of dollars by employees and eventually burning down — truly a dream come true for many of you out there.