Editing TPS report (section)

=== ''Office Space'' ===
Its use in popular culture increased after the comedic 1999 film ''[[Office Space]]''. In the movie, multiple managers and coworkers inquire about an error that protagonist Peter Gibbons (played by [[Ron Livingston]]) makes in omitting a cover sheet to send with his "TPS reports". It is used by Gibbons as an example that he has eight different bosses to whom he directly reports. According to the film's writer and director [[Mike Judge]], the abbreviation stood for "Test Program Set" in the movie.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hoinski |first=Michael |date=2009-02-09 |title=Office Space' Cast Reunite at 10th Anniversary Screening of Mike Judge's Cult Film |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/office-space-cast-reunite-at-10th-anniversary-screening-of-mike-judges-cult-film-67618 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240708085525/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/office-space-cast-reunite-at-10th-anniversary-screening-of-mike-judges-cult-film-67618/ |archive-date=2024-07-08 |accessdate=2019-06-10 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |publisher=}}</ref>

After ''Office Space'', "TPS report" has come to connote pointless, [[busy work|mindless paperwork]],<ref>{{cite book
| title=The Milkshake Moment: Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies and Muddled Management to Realize Real Growth
| first=Steven S.
| last=Little
| year=2008
| page=51
| publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JodaaDKkd0YC&pg=PT38
| isbn=978-0-470-25746-3}}</ref> and an example of "literacy practices" in the work environment that are "meaningless exercises imposed upon employees by an inept and uncaring management" and "relentlessly mundane and enervating".<ref>{{cite book
| title=Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy
| first1=Bronwyn T.
| last1=Williams
| first2=Amy A.
| last2=Zenger
| publisher=[[Routledge]]/[[Taylor & Francis]]
| year=2007
| page=61
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I0QJoEWyLD8C&pg=PA61
| isbn=978-0-415-36095-1}}</ref>