OFFICE ASSISTANT
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RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES 1996
Words Craig Grannell ]
Great - thanks for bringing up my worst PC nightmare, the bolshy paperclip of doom.
Sorry. We forgot some Office users have terrifying flashbacks to Clippit, who abruptly appeared the second they typed ‘Dear’, intrusively demanding to help lay out a letter. Presumably, the plan was to make Office seem human - or even fun. Instead we got something that was, broadly speaking, a mash-up of a third-rate Pixar character, an overly strict teacher and a sociopath. We still can’t hold a box of paperclips without yelling “NO, WE DON’T NEED HELP!” at it.