Nathan linked to two faux training videos for Microsoft UK employees featuring Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant in their roles from the BBC version of The Office. I uploaded them to Google Video for your viewing pleasure :)
You can download them too (right-click, save target as) :
UPDATE: The films are no longer available for download. Bummer :/
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August 16, 2006 at 12:56 am
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August 16, 2006 at 9:24 am
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August 16, 2006 at 1:25 pm
[...] Via Coolz0r which was originally from Nathan Weinberg, Microsoft UK has made two fake training videos with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant (of The Office fame) which are extremely funny. Glad to see that Microsoft hasn’t lost it’s British humour. [...]
Bert
August 18, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Finally some critisimn on the foolish HRM questions. Argg, i hate companies who ‘manage’ employees like cattle on a farm.
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August 19, 2006 at 9:15 pm
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abroad
August 21, 2006 at 9:52 pm
What do you mean I can download these movies, the links refer to an iFilm advertisement!
Coolz0r
August 21, 2006 at 10:01 pm
… right-click, save target as/ :)
carl
August 21, 2006 at 11:04 pm
Ah no, the right mouse click technique doesn’t work, you just receive the ifilms splash screen. I think Ifilms took them down, as I wet to their site and couldn’t find them up there either.
Coolz0r
August 21, 2006 at 11:31 pm
Damn, you’re right. Luckily I uploaded them to Google before they did that.
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August 22, 2006 at 2:44 am
[...] Check it out here [...]
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August 22, 2006 at 8:12 pm
[...] Southpaw Jones presents Lazy Links Something way more entertaining that I can offer: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant in two “training” videos for Microsoft UK. Check it out! [...]
essentialatom
August 22, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Is anybody able to convert these from .flv files into .mpg or something else watchable on the likes of Media Player?
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August 23, 2006 at 2:32 am
[...] http://blog.coolz0r.com/2006/08/15/ricky-gervais-for-microsoft-uk/ [...]
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August 23, 2006 at 5:08 am
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Coolz0r
August 23, 2006 at 6:38 am
Hi, essentialatom! Welcome on this blog. Check out this one:
http://blog.coolz0r.com/2006/07/25/from-flv-to-wmv-avi-mov-or-mpeg/
;)
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August 23, 2006 at 5:09 pm
[...] Here’s a link to a couple of Microsoft training videos featuring David Brent. [...]
essentialatom
August 23, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Ah, thanks a lot for that! Thanks for the videos too, I’d heard of them but never seen them before :D
OfficeFan
August 24, 2006 at 1:36 am
Thanks for posting. Is it possible that Ricky Gervais is the funniest human being on the planet?
matto
August 25, 2006 at 1:33 pm
hilarious! i noticed You Tube have been asked to take the videos down by Microsoft, Google will probably be next – so I’ve put them on my site until I get a vist from the MS Police (beta) too.
http://www.vanillagorilla.co.uk/links/ricky-gervais-microsoft-training-video-part-1.html
http://www.vanillagorilla.co.uk/links/ricky-gervais-microsoft-training-video-part-2.html
njoi!
» Ricky Gervais Videos - Coolz0r - Marketing Thoughts
September 8, 2006 at 3:59 pm
[...] Allrighty. After the clips for Microsoft UK, I dug up some more Ricky Gervais stuff on Google Video. Here are some brilliant snippets for you to enjoy: These two clips are video podcasts, I’ll try to digg up some more, but they’re not easy to find (yet): [...]
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