Incidents from The Office that have happened at your office in real life

I haven't.

You know that scene in the warehouse attic when Pam swallows what Bob Vance has to offer? Something like that between two other co-workers happened at my old job.

I worked in a large office environment where my particular department had about 20 people.

There was this one dude who would always be attached to the boss's hip. Everytime there was a meeting, he would sit right next to him, he would be the first to speak when the boss prompted the department to say something.

To make things worse, this was the same dude who would refuse to put his phone on silent during a meeting. You'd hear a full volume chime of an iphone in the middle of a meeting. All of this while sitting about a foot away from the boss.

He was also a gun-nut, super conservative republican. It's essentially the only type of character the Office didn't have - the super right wing political dude.

aside from my reply to stevew84, I've found far more relatable thing in Office Space than I have in The Office, even over 20 years later, so much of it is still relevant

The first thing that springs to mind is seeing a relationship blossom over time. I saw a Jim/Pam type romance happen; there was a guy and girl, basically, our Jim and Pam, who were always very friendly and on occasion a little flirty. Everyone always shipped them and we always wondered if they'd ever hook up, but Pam was dating a stick in the mud who nobody liked and they had been dating for 5 years. One day, though, we discover that she has broken up with his BF of 5 years and is now dating our Jim. They're still together.

There was an incident at our office that *should* have occurred in The Office (though I'm only up to Season 7 now, so maybe it will):

Our little company had been bought out by a slightly larger company in another state. One day the local boss was complaining to a couple of us senior staff members that the long-distance Big Boss had ridiculed an idea of his a couple weeks previously -- and then today had "invented" the same idea himself. The two of us started laughing hysterically.

To his credit, though, after a long moment he said (apparently quite sincerely) "Do you mean that I do that?!" If that happened on The Office, I suspect the perp (maybe Dwight?) would indignant deny it.

Just in general--the boredom, the incompetent management, the pettiness, the ass-kissing, the pointless time-wasting meetings, the blaming of employees for corporate failures, and the tiresome yet constant birthday celebrations.