Office Space Milton Meme Generator
Drag text anywhere on the Office Space Milton template, style every box its own way, drop in your own images, then download, copy, or share it. Animated GIF versions are available through the API.
Click a text box to edit it. Drag to move, corners resize, top handle rotates.
What is the Office Space Milton meme?
Office Space Milton shows Stephen Root as Milton Waddams sitting at his cluttered cubicle desk in thick glasses, a short-sleeved shirt and a limp tie, hand resting on his beloved red Swingline stapler. He stares at the viewer with the blank, mildly wounded look of a man who has quietly given up expecting anything good from his job. Captioned with "I was told there would be cake," the image is about broken promises at work and beyond: the pizza party that never happened, the bonus that was "coming soon", the free snacks mentioned in the job listing. It is a gentle, resigned kind of complaint.
Origin: Milton is a character in Mike Judge's 1999 comedy Office Space. In the film he is passed over during an office birthday celebration and never gets a slice of cake, and he is also known for mumbling about his red stapler.
Also known as: I Was Told There Would Be Cake, Milton Waddams, Red Stapler Guy.
How to use the Office Space Milton meme
The top box is optional; the default leaves it empty. Use it to describe the situation, like "the all-hands meeting ended" or "the hackathon prize". The bottom box is Milton's line, "I was told there would be cake", or a version swapping cake for whatever was promised.
It works best for small, overpromised perks and disappointments rather than real tragedies. Office life is the natural home, but launch events, birthday parties, school field trips and game updates that skipped the promised feature all fit Milton's quiet resentment.
Office Space Milton meme ideas
- (blank) / I was told there would be cake
- the release notes / I was told there would be dark mode
- the job listing said "free snacks" / I was told there would be snacks
- the retirement party / I was told there would be cake
- the class trip / I was told there would be a gift shop
- the season finale / I was told there would be answers
About the Office Space Milton meme template
The Office Space Milton template (cake) supports 2 lines of text and 2 styles (animated, default). A classic example reads “I was told there would be cake”. Read about its origin on youtube.com.
Use it from the API
This meme is also just a URL. Replace the text in the path to generate your own image:
https://memegenscript.com/images/cake/_/I_was_told_there_would_be_cake.gif
