If you’ve ever asked yourself whether anything on The Office (either version) was true-to-life, you need only look at this picture of a man who fell asleep at the office and awoke to find himself an internet celebrity for the answer. That’s because everyone at the office this poor guy fell asleep in gathered around to take an important family picture with his sleeping form. The only problem? It was only his second day on the job.
Here’s the photo, posted to Imgur by the victim himself:
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While the original Reddit thread has been deleted (because it didn’t fit the guidelines of the subreddit it was posted to, not because TheOrangeDuke was ashamed), The Huffington Post reports that the picture transpired after user TheOrangeDuke started his internship at a tech startup and promptly fell asleep at his desk. His colleagues, clearly jealous of his talent of being to fall asleep anywhere and at anytime, took this opportunity to gently welcome him to the team by hazing him with a group photo. But once the picture made it to the internet–as all things now do–it really took off, with clever Photoshop artists doing everything from adding Borat to the photos to turning them into movie posters (which might give TheOrangeDuke’s bosses some ideas) like this one:
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Here’s a collection of the artistry employed by people who clearly knew exactly what they were doing. (Warning: some of these may be considered NSFW, so check them out at your workplace at your own risk):
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They also turned him into He-Man, which is really the best use of everyone’s time:
The other pictures may never be seen again, but expect the He-Man/Sleeping Guy hybrid to be used as a reaction image by all of your friends in the near future.