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Hey Peter, check out this chick on channel 9!
send the shipping fees into his own account.

That was definitely not office space
And leaving a detailed plan on your desktop?
Does this guy even crime? >

Truly idiotic behavior. Who does that kind of stuff on the company laptop? Of course IT found out. I don’t even like watching YouTube on the company’s Wi-Fi. >

Beyond that they were obviously going to find out anyway when accounting got the bill from UPS but had no money to pay it. And that he ordered over 1,000 items in a month ostensibly to resell which most off price retailers prohibit employees from doing in any amount. At least in the movie the plan revolved around something that evaded standard checks and balances, neither of this person's schemes were ever going to fly under the radar. >

Worse yet, investigators went to his house in Tacoma where they found boxes of merchandise piled up outside the front door and driveway. >

Harry Wormwood would be super pissed about all the packages left outside for the world to see. >

Technically the idea is from Superman III, which Michael Bolton points out in the movie. >

It was also used in the 1995 film, Hackers, just a few years before Office Space. >

Still one of my all time favorite movies! I got interested in technology because of this movie! Even though the majority of it is ridiculously fake, it still holds a special place in my heart. Hell it was the reason I had a subscription to 2600 (back when that was a thing). >

It's simultaneously the most and least accurate hacking movie ever.  The hacks performed, in particular the prep and methods for them such as how passwords get taken, the social engineering involved, and so on is fairly accurate (especially in the second scene, just after the intro).  But, the effects to visualize the hacks of course aren't accurate. >

Don't forget about the phreaking as well, that was fully legit too. I remember when I built my own tone generator from parts I got at radio shack. >

Yep, also the digging through trash.  There is a ton in that movie that is incredibly accurate, but it's easy to ignore the highly accurate parts in favor of the inaccurate parts like public schools having leaky rooftop pools and all. >


public schools having leaky rooftop pools and all

That's not what happens in the movie. 
Kate lies to Dade about there being a pool on the roof, he believes her, and gets stuck up there with what looks like other new students or people who got picked on because the door locks behind them. 
Later in the movie, he gets revenge by hacking the school emergency system and turning the sprinklers on. 
His line to her when she sees him in the hallway with an umbrella about "must be a leak in the pool" was sarcastic.
This is probably my favorite movie all of time. :) >

I know.  It was a joke. >

He should have finished watching the whole movie. He would have known that they got caught, and were only bailed out by the fire. >

He was interrupted, arson was the next step. >

Get yourself in deep enough and arson will be a step eventually >

Dude kept information about his scam against his employer…. On his work computer. >

nothing sus about a file on a software engineer's desktop called "OfficeSpace Project" >

My first programming job in the 1980s was writing code for a distribution system for stocks. There's a bunch of rounding options companies use, and I, as an entry-level person, was writing all the calculation routines. During a staff meeting with the entire team, someone innocently asked what about all the fractional cents that were rounded off if we tracked it? My coworker piped up MRG1957 is supposed to put them in my file,  remember? 
I had no idea, but I'm sure someone was soon looking at my code. At the time, sufficient controls didn't exist. But you always get caught. >

"Watch out for your cornhole, bud."