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No no no, it's not like in the movie "office space". More like "superman 3".
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." >

Hey Peter, check out this chick on channel 9! >

"Hell no. I don't want you fuckin' up my life too." >

Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?" >

"...No. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked for saying something like that." >

The key to any "Office Space" crime is to have a Milton on staff to burn down the building when the time is right. >

Yup! Find someone like this, keep moving them around the office, take their prized stapler away, THEN steal the money after you've confirmed this person's desire to burn the place to the ground...Theft 101 really... >

Dude, spoilers >

Give Richard Pryor some credit. He did it in Superman III before they did it in Office Space. >

Seriously. Even Office Space gave proper credit for the original heist idea. >

Underrated movie, actually. >

The transformation of that lady into a cyborg/robot at the end was creepy as fuck. >

He's about to have a case of the Mondays. >

I hate ~~white collar jail~~ Mondays >


Prosecutors in Seattle filed charges this week against a software engineer who is accused of a theft scheme that swiped approximately $300,000 from his employer.

Ermenildo Castro, 28, of Tacoma, allegedly told detectives that he was inspired by the 90’s movie "Office Space" when he devised a plan to divert customer fees from his employer, Zulily.com, into his own bank accounts.
According to court documents, Castro wrote software code that manipulated the online retailer’s checkout page to send the shipping fees into his own account. The charges allege Castro netted $260,000 in stolen shipping fees.
Seattle police detectives said Castro also used his position as a software engineer to manipulate prices on Zulily to purchase approximately $41,000 in merchandise for ‘pennies on the dollar’.
According to police, the company’s cybersecurity staff found a document on Castro’s laptop titled ‘OfficeSpace project’, which outlined Castro’s scheme to ‘cleanup evidence’ by manipulating audit logs and disabling alarm logging. The theft began in February and by March the company had identified discrepancies in the shipping fees being charged to customers, an SPD report states.
Castro was part of the team assigned to investigate the discrepancies in shipping fees, according to the report.
Zulily investigators eventually caught on to Castro’s scheme and went to his house in Tacoma where they found boxes of merchandise piled up outside the front door and driveway, the report states. In total, Zulily’s team said Castro had sent over 1,000 items sent to his house.
In an interview with police, Castro claimed the orders that came to his house were the result of a mistake during a test and he forgot to return the items and did not notify Zulily staff about the orders, the report states.
“When asked why he never returned the items to Zulily, he said that once they fired him his opinion was, ‘f--- ‘em’,” the police report states.
Seattle police detectives wrote a narrative explaining how Castro’s alleged scheme related to the movie "Office Space," including the plot outline on IMDB.com.
“In the Initech office, the insecure Peter Gibbons hates his job. His best friends are two software engineers Michael Bolton and Samir Nagheenanajar, that also hate Initech. When he discovers that Michael and Samir will be downsized, they decide to plant a virus in the banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation into Peter’s account. However[,] Michael commits a mistake in the software on the decimal place and they siphon off over $300,000. The desperate trio tries to fix the problem, return the money and avoid going to prison.”
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Castro with two counts of theft in the first degree and one count of identity theft in the first degree >

Man, he didn't learn much from the movie, the whole decimal point in the wrong place thing. He should have taken a fraction of the shipping fees, not all of it. Spread that shit out so you get $260k over 10 years, not one month. >

Willing to bet this was a fraction of the "fee" profits, after deducting actual shipping costs.
Reads like the only reason they caught on was he tried to do 2 illegal things at one (also stealing merchandise). >

But he somehow had there merchandise at his house, so it turned into a drop shipping scam >

At least, he doesn't have to file anymore TPS reports. >

PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean? >

Straight‘ to Federal Pound me in the ass prison. >

Came here for this comment. >

Emulating a failed scheme, thief fails
Nice >

Here I was hoping he stole the printer to kick the shit out of it in a field somewhere.
"PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?"
cues up some Geto Boys >

PC means Paper Cartridge. It expects someone to load letter size paper in it. >

I think most people know this, which is what makes it funny in the movie. >

This may be one of the few ones that has come to light. The movie has been out for 20+ years. Computers , disgruntled programmers and bad managers have been around for 60+ years! >

What would you do if you had a million dollars? >

Two chicks at the same time man >

What a sloppy moron. First off labeling illegal ass stuff on your company assigned laptop is rookie shit. Next shipping to your own home? Crime 101 is creating layers between yourself and actual crime >


Crime 101 is creating layers between yourself and actual crime

When I was in college, I was making around $15,000 a year and was broke as fuck. I would sometimes go dumpster diving to try and find interesting stuff of value. You'd be amazed how many people throw away computers and laptops that work perfectly fine.
The window at my apartment pointed out to the parking lot, and I noticed that someone was routinely driving into the lot and dumping stuff into our dumpster.
I figured it was just someone who had some big items that didn't fit into their dumpster at home?
But I was curious, because they always showed up like clockwork, every day.
So after this car pulls up and dumps some "crap" in our dumpster at the apartment, I go and give it a look.
IT WAS DRUGS
A LOT OF DRUGS
I didn't touch them, obviously. My best guess was that someone in the apartment complex was selling drugs, and their way of creating "layers" between the distribution and sales of the drugs was to dump them off in our dumpster, like clockwork. 
I figure that if I'd done something stupid (like take them) I probably would have got myself shot.
The joys of living in the 'hood. >

It’s not stealing…it’s like the take a penny thing at the gas station, ya know? >

From the sick kids??! >

No that's the jar. I'm talking about the tray. The pennies for everybody. >

I could set the building on fire. >

Strychnine in the guacamole >

Has anyone seen my stapler? >

Stephen Root is the hardest working actor in showbiz, but nobody knows his name. You should check out his IMDB. You be "oh, that was him" over and over. >

Been a fan since News Radio. Man is fantastic in everything he's in. >

I’m still surprised he hasn’t won anything for his role as Fuches in Barry. >

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta. >

Just give the stapler back, man. No hassles. >

he’s going to federal pound me in the ass prison >

The story wins the week of feel good news! He simply went too big too fast but his heart was in the right place. Damn if feels good to be a gangster. >

Thumbs in their asses, man.  Thumbs in their asses. >

Office space 2 . Based on the true story, that’s based on a movie , that’s based on super man 3