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Re:Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work by mhd on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @03:13AM (#19093546)
Peter's job self-given job description: "I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch. You see, they wrote all this bank software and to save space, they put 98 instead of 1998. So I go through these thousands of lines of code and uh, it doesn't really matter. I, uh, I don't like my job. I don't think I'm gonna go anymore."
Re:Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work by StevePerkins on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:41AM (#19094372)
... and Samir was "one of the best programmers they have" (per Pete). He was the one who wrote the (admittedly buggy) computer virus at the center of the plot.
Re:Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work by dwighttk on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @09:41AM (#19095368)
No, Michael put the decimal point in the wrong place... I think Samir had the database access...