Note: I’m not boxing said spoilers because in this case, they show up on the “mouse over” anyway, IIRC.
I was watching Office Space last night (unfortunately, it was on Comedy Central, and it was the “censored for basic cable” version).
Space so it won’t show up on “mouse over”
However, I have a question about the virus. Okay, so Peter, Samir, and Michael create the virus to steal money from the company, which basically works by only taking fractions of a penny over a long period of time. And when they screw it up, they end up taking a larger amount (six figures, IIRC). Peter writes a confession, but this is destroyed when Initech is burned down.
HOWEVER…won’t the virus still exist? OR, is Initech’s system itself completely destroyed? Help me out here?
Presumably, once the missing money was noticed, the source would be found and removed. The fire took care of any kind of trace of how it got there.
It’s called Salami Slicing and has been used since the 60s to amass surprisingly large sums, if you are attacking a large company with lots of small transactions. As a software firm with only a few large transactions every day the payoff from Initech would be several orders of magnitude less. And as its workers would be familiar from high school of the mechanics of it, the fraud should be found immediately.
I thought Initech worked on bank software, and the plan was to use that “in” to get the software into the banks’ systems.
If you are talking about the virus, maybe not.
If they had done daily backups (and that type of compnay should have been), it would be easy to find out when the virus was introduced.
They could check the bank’s deposit trail.
But if you are talking about the missing money, Milton spent the money. Since none of the principals died (Lumbergh and that other dweeb), the knowledge that money is missing is still present.
I just wanted to point out that this is the exact same scam Gus is running in Superman III.
Well, that’s where Peter & co got the idea in the first place.
There’s a deleted scene on one of the DVDs that says Lumbergh died.
It basically goes like this:
[Peter] Say, did either of you guys go to Lumbergh’s funeral?
[Samir] No.
[Mike] No.
End Scene
What I wondered though, was how did Peter, Samir and Michael avoid getting caught? Or will the fire have destroyed any evidence that it was them in the first place?
Well they did say the fire pretty much took care of everything. So it is written so it shall be.
I thought it was the Initech Credit Union they were stealing from, not banks that used Initech software. That’s why the fire destroyed all the evidence - the servers were gone, and Initech probably didn’t do great backups.
(I have nothing to add, but wanted to point out that one of the companies we work with is called Intertech and it makes me giggle everytime. It’s unfortunate if it was in existence before the movie came out. But it’d be hilllllarious if they ignorantly named it that after.)
They “fixed the glitch”. The problem just, you know, took care of itself.