‘Office Space’ movie gave Zulily engineer a blueprint for financial fraud

by abhiminator on 12/31/2022, 5:30:51 PM with 25 comments

  • by Arainach on 12/31/2022, 6:21:17 PM

    >Evidence against Valdez includes notes in which he referred to the plan as the “OfficeSpace project"

    Never take notes when planning crimes...

  • by gnabgib on 12/31/2022, 6:20:04 PM

    Posted so many times (9 so far).. the most active was 36pts, 13 comments[0]. Granted the fellow had a file called "OfficeSpace project", but in Office Space they're inspired by Superman (Inspired to be inspired from Office Space?)

    [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34192427

  • by karaterobot on 12/31/2022, 6:33:39 PM

    This Superman III erasure will not stand.

  • by adamredwoods on 12/31/2022, 7:51:25 PM

    I enjoyed my time working at Zulily, the engineers are given a lot of responsibility, which can be good or bad, but I enjoyed it.

    Too bad GeekWire is using the old photo, the new logo looks better.

    I recognize the name of the alleged, we worked on separate teams. This should have been caught in code review, though. I have no comment to say other than that.

  • by granshaw on 12/31/2022, 6:07:14 PM

    …then proceeded to lose it all on GME options - can’t make this stuff up

  • by kylecazar on 12/31/2022, 6:00:55 PM

    Also probably just skimmed wallstreetbets, considering he put it all in GameStop.

    Not the most sophisticated of plans

  • by GoToRO on 12/31/2022, 5:56:31 PM

    Did he lookup "money laundering" in a dictionary?

  • by jmclnx on 12/31/2022, 8:13:43 PM

    These days, I believe it is very hard to steal fractions of pennies from transactions. Where I work, in some cases we calculate out to 3 decimals for USD due to customers "renting" services based upon various usages.

  • by mtmail on 12/31/2022, 7:16:00 PM

    Unlike in the Office Space movie it was more than just moving a few cents around. He employee ordered over 1000 items in a month (to resell?). That should ring any alarm bell already.

  • by bitwize on 12/31/2022, 7:36:04 PM

    Well, it worked in Superman III...

  • by paulpauper on 12/31/2022, 6:33:20 PM

    He should have just done one of those Elon Musk crypto livestream things. Would have made more or equal $ with no risk. I dunno why people try to rip off big companies like this. The Risk vs. reward is terrible. All audited and everything traced closely.

  • by malkia on 12/31/2022, 7:41:55 PM

    Probably this github account - https://github.com/castroev

  • by Teamteam16 on 12/31/2022, 8:41:31 PM

    Spacestriker