'Largest IT Outage in History' Sparks Global Chaos. - eviltoast
  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Millions of man hours spent making sure Y2K didn’t cause problems and the only recognition they got was the movie Office Space.

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      There isn’t a single one of them who was working at that time I have spoken with who didn’t think Office Space was exactly the correct tribute

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      I’ll take it. I identified so hard with that movie. When I eventually die, I’ll do so knowing I’ve been seen.

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      I wonder if there would be any way to work it so that a dry concept like that could be made into a decent movie based on the actual events. They did it for Tetris.