Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) is the mild-mannered and often nervous CEO of Pied Piper, a start-up tech company located in Silicon Valley. While Pied Piper’s true business model often changes, the company is based around Richard’s revolutionary data compression algorithm – a highly sought-after piece of tech that could transform the entire industry.

Party Down is a catering company made up of wannabe Hollywood actors and writers, including Henry Pollard (Adam Scott), Casey Klein (Lizzy Caplan), Kyle Bradway (Ryan Hansen), Constance Carmell (Jane Lynch), and Roman DeBeers (Martin Starr). They’re managed by the straight-laced Ron Donald (Ken Marino), who dreams of someday opening his own Soup R’ Crackers franchise.

In Office Space, Bill Lumbergh is an Initech manager who constantly harps on Peter Gibbons about his TPS reports. If you could just go ahead and pick either the suspenders or the belt, that’d be great, mmmkay?

In Postal, the Postal Dude (Zack Ward) is a dark, brooding character. He has no back story to speak of, “going postal” and deciding to kill everyone in the fictional Paradise, Arizona for an unknown reason.

In Aunty Donna’s web series 1999, Sandwich Sammy McGee is a happy-go-lucky sandwich vendor who services office workers. Everything is nommy-nom-nom until an order goes wrong, at which point the schizophrenia kicks in and the voices urge Sandwich Sam to kill them all.

Dilbert is the main character in the eponymous comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams. He’s an engineer who suffers a micromanaged, bureaucratic office environment, at least from 9 to 5.