I've always assumed that's part of the joke. The office drones' lives are so mundane that even their crime is not original. Part of what makes office work such

I've always assumed that's part of the joke. The office drones' lives are so mundane that even their crime is not original. Part of what makes office work such drudgery is the repetition ("corporate accounts payable speaking Nina speaking JUST a moment" over and over), and recycling a crime is a form of repetition.