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The premise of Office Space was that they were correcting the Y2K bug. And this description of a small, over-managed, haphazardly administered IT company is a very sincere reflection of how the industry functioned in the 90s. The punchline at the end - where you've got Ron Livingston shoveling asphalt with zen satisfaction while Diedrich Bader shakes his head in disgust - really does sum up the Dumb Guy attitude towards bullshit-but-ultimately-pretty-cushy office work of the era. But I wouldn't say they were doing nothing.
The Office was a reflection of dying backwards industry - in this case, the paper industry in Midwest Pennsylvania - that attract a certain assemblage of idiots and assholes and failkids in its waning days. This was more a story of a historically productive industry dying out.
American Psycho is much more about the Wall Street peak of power and the sadomasochistic personalities that populate it. I think its more comparable to Fight Club, in so far as it's a story of someone driven insane by the higher end business world and left to discover how thin the veneer is between civilization and barbarity.