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The Office thread: Shove it up your butt!
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Uh, in the real world bonuses are performance based.
Every bonus I got as a General Manager was different than the bonuses other General Managers received, and were based on my performance that period or quarter. Jim was basically trying to do a performance review on the staff, and assign bonuses based on the results of that review. That's standard practice in most any sane business setting.
Jim had Michael, who folds faster than a lawn chair in a hurricane.
That is quite possibly the worst thing to do ever. Especially in that office.
No, it's one of the tropes of the show. Status quo is GOD!
Yes, like the status quo of Jim being promoted to co-manager, Pam being a sales person now, and having a new receptionist.
We'll see how this season ends.
Jim's learning a lot from Michael right now and I can't help but feel like these two, together, would be moved up considerably high. Michael's been both consistent and resilient through closings and Jim has great ideas. They're a good tandem.
I think Michael always knows what hes doing he just acts irrationally, selfishly, without thinking about the consequences and childishly. I doubt they made him a manager just because he coudl sell stuff.
Then again my manager used to work at McDonalds, as long as you're a manager SOMEWHERE, they take you on.
What successes he has had as a boss have either been accidental, or the result of some base understanding he's picked up over years of sucking at it, i.e. the party to take people's minds off potential closing.
It's one of the few times in the show's history that I just absolutely couldn't suspend my disbelief. It was just fucking stupid. Even an office as crazy as this one wouldn't allow that kind of thing, and the fact that it has apparently been going on for years, but this is the first we're hearing of it, completely kills it.
The rest of the episode has been okay so far.
And Jim needs to fucking fire Ryan, I would totally support it.
And go Oscar, save the day.
It's a bit disappointing that Oscar declined to say anything in front of the execs, but certainly understandable.
Suspension of disbelief?
In this case, the crowd was already panicked and angry. Firing the man they just announced as their most successful branch manager probably wouldn't look good.
Did he do it in front of the crowd?
Instead of talking about Dunder Mifflin Dwight goes into a speech about making the actual line to ask questions better, as in taking numbers, or having an express line for questions under 10 words. And the CEO says "ok?" and Dwight has this look of accomplishment on his face.
What is it the Japanese do? They don't fire a veteran employee - they perpetually reassign him to a crap position, right?
Friggin' Dwight.
It was a good episode, though I had hoped Oscar would have stood up and said something.
"Well, that was a waste of a text!"
They've done that many times before. The blurb is often something that happened earlier in the episode's timeline, but would have disrupted the flow, or just works better as a blurb.
Also backs up my impression of Pam and Jims vanilla sex life. Shes never heard him yell, only exclaim and the example she came up with was completely non sex-related.
o_O Does this mean you'll write your fanfic accordingly?
Most boring fanfic ever.
He's the guy that hid Dwight's stapler in a Jello mold. He's not going to be a boss until he cracks a few heads.
Everyone just sucked this episode
Except Jim
But Jim was like a side story
Especially Jim.
Oscar and Andy's interaction were far more entertaining.
Or the line "How's he suppose to have grandkids?"
Now what...?
I didn't only think that, I was really disapointed when it didn't happen.
Oscar is my favorite character now, too, since he's essentially the only normal guy left in the cast.
Hey, I'm going to try and pick a couple seasons up during various Holiday sales. What seasons are the best?
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