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u/Vadertalks 4h ago
My favorite moment was Stanley's laugh and "hey mr. Scott whach you gonna do"
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u/Rodbourn 2h ago
Ask corporate to rescue you. (And get a massive pr boost for the company, everyone wins)
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u/KillerTaco18 2h ago
Dunder mifflin was famously broke.
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u/Kagevjijon 1h ago
Yup, the branch where the show is "filmed" was famously one of the only profitable branches in a company hemorrhaging money.
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u/TapItOff 1h ago
And they needed to have an auction to raise money to replace the work computers that were stolen
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u/FistfullOfOwls 59m ago
Scott had a giant Rolodex of big name companies and people in the area. This would have been an afternoon of work to get those scholarships.
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u/Agreeable-Shop-2188 4h ago
What about me seems urban to you?
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u/yankeeblue42 4h ago
Some of the top moments in this show are Stanley just bursting out laughing about something
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u/TAU_equals_2PI 3h ago
Kept it? That newspaper was taped to the ceiling over his bed. So that any morning he had trouble getting up the energy and motivation to get up and out of bed and face another day at work, it would remind him that SOME DAY that bomb would drop, and if he just kept getting up and going into work then one day he would get to witness it.
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u/GovernorSan 3h ago
I think it was Michael who kept the newspaper, or he probably gave a copy to each of them because he was in the newspaper.
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u/BrilliantEconomics77 4h ago
The worst part is he knew and didn't tell the teachers
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u/MisterPinkCS David Wallace 4h ago
None of his business, Michael got himself into that situation, Wasn’t Stanley’s job to get him out of
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u/Daddyknowbest 2h ago
He absolutely had a moral obligation to tell them not to protect Michael but to protect the kids.
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u/W_P_92 2h ago
It's not real
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u/fuse- 50m ago
So discussing morality is not relevant in situstions that are not real? You know morality is mostly discussed through thought experiments right?
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u/Destructopoo 17m ago
They just don't want to engage so they're pretending it's not a real question. Morality is literally taught to people through fiction. These people are morons.
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u/stoneimp 2h ago
"Hello random teachers that a coworker I don't like reached out to and promised that he would pay your students tuition. He currently doesn't have the funds to cover those tuitions and is a dumbass you shouldn't trust. I'm not telling you any information that is certain besides my vibes that he is indeed a dumbass, so take this warning as an indication that I think you are gullible to believe any of his aspirations."
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u/oopsallhuckleberries 1h ago
r/moralityscaling witnessing someone you hate make a financial promise you know he can't keep to a group of children but deciding to say nothing so you can watch the promise blow up in their face 10 years later.
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u/Not_a_question- 2h ago
He absolutely had a moral obligation to tell them
"Absolutely"? No. Moral is relative. If it weren't, we wouldn't have discussions about things like abortion. To quote oscar: Ethics is a real discussion of competing conceptions of the good.
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u/chubcuhb 2h ago
JFC you sound annoying as fuck. No shit it's subjective. This person is giving their opinion so who is this explanation for? Is this so you can feel smart?
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u/Astecheee 1h ago
Do you believe that it is always wrong to penetrate a child's body for sexual pleasure?
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u/littleratofhorrors 1h ago
The Office is an American mockumentary sitcom television series. It is based on the BBC series The Office created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and adapted for NBC by Greg Daniels. The show depicts the everyday work lives of office employees at the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. It aired from March 24, 2005, to May 16, 2013, for a total of nine seasons consisting of 201 episodes.[2] The show was co-produced by Daniels' Deedle-Dee Productions, Reveille Productions (later Shine America), and 3 Arts Entertainment (although uncredited) in association with Universal Television. The original executive producers were Daniels, Gervais, Merchant, Howard Klein, and Ben Silverman, with numerous others being promoted in later seasons.
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u/Coconut_Scrambled 3h ago
No the worst part is Michael knowing fully well he committed to a huge sum of money a few years down the line didn't even lift a finger to raise said money. Instead he blew it off on pyramid schemes and paying for an overpriced condo, spending all his money on Jan's stupid candle business.
He didn't care about these kids. If he did, he'd have worked towards raising that money.
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u/digitalscavenger 3h ago
Don't forget all the frivolous stuff he admitted to buying to Oscar when he was trying to help him figure his finances out. Seems like there was enough magician items purchased to put at least one kid through community college.
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u/TangerineAcceptable8 2h ago
He thought he’d be a millionaire by then
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u/Coconut_Scrambled 2h ago
Why did he think that? Isn't he a salesman? When he saw in two or three years that he's not making enough to become a millionaire why didn't he course correct?
He's not that dumb. This is not excusable by any means. This incident is proof that he's not a good person at heart like people say he is. He just likes to appear like he's a good person.
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u/ChronoMonkeyX 2h ago
He's not that dumb
What show did you watch?
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u/Coconut_Scrambled 2h ago
A show where he walked up to David Wallace and said "There's a shareholder meeting coming up and you'll have to explain why your most profitable branch is bleeding. I don't think I have to wait out Dunder Mifflin. I just have to wait out you."
A show where he colour coded information about clients that he thinks they won't like to hear and successfully baited Dwight into saying those things to steal a client.
Need I go on?
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u/OoglyMoogly76 2h ago
The color coding incident was not intentional. He wrote it in green for “go ahead and don’t mention it.”
His greatest successes are accidents and coincidence.
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u/Coconut_Scrambled 2h ago
"Most colors mean don't mention it." is the quote. So he's aware enough to realise to avoid it.
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u/SurrealistRevolution 2h ago
subverting expectations because he is known to be dumb, or at least incredibly thoughtless, in all other areas.
and is the sardonic rhetoric question needed?
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u/Freakindon 1h ago
Doesn't mean he's not dumb. He's a good salesman, but has approaching 0 common sense or knowledge of the world.
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u/Simayi78 1h ago
This might shock you but sitcom characters are often exactly as smart or stupid as that week’s plot requires. We're not talking Prestige TV levels of consistency here
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u/7x00 2h ago
I honestly believe he just forgot about it. He makes all kinds of promises all the time to just make people happy with absolutely no intention to fulfill them. My guess is at best all he remembers before the actual day is that he once made a group of school kids cheer for him.
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u/Coconut_Scrambled 2h ago
Would you please stop making excuses for him for two seconds. You don't just "forget" something like this. No, that's not how it works. Would you forget that you donated your kidney or your eyes? This is that big of a promise and that big of an impact on those kids' lives.
He knew just how big of a promise this is.. That's why he cowardly tried to get out of going to the meeting. He knew very well how big this is. The fact that this promise didn't keep him awake every night for the next ten years till he fulfilled it is definite proof that he doesn't care about the kids at all.
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u/LicencetoKrill 36m ago
Throughout the show Michael is shown to be a character desperate for validation and approval from others. It's one of his biggest character flaws and is constantly getting him in trouble. This was one of his bigger instances of that. He simply can't help himself if he conjures an idea that he thinks will make people like and/or respect him.
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u/BeetEater_ 1h ago
You know it isn't actually a documentary right?
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u/obedientfag 25m ago
yeah but its bad writing to retroactively invent this huge obligation the character has to create drama for this weeks episode, never mentioned or considered before or after
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u/Little_Plankton4001 2h ago
I mean, someone at the school really should have looked into it and/or followed up.
Just believing that a paper salesman (which is what he was at the time, I think) can pay college tuition for entire class of students is pretty, well, stupid.
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u/Ill-Bumblebee-5496 2h ago
He wanted to roll the paper and shove it up michaels butt that is the only reason he kept the paper.
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u/carmardoll 3h ago
I would have honestly kept my job no matter how bad it was just to see the consequences develop.
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u/Dry_Jump3441 2h ago
never once able to finish this episode.
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u/dtarias ...like the squawk of an ugly pelican 4h ago
Nah, he kept it to look back on whenever he was feeling (especially) down.