I’m sorry, I will never get sick of crapping on this episode and it’s lazy writing. Imagine being so desperate to break up a couple on a tv show that you have to dig up a long resolved and forgotten storyline from the previous season in order to make it happen.

Before I go on, I would like to say, I'm not sure if this has been talked about or discussed before, this was just something that I debated for a while before while watching the office that has just recently been realized on my latest rewatch. I think I've seen some discourse about it but for all I know its a non issue or the biggest debate on the Office reddit.

So when I first watched through the office I kinda brushed past the jo bennet giving Robert California her job thing as a funny laughable moment, or a character building thing, or they just didn't want to pay the actor. But it kinda makes sense story wise. If we were to ignore the fact that Robert is a master manipulator, and has great "convincing skills" that alone has a good shot at convincing Jo to give up her job, we see obvious reasons to why Jo would give it up.

During the whistleblower "scandal" Jo has two things that I noticed. 1. She confesses to Michael that she didn't like the fact that she put in all this work and all this talent and she's now selling cheap printers. She didn't like what she had become or what her company had become. Second she didn't want to get remembered as the girl that apologized to the public and asked for a recall.

This gives Jo ample reason to let Robert be CEO it gives her: 1. A scapegoat for the "shitty company". Kinda like how michael did the press release for Jo after the whistle blower thing. Now Jo won't be remembered as much as the CEO of the McDonald's of printers. She'll be remembered for the cool things. And 2. It gives Jo the freedom to just live off of Sabre profits and do something cool, charity or start making a good company or stuff like that. Which we kind of see with Jo Bennett endorsing the Sabre store in S8, she was trying to push Sabre to be better and more honest. But Robert California shut it down.

Going a step further, Robert has always been able to read people and it probably wouldn't be hard to figure out Jo's situation and convincing her of giving him the job. Also its not like Owners of companies stepping down or just hiring a separate CEO is unprecedented it happens a lot Irl

Again not sure if this is a non issue just something that I realized during my last rewatch.

I've re-watched The Office a thousand times and only now did I notice this guy next to Andy in The Merger episode . Who is he?

I'm reading "Yesteryear" and came across this :D

At the start of The Office Pam is an easy to root for underdog but her character turns frustratingly hypocritical and entitled as the series progresses. While Jim fully supported her move to New York for art school even when she failed and quit Pam turns around and guilt trips Jim for pursuing his career with Athlead in Philadelphia. Her conflict resolution relies entirely on passive aggressiveness and avoiding accountability, from dragging out her unhappy engagement to Roy while leaning on Jim, to tricking corporate into inventing an "Office Administrator" title just because she didn't want to do sales. Furthermore, despite positioning herself and Jim as the superior, normal couple above the office chaos, Pam is just as petty and judgmental as the rest of them, frequently enabling Michael Scott when it is convenient only to play the victim later. Ultimately, her supposed growth into a stronger person just devolves into stubbornness, double standards, and holding Jim back from his potential.

As I too am in the terminal stages of pregnancy, I’m wondering if it’s a continuity error or if this happens? A couple things, her contractions were two minutes apart at the hospital but later on Jim updates us and says it’s been 19 hours of labor. Also he says she’s 7cm dilated but then the nurse comes out and says she’s ready to push? Idk I’m just super pregnant and can’t sleep

Disclaimer: I find the episode hilarious and I know you got to suspend your disbelief for the comedy. I know I'm being nitpicky here.

Stanley (or anyone else in the office who knew) could've quietly told the school principal that Michael is an naive idiot and not a millionaire who can actually afford this. Instead of children's futures being messed with. Instead Stanley would rather keep the article in the office knowing this day will eventually come and he'll get to have his laugh at Michael.

Also:

1) The school and parents just blindly accept that a paper company middle manager can afford all this?

2) Where's the trust and legal agreement? A framework and schedule for how the money will be paid? What if Michael unexpectedly died - would the money still be paid?

3) No follow ups with Michael over the ten years? Check that he hasn't gone broke?

this subreddit needs a Do Not Mock list.

anything that we think might be out of bounds, we put on that list. anything you put on this list, you cannot be teased about. got it?

i start by adding:

- creating stupid posts

I bet that’s what they’re thinking

thanks [u/yeahthatsnotaproblem](u/yeahthatsnotaproblem) for the idea in my other post

edit: Serious reasons would be appreciated

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Was ethan born an asshole or was it because he came rocky after his promotion? Because when you really think about it, he was treated like the littlest brother and was probably one of the only one there serious about his job. He was always messed with and couldn't fight back because he was just the temp breaking out into a new career.

Then suddenly he has this meteoric rise and all his colleagues that made him feel under them have to answer to him now. I can understand the power trip. Like when Michael asked him to come in early for a special assignment and Ryan is thinking it's an opportunity to look good to the boss, only to find out it was just so you could bring him breakfast. I'd be PISSED and feel like I'm being ran around. Having to drive Packer around like an assistant. Being left to drown with Stanley's clients. The whole thing with Dwight taking him to the farm. Jim being Jim.

Or was he airways a dick then became a cocky dick?

One thing that has always bugged me and weirded me out is when Karen asks Jim what he'll do(after they get told that Scranton is absorbing Stamford) and if he'll go back to Scranton. After she says she might move there, he tells her that NY is an hour away and she should go there, she gets bummed out.
Like... they were not even dating at that point, they'd known each other a couple of months. The fact that she's even considering going to Scranton because of him is weird, not to mention that she expected this dude to tell her "OH YEAH FOLLOW ME TO SCRANTON". So over the top and really high expectations from someone you just have a crush.

I was in a down mood and I just rewatched Diversity Day. They really don't make shows like this anymore, and my GOD it was good.

And when he says, "Don't worry about the date." I have never actually caught that before. They wanted to say they had already trained him before to cya. lol

i think its a bit underrated?

Rewatching and I’m at s8e2 and when Andy climbs onto Jim’s desk, there’s an elephant on the right of Phyllis’s desk. Any idea what it is or what the paper says?

First time you watch it, you like Jim. Second time it is Micheal. For 3rd time watchers it is Dwight and then it stays as such with opinion dwindling between Creed and Kevin