The Office running thread

I don't know what you're talking about. In Friends, they were brother and sister. In The Office, they're foster siblings. TOTALLY DIFFERENT!

 

Thought "Cats in the Cradle" was the best part of the episode.

They need to tone down Michael's crap.

Good to see Darryl move upstairs and tuck his shirt in.

 

I hear this complaint all the time (for me, it's a TV show, I can deal with it), but in this particular episode I don't get this ... what exactly was unbelievable? He did nothing over the top. He played true to his character in this episode, IMO.

 

"I have an idea for suntan lotion soap"

 

Agree that I can deal with it because it's a tv show, although I can definitely see where the complaint comes from. But I'm with you on last night (other than buying a ticket to Florida). The desperate, 'need to be the boss's friend and sensing it isn't happening so I'm going to try harder to force it,' was so spot on that as I was watching, I was picking out specific people and scenarios that it reminded me of. And I thought they capped it off great, with him finally saying enough is enough, my people are leaving.

There are a lot of examples where he doesn't fit as a boss, but I thought last night he was portrayed perfectly as a mid-level manager who loves his employees and is desperate to be liked by his boss.

 

There is NO way in hell this guy is the boss of anything. NO CEO would put with that shit. Ever.
He' been a moron for the entire run, which is why I have never really liked the show.
His frist few meetings with Kathy Bates character should have convinced her to fire or demote the idiot.

 

Sports writers that worked for a certain Media General paper in the early part of the century might not agree. There was a sports editor who was almost a Michael Scott clone, right down to the Seabring. He eventually got canned, but it took a while.

 

Friend of mine worked for a radio station where the program director was one of the all-time morons, even by radio management standards.

The guy's biggest concern was the coffee machine. He would put out memos reminding people to keep the coffee area tidy, to remind people they weren't to take sugar packets home, to complain that the last box of filters only lasted 17 days because people were wasting them, etc.

Employees would get two or three memos per week about the coffee machine and its ancillary issues.

The program director's initials were C.P. and he would sign the memos as "Coffee Phantom" so it was consistent with his monogram. He would proudly point out how clever that was.

If that isn't consistent with Michael Scott behavior....

There may be some exaggeration with the Scott character, but rest assured there are total idiots in prominent management positions at a lot of American companies.

And remember that per "Office" storyline, Michael-managed branches were outperforming those managed by actual qualified executives. Sometimes corporate world shrugs its shoulders and decides not to mess with success.

 

Considering that an entire episode appears to have passed without comment, I'm wondering if the consensus here is that last night's installment was a dud.

I did enjoy the dump conversation between Dwight and Michael. The fight was ridiculous. But the postgame debriefing was excellent.

Almost a juxtaposition of the pandering to the lowest common denominator that Waylon has denounced with the old-school authenticity the purists miss.

 

I laughed out loud at "you can't handle my undivided attention" with Dwight looking so intense.

 

Ditto.

I enjoyed it for the sole reason that it I like the stand-alone episodes where they can just be silly for 20-something minutes.

 

I thought last night's episode was great. Loved the dump fight, and the Pam-Jim "Moppy place" conversation.