Looking back, hosting the Dundies is one of the coolest thing a boss had ever done for his employees. The consideration of wanting your employees to feel appreciated and seen and recognized. The only reason the season 2 dundies "sucked" was because someone named LEVINSON-GOULD cut the budget for parties at the last minute, thwarting the drunk factor of the night.Michael Scott proceeds to get assaulted in the restaurant and only then do his employees realize that it is they who are the cringe ingrates, not their boss who just wants to give them a good night.Michael Scott is based
The whole show is about a boss (normally the system's most fervent supporter) heroically breaking programming and trying to overcome the tedium of humdrum office life with various games and amusements. Michael shows great personal care and affection for his employees, in a climate where most offices unemotionally fire people at the drop of a hat, and regards his subordinates with a genuine desire to make them happy. His employees respond to Michael's kindness with outright contempt, wanting to return to their paperwork and chores. It's grotesque.
>>220005635The Office used to be great.
>>220005809AYAYA
>>220005817The pan over to the Asian woman behind him was gold
>>220005789The peak of this is him stealing the corporate limo ride back to Scranton while cheering at the Dunder Mifflin stock ticker plummeting on the way out from Wall Street
>>220005809Dwight carried the show after Michael left.
>>220005789To be fair, in those earlier seasons, they're more aware that if their branch doesn't perform well, it could be cut and they will all be laid off. Michael is more senior (and evidently a natural salesman) doesn't understand what everyone is all stressed out about. My favorite seasons are the middle seasons, say maybe 3-6 or 7, where the employees ease up and are more often in on the fun. That's when The Office is at its peak.
>>220005900I wish they game him his own farm spin off show like they planned. It had such a great set up only to not go forward. They were so afraid the Office would suffer too much without him. Which is a lame excuse.
>>220005789Yet another show that takes a lovable fool and makes them into a borderline retard. Same for Kevin and Dwight.
>>220005940The pilot episode was so terrible it became the lowest rated episode of the entire series
>>220005635>Work at an office>Boss makes you come in after hours for something not work relatedYeah, fuck that.
>>220006229Entitled zoomzoom this is why you will own nothing and be happy
>>220006197Lower than Scott’s tots? I’m surprised
>>220006259That episode is based because everyone of those kids would've ruined class time for the rest of the student body had Michael actually put them all through college
>>220006229I would kill for an office of fun people that go out to chilies for a mock award show. Now it’s work from home depression and Indian filled offices.
>>220005789However he did promise a whole class of underprivileged black kids college scholarships and gave them basically nothing instead
>>220006347Working from home is amazing though
Michael would be an awesome co-worker but a terrible boss.
>>220005635All the awards were really shitty and insulting.
>>220005809There’s a lot of subtlety you can miss
>>220006259That episode is low rated? It’s a 10/10 but pure cringe comedy. It’s painful to watch yet really really funny
>>220005900Dwight’s character sucked and dragged the show down post-Michael. They should have cut Dwight, Andy, Jim and Pam and focused more on the younger characters.
>>220006578Having Pam's card be Jewish just makes sense
>>220005940the farm pilot was awful no one wanted that
>>220006440Maybe if you’re a retarded shut-in.
>>220006620True. Everyone was far too flanderized post-Michael I kept waiting for the “Kevin has been developing a brain tumor from radon exposure for a decade and nobody did shit” reveal
>>220006658Where do you think you are?
>>220006578>EVERY TIME A BLACK MAN WANTS TO HAVE A GOOD TIME-
>>220005789Yeah, like when he ran over Meredith with his car.
>>220005789>that episode where Michael has to fire one person and he can’t do itI’d rather have an incompetent oaf who cares in charge than a literal psychopath
Rainn Wilson lacks the charisma or good-looks to carry a show by himself.
>>220005635Everything Michael did for his employees was deeply self-centered. He didn’t care for their personal wellbeing. He created an environment where he could force his subordinates to spend time with him. This is all rooted in a childhood full of bullying and loneliness.
>>220006758Basically this. He was desperate for attention and to be “popular”. My old boss did this. He was so obsessed with being a “cool” guy, he kept all bad news under rap under the last possible second, giving us no time to prepare. Every time he needed me to stay late, he would tell me at 4:59 when he’s one foot out the door, despite knowing he needed coverage for 2 days. It’s not a good quality, it’s entirely selfish and cowardly.
>>220006347>I'd love adult day care with fun little activities!Grow up
>>220006835>socializing bad. Me go home and play league of legends now And you negroes wonder why tinder exists
>>220006244>muh generational warfareYou're raped. Wake up.
Karen should have been a regular.
>>220005789yes because the Reagan era destroyed management labor camraderie and it wasn't appropriate. you can be the wacky boss in your own company because you can actually treat people how you want to treat them. when everyone is a totally replaceable corporate cog at any time and there's HR rules and csuite cost cutting it's in no one's interest to fraternize. Michael Scott was like a public school teacher that genuinely wanted to still hug the students and didn't see how off-putting that was
>>220006620Absolutely not. The younger characters were awful. Hate when shows pull that shit. They should have removed Andy though. I don't know how anyone could care about his character or his plotlines. Why are we watching Andy go on American Idol? He was completely separated from the cast.
>>220006861>tinder exists because you don't want to socialize with retarded boomer coworkers after hours!Don't you have any real friends, anon? Coworkers aren't real friends
>>220006972>don’t be friends with people who have the same career, professional interests and social circles as youGreat advice retard
>>220007013I can tell you've never actually worked in an office. You seem to think they operate like they do on TV.
>>220007192I’ve been at a Fortune 50 for 20 years. I’ve made many lifelong friends. Try not being a complete fuckup.
saying you shouldn’t make friends at work is like saying you shouldn’t make friends at school
>>220007247You're telling me Fortune 50 companies don't treat their office employees to fun nights out at Chili's? What the hell!
>>220007272At school you're with kids your own age. Have you ever tried befriending a boomer? No one in their right mind should want to.
>>220005635I'm still amazed at how Andy had the most character development of everyone in the show and the writers still fucked him up at the end.
>>220006197For me the work bus episode was the worst one, Jim and Andy were never my favorites but I fucking hated them there.
>>220006923God that last sentence reminded me.In 4th grade I apparently got "the best" teacher from my school. Wish I remember her name, but the whole part of her class is how theatrical, whimsical, and everything was about having fun. At some point in the year we acted up enough that we got "dry sandwich" for three weeks (which was just normal teaching/lessons, without the Ms. Fritz antics)And after those 3 weeks she apologized to us, because during that time we ended up improving all of our grades and test scores across the board by a significant amount during that time. I wonder if that affected her in any way.
>>220006389>and by doing that they made a real effort to finish high school, something that otherwise wouldn't have happened. BASED
>>220006229I worked at a bagel shop once and they made us come in for a "mandatory cleaning party." Unpaid, but there were a couple of boxes of cheap pizza after the cleaning was over if you didn't just want to go home on your day off.They really made us their bitch.
>>220006732True but he did well enough after Steve Carell left the show.
>>220006907She was too good for Jim at the time, it would've been great if Jim had his latest seasons ambition.
>>220008027It's always hard to learn that giving out your best doesn't always translate to having the best outcome; especially if other parts, in this case the children, are involved.
>>220008027man that's kind of heartbreaking
>>220008027Gee, that's rough. That's gotta fuck with your head to try and reconcile that. Did she ever go back to the whole Robin Williams rebel routine, or did cold practicality buck break her into a normie pragmatist? Poor lady, seriously.
>>220006907She looked way better in those pant suits than the wardrobe she had on Parks and Rec
>>220008027The most popular teacher at my school was a tough but fair guy. He taught chemistry and I remember when we were melting and rejoining glass he said "if you're dumb enough to grab the hot end and cry out, you're going down a full letter grade" lyl
>>220006620>They should have cut Dwight, Andy, Jim and Pam and focused more on the younger characters.Damn, didn't know TV CEOs posted on 4chang
>>220006907Insanely cute face but she had the tits of an overweight 10 year old boy
The irony of the office is that michael is unironically a great boss, both in terms of being likeable and in terms of his branch outperforming all the others. And yet the early episodes all seem to have the employees acting like they don't like him. If my boss was Michael I'd be fucking ecstatic
>>220008446Whenever Michael takes something seriously he's genuinely intimidating. Like when he confronts Stanley about the "DID I STUTTER" thing
>>220008398And that’s a good thing
>>220005789youre right. at this point the only episodes i like are the ones that show micheal as a savant. the rolodex. when they call him to NY to ask him why scranton is the only successful branch. when he rapes dunder miflin with the micheal scott paper buyout.
>>220008446He's not a great boss, he's just a retard that doesn't rock the boat more than necessary.He IS a great salesman though, which saves them more than once. If he just kept doing that he'd probably be a millionaire instead of a joke.
>>220006692that was the curse, not his fault
>>220008446well you only see 20 min of his behavior edited down to one episode. It's probably really annoying day after day for 8 hours
>>220006907Her mom is second best girl in Twin Peaks
>>220008254There's a reason why I still think about it>>220008298From there we did kinda a more 30/70 split that focused more on actual teaching, but she'd still break out the musicals, using creative models, or have us read chapters from books in theatrical voices, but definitely changed. She taught us chess though. Thought that was pretty cool.
>>220008593She passed away shortly after the return.
>>220008796>it's realWhy did you have to ruin my day, anon?
>>220006606>Scott's tots>Painful to watchI completely disagree. It is so easy to watch all of those kids AND ADULTS learn Scott is a fraud and their "dreams" be shattered. Like I CAN NOT suspend my disbelief so much that not ONE admin or faculty or parent or anyone at all questions this promise made for TEN YEARS. >8 y/o comes home from school>daddy a man at school promised me college in 10 years!>mfwAm I alone here? The real cringe in that episode is the level of naivete in the adults. Only Stanley knew that everything would blow up in Scott's face.
>>220006758Thank you! It's why I never really like Michael, cause he constantly forced himself on others, even during their free time. He cares zero about how this might affect his employees. The show painted this as fun and awkwardly wholesome, but anyone that actually had to deal with this type of boss firsthand, it's exhausting and overbearing. Highschool shit on steroids. Michael's old boss that had the stance of "employees are just employees" would've been 10 times better to work under.
>>220007272Except Michael is their boss. There will always be some distance and professionalism there. Him taking advantage of that to try to be their friends too is shitty
>>220009133I wouldn’t ask too many questions, it gives Scott opportunities to wriggle out
>>220009133its 30 poor brown kids from scranton. he could have sent them all to state college for free just by filling out the assistance forms for them
>>220008049lol that’s not a real job
>>220006907Yes
>>220009821It's not even about holding Scott accountable for lying. I would be extremely grateful if someone offered my kid something like this and want to know details. It is apparent that NO ONE asked any questions such as:>Who is this man and what is his background?>What does he do?>How much money is he donating/gifting per child?>Can we track/monitor the money?>How will we receive the money/grant/whatever when the time comes?Alternatively:>I have money for your kid>May I see it?>No
>>220012864They were a bunch of black kids. It's safe to say they didn't have parental guidance.
>>220008446He isn't a good boss he takes things way too personally and multiple times only continues his job because he somehow fucked someone above who covers for him and other people fucked up without a cover
First season Michael Scott is brilliant. From the second season on they cut his balls off because mutts need comedies to have "heart" instead of being funny
>>220005635Real life is a lot better than some show, at least. Where I work we have gratefulness meetings where you come in and thank your managers for things once a week and the owner comes once a month for their own too.
>>220005789>genuine desire to make them happy.
>>220007364kek gottem
>>220006620The younger chracters were trash though, everyone post-Gabe needs to be thrown out.
>>220014223this can't possibly exist
>>220015195i liked Plop (because he was always taking huge shits) and Dwight Jr. Dwight Jr. got to spend a week fucking Jan and her big fakes tits. That's awesome.
>>220006440I'd hate to work from home.
