# How do “The Office” writers justify Dwight being the top salesman?

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**Created:** [February 13, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-office-writers-justify-dwight-being-the-top-salesman/437410 "2008-02-13T04:49:39Z")\
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> [@Slash1972](#):
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> Kevin was actually terrible at his job. I believe he just kept it because Michael was 1) loathe to fire anybody and 2) Michael didn’t really care about the accounting staff.
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> When Dwight was made manager at the end of the series, firing Kevin was one of the first things he did. When Kevin asked him about it in the last episode, Dwight replied “Because you were really bad at your job”

In the episode where they find out that an employee (Martin Nash, who’d transferred from Stamford) had been in prison for insider trading on Wall Street, Kevin tells the talking head camera that what Martin did sounds an awful lot like what he (Kevin) does here, “every day”.

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