So Dwight did put Angela in charge of the women, according to the pink dotted lines.
Forget drug addict. To also play Ryan’s advocate, Ryan is in a very senior position that he is probably too young and inexperienced for. He’s trying to apply his aggressive MBA Business 2.0 style of management to a company of people who aren’t very ambitious. He’s also trying to build support for the new corporate web site and he probably doesn’t want Jim undermining it by going to his boss with his usual repertoire of sarcastic one liners and flippant comments. I hate to say it, but from a management perspective, Jim is a potential nightmare. He’s good enough at his job that he’s needed around and he seems well liked by his coworkers but he doesn’t want to be there and uses every opportunity to make that known. He does spend more time playing practical jokes and talking with Pam than working.
Jim’s complaints were completely valid and not flippant at all. He was correct that DM’s one big strength is its customer service and Ryan’s buggy, predator infested website was undermining that.
Ryan is a cocky little twerp who’s never made a sale, who’s failing as an executive and who is starting to nurse a personal grudge against Jim. I also don’t see Jim as a problem worker. he might be if he didn’t make his sales, but he does. I also don’t think he demonstrates a bad attitude at work. The only time we hear him confess that he’s not happy there is in TH’s. It’s not like he goes around bitching and complaining all day or bringing a negative energy. He’s upbeat and supportive to coworkers (except for Dwight), and he actually makes the job more bearable for others with his humor.
I liked the part when Phyllis chimed in with “When I was a little girl…” and never actually got around to saying anything relevant to the conversation.
I also enjoyed the fake-out at the end of the first act. For a minute it looked like Dwight was about to gain temporary authority over the entire office (with hilarious consequences!), but then Michael just shuts him down. Of course, I’ve been spending way too much time browsing the tvtropes.org wiki lately, so my perspective may be a bit skewed.
I actually tend to agree with the more sympathetic view toward Ryan, and that’s something I’ve been saying ever since he got the position in the first place.
He may be handling things with less diplomacy than he probably should be, but at least he’s trying to do new stuff. And it’s not like the website has been a total failure or anything - it was working really well when it first launched.
Frankly, I don’t think that what Ryan said to Jim was very far off. The pranks that Jim mostly occupies his days with could get him fired if Michael wasn’t so lenient and Dwight wasn’t so weird about the whole thing. I also tend to find his complaint about the website sort of asinine - what about the website preclues good customer service? Does it not display the office’s phone number or something? If I was Ryan, I’d probably be somewhat miffed that he went over my head and complained to my boss, too.
Something that’s been bugging me about the show for a little while now, actually, is that Jim is getting to be too much of a jerk without any consequences at all. In the first season, you had Dwight getting the better of him sometimes (like when Dwight stole Jim’s biggest sale of the year), and in general the fact that he never really got what he wanted (Pam) generated symapthy toward him.
But now that he’s with Pam, Dwight is no longer a threat, and he continues to be a wise-ass and occasionally nasty, he’s really just kind of a tool.
Maybe so, but as they say, “Az der bubbe vot gehat baytzim vot zie geven mein zayde”. If my grandmother had balls, she’d be my grandfather. Jim does indeed find himself in an environment with crazy people, and so must function accordingly.
But if Jim was as on the ball as he thinks he is (and he’s not - he’s closer to Michael than he’d like to admit, just without the heavy dose of social retardation), he would have gotten ahold of the security guard or left a note or something.
I assume it’s SOP to call the guard not to lock the gate - it’s wrong to blame the guard. He was doing what he was supposed to do.
As mentioned last week, no security guard would have locked the gate with all the cars still in the lot. The guard should have called the D-M office to check in.
I don’t know, what kind of guard locks up a parking lot full of cars without checking with anyone first? I would assume it would be SOP for the guard to do final rounds and call the offices if anything seems out of the ordinary, like a parking lot full of cars.
Anyone else could have remembered the security guard too. They all agreed to stay late and they all forgot about the guard, but Jim took the fall since it was his plan.
I think you’d be in the minority then. The security guard locked in 20-30 cars, why would you do that unless you knew the building was empty?
Not to mention the fact that the security guard would have to be blind to miss all of the lights still on in the building (which would likely be his job to shut off as well).
They had some sort of website before with general information. The new website was supposed to make additional sales that the staff would make. It has been a total failure. He added useless shit to it like the facebook rip-off. What the fuck? Then he had Scranton fraudulently fake that the sales that they made be credited to the web page. Ryan is tool.
