I just assumed that the guy knew she wasn’t a student and was discussing a different opportunity for her than what they would offer a high school student.
I wonder if the graphics company thought that high school kids who are interested in design would download pirated copies of the software to learn the programs? Thereby guaranteeing the software companies a generation of new revenue as these kids learn these programs as the “standards” and use licensed copies for their professional careers. Damn kids, ruining the economy like that.
I didn’t think the episode was all that funny eiethr. It wasn’t bad, just not really funny.
Michael was at his most obnoxious. It was a perfect illustration of why Stanley hates him.
I think Creed had the two best lines:
“I got my work done months ago.”
“We’re gonna ditch this bitch.”
An hour long finale next week. I’m predicting Ryan is going to fall and that Jim’s “big” news glimpsed in the teasers was that he’s going to be offered the NY job.
Stanley needs to be fired. I find him less funny as his insubordination level grows. I liked him when he was just grumpy and disgruntled. Now that he is flaunting his perceived value since Michael blocked his transfer to Karen’s group it just makes me cringe.
Agreed. Some bits felt a little off to me. I thought the Andy-blisters antics were a tad overdone and slapstick (the way he fumbled with the beer bottle just seemed unrealistic). He and Kevin racing to the next hole seemed off for their characters; Andy is your basic frat-boy suck up and knows to be a little more suave than that. Michael and the “Yeah, kiss her” scene was indeed creepy, and odd for his character too, or at least was a non-sequitur-ish for the scene. Michael actively shunning the one kid who showed interest also seemed out of character; Michael seems like the type that would want to recruit such a kid to groom him as one more worshiper in his [imagined] entourage.
All in all, it advanced several plot points, but not the office at its subtle best.
The kid wasn’t good-looking enough for Michael.
We’ve seen the priority that he places on physical appearance.
I guess I’m the only one, but I’m nearly certain the graphic artist guy was a made up John Krasinski. As soon as he said his first line- something like “Yep, have a seat” I said “that’s Jim!”. I watched the scene twice to be sure. I thought one of you would have beaten me to it.
Huh. You’re right. It is him.
In my experience, that’s exactly what companies expect (or, at least, game companies). The software I use costs about $3500 (3DSMax), and that’s just one of the tools I use. There’s a cheaper learning version, but it’s still a heck of a lot of money for an aspiring artist to plop down.
I’ve been in the game industry for twelve years now, and in that time I’ve worked at six companies. In all that time, I’ve met exactly two people who bought legal copies of the software for home use/study.
I taught myself quite a bit on both Photoshop and Dreamweaver back in high school. On pirated copies of both, of course. And that was back in '00 - '02; I would imagine that it’s even more widespread now. I know lots and lots of people who have used Photoshop at some point. I know nobody who has ever payed for it (and no, I no longer pirate the software; I use Gimp).
It still doesn’t really make sense that Pam would never have run into any of these programs before.
I did notice that the guy Pam was talking to looked just like Jim, but I thought it was Jon Krasinski’s brother (I have no idea if he has one) or something. Huh.
That was Jim? Nice catch. I thought he was a bit too cute/charming for a bit part, but I didn’t recognize Jim. Cool.
I think I was wrong about Pam not being serious about Philly-New York. Michael was unusually assholish to her, and it seems she’s finally had enough of him and her job.
I think pretty much all the characters are starting to become unlikeable, each in their own ways. Michael Scott has been becoming more cringeworthy with each episode. Stanley is becoming obnoxious. The way the entire office just left as if they were a kindergarden class with no teacher was ridiculous. And why does a company recruit for interns at a high school?
And the way she answers her phone “Hello, extension 1-2-8”. Customer service and a personal touch, eh? 
The satellite went on and off at home and I missed the whole Pam looking at other opportunities part. And I haven’t worked for for-profits–do they really have unpaid interns at that kind of company?
Between last week and this, I’m left a little depressed by the show!
I’ve never seen an actual UNPAID internship in corporate America first hand and NEVER high school students.
The folks at Dunder Miflin seem to use the term “temp” and “intern” pretty interchangeably and for an unstructured company like that, there probably isn’t much difference.
A temp is basically just someone hired to fill a roll for a short period of time.
An internship is usually a temporary job at a company designed to give college students real world work experience during summer break. They can be unstructured, essentially paying a temp to sit at a desk all summer or very structured, with actual work, school credit and formalized training potentially leading to full-time employment at the interning company. When I was in college, I had a number of “temp” jobs that ended up extending to the entire summer and became pretty good internships.
Ryan’s roll as a temp was a little strange since it was really more like an internship. Except he seemed like he was there all year round so really it was more like a full time job with no benefits.
Anyone else see Jenna Fischer on Craig Ferguson’s show last night? She said a cast member would be leaving the show next week, but didn’t say who.
And Dunder Mifflin wasn’t paying anything, right?
I was an intern in high school (started as a summer thing, ended up there for 2 years!) for a large multinational industrial company. The eerily similar large multinational industrial company I work for now (in the same city) is doing the summer high school intern thing, too.
But these are paid, and ALWAYS engineering related.
And I thought that the Andy slapstick was dumb and overblown.
The title of next week’s episode is Good bye, Toby.
Correction: she was on Leno, not Ferguson.
How long until Pam finally slaps Michael with a sexual harassment suit?