He always was, so you can take all your concerns about his laziness, his lack of motivation, and his constant crossword puzzle solving…and shove them up your butt!
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He “always” was? It was always Jim and Dwight fighting for the top spot.
IIRC, Andy said Stanley had the most consistently good sales figures, not that he had the highest sales figures.
I thought Dwight was always far and away the best salesman (the best since Michael) until the commissions incentive was instituted by Sabre. Stanley came 2nd. My impression was that Jim was pretty middle-of-the-pack, and the worst out of stanley, dwight, phillis, and Jim.
I always thought Dwight and Jim were always one-and-two. I don’t think Jim was the worst because he hit his commission cap pretty early in the year, so he had to have made some decent sales.
I’m pretty sure Jim was a good salesman, he just didn’t care (although that changed after proposing to Pam). He always seemed to have big clients. Didn’t he have a health care company that was one of Dunder Mifflin’s biggest clients? (The one that Michael sent all the golden tickets to).
He was salesman of the month thirteen times in one year!
Okay, I’m now officially done with this overripe, indeed rotting, piece of crap called The Office.
OMG OMG OMG YES! That was be friggin amazing if they went with that storyline. Even better, make the baby be Jim’s! He’ll be having TWO babies. Angela’s got a history of sleeping around, so it would be plausible.
Besides, I wasn’t sure who I hated more on the show, Michael Scott or PB&J. Now the choice is easy. I think I’m really gonna enjoy this season, Steve Carrell grabbed too much attention, especially in the last season, and now it feels like more of an ensemble show than ever. It’s apparent that they aren’t gonna make the show about Andy, or Robert, or Dwight, but everybody. If you don’t like a particular character, wait 3 minutes and somebody else will get a scene. I still want to know why in the hell BJ Novak is still in the opening credits montage and Angela Martin isn’t though!!!
James Spader is awesome. He was my favorite of all the candidates in last season’s finale and I’m glad he made it on. Does this mean no more Kathy Bates though?
Oh, and I thought I heard that Kelly Kapoor was leaving the show after last season (her actress, whose name I can’t remember at the moment, even did a late night talk show interview last April where she was complaining about how Steve was getting all of the attention from leaving and nobody is talking about her leaving the show)? Is she still on for good now?
Two complaints with the episode - it really took them 3 tries to think of using the copier? At first I was trying to remember if they bought the new copier or the new chairs, and if they even still HAD a copier in the office. Wasn’t there some subplot with the copier getting destroyed? Anyway, it was intact, and I can’t believe the likes of Jim didn’t think to run it over to there until AFTER he said “get a pen” and “I’ll take a picture”. And also, Kevin made the winners list? WTF? Guess he stopped screaming at Pam’s boobs this time around?
I assume Jim just stops trying once he’s hit his commission cap. If the cap was listed, he’d sell all year long.
Kathy Bates has a new show called Harry’s Law, so she’s committed to that full time.
There’s always the possibility that California is really bad at identifying winners.
Alternatively, California could have listed people based not on whether or not he thinks they’re winners, but on how he thinks they’ll respond to being listed as a winner or not-winner. It’s all part of a longer-term ploy to motivate his staff. It depends on how much credit you want to give him.
My impression was not that they didn’t think to use the copier sooner, but that using the copier was considered a last resort because there was a higher risk of being caught (notebook farther from its spot on the desk) and less room to plausibly deny what they were doing if they were caught.
“Left side of the list… ATTACK!”
It’s also quite possible that he wasn’t lying when he said that he ‘doodles’ names since he can’t draw. It’s also possible that he was just trying to remember everyone’s name in the office and he was making a lunch list, then the office people went with what they thought.
California is a hard one to read, he could be very good or he just allows things to go and then takes the credit for it. I do like how he talked Bates out of her own job.
I think the way he pointedly moved Andy’s name rules that out.
Yeah, I think the reason why guys like Toby and Kevin are on the list is because he’s still working on it. You can see two spots when he erased names and moved them to the other side.
I’m pretty certain the list was just an elaborate ploy to get Andy respect from the rest of the office. He left his notebook at Erin’s desk on purpose, and purposefully “slipped” in telling them that it was a list of Winners/Losers. The little smile he gave at the end, right after Andy left after defending the staff was the giveaway. Robert California knows a thing or two about manipulation (he did talk Jo into giving him her job after all.)
I’m still not 100% convinced of that; did they spell out that he was named the CEO of Sabre, or only that he was named the CEO of Dunder-Mifflin?
All they said was that he persuaded Jo to “give him her job.”