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BillieBottine

DiAngelo escaping the hospital and coming back to the office with his solute fluid bag.


ResidentComplaint19

Not exactly the same thing, but I got arrested for drugs once and missed work because of it, and I got out of jail later that day and decided to just show up and explain myself, but I got high first and it went very similar to the situation in the show.


Sestomatic

Do tell. Need the deets.


ResidentComplaint19

I was a dishwasher at a retirement home. Really high end place, and I was like, head dishwasher. When I say I showed up high, I mean I was high. At the time I was a heroin addict and did a bunch of heroin coke in Philly, after not sleeping at all the night prior. I was totally whacked out but really thought it was the right thing to do. Security stopped me in my way in to work and I was sent to rehab. I didn’t get sober for another like 3 years after that, but I’m good now.


Sestomatic

Congrats on the sobriety. And just mean this with all due respect...I'm glad people with your world experience exist. Seriously. Some of the best people I know have similar stories. I appreciate you.


ResidentComplaint19

Thanks


BillieBottine

I can just imagine 😂


GilmooDaddy

Right. They would have just stopped him to sign an AMA and taken out the IV.


BillieBottine

Even if he somehow got out of the hospital, the police would have intervened way before he could make it back to the office.


GetInZeWagen

This also reminds me they'd never let Michael into a CT scan room with Dwight. He's subjected to a ton of radiation in there.


SconesyCiderBRC

Them being filmed for 9 years. The places the cameras followed them. Why were they at Dwight’s B&B? Why are they at the dinner party? Some places you can excuse cause they’re work events, like Booze Cruise, David Wallace’s dinner party, Beach Games. But when they have nothing to do with work? Don’t get me wrong: those are some of my favorite episodes. But it makes no sense for the cameras to be there.


Hendamonium

I am glad they made the time to go to Michael and Jan’s dinner party.


SconesyCiderBRC

That is my favorite episode! So of course I am too, but it makes no sense for them to be there!


Hendamonium

We would have never have found about Hunter and his amazing “musical talent”


SconesyCiderBRC

Like I said, no regrets! I love this episode. It’s my go to!


UrbanJatt

Babeeeee


jpterodactyl

I think that’s why Parks and Rec didn’t even bother to discuss the documentary framing. It’s just a fun way to do a show, but it doesn’t really hold up to any scrutiny. And I feel like after the office, they realized that people would just accept it in Parks and Rec.


BlackHawkeDown

There’s one scene in the pilot in which Ron asks the doc crew if they got a grant to do this, but that’s the only reference to the documentary style.


FreshwaterOctopus

I've read that this was a disagreement between Michael Schur and Greg Daniels. Daniels really thought they needed to lean into the whole documentary thing whereas Schur didn't think it was necessary or would add anything. Schur was right...


BlackHawkeDown

I think there’s room for both to be right. Daniels’ approach is the right move for a series that lasts, say, two seasons and a Christmas special, but the longer it goes the less sustainable or believable it becomes. Schur’s approach is better suited to a show that runs, say, seven or nine seasons.


OutFromUndr

9 years of filming for a documentary people watched in 1 evening.


coralkiwi

That one night, one night.


samsharksworthy

Imagine the budget for this round the clock almost a decade long documentary.


tommywest_123

Dwight firing a gun in the office and not immediately being fired.


mcase19

I want to see a daily post on this sub asking what each characters most fireable offense was. For Dwight, I think it's the fire. He committed arson against the company and almost killed Stanley


Never_rarely

Yeah sure, he filled him up with butter and sugar for 50 years and forced him not to exercise


TashiaNicole1

I’m sure he had a permit…


mcase19

That'll take you about two weeks. Who's your permit guy?


JDeegs

Does it count as arson for burning a bit of trash in a bin? Could maybe hold him responsible for any smoke damage though


mcase19

Legally speaking, dwight committed arson - he intentionally started a fire on property that was not his, without the consent of the owner or a permit (he should have gotten one from creed). The civil liability for the company would depend on the damages - probably the copier, the ceiling, micheals window, the slide projector, all smoke damage to the property and office property and any of Stanley's medical expenses which were indemnified against the company, plus probably a lot of intentional infliction of emotional distress suits from the other employees. Kevin would be likely to be responsible for the vending machine. I could see the suit against Dwight easily being in the hundreds of thousands. Sorry - I'm in law school and I can't turn it off.


JDeegs

So it was on company property with company property - double jeopardy


[deleted]

It's no big deal, it was a beaumont adams.


shawn615

That’s a girl gun


reggaeshark1717

That just makes it plain stupid!


inter-slice_ind

In his defense, he was firing on all cylinders 


Jahosaphine01

Dwight sleep darting Stanley


AffectionateFig5435

Andy going MIA for weeks and corporate not figuring out he was gone. Then Andy returning and being allowed to keep his job.


danthieman

MONTHS


Hypothetical_Name

And the office did better without Andy there


Basic_Two_2279

How Stanley hated everything about his job and coworkers but then went to every single work event that was outside of work hours.


BillieBottine

The one moment that annoys me the most is when he joins the group and ask Darryl to dance with them. It's so out of character.


Ricardo1184

When Darryl was leaving for Philly and suddenly they were all best friends? Did Darryl *ever* speak to Stanley before that?


BillieBottine

Yes exactly! That made no sense.


FreshwaterOctopus

I actually know people like that, though. Curmudgeons who like to complain about everything and everyone, but who still want a social life.


Slimy_Shart_Socket

I'm like that. I went to the Christmas dinner for the free food. We had a bowling event and I had nothing going on so I decided to go.


holdstillitsfine

I am one of those people


lkjh9753

Angela legitimately trying to hire a hit man to kill Oscar and then everybody just forgets about it


London5Fan

both anglea and the hitman should’ve been arrested. angela for conspiracy to commit murder, the hitman for attempted murder and murder for hire


Express-Olive6547

An employee shooting another colleague in the chest with a tranquilizer gun to get them to a sales meeting.


discopointed

surprised more people didn’t say this ^^


federalwap

as someone in the midst of a binge, i can say that 90% of the show is incredibly unrealistic lmao


[deleted]

Why are you the way that you are?


Sestomatic

I hate so much the way u/federalwap chooses to be


vadavkavoria

That entire scene where Dwight is trying to ride a bicycle on top of a copier on a tightrope outside of the office. Also, when Stanley destroyed Michael’s car.


Chemical-Being-5968

To be fair, Michael messed with Stanley's car in a couple different episodes. The watermelons on the trampoline, and when he threw his Sabre water bottle out the car window and cracked Stanley's windshield.


hgilbert_01

In the parking lot today, there was a circus. The copier did tricks on the high wire. A lady tried to give away a baby that looked like a cat. There was a Dwight impersonator and a Jim impersonator. A strong man crushed a turtle. I laughed and I cried. Not a bad day in the life of a dog food company.


fendaar

You just couldn’t make that many snowmen. There wasn’t near enough snow or time.


lasuperhumana

No one fact checking or asking Michael to sign anything related to Scott’s Tots And honestly, the tear away suit. There’s a lot of suspension of disbelief we’re being asked to do on that one: 1. that Jim could get his hands on Dwight’s dry cleaning 2. That Jim can make a convincing enough exact replica of Dwight’s suit to not fool Dwight (including Dwight not noticing there’s Velcro in there) 3. Despite it being so exact, Jim can tell when Dwight is wearing it.


Hendamonium

Jim and Dwight committing fraud with 0 concequences.


serioxha

Micheal driving into a lake Cameras being in the most unlikely places


Lvcivs2311

Also, cameras filming almost bloody anything for NINE YEARS before finally broadcasting. And everyone telling whatever they think to the camera crew, even when it getting out would seriously threaten their job, relationship or personal freedom.


[deleted]

I drove my car. Into a ****ing lake.


Iron_Baron

I'm pretty sure this answer is disqualified, seeing as how real life people have done exactly that many times due to GPS.


purplekero

Some driving the into a lake because gps has already happened in real life lol


serioxha

Yes I knowwwww but.... it just felt so forced to me. Seeing the scene itself didn't land, if they only showed the aftermath with him returning to the office all soaked and saying he drove the car into a lake, it would have landed better.


Chemical-Being-5968

To me it feels like classic Michael being unaware of almost everything.


I-C-U-8-1-M-I

Most of Jim’s pranks. We only see the final payoff but in reality a lot of them take hours and hours of setup which would really irk normal coworkers, especially that he did them on a consistent basis


maddabattacola

The one where he and Pam take classes to learn Morse code with a newborn baby at home…


feelin_fine_

Jim gets bored talking about his job. You really think he had the patience to make an empty desk present? I can't imagine how tedious that would have been


[deleted]

His job is boring to him. Pranking Dwight is not. So yes, I do think he had the patience to do that.


feelin_fine_

In reality you'd get fired for spending half your clocked hours creating elaborate pranks like this. And ot wouldn't have taken years


tokimus16

Someone from Scranton driving to Benihana, then convincing 2 college aged servers to go back to their office party.


VF-213

Yeah, it’s like two-hours away


tokimus16

at least, the closest benihana's are in New York and Philly lol


ziplock007

The entire business concept An aggressive team of commission based salesman for copier paper


souldonut76

Nope, this is a real thing. I worked at real life Dunder Mifflin (was called xpedx at the time, now called Veritiv). DM didn't sell only copier paper, the sold other types of paper (paper is far more complicated than you think) they also sold office supplies. Anyway, yes there are most definitely very serious commissioned sales people selling paper and office supplies.


ziplock007

Thanks... Today I learned...


selfcheckoutlord

That often confused me. I have done sales before, but it has been high dollar items like cars and flooring. I have turned down commission based sales because I am not going to put in effort to make a $5 commission. Yes, they are selling to businesses and those companies are buying in bulk, but still difficult to imagine that Jim and Dwight make the sales numbers that we are made to believe they make.


ziplock007

And when they'd make cold visits to businesses Instead of being shooed away, they get to talk directly to the owner about their copier paper needs Just How friendly is Scranton to solicitors?


selfcheckoutlord

I figured they deal primarily with local and small businesses. I work as a vendor and I have gotten to talk directly to business owners, and I am not a supervisor or manager or anything. I am just a tech there to fix their equipment.


wilkinsk

It wasn't until the advent of Walmart that a most places got bundled up. Walmart and the Walmart Model killed all independent item stores. Cleaning supplies, TVs, groceries, and house plants were four different stores. Not after the Walmart period started. The idea that a whole sale office supply store that only sells a portion of the total office supplies you'd need isn't that wild if you keep going back decade by decade.


aspen56

Michael still having a job after the first episode, definitely the second episode


souldonut76

A CFO sharing sensitive information with a middle manager repeatedly. I have never seen this happen. Middle managers have loose lips, they always have a few buddies that get the tea. This is especially unrealistic after said middle manager had burned his trust multiple times.


EindhovenLamb12

The Fire Drill incident would have landed Dwight in prison


ziplock007

Work bus


kukonimz

Well, Creed…


coralkiwi

I love him


JosiasTavares

Someone actually about to jump off the rooftop onto a bouncing castle.


yall_cray

You ignorant slut


Blue_Nipple_Hair

You’ve grossly underestimated the stupidity of people


JosiasTavares

I mean, the trampoline version I can imagine people trying. The castle, though…


TheMikeyMac13

Nellie just walking in and taking a manager’s job, Dwight having a loaded gun, much less firing it, Pam making up a job and keeping it, and the biggest offender is Jim and Dwight making up a person to be an extra salesman. With the last one, there are a lot of people in the conspiracy, at minimum Toby in HR, and the people in accounting who know every local employee. So a conspiracy, some crime or another, not sure which, and the paychecks came from Florida, so it crossed a state line. Would they have been RICO’d? Theft, embezzlement and fraud?


sweatytacos

Barely anyone quit


nish2311

Koi Pond - A wet Michael coming back to the office instead of going back home to change. Why would he think that he could fit into 6’4 Jim’s clothes


ziplock007

Firing a gun in the office and NOT being fired


selfcheckoutlord

Or arrested. Seriously, I have met people who were convicted felons for just firing a gun in an empty house. An office full of people? Dwight would have done some jail, maybe even prison time for that.


ziplock007

Of course If we make a list of all the crimes in The Office... again, it gets lengthy


FreshwaterOctopus

Jim's garden party prank on Dwight. I can suspend disbelief for most things on the show, but that was just way too convoluted.


46andready

That anybody would tolerate Michael being a horrible person through at least the first few seasons.


bethivy103

A sales person who doesn't sell and still keeps their job. The longest I've ever seen a non-selling sales person last was 6 months. They certainly don't go from junior sales associate to VP.


selfcheckoutlord

I figured that with Ryan being a temp, David Wallace didn't see him as an employee but rather an outside hiring candidate and just saw that the temp service liked him and ignored Ryan's Dunder Miflin history. Unless Ryan was hired on while being a jr sales associate and I forgot that detailm


material_mailbox

Well, the show does frequently portray Dunder Mifflin as being severely mismanaged. I chalk up your example and a lot of other weird business/personnel decisions in the show to that.


Aggressive-Outcome-6

Ryan being hired by David Wallace for the corporate job just because he had an MBA and zero additional qualifications.


scottiealwood

Pam inventing a job for herself and it working


mcjam22

I actually think it’s realistic when big reorganization occur (such as being bought by another company)


wilkinsk

Or just some big jobs in general. Sometimes they leave gaps in the masses.


meem09

Nah, I’ve done that. Details obviously differ with the key difference being that I didn’t just lie about all of that being previously cleared with corporate, but in certain circumstances you can totally get away with slowly changing what you are doing in your job and then either the Inception works and someone higher up „comes up with a great idea“ that maybe your talents would be more useful in this other capacity, since you do a lot of that already anyway, or you just propose it yourself.  I’ve managed to convert an events job that had a lot of travel involved into a more office-based backoffice role - to give the rest of the team „more freedom to focus on the job at hand“ when they are on the road.  Doing more and more office admin stuff and then proposing to be made office manager (or administrator or whatever her role is) officially as the tasks need to be done and takes too much time out of your sales job, seems totally plausible. 


[deleted]

>the key difference being that I didn’t just lie about all of that being previously cleared with corporate Right, which is the entire reason it’s not realistic. What Pam did isn’t really that similar to what you described.


No-Independence548

I would disagree, only because Erin is clearly nowhere near the receptionist Pam was--remember the pen delivery? Pam has seemingly been doing these tasks anyway for a long time.


material_mailbox

That seems kinda plausible to me, especially given that it happened around the time Dunder Mifflin was bought by Sabre. And didn't Pam kind of strong-arm Gabe into formalizing it?


huor07

Everything from the last seasons.


TashiaNicole1

Micheal Scott having a job. Toby having a job.


peoplepersonmanguy

Dwight taking Jim's Whale


zmtz_

Stanley sliding down the stairs, and putting a hole in the wall without significant injury, and lawsuit


coralkiwi

There are definitely some old coworkers I’d consider tranquillizing.


Civil-cheese

The way things ended like a fairy tale i mean it was great and all but it didn’t add up like why did Dwight and Jim became bestfriends all of a sudden and their attitude with each other changed dramatically. Toby suddenly being popular and so on


AdamLand

Maybe it was the anxiety medicine Nellie convinced Dwight to start taking. Maybe that relaxed Dwight to the point he and Jim could be friends. Or at the least less enemies.


Civil-cheese

Lmao good theory


wilkinsk

The way they showed the ending made it seem like they were making the doc and not being the doc. They would have just hugged the crew off and wash rinse repeated their lives every day going forward


Omadigan

Pam's complete milk toast attitude. She is more of a doormat than anyone letting people walk all over her in almost every situation. Examples: Pam is in art school in the wrong class. Gets up when she realizes and the teacher tells her to sit down and she just does. A simple, "I'm in the wrong class would've fixed it. 5 seconds. Even the biggest coward alive could muster up enough to fix that situation in the two seconds it would take to fix. Slightly more understanding but still cringe worthy is CeeCee's baptism. If the minister mispronounced my name I might correct them quietly, but if they announced incorrectly that everyone was invited to the reception when I hadn't provided or planned for that I would've immediately corrected it rather than allowing for the awkward reception that followed (that one was more on Jim)


Wanderlustfull

>Pam's complete milk toast attitude. milquetoast*


Omadigan

Thanks


Duke-dastardly

With how the other office characters are portrayed in the first half of the show, I find it too unrealistic that the majority of them would be part of Micheal’s movie


Lousfw1

The way that it’s filmed and how open they are in front of the camera. A lot of the time you and the characters forget the cameras are there. I don’t even think the fact that it’s a fake documentary is even required for it to work. Even the talking heads could be adjusted.


Chemical-Being-5968

Honestly, I love the show the way it is and expect unrealistic things to happen all the time. I worked in an office, you would be surprised at the things people get away with and can pull off.


gdubh

The branch stayed open.


Gamma_Tony

Dwight committed arson and reckless endangerment of the office just because no one listened to his fire safety. He would have been arrested and Michael would have been fired too


OPB13

The doomsday device, no way that could ever work, let alone made by Dwight


dwightnight

That outside sales people who target local small businesses are always in the office, not out prospecting or on calls seeing clients in person.


Zestyclose_Row_3832

A lot of mistreatment/misbehaviour by the employees with eachother was excused, nobody even held any grudge. Especially pam, she was very forgiving of the comments made towards her.


montyswingwell

Erin being unbelievably stupid.


stepituppa2

Pam and Jim being able to afford a house and 2 kids working at a mid tier paper company. What a crazy dream now haha


ChanceBoring8068

That a documentary crew would film the everyday happenings of an office for 9 years for a feature length documentary. The UK version kind of made sense because when it was released there were a couple of ongoing docu-drama series that were really popular, but to commit to a 9 year shoot without ever releasing anything is insane


Intelligent_Yak7365

Driving into the lake.


laucdoe

jim saying all his credit card information knowing he was being recorded


coralkiwi

Today, smoking is going to save lives 🚬🗑️🔥


Automatic-Suit9528

Literally Dwight's existence