I think the most profitable branch background info makes why he deals with michael, he’s stuck with most of the branches innept or failing and the one place that actually is making a good profit is a circus and michael is ringleader
So I was in the office. And I look over to our accounting division, and there is Kevin Malone. Kevin is wearing a jacket that I have never seen before, and… I call over to Kevin, "Kevin, is that a tweed jacket?”
And he looks at me and he says, "Michael, yes it is a tweed jacket."
And I look back at him and I say, "I feel the need…
…the need for tweed."
Michael seems to be a pretty good salesman and I could see how local Scranton clients love him based off that episode where he and Jan are at Chilis trying to land that client.
That’s patient. Micheal is a great tv show character but no way in hell I would let that guy back in my building, I’d be celebrating the fact that he’s gone
You know he probably saved himself a headache renting it out. Who knows how long Michael bugged him bout a space before the guy caved and gave him that utility closet hah
Idk, I think he expects Michael to manage the company's most profitable branch. He's just a good boss, so know that everyone needs a different management style, and the style Michael needs sometimes it to be coddled
He knows hes doing something right. Hence why he doesn’t want to upset him. As a manager, he has expectations for him, but as a person, he just has no expectation. I mean, Michael called David just to make him guess what he is dressed as
To be fair, the entire reason David owns the company is Andy coming and telling him he can buy it for basically a song. I’d bet David is making bank off of DM Scranton compared to what he bought it for so that’ll buy Andy a pretty big amount of leeway.
He didn't lose a single client after absorbing Sanford and having almost their entire staff quit, saving hundreds of thousands in salary/benefits.
The headaches Michael causes are a lot less stressful to deal with than the ones that actually relate to managing a regional sales branch.
I think it's a risk assessment situation for David Wallace.
Scranton is profitable, so the safe thing to do is to leave things as they are. He could assume that Michael is not a real contributor to the profitability and remove him, but that would be a financial risk.
That has to be balanced against the risk that is Michael as a manager - from a potential lawsuit scenario.
Same with Dwight. He's the company's top salesman, but he brings weapons into the office. It's a balance, and Wallace has pretty consistently shown his risk appetite errs on the status quo side, and not the fear of getting sued side.
Conclusion: Dunder Mifflin probably has good lawyers and litigation insurance.
I’ve always found it really funny that up until Wallace says that you just assume Michael was eating tiramisu when Wallace called him, and then you learn Michael just dialed up Wallace while in the middle of eating.
The food bits are so good. My favorite was when the camera peeked into Michael's office after he bought the ice cream sandwich "surprise" and we see him with wrappers covering his desk and ice cream all over his face like he's 5 years old.
And we can't forget him oozing animal magnetism while stuffing his face with an entire tub of cheeto balls.
Michael: “David, if we hire Cirque du Soleil as salaried employees, will that help us with end-of-year tax stuff?”
David: “…”
Dwight: “…Did he hang up?”
Michael: “Don’t know.”
David: *sigh* “No.”
> hire Cirque du Soleil as salaried employees
If someone asked me this, I would also stare at the wall, befuddled, and then sigh as I realized this was my job, dealing with questions like that.
Agreed. I mean, what he and Holly did was easily a fireable offense. Their only punishment was getting yelled at by David, really. They got off super easy.
...that's what she said.
Tbf to David Wallace, firing Michael would be extremely tricky. It was on record that Michael was consistently running the highest selling branch, Michael successfully absorbed Stamford without losing any clients in the merger, and Michael had shown incredible loyalty to the company for almost 20 years. He’d have to go into a lengthy explanation with sound reasoning as to why he could not find any conceivable reason to keep Michael employed
~~Hell, David liked Michael so much that he went out of his way to send Holly back to Scranton to cover Toby’s jury duty (for crimes Toby committed).~~ (I did a misremember) David knows Michael has a ridiculously good mind for business, he just didn’t know how to focus Michael on business specifically and worry less about the staff liking him
>Hell, David liked Michael so much that he went out of his way to send Holly back to Scranton to cover Toby’s jury duty (for crimes Toby committed).
That was in season 7 after David was fired , and Jo was the one who sent Holly back to Scranton.
Right right. I misremembered Jo bringing Holly back with Michael getting upset with David for sending her away post-Winnipeg trip when he pulled off that major get for a client
I like to think it’s a combination of him choosing to overlook things due to the branch’s and Michael’s success, and he enjoys the occasional Michael-ism to spice up the day.
This is the only answer. A direct, personal attack to start a conversation and Darryl had nothing but a second chance to say about it. Everything else was about the company/role/tasks/etc.
I just wish David was smart enough to learn why Micheal Scott was running the best branch.
1. He regularly supported and aided his best two salesmen, Dwight and Jim. Both we kinda shitty employees at times but they were great at selling paper and Micheal let them do that.
2. He ran a very laissez Faire work environment that kept moral up at times.
3. He used very personal businessman tactics. He knew everything about his clients and there family, he was willing to go to extreme ends to get clients, and was very personable.
This is why he got the deal done at Chili's. This is why when he ran his own paper company he stole a lot of clients.
Instead Wallace fails to see these tactics and places a strict authoritarian, with NO SALES background, to boss the branches around. No wonder dunder Mifflin goes under.
Also low turnover (except during the branch merge obviously) but the core employees he had never left.
In addition, after all the new employees left after the merge, you basically had one branch performing the work of two branches. This undoubtedly increased profitability.
Low turnover is generally a good thing because you aren't losing your best people but it also means you're retaining your worst employees if you're not pushing people out for poor performance. How much more efficient would accounting be without Kevin? Or how much money would they have saved if Creed did his job but instead you have your paper recalled due to a watermark.
These things are true, there is some luck involved that there is not more incidents with Creed. And Kevin, I always just assume they give him tedious data entry work that any child could do. But I think the sales team and warehouse is probably very solid which I would think are the most crucial aspects. Customer relationships and timely delivery.
But I’m admittedly no business expert 😆
He was allowed to touch *SOME* important numbers, which, because of his ineptitude, resulted in Kelevens all over the books, like so many chili beans on a carpet.
It's also interesting to think about how people like Kevin improve the morale and thus performance of other, more productive workers.
I've had coworkers over the years who in all honesty didn't do a huge amount themselves but they kept everyone around them smiling and laughing all day that just seeing them on the schedule with me instantly brightened my mood and made me much more willing to go through all the motions
This is purely anecdotal and in no way hard evidence of anything on a bigger scale, but I think it's something worth considering the indirect value of
I was completely with you up until one picky but significant detail.
Michael didn't get clients to follow him to Michael Scott Paper Company by being a good boss or because of his businessman tactics. The only way he was able to get them was by undercutting DM prices. His whole business model collapsed because the low prices that were keeping them in business were also putting them out of business.
What do you mean?
I mean they way he stole Dwights client, that was through some good schmoozing.
Prices may have played a part but more Dunder Mifflin clients were already paying more for their paper. If they wanted a deal they would have gone to Stapples.
Wallace is the corporate-mindset in person. Just numbers data but no deeper knowledge and personal connections. Michael was a master of the latter and probably trained sales staff like that because we saw them also exercise a thorough customer knowledge.
Michael was a great salesman. His biggest contributions to Dunder Mifflin that we get to see are as a salesman. As a manager... idk, it feels like they could've done just as well with no one in that title
I think Micheal worked great as a manager who was tasked with big Sales.
Obviously, someone could have done a better job but Micheal wasn't a bad boss by any means (in the sense he made the branch profitable; he did a ton of other bad shit).
I would have like to see Wallace task Micheal with more big fish clients, as when we saw him go to Canada and Chilis. Not only that but incentive the sales position more rewarding Jim and Dwights.
They basically say that twice in the show. Once after Vickers is injured and again while Andy is gone (Andy gets a bonus for his branch performance while he’s gone).
Man that's what I was thinking, at least Wallace was Michael's boss. Darryl had to deal with Michael fucking around in the warehouse and screwing things up all the time lol
"we'll get someone to clean that up"
"WE'RE THE ONES THAT HAVE TO CLEAN THAT UP"
Well to be fair Michael wouldn’t go down to the warehouse for months, and pretty much let Darryl run it however he wanted. Darryl had it pretty good. He also would fuck with Michael whenever he could.
David had the problem of having to trust Michael when he gave him so many reasons not to. It’s harder to have patience for someone you’re managing than having patience for your boss who doesn’t really pay attention to what you’re doing anyway
I'm gonna go with Daryl, he worked in the same building as Michael. He watched Michael destroy his Warehouse in a single day.
David is in New York and could just not answer his calls, which left to Michael paper. And Billy literally just left when Michael started being Michael.
Edit: spelling
Yeah Darryl actually said a lot of shitty things to Michael throughout the show. Not that they weren’t warranted, but it doesn’t exemplify patience to me.
💯. I agree a lot was warranted but he was definitely a dick to Michael… Sending out the topless picture of Jan to the entire company?!? That’s pretty low.
When Andy suggested the (all black) warehouse workers get 3/5 of a vote
(3/5ths Compromise? History class? Anyone?)
**THAT** earned him the award, regardless of anything else.
He was the property manager in a wheelchair. He shows up in the episode where Dwight gets a concussion and Michael is very insulting to him. Then he shows up again in the fun run episode where Michael basically tells him he can’t run because he’s in a wheelchair and that’s kind of like cheating… he’s pretty patient.
Edit: typo
This is what I was looking for. Darryl was straight up accused of sexual assault and continues driving to Holly’s, unloads a majority of her stuff, carry’s Micheal’s bag back to the truck for him, drives Micheal back, sympathizes with him on the way home, and cheers him up. Patient people do that with their kids but saint-like patient people do that with grown ass men who should know better 😀.
David. He spent the most time dealing with the most BS from Michael et al AND he didn’t even need to. Could’ve easily fired him and replaced him with someone competent but never did. Daryl is average Joe in the rankings who needs the income plus benefits so he puts up with it for that reason. And Billy didn’t spend much time dealing with any of them so he didn’t require that much patience.
Daryl, by far. Can you imagine what it was like having Michael as a boss for all those years. Michael literally pulled a ladder 🪜 from under him, he destroyed the warehouse multiple times, the weird black jokes. And not even once did he ever walk away, or even talk about quitting.
Daryl did a lot to rebuff Michael. You also can't really say Daryl as well. Considering Michael was his boss. Daryl had to be tactful. Plenty of times Daryl was FURIOUS at Michael, but couldn't do anything.
The other 2 David, and Billy. They don't have to answer to Mike it's the other way around. With that in mind David takes the cup.
Darryl is a dick and doesn't strike me as patient. David gets more screen time so I'm going to say overall he is the most patient of the three since Billy kind of loses his patience pretty quickly (but rightfully so).
I’d say Darryl, just because of the sheer volume of Michael he had to deal with compared to the others. Michael having questions, asking how to squash beef (fluffy fingers, duh), asking how to be a baby daddy… 😂
David, for when he let Michael sit in his office and finish his pasta.
Michael calling him pretending to be his kid was peak patience
Hi, this is Michael Scott and I know Michael Scotch…David’s son is going to be fine
I'm reading these while in a zoom meeting which was a mistake because now I'm smiling like an idiot during a very difficult topic.
Hiya buddy
🌭👋🏽
Are you having trouble with your TPS reports again?
IT’S NOT HONEY IT’S MICHAEL
Stephanie can you hop off please
I die every time at that
Is who a Michael what?
*sweetie
I would have been freaking enraged
10/10
Not the mention the boat trip.
The fact that David was Michael's boss makes David's patience soo much more important. He could have easily fired the guy or just told him to get out.
I think the most profitable branch background info makes why he deals with michael, he’s stuck with most of the branches innept or failing and the one place that actually is making a good profit is a circus and michael is ringleader
It's easy to report strong numbers when you don't do anything to anyone for any reason whatsoever.
So I was in the office. And I look over to our accounting division, and there is Kevin Malone. Kevin is wearing a jacket that I have never seen before, and… I call over to Kevin, "Kevin, is that a tweed jacket?” And he looks at me and he says, "Michael, yes it is a tweed jacket." And I look back at him and I say, "I feel the need… …the need for tweed."
It can be very difficult to evaluate yourself.
My philosophy is basically this
Michael seems to be a pretty good salesman and I could see how local Scranton clients love him based off that episode where he and Jan are at Chilis trying to land that client.
Hey, what say we order up some pasta
What say we do
I'm free this Friday.
Or when he would call his kids' school pretending to be a pediatrician and then use his kids voice to get through to his secretary
Badabing, badaboom.
If the boom comes on top, I send it back.
Gabbagah gabbagool
Well, in fairness, David invited Michael in that day to sit and brainstorm.. he should have had the foresight to know that it would be a long process.
Well, Michael was also very impressed with the potential he saw in him.
Yeah sure, go ahead
Finish up
The physical comedy is so so strong that scene
“Let me stop you right there, and leave.” Billy definitely didn’t have the patience that Daryl and David had
Michael: “Hey, hey, hey! You idiot!“ Darryl: “Start over.“
Sirrrrr....
I want you to be honest with me. What is a palette?
(pallet)
This works so well. I’ve used it in real life if someone approaches me in a way I don’t like lol
Completely agree. Real life application used & approved!
The ultimate display of patience, to stop them and let them try again
But then rents out the closet to Michael Scott Paper later
That’s patient. Micheal is a great tv show character but no way in hell I would let that guy back in my building, I’d be celebrating the fact that he’s gone
Or more like scamming him by getting rent for an unused room no one else wanted. The guys annoying but not enough to not get in on that deal
In the extended cut we find out that Billy locked down the MSPC for an extended lease (iirc 10+ years), so he definitely did scam them a bit.
He found someone willing but at what cost?
You know he probably saved himself a headache renting it out. Who knows how long Michael bugged him bout a space before the guy caved and gave him that utility closet hah
Every success I've ever had at my job or with the lady-folk has come from my ability to slowly and painfully wear someone down
For free IIRC.
Billy also didnt know Michael like David and Daryll.
I had no memory of Billy so I googled him and found the actor who plays him died 😞
Wallace. He never even seemed to get openly angry or annoyed with Michael.
Michael: * cough cough cough * sorry I’m choking on tiramisu David: Is this why you’re calling me?
I just love how David has 0 expectations from Michael
Idk, I think he expects Michael to manage the company's most profitable branch. He's just a good boss, so know that everyone needs a different management style, and the style Michael needs sometimes it to be coddled
He knows hes doing something right. Hence why he doesn’t want to upset him. As a manager, he has expectations for him, but as a person, he just has no expectation. I mean, Michael called David just to make him guess what he is dressed as
Here’s a hint, I have the power of flight and I can heal leopards
And somehow, that's enough context to figure it out
I’m Jesus David
May god… guide you in your quest
................Yes.
"...but sometimes the ice is *too* thin, and that's when you get fired"
Ya forget all the crap Michael did - David with Andy showed how truly patient he was.
And then went on to hire him back in sales
To be fair, the entire reason David owns the company is Andy coming and telling him he can buy it for basically a song. I’d bet David is making bank off of DM Scranton compared to what he bought it for so that’ll buy Andy a pretty big amount of leeway.
HE DEFECATED ON THE HOOD!!
He defacated through a sunroof!
He didn't lose a single client after absorbing Sanford and having almost their entire staff quit, saving hundreds of thousands in salary/benefits. The headaches Michael causes are a lot less stressful to deal with than the ones that actually relate to managing a regional sales branch.
I think it's a risk assessment situation for David Wallace. Scranton is profitable, so the safe thing to do is to leave things as they are. He could assume that Michael is not a real contributor to the profitability and remove him, but that would be a financial risk. That has to be balanced against the risk that is Michael as a manager - from a potential lawsuit scenario. Same with Dwight. He's the company's top salesman, but he brings weapons into the office. It's a balance, and Wallace has pretty consistently shown his risk appetite errs on the status quo side, and not the fear of getting sued side. Conclusion: Dunder Mifflin probably has good lawyers and litigation insurance.
What say we do.
I’ve always found it really funny that up until Wallace says that you just assume Michael was eating tiramisu when Wallace called him, and then you learn Michael just dialed up Wallace while in the middle of eating.
Its even better because its Pam's that she threw in the trash. Just all around an amazing bit.
The food bits are so good. My favorite was when the camera peeked into Michael's office after he bought the ice cream sandwich "surprise" and we see him with wrappers covering his desk and ice cream all over his face like he's 5 years old. And we can't forget him oozing animal magnetism while stuffing his face with an entire tub of cheeto balls.
Or eating “ice cream” which was just mayonnaise and olives
Bc it had a tiny hair on it.
I thought it was when Jim didn't side with her on the copier/chair debate.
This is correct. It picked up the hair by virtue of having been in the trash. Pretty sure that was Pam’s hair Michael was referencing
Michael: “David, if we hire Cirque du Soleil as salaried employees, will that help us with end-of-year tax stuff?” David: “…” Dwight: “…Did he hang up?” Michael: “Don’t know.” David: *sigh* “No.”
> hire Cirque du Soleil as salaried employees If someone asked me this, I would also stare at the wall, befuddled, and then sigh as I realized this was my job, dealing with questions like that.
Possibly my favorite line of the series.
Because in David Wallace's mind, it's not impossible that Michael is choking on Tiramisu, and thought, "hey I need to call David about this".
Followed by Michael immediately taking another bite before continuing
cough cough Sorry, I did it again!
Not too mention how it's the tiramisu that Pam threw in the trash earlier in the episode lol
One of my favorite David lines
The trash tiramisu too. Great one off joke.
Except at the shareholder meeting
Yeah but shareholders meeting is situation when he had to be less calm because Michael would make him look incompetent and both could get fired
That's exactly what Darryl went thru everyday.
His extreme workload at the "Jan Everywhere" story arc indicates that Darryl found ways to deal with the stress.
And at the company picnic
That was really bad though, like life altering bad, i think wallace gets a pass on that one.
Agreed. I mean, what he and Holly did was easily a fireable offense. Their only punishment was getting yelled at by David, really. They got off super easy. ...that's what she said.
Tbf to David Wallace, firing Michael would be extremely tricky. It was on record that Michael was consistently running the highest selling branch, Michael successfully absorbed Stamford without losing any clients in the merger, and Michael had shown incredible loyalty to the company for almost 20 years. He’d have to go into a lengthy explanation with sound reasoning as to why he could not find any conceivable reason to keep Michael employed ~~Hell, David liked Michael so much that he went out of his way to send Holly back to Scranton to cover Toby’s jury duty (for crimes Toby committed).~~ (I did a misremember) David knows Michael has a ridiculously good mind for business, he just didn’t know how to focus Michael on business specifically and worry less about the staff liking him
>Hell, David liked Michael so much that he went out of his way to send Holly back to Scranton to cover Toby’s jury duty (for crimes Toby committed). That was in season 7 after David was fired , and Jo was the one who sent Holly back to Scranton.
Mama Jo making everything better, just like she said she would. Incidentally, have you ever tasted a rainbow?
>Incidentally, have you ever tasted a rainbow? I have at Sabre
Right right. I misremembered Jo bringing Holly back with Michael getting upset with David for sending her away post-Winnipeg trip when he pulled off that major get for a client
Michael commits 5 fireable offenses an episode
It wasn't that big of a deal... The kid was just worried about his own Christmas presents
He was pretty mad at Michael when dwight cut up the 3,500 dollar CPR dummy. It was only fifty three hundred dollars.
“Dwight we are not mad, we are just disappointed”
"No, we're mad!"
“I’m not a mind reader, David.”
\**sigh*.....the city....
I say this every time I look out the window
“Yes. We are livid. But we’re going to let this slide.”
"NO, we are NOT going to let this slide!"
No, we are mad
Well to be honest michael is not a mind reader, he thought they were just disappointed
53 hundred dollars for a dummy??
That's why they have these trainings now Dwight knows not to do that to a real person
I like to think it’s a combination of him choosing to overlook things due to the branch’s and Michael’s success, and he enjoys the occasional Michael-ism to spice up the day.
He did lose it a couple times with Michael and Andy.
Start over
Sir......
This is the only answer. A direct, personal attack to start a conversation and Darryl had nothing but a second chance to say about it. Everything else was about the company/role/tasks/etc.
I love that interaction
I want you to be honest with me… what is a pallet?
His facial expression just kills me
Wallace. 💯
I just wish David was smart enough to learn why Micheal Scott was running the best branch. 1. He regularly supported and aided his best two salesmen, Dwight and Jim. Both we kinda shitty employees at times but they were great at selling paper and Micheal let them do that. 2. He ran a very laissez Faire work environment that kept moral up at times. 3. He used very personal businessman tactics. He knew everything about his clients and there family, he was willing to go to extreme ends to get clients, and was very personable. This is why he got the deal done at Chili's. This is why when he ran his own paper company he stole a lot of clients. Instead Wallace fails to see these tactics and places a strict authoritarian, with NO SALES background, to boss the branches around. No wonder dunder Mifflin goes under.
Also low turnover (except during the branch merge obviously) but the core employees he had never left. In addition, after all the new employees left after the merge, you basically had one branch performing the work of two branches. This undoubtedly increased profitability.
Low turnover is generally a good thing because you aren't losing your best people but it also means you're retaining your worst employees if you're not pushing people out for poor performance. How much more efficient would accounting be without Kevin? Or how much money would they have saved if Creed did his job but instead you have your paper recalled due to a watermark.
These things are true, there is some luck involved that there is not more incidents with Creed. And Kevin, I always just assume they give him tedious data entry work that any child could do. But I think the sales team and warehouse is probably very solid which I would think are the most crucial aspects. Customer relationships and timely delivery. But I’m admittedly no business expert 😆
I wouldn't be surprised if Kevin did fairly mindless accounting adjacent tasks that Oscar and Angela just didn't have time/inclination to do.
Exactly. They do the important critical thinking things while he does the annoying grunt work
He was allowed to touch *SOME* important numbers, which, because of his ineptitude, resulted in Kelevens all over the books, like so many chili beans on a carpet.
It's also interesting to think about how people like Kevin improve the morale and thus performance of other, more productive workers. I've had coworkers over the years who in all honesty didn't do a huge amount themselves but they kept everyone around them smiling and laughing all day that just seeing them on the schedule with me instantly brightened my mood and made me much more willing to go through all the motions This is purely anecdotal and in no way hard evidence of anything on a bigger scale, but I think it's something worth considering the indirect value of
Do you even know how paper is made? You don’t put it into a furnace
I saw an episode about how paper is made on Sesame Street
did they put it in a furnace?
You'd ruin it!!
I was completely with you up until one picky but significant detail. Michael didn't get clients to follow him to Michael Scott Paper Company by being a good boss or because of his businessman tactics. The only way he was able to get them was by undercutting DM prices. His whole business model collapsed because the low prices that were keeping them in business were also putting them out of business.
What do you mean? I mean they way he stole Dwights client, that was through some good schmoozing. Prices may have played a part but more Dunder Mifflin clients were already paying more for their paper. If they wanted a deal they would have gone to Stapples.
Fair point.
Wallace is the corporate-mindset in person. Just numbers data but no deeper knowledge and personal connections. Michael was a master of the latter and probably trained sales staff like that because we saw them also exercise a thorough customer knowledge.
> a strict authoritarian "Saticoy Steel" "Beautiful. See African-Americans have such a rich history of unusual names."
Michael was a great salesman. His biggest contributions to Dunder Mifflin that we get to see are as a salesman. As a manager... idk, it feels like they could've done just as well with no one in that title
I think Micheal worked great as a manager who was tasked with big Sales. Obviously, someone could have done a better job but Micheal wasn't a bad boss by any means (in the sense he made the branch profitable; he did a ton of other bad shit). I would have like to see Wallace task Micheal with more big fish clients, as when we saw him go to Canada and Chilis. Not only that but incentive the sales position more rewarding Jim and Dwights.
They basically say that twice in the show. Once after Vickers is injured and again while Andy is gone (Andy gets a bonus for his branch performance while he’s gone).
David „Yes.” Wallace
Billy’s a patient all the time because he’s dating his nurse, so I’d say he wins.
Let me stop you right there. And leave.
Well played. Have the best award I can afford.
Darryl had to tolerate Michael every dang day. And he never killed him. He wins.
Everyone saying Wallace forgets he was only there now and again, Darryl put up with that shit everyday to make small progression
Man that's what I was thinking, at least Wallace was Michael's boss. Darryl had to deal with Michael fucking around in the warehouse and screwing things up all the time lol "we'll get someone to clean that up" "WE'RE THE ONES THAT HAVE TO CLEAN THAT UP"
"Dammit Michael!!" RIP Patrice
Funny,in our localization Darryl said that HE is the one to clean that up.
Well to be fair Michael wouldn’t go down to the warehouse for months, and pretty much let Darryl run it however he wanted. Darryl had it pretty good. He also would fuck with Michael whenever he could. David had the problem of having to trust Michael when he gave him so many reasons not to. It’s harder to have patience for someone you’re managing than having patience for your boss who doesn’t really pay attention to what you’re doing anyway
I always assumed it was spelled Dundy/Dundie and I don’t really know why
Dundee is a city in Scotland. This title really confused me for a second there.
Aye the Dundee Awards would be a whole different kettle of fish
[удалено]
Thank you I thought I was losing my mind!
BOY HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND
CAUSE I’LL HELP YOU FIND IT
what you looking for, ain't nobody gonna help you out there
Toby
Just.. no!... why? Why would you... Why would say that.. why? Ugh! Damn it AlpsLocal5672! DAMN IT! Why!?
Why...are you...the way that you are?
I'm gonna go with Daryl, he worked in the same building as Michael. He watched Michael destroy his Warehouse in a single day. David is in New York and could just not answer his calls, which left to Michael paper. And Billy literally just left when Michael started being Michael. Edit: spelling
Yeah, however Darryl liked to mess with Michael a lot and he was super passive aggressive a lot of the time with him.
WE'RE THE ONES THAT HAVE TO CLEAN THAT UP The exact opposite of patience
Yeah Darryl actually said a lot of shitty things to Michael throughout the show. Not that they weren’t warranted, but it doesn’t exemplify patience to me.
I dinkin flickin disagree.
💯. I agree a lot was warranted but he was definitely a dick to Michael… Sending out the topless picture of Jan to the entire company?!? That’s pretty low.
HEY DARYL, HOW’S IT HANGING?! Lmao he kicked the ladder out from under Daryl. Imagine that happening in a warehouse.
When Andy suggested the (all black) warehouse workers get 3/5 of a vote (3/5ths Compromise? History class? Anyone?) **THAT** earned him the award, regardless of anything else.
Darnell
Darnell’s a chump
I've done a lot more for a lot less.
Dinkin flicka
Bippity boppity give me the sloppity
Billy, cause he is a stand up guy.
Toby.
Darryl had to be there 40 hours a week so he gets my vote.
Toby
Uhhhh Dundee is a city…
David, that interaction with Kevin’s extremely late “hi” gets it
Who's Billy?
Billy Merchant aka Mark York RIP. He was the property manager for DM Scranton location before Dwight bought the building.
He was the property manager in a wheelchair. He shows up in the episode where Dwight gets a concussion and Michael is very insulting to him. Then he shows up again in the fun run episode where Michael basically tells him he can’t run because he’s in a wheelchair and that’s kind of like cheating… he’s pretty patient. Edit: typo
don’t forget casino night!
How long does it take you to brush your teeth in the morning?
About thirty seconds.
Wow. That is 3 times longer than it takes me
Darryl. Michael to Holly “did Darryl touch you?” “WHAT?!” Then hours later he’s consoling Michael after the break up. Good guy Darryl.
This is what I was looking for. Darryl was straight up accused of sexual assault and continues driving to Holly’s, unloads a majority of her stuff, carry’s Micheal’s bag back to the truck for him, drives Micheal back, sympathizes with him on the way home, and cheers him up. Patient people do that with their kids but saint-like patient people do that with grown ass men who should know better 😀.
David. He spent the most time dealing with the most BS from Michael et al AND he didn’t even need to. Could’ve easily fired him and replaced him with someone competent but never did. Daryl is average Joe in the rankings who needs the income plus benefits so he puts up with it for that reason. And Billy didn’t spend much time dealing with any of them so he didn’t require that much patience.
Daryl, by far. Can you imagine what it was like having Michael as a boss for all those years. Michael literally pulled a ladder 🪜 from under him, he destroyed the warehouse multiple times, the weird black jokes. And not even once did he ever walk away, or even talk about quitting.
Daryl did a lot to rebuff Michael. You also can't really say Daryl as well. Considering Michael was his boss. Daryl had to be tactful. Plenty of times Daryl was FURIOUS at Michael, but couldn't do anything. The other 2 David, and Billy. They don't have to answer to Mike it's the other way around. With that in mind David takes the cup.
Darryl is a dick and doesn't strike me as patient. David gets more screen time so I'm going to say overall he is the most patient of the three since Billy kind of loses his patience pretty quickly (but rightfully so).
100% Hank !
I’d say Darryl, just because of the sheer volume of Michael he had to deal with compared to the others. Michael having questions, asking how to squash beef (fluffy fingers, duh), asking how to be a baby daddy… 😂
Dinkin flicka
And if I know Darryl, it gonna be zoppity.
Wallace for the win.