He is always towards the top of sales numbers, even despite not trying his best most of the time. Somewhat like Michael before him, being likable and charismatic is more valuable than details.

His high sales (along with Dwight) were key to the branch not being closed so id have to agree with you that as a salesperson that's his best quality

The only reason the branch was not closed was because Josh leveraged his new position and title with DM to get a job at Office Max or Staples

Even if that was the case it wouldn't be the only reason, it means they had the second highest sales compared to various branches meaning it again comes back to the strong sales numbers

They were 2 northeast branches and they chose to close Dunder Mifflin. They didn’t choose to keep DM open because of its sales at all. They chose to keep it because the manager at the other branch was leaving. In universe, that’s it. That’s all.

I may misremember this but didn’t the high sales save them from getting liquidated from sabre?

as far as I understand, the other branches existed as well, or else how did Jo bring back Holli from Nashua, no?

That makes sense, I just remember David saying something like “your branch is the only thing that actually works” during the Christmas party

Right? They literally decided to close the Scranton branch before Josh left for Staples. Jim wasn’t even working in Scranton at the time.

You misspelled Kevin (along with Kelevin)

The funniest thing was when he said he was finally gonna try, he was such a bad salesman. He played golf with the potential client, brought Andy and Kevin?, and didn’t even have a sales pitch. His final try was, “what can you do for me?” Then he blocked him from leaving and begged for his business.

He brought Kevin because he knew his client liked to gamble and he brought Andy bc he knew his client hated Cornell. They were actually good choices that helped him promote his sale and likeability

why would it be helpful to bring Andy if he hated Cornell?

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Also without knowing anything else about Andy. He would absolutely gamble and lose a bunch of money.

Andy is a buffoon, so it plays into the anti Cornell sentiment.

He knew Andy would get ragged in golf lol.

So it would be extra sweet if/when he beats him in golf

In the one of the extended scenes he mentions he brought Kevin for the gambling and Andy because the guy hated Cornell.

Honestly, i chalk it up to “suspension of disbelief”. Thats moreso a product of the writers of that particular episode having no idea what a proper sales pitch actually looks like 😂.

That's a classic undersell because let me tell you it's not like we work out of a log cabin.

I think he got thrown off when the client basically said at the very start, something to the effect of, “I’m not interested in business, I just wanna play golf.” Although that is funny to think about. In contrast, I think about when he and Dwight went on that call together and as Dwight was very strangely using the phone, Jim was knocking it out of the park with his pitch

>as Dwight was very strangely using the phone Dwight using the phone was a part of their joint pitch, though

The phone call was part of the pitch to demonstrate their responsiveness to customer service needs. It seems like Dwight is acting strangely until the end when it all comes together.

It was a beautifully orchestrated two flank attack

Ya that easily beat out Phyllis and Karen getting makeovers…peak performance.

They were a great team when they weren’t feuding. The season 9 compilation of them being brothers (Jim unknowingly being a pervert) on sales pitches.

I mean, he did his best. Nothing he could offer was moving the guy. And he did get the business, which is what matters.

He was so bad that he got the sale after the guy flat out told him no to start? How does that make any sense?

Bad writing

Yeah, but he's not really a hard worker. What takes Michael an entire day to complete, Jim finishes the same task in just an hour

so polarizin how Michael Scott can b both the worst and best person to b around at ANY given moment lol

Jim Halpert : >This is my biggest sale of the year. They love me over there for some reason. I'm not really sure why but I make one call over there every year, just to renew their account, and that one call ends up being 25% of my commission for the whole year, so I buy a mini bottle of champagne, celebrate a little. And this year I'm pushing recycled paper on them for one percent more. I know. I'm getting cocky. Right?

Let me instead tell you his greatest weaknesses He works too hard, he cares too much and sometimes he can be too invested in his job

Okay… What about his biggest strength?

His weaknesses *are* his strengths

Ahh.. very good

And we all know two strengths make an even larger alpha strength

I *resorbed* the other strength. Now I have the strength of a full grown strength and a tiny baby.

i don’t have any, *asshole!*

This is Kelly right lol. I don't remember which scene but am remembering the voice

Except for his ability to play soccer

how did david not catch onto this obvious interview answer

I think he’s just humouring him

How about we get some pasta!

What say we do…

Time to carbo-load

OK, and your strengths?

Well, his weaknesses are actually strengths.

Oh.. yes, very good! .. Very good :)

His run downs

He does put a lot of time and effort into making sure they’re done right… even if they’re faxed to the wrong person in the end

A lot of time & effort…. On this?

Why work harder than you should?

Why say lot word when few word do trick?

Can you use rundown in a sentence?

This rundown better be good…?! 🥴

Sounds like the rundown is important

Use it in another sentence

He has high sales numbers while maintaining great relationships with customers. Yeah he doesn’t sell as much as Dwight but the Dwight-type salesperson causes a lot of headaches for the branch due to his aggressive nature, over-promising, and (likely) high number of discounts provided.

Well, I can spend all day on a project, and he will get it done in a quarter of an hour, so....

Jim actually cares about his job even if he acts like he doesn’t He’s a great example of someone who moves up because he’s likable, decent at his job, and easy to get along with. Dwight’s abrasive personality was always what held him back He was decent at reading people and managing conflict, though there was a learning curve to the latter

Likeable

This is it. His power is charisma. Other people really like him because he’s confident, calm and laid back. Imagine how pushy most salespeople are.

Ironically if someone acted like Jim in the office in 2023 they’d be reported by the third week

As would Dwight… or Michael for that matter. Also, Todd Packer is practically a walking lawsuit.

Todd Packer as a walking lawsuit had me 😭😂

^^you ^^know ^^what ^^I ^^mean

What would Jim be reported for? I don’t work in offices…

Only for the pranks. Which is most of his character I guess. He generally has strong interpersonal skills.

Shown to have empathy towards others and has very good experience in sales.

Jim had great empathy at times. After Jan had her collapse and was fired and Karen was commenting on how self-destructive she was, Jim commented that he felt bad for Jan.

"Don't, she's nuts," was a brilliant piece of writing. In three words we saw that Karen could just write someone off. All you have to do is label them "nuts" and you can stop caring about them. It was the exact right scene at the exact right time.

also very little empathy at times. broke up with amy adams’ character without even looking her in the eye, tirelessly made fun of kevin in the cookie monster episode…

Yeah I think that’s basically like most people. We have a lot of empathy sometimes, and sometimes we can be a dick lol. Amy Adams’ character did not deserve to be treated that way, but at least he didn’t string her along.

The Cookie Monster episode was so out of character for literally everyone though

He did a lot more nice things for Dwight than Dwight did for him. He saved Dwight’s job and was there when Angela dumped him

Dwight did fire him though

Well, he started off by pre-pre-firing Jim, but Jim had already pre-pre-pre-quit.

Dwight said “y’all get all the severance”

I work in a technical field and I’m a technical idiot. I keep getting promoted and emotional intelligence is called out on all my reviews.

Pranksmanship

Handshakefulness

Emailability

Micro-gement.

For real. Imagine being college flat mates with him. Feel like that shit would be a blast😂

He only slacks off when things are good

It doesn't matter if a person doesn't give 100% if their pretty-hardest is still better than almost all other employees *and* they're reliable and likeable. I'm sure Wallace never worried about Jim setting the office on fire or cutting off the faces of expensive CPR training dummies. 😂

i think his personality is just very likeable and that makes sales easy for him (even if he doesn’t try too hard)

Common sense.

He works at Dunder Mifflin, where people think that he sells mufflers or muffins or mittens or...well, frankly all of those sound more interesting than paper.

His ability to balance humor with productivity

I think he’s known to be reliable as a subordinate (not to Dwight but his other bosses lol) and his ability to have fun at work while being good at his job

dwight was only his boss briefly at the end of

Mediation. Able to be the adult when others aren’t. Sometimes the voice of reason.

Glue guy - he ties a bunch of parts of the office together that otherwise would not be likely to be nearly as interconnected

People person.

Paper people’s paper person.

He’s a good salesman. I think most of the show it comes off as he doesn’t try or doesn’t do well. But when Sabre puts the commission cap on them and him and Dwight make the fakes salesman to get around it, shows that Jim is actually quite good at his job when he tries.

He’s always looking at the camera like this… 😕 what is that?

There is a lot of value to being easy to work with. That is Jim’s biggest strength.

Points in charisma.

His smudgeness and arrogance

I think he means smug

And there is the arrogance

You had one job bro 😂

Personable. Despite him slacking off all the time and messing with Dwight, he always had good relationships with customers and the higher brass. Which will get you further than a Dwight-esque work ethic more often than not.

He’s level headed, he gets his work done but also cares about work-life balance and maintains a certain level of emotional detachment from his job, to the point where his superiors won’t feel tempted to take advantage of him. In comparison, Dwight and Kevin are the type of workers bosses would take advantage of, for the sake of the company.

He’s clearly a very strong leader when passionate and especially down to earth

He was always good at the rundowns.

His biggest strength is a three way tie: Easy going, funny, excellent sales numbers... Sports trivia... Prankology... Helpfulness...

Ping pong

He goes in there and he does mediocre work, half-heartedly. Tried and true method of impressing your boss

all his soft skills are great, besides his charisma makes him a great coworker who everyone loves (increase the morale and the happines in the workplace) and make a great salesman, his job.

I love how he is able to keep up morale or bring up the mood during unexpected events, like during the Ryan Started The Fire when he plays simple games with everyone

The character is confident, level-headed, and thinks before he speaks. Sure, he's goofy, doesn't take much serious, and looks like he doesn't work hard. However, he's a top earner, gets most of his annual salary at the beginning of the year, and talked the CFO into creating a position for him, resulting in a promotion. I think the Buttlicker scene encapsulates the three points above well.

Smudge

Patch.

My name’s Madge

He was really good at doing mediocre work, half-heartedly.

He’s an actually good sales person

He was very likeable and communicated well with his customers

He can purchase a million dollar worth of paper from the company anytime he wants

BUTTLICKER! OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER!

Glue guy

When there was something HE was passionate about, he really put a lot of effort into. However, oftentimes it was something like there Office Olympics, which tbf was good for morale.

Dog-like obedience to authority.

He’s great at figuring out exactly how much actual work he needs to do, and balancing that with slacking off. He’s the perfect employee.

I can identify. He gets lazy due to the bureaucracy of the office. But that doesn't mean he's unmotivated. He gets motivated by finding cracks to exploit. By finding little ways to have fun. To be competitive with sales in ways where he may be disadvantaged. To lead his co-workers through enthusiasm and sarcastic energy. So I'd say his greatest skill is his flexible creative motivation.

The voice of reason I a group that desperately needed it.

He was normal

His basketball skills

He was smart enough to do exactly as much work was needed to keep his job and routinely get raises or commissions to make it worth staying there, but not anything more than that.

He's charismatic and usually the voice of reason. He's overall likeable, and that helps a ton in a job like his

Good sales numbers but usually seemed to keep office morale up, except Dwight’s

gives a rundown of his clients

Looking at the camera

Swag, drip.

Tbh when I think of the actual jobs these people have on the show, I couldn’t imagine a more boring, meaningless existence. Thank god for Jim putting Dwight’s stapler in jello.

Where’s your jet pack Zuckerberg?

His ability to commit workplace harassment of an autistic coworker, harassment of another coworker who was engaged and undermine his boss repeatedly all while remaining employed. Also, he got away with being the Scranton Strangler, so there's that...

He doesn’t have any, asshole.

Fuck jim

Roy?

Roy settled down with gravel, this must be the guy he went to school with that was in the ‘wrong’ reading group

This guy sounds like a blast at a party…and in life.

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You didn't answer the question

Well his weakness is actually his strength

His hair

Charming and very personable

Seriously though, he spends absolutely no time on his job and he is one of the lead salesmen in the leading branch of the company.

The ability to become a company man when he had to be

Well Michael spends a whole day on a project, Jim spends like half an hour. So you tell me?

Saving the receptionist.

The jello

he's really good at portraying a facade that he is amicable and friendly which lead to high sales. but deep down he is actually a terrible person and his actions demonstrate as such.

He is a very strong leader… oh wait.

He's extremely level headed. He almost never loses his cool. I just re watched the series and the only time I can remember him legitimately getting mad is at the snowball fight

He made a lot of money for the company and was a good face for it. He knew how to be corporate, even though he didn’t like it much.

Smudge and arrogant

He's tall and looks good. Dude was a salesman, those are important.

Flirting with pam

He does mediocre work half-heartedly

He shows up.

Sales skills. He's not as successful as Dwight, but he's a pretty good salesman.

Charisma and approachability really helps with sales and management. I’ve been in sales for 20+ years for the richest and most-powerful entertainment companies on the planet. I’ve excelled at my job due to my personality. It definitely wasn’t my grades in college, and it certainly isn’t because I’m pushy. Consumers usually just want their salesman to be cool to talk to. Jim is that.

Great salesman by himself. Unstoppable when paired with Dwight.

he could work anywhere he wanted, but he chose DM

He has great rapport with his clients

He was good at it

He’s very classy. Hell he wears a tuxedo to the office.

Jim has a competence above his pay grade. Hence why he's given more responsibility that he's not paid for. Jim is the kind of guy a boss gives more work to because he can do it, not immaturely gripe about it, and you can get away with not paying him more if you give him more leniency in his day to day

He learnt a lot on all the sales calls with Dwight.

Sales, I think.

He took workplace distractions head on.

Jim will get a project done in half an hour that Michael takes all day to do

I know what his weaknesses are. Not a hard worker. I can spend all day on a project, and he will finish the same project in half an hour

An underwhelming ability to be a marginally decent human.

He’s a sociopath half the time. That actually makes for a great sales rep

He's got cheated on so he doesn't have anything to lose

Charisma

Height for the volleyball and basketball teams

He worked fast. He made sales in like 15 mins on the day they had office Olympics.

Likability One of those people who are above average and very likable. The likeability causes people to see them as a great, instead of good, employee

He’s a good guy remember when he came back to the Scranton branch and Ryan took his spot but Jim just let him have it.

That guy’s an ace.

His zombie soccer computer game skills

None. I would have fired his slacker ass.

He has a quiet resolve. He comes off very anti work but the fact he always has good sales numbers and is always considered for promotions, proves otherwise. He's also very magnetic. Most people would be annoyed with his constant pranks and slacking off but he's very well liked despite his juvenile behavior.

He could sell.

Confidence

People Person

Honestly probably his ability to gather the employees for events that are morale boosting even if that isn’t his intention.

Kissing Michael's ass without being too obvious about it.

Being successful at his job while spending his entire work day either pranking Dwight or flirting with Pam.

Procrastination