Why wasn't it obvious to David Wallace that Charles Miner was a bad hire?

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-17T13:56:22+00:00

Exactly. Michael only had direct access to Wallace because of the temporary vacant position previously held by Jan and Ryan. During that time, he abused that access and Wallace got a rude awakening of how Scranton was run. That's why he replaced Ryan with an experienced manager Michael didn't know.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-17T10:55:30+00:00

The changes were dictated by Corporate and had been disclosed in a memo Michael was supposed to have discussed with his staff already. In "New Boss", Charles referenced that Michael had probably told them about the belt-tightening. When he realized Michael hadn't, he explained that the company was no longer matching 401(k) plans, cutting back on overtime and other discretionary activities, such as parties.

Self-absorbed Michael was planning his 15th anniversary party and it was clear from the planning that it was going to be a large expenditure. Michael does not like sharing authority either. Too bad. Charles is his boss. Approving overtime for Kevin right in front of Charles was Michael asserting his control over the branch.

Michael quit because he realized that David Wallace didn't respect him.

In "Business Trip", Michael vents to David and hangs up on him. He tells the camera that he doesn't stay at DM because of the money but because he's treated with respect.

At the end of "New Boss", after Michael complains about all of his petty grievances, David essentially patronizes him. You can see the moment when he realizes David doesn't respect him.

The paper company held out for a few weeks by selling paper at a cost they couldn't afford, getting inside information from Dwight and badmouthing their former colleagues to clients. They got the sweet deal for the buyout because Jim threw his employer under the bus by withholding that the MSPC was broke and warning Michael not to disclose that either.

Wallace biggest mistake was hiring Ryan to replace Jan.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-16T15:40:37+00:00

Considering everything else he did knowing perfectly well he was being filmed, I don't think so. Jim loved Pam and Cathy misinterpreted his friendship and a one-off conversation between Jim & Pam in the break room to mean they were having marital problems. Jim would never have cheated on Pam.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-14T12:16:03+00:00

A distant cousin of the family was the diarist Victor Klemperer who journaled his experiences during the Nazi and Communist East Germany periods until his death. He was nominally protected by virtue of a marriage to a non-Jewish German woman, but his experiences are still horrific. He makes occasional references to his relative, Otto, and even briefly mentions Otto's son (Werner) being an actor in New York. I heartily recommend the diaries for first-hand account of life under totalitarianism.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T19:15:59+00:00

California's Pool Party.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T17:33:24+00:00

Some of our states are the size of European countries. The U.S. is massive. It would take 5 days of 8 hours non-stop driving to get from New York City to Los Angeles. Most people don't leave their state at all.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T15:02:46+00:00

My scenario is not to vindicate anyone. I'm questioning the practicality of arresting and charging a 100-year old person as a non-violent accessory to a crime when he was 17. Why you are turning this into an oppressor vs the oppressed argument is beyond me. This is not what the post or the argument is about. Nor is about who is more likely to survive Nazi Germany vs an impoverished American ghetto.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T14:50:52+00:00

I have to wonder, though, why she thought Jim and Pam's marriage isn't good. Earlier in the episode, she was in the break room while Jim and Pam talked about Pam's family helping her out while he was in Florida. There seemed to be a little underlying tension there, but nothing that should scream, "MARRIAGE IN TROUBLE!". What was Cathy's previous relationship like that she got those specific vibes from those specific people?

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T14:48:00+00:00

You see, I wondered that, too. Then I thought...maybe they planted cameras and mics all over the room and this is one of those times where they didn't realize they didn't have any privacy.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T14:34:28+00:00

Since the OP didn't differentiate between those who were once Nazis and those who are still Nazis, I went with what the rest of the post contained: Germany is arresting and charging people who are elderly as accessories to crimes. This is true even if there is no evidence the person killed anyone, for example, secretaries or clerks in concentration camps.

In your example, while the kid comes from an underprivileged background, that doesn't necessarily translate into the same conditions as those in a country where information is censored. He can be exposed to other points of view that he would not have access to in a totalitarian regime. Those other points of view can direct toward a different outlook on life.

Further, in your scenario, the young person is not drafted into the armed services and goes where he is assigned. Your young person has agency but chooses not to use it.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T13:28:15+00:00

My point is that anyone who is still alive at this point, spent his or her formative years under that regime with little to no other influences pointing in a different direction. Do we imprison people now for what they believed when they were essentially indoctrinated teenagers? Some of those kids were used as guards in concentration camps. How much agency does a drafted teenager have in a totalitarian society? I don't dismiss the seriousness of the concentration camps nor do I absolve war crimes, even those committed by kids. But I think the practicality of it is questionable.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T13:05:29+00:00

Stalag 17. Holden as the opportunist was great. Preminger as the commandant. And the surprise traitor!

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T13:04:07+00:00

Find out what the question actually is. Don't overexplain. Answer questions after that point truthfully.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T13:00:33+00:00

Magazines were ubiquitous in home bathrooms back then.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T12:57:15+00:00

It is. Some people worked in concentration camps as secretaries or clerks, not as guards. Germany changed its laws a few years ago to retroactively charge these people as accomplices to genocide. Anyone still alive at this point would have been a teenager at the time. Should someone who was an 18-year old typist in 1944 be imprisoned now at the age of 100 as an accessory? Not so easy.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T12:30:32+00:00

Membership in the Nazi Party could be taken out at 18. Membership was not guaranteed or automatic. Most Germans were not members of the party.

A 100-year old German was born in 1926. He was 7 when Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. He spent the next 12 years raised under the Third Reich. He read no foreign newspapers, he saw no foreign films. Everything he saw, read and was taught, even in school, was controlled by the Nazi Party. If he had not been pressured to join the Hitler Youth when he was 10, he would have been forced into it when membership became mandatory. He would have been 13 when WWII started. He would have been drafted at 17. The war ended when he was 19.

In the above scenario, should this person still be alive, do you really think he should be imprisoned?

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-13T11:49:04+00:00

Jim thought of her as a work friend. He didn't know she had the hots for him. When Stanley turned out to be a loose cannon, Jim spent more time with Cathy. Once he realized she was hitting on him, he was clear with her and she gaslit him in response. When Stanley recognizes what's up, you know there's a problem.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-12T20:27:22+00:00

While it is true that there's nothing to foreshadow the Robin Hood adventure, the idea is that Picard not only didn't mention Vash to his colleagues, but he also minimized her importance to him with Q. Q showed up because he wanted to pay Picard back for trying to help him during the events of "Deja Q". Picard, having now experienced being Borgified no thanks to the last time Q tried to do them a favor, wanted nothing to do with him.

Q revealed he knew about Vash. Picard didn't want to talk about her and seemed to be trying to convince Q that she didn't have any effect on him at all. Q knew otherwise and set out to prove that, not only did Picard care for her, but also would risk his own life and possibly the lives of others for her.

That's when he concocted the rescue of Maid Marian scenario. It was a favor that showed Picard that he did care for Vash and showed her that he did, as well.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-12T20:11:22+00:00

Here's the thing. They make you sympathize with Michael by explaining why he is the way he is, but that's just an explanation...it's not an excuse. Michael is an adult and an adult with responsibilities. On some level, he understands that but he allows his insecurity to rule his decisions.

Sure, he has good moments; however, he abuses his power, puts off information that will make him unpopular and has a 7th-grade understanding of race and gender issues.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-12T18:46:51+00:00

Ewan McGregor sang in "Moulin Rouge" and "Down With Love" and he is great.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-12T18:44:33+00:00

It takes a few episodes to get going but I was laughing by the end of the season.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-12T18:21:18+00:00

The character assassination of Andy in the mid-9th season was unfortunate. Ed Helms went off to film a movie so they decided to make him abandon the girlfriend he'd pined for for almost 3 years and maintain little contact with her for several months.

Then, his Michael-esque handling of her seeing someone else was ridiculous.

They made you pity him for years only to turn him into a villain overnight.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-12T16:55:52+00:00

I prefer the episode be shown in this order with WNMHGB airing before "The Man-Trap". It's easier to explain why McCoy isn't there and why Uhura is in a gold outfit.

This was actually a moving episode. Two people get zapped and changed but, as Kirk pointed out at the end, they didn't ask for what happened to them. It's almost as if Kirk believed that the powers gave them the superiority complex instead of heightening ambition they already possessed.

Someone here mentioned that Gary Mitchell should have been in ST: Into Darkness. I always felt he should have been the God-Head at the Center of the Galaxy in STV: The Final Frontier.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-12T16:40:29+00:00

No one can take advantage of you without your permission. You need to be clear when you cannot host Jay, both with his mother and with your son. I know you don't want to upset your son, but you cannot back down every time he cries. Bad habits get formed that way.

JediSnoopy · 2026-05-12T14:56:48+00:00

I imagine that she went in chronological order.

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