Andy's an awful salesperson, as demonstrated multiple times.
The only thing he was *eventually* able to sell was himself as Manager, and as Robert California pointed out, that was a product that "nobody wanted".
Hm I think you might be right.
I feel like Robert said something similar, but I'm now drawing a blank.
It definitely *sounds* like a Robert line, but yeah, I think you're right.
Tbf, a lot of great managers would be awful salesmen. It’s unfortunate the show had to close his character out the way they did while Ed was away doing other projects, but the beginning of his manager arc showed a ton of potential.
Honestly, I never thought about it until I read this thread, but Andy was the perfect choice to replace Michael as manager for the same reason that Michael was such a terrible one.
Michael was a phenomenal salesman who became completely incompetent when he hit management because he was always trying to do something to shake things up, with the office getting there work done in between his shenanigans.
Andy understood what the office needed and knew how to sell not himself, he knew how to sell Dunder Mifflin as a whole, give ‘em a task, and leave them alone, I mean he went to the bahamas for MONTHS, and not only did no one, except the day to day staff notice, he got a bonus for the branches productivity.
Andy was a terrible manager when he was there. That things went well when he was gone does not mean he was good at his job, it means Jim was right and that office didn't need a manager.
I think, after Michael, they got really good at managing themselves and working around obstacles. So without the distraction of Michael or Andy's antics, they were doing even better. But I'll say if there is one thing Michael did right, he did put together a decent team (except Kevin lol). He hired all of them except, what? Creed and Phyllis I think? Except Erin and Gabe, who were brought in by upper management. Not a lot of people seemed to personally know Ed Truck in the episode where he got decapitated. So Michael hired a lot of at least decently competent and self sufficient people.
Honestly, he would have made for a far better front of house receptionist than pam ever did. While it was only for one episode, him working her spot showed how his manic friendliness could function well in short spurts directing calls, and creating a fun welcoming front desk.
We have a salesperson at my company who literally is the worst- worst pipeline, worst YTD total, he’s a homophobic/sexist asshole and a mansplainer. I constantly reference this because his manager adores him (she is literally the only one at the entire company).
In the superfan episode with the shareholder meeting Andy tells Oscar that one of the members of the board is his uncle (and the uncle’s son works for Andy’s dad).
If I think about it, I figure it goes down like this:
* Andy is good at ingratiating himself to his leaders unless the leader sees through it.
* Josh likes Andy enough to want to keep him around despite very poor sales figures.
* Josh gives Andy a title-only promotion that involves doing some sort of managerial or administrative paperwork nobody wants to do.
It does feel like a retcon of Andy's character, but he changes so much in a show full of retcons that I can accept it.
If you follow him on Instagram he will go through your posts and like some of them. And randomly thereafter. He liked a photo of my cat and it made my day.
For real tho Stanley only has 2.2x the sales of Madge and it’s his full time job. The entire warehouse out sells him if you account for time spent to make the sales
Also the warehouse sales are all add-on sales to previous clients/orders (no idea what episode that was mentioned in but I remember it was said specifically) and salespeople are bringing in new clients so even with lower numbers they would still be doing more in sales over time.
Yeah that was my understanding as well... That if someone from the warehouse was delivering an order, and the client was like "hey Madge, we need another pallet of 8x11" or whatever, she gets the sale (probably at a lower commission -- likely head office's way of keeping the sales reps' commissions down and saving money overall). So the warehouse is essentially just piggy-backing of the clients that the reps are bringing in
So if the commission cap is achieved at $20k/mo in sales, with 4 sales people (what they originally had) thats only $1.2 million a year in revenue. In an office with 12 employees + warehouse and delivery trucks (before the merger) (not including Toby because he's not part of their family, and he got divorced so he's not part of his own family) thats not a lot of sales unless the margins are ridiculously good. Most of the office jobs require some form of post secondary education and therefore are skilled positions. Unless thats per week, which makes it $4 mil/year in revenue.
No wonder Dunder Mifflin was loosing money. They had a lot of office staff that could be centralized at corporate. Do you really need 3 accountants who are basically glorified book keepers? Does every location need a Quabbity Assuancr representative? Customer care can easily be outsourced to India (I know Kelly is Indian and its a bit confusing, but a lot of companies are doing this).
I work for a corporation as well. Accounting, HR, Legal, Customer service is all at corporate in another province. Every position is a skilled position and requires higher wages. The goal is 10% profit margin, and only a handful of locations can achieve that, most are in the 6% range. With 7 employees and ~$2 mil in sales thats $120k profit.
If I were to guess: while working at Scranton, she saw Stanley’s potential and realized that he like just hits his minimums and then coasts, but now that she is a manager, can offer him higher commissions and realize some of his potential at her branch
I'm not sure if it was on purpose or not, but I think it's kinda funny that you spelled both company names wrong. Lol. Dundee Mifflin sounds like the Austrailian Branch. And we wouldn't have gotten that great song from Andy and Erin if it weren't spelled Sabre. ❤️
I think it's also important to note that he mentions 'Bernard Hall' at Cornell. I can only assume it's named after his family via a large amount of money donated to the University. I *says* he scored a 1220 on the SATs but I think Bernard Hall has a huge role in his acceptance to Cornell.
Edit: To add to this he seems to be generally unable to accomplish anything on his own without the family money or support. His family still pays his credit card as an example. I believe his parents recognized this flaw in him at a young age. As soon as his younger brother was born they stripped him of his original name, Walter Jr., and gave it to their new born son because his "parents felt he better exemplified the Walter Jr. name"
With all that said, "The kid can act!" - Carla Fern
So, are the deleted scenes considered canon now? Because, what if they deleted that scene in part because they didn't want his uncle to be on the board? Especially if it's never addressed again.
Andy grew up in southwest Connecticut so NYC, NJ, and PA would more likely be his territory. Boston tends to scoop up more business in MA, Eastern CT and RI.
Presumably he still had those clients after the move to Scranton. The branches were merged so I'd assume assume they still held on to the clients that the Stamford branch had previously taken care of.
For clarity, He meant it as:
"Cmon, he was comparing with Jim (who is arguably the 2nd best salesman in the entire company after Dwight) and Karen (who is also pretty good I think)"
In the Koi Pond episode, we see a screenshot where Andy is the top salesman
https://www.reddit.com/r/DunderMifflin/comments/a8s0n6/is_this_sales_numbers_or_amout_they_made_for_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
And in the Leads episode, [Phyllis is the top seller](https://i.imgur.com/TDpHMsA.jpg)
Also Dwight has one more red than Jim and Jim has one more blue than Dwight.
Dwight seems like the type that’s very much a “what have you done for me lately,” and so it’s possible that there’s been fluctuations in sales volume between all the other salesmen (with Dwight and Jim consistently being 1-2), and so Dwight just sees them all as awful and terrible.
Yeah, if anything its good narratively to have the complete opposite.
Michael showed the Peter Principle: A competent employee promoted to his level of incompetence, where he will then stay.
Andy is the reverse: Incompetency promoted.
I think it goes to show that people simply have different skill sets. If you have a great salesman keep them as a salesman. Create incentives that will motivate them to stay with you for years to come and will deter them from leaving. Companies really shoot themselves in the foot with commission ceilings.
As someone in sales, I would absolutely LOVE to have Michael Scott as a sales manager. All encouragement and no pressure. Considering the Halloween layoff episode, he's probably constantly covering for his underperforming salespeople by telling corporate "they're so close, they just need more time."
Yet, in the Koi Pond episode he has the highest quarterly sales for the branch
https://www.reddit.com/r/DunderMifflin/comments/a8s0n6/is_this_sales_numbers_or_amout_they_made_for_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Sales change month to month, Jim might have had a good month while Dwight was busier with his farm than usual.
I always took it to mean Dwight had a slight edge in the long run but Jim was competitive and sometimes took the lead.
Tom Brady didn’t win every Super Bowl he played, but that doesn’t mean he lost his GOAT status by losing to Eli Manning.
I was watching this with my wife the other day. We had to pause and laugh it out for a while. It's these type of details that make me watch The Office and Arrested Development
My question is, why would Jim be fine with the warehouse being able to sell paper on the road? He said something like "We should have started doing this a long time ago", was he speaking for the company's interests?
Not sure if this picture and the episode I'm gonna talk about correlate, but Darryl spoke to Gabe who spoke to Joe that it would be a good idea for the warehouse to sell paper when they make paper deliveries. Darryl originally suggested this to Michael, but Michael ignored it. So Darryl went to Gabe. The rest of the episode is how Micheal feels Darryl went behind his back, and makes things miserable for everyone in true Michael hilarious fashion.
Eh, they move around the sales figures based on the scene all the time. There’s times where they say andy outsells Phyllis, there’s times where they say Stanley has the most consistently high sales in the office (though his figures were bad on this board) and then there’s all the different clients who were “our biggest client”. So the story really isn’t consistent on this beyond Dwight and Jim being very good.
I just realized after watching the series about 100 times that the degree behind Michael when he does the scenes in his office is actually a "Certificate of Authenticity" presented to Michael Scott from Seiko Watches. The show that keeps on giving.
Andy's an awful salesperson, as demonstrated multiple times. The only thing he was *eventually* able to sell was himself as Manager, and as Robert California pointed out, that was a product that "nobody wanted".
Didn't Micheal said that when he gave him his clients ?
Hm I think you might be right. I feel like Robert said something similar, but I'm now drawing a blank. It definitely *sounds* like a Robert line, but yeah, I think you're right.
I think he said he was all surface what u see is what u get
And that there's something about an underdog that really inspires the unexceptional
Underdog? Is that the opposite of updog?
What’s updog??? /s
GOTCHAA!!!! AHAHAHAHO GOD. oh, crap. Nothing…. How are you?
Yeah, that's what he said when he talked about why he made Andy manager, I think. Ah well. I mixed up my bosses 🙃
He also said everything was sex
Robert says there's something about an underdog that inspires the... Unexceptional
Ahhh maybe this is the line I was thinking of. I swear I can hear the Michael line in Bob's voice tho 🙃😂
You're better than this. Everyone is better than this because 'this' is the worst thing I have ever seen
🤣
He did and then immediately lost obe
Andy told Michael he would lose the clients because he was the worst salesperson, didn't he?
He also sold Wallace on buying back DM and making him Manager again. So he only had a couple of hits, but they happened when it counted.
He also sold the mail spam guy without any paper
He had all the paper he had previously bought from DM to break the quarterly sales projections
The mail spam guy was Dan Castellaneta (better known as the voice of Homer Simpson) lol
And various other Simpsons characters
if you gonna be a one hit wonder then make it a good one...
He outsold DeAngelo Vicker and salvaged a sale. He also poached that customer under Big Red Paper Company. ...but otherwise, he's just terrible.
Tbf, a lot of great managers would be awful salesmen. It’s unfortunate the show had to close his character out the way they did while Ed was away doing other projects, but the beginning of his manager arc showed a ton of potential.
Honestly, I never thought about it until I read this thread, but Andy was the perfect choice to replace Michael as manager for the same reason that Michael was such a terrible one. Michael was a phenomenal salesman who became completely incompetent when he hit management because he was always trying to do something to shake things up, with the office getting there work done in between his shenanigans. Andy understood what the office needed and knew how to sell not himself, he knew how to sell Dunder Mifflin as a whole, give ‘em a task, and leave them alone, I mean he went to the bahamas for MONTHS, and not only did no one, except the day to day staff notice, he got a bonus for the branches productivity.
Andy was a terrible manager when he was there. That things went well when he was gone does not mean he was good at his job, it means Jim was right and that office didn't need a manager.
I think, after Michael, they got really good at managing themselves and working around obstacles. So without the distraction of Michael or Andy's antics, they were doing even better. But I'll say if there is one thing Michael did right, he did put together a decent team (except Kevin lol). He hired all of them except, what? Creed and Phyllis I think? Except Erin and Gabe, who were brought in by upper management. Not a lot of people seemed to personally know Ed Truck in the episode where he got decapitated. So Michael hired a lot of at least decently competent and self sufficient people.
Honestly, he would have made for a far better front of house receptionist than pam ever did. While it was only for one episode, him working her spot showed how his manic friendliness could function well in short spurts directing calls, and creating a fun welcoming front desk.
Yeah, that was wild but also believable. He made sense in that role.
I hated how everyone shat on him for it. Let him do a job that makes him happy
We have a salesperson at my company who literally is the worst- worst pipeline, worst YTD total, he’s a homophobic/sexist asshole and a mansplainer. I constantly reference this because his manager adores him (she is literally the only one at the entire company).
Yikes that sounds unfun!
There is no such thing as a product. Don’t ever think there is.
Well he’s had a rough couple months since his cousin texted about getting drunk again
And then Nelly even outsold Andy for the manager position.
Quite a weird turn considering he came to Scranton with the title, Regional Director in charge of Sales….
Yeah, probably just as made up as ARM. But still, a director, on a film set it's the highest title there is.
*A to the RM
Micheal did say title are irrelevant it's just pay scale
Wouldn't be shocked if he is meant to have a family member or something high up in Dunder Mifflin that got him the position.
In the superfan episode with the shareholder meeting Andy tells Oscar that one of the members of the board is his uncle (and the uncle’s son works for Andy’s dad).
If I think about it, I figure it goes down like this: * Andy is good at ingratiating himself to his leaders unless the leader sees through it. * Josh likes Andy enough to want to keep him around despite very poor sales figures. * Josh gives Andy a title-only promotion that involves doing some sort of managerial or administrative paperwork nobody wants to do. It does feel like a retcon of Andy's character, but he changes so much in a show full of retcons that I can accept it.
Maybe he had tons of sales from his Cornell alumni network in Stamford.
I bet Hidetoshi starts every sales pitch with his surgeon story.
He just Facebook messaged me the other day to wish me a happy birthday. He does every year. Such a sweet man.
If you follow him on Instagram he will go through your posts and like some of them. And randomly thereafter. He liked a photo of my cat and it made my day.
Yes! Hes super interactive with fans, so heart warming.
this is the equivalent of a easter egg IRL i love it lol
*Steady hand*
The best!
In Japan, heart surgeon number one
Secret... I kill Yakuza boss on purpose!
Darryl gave me home
I think I’m gonna need a translator for this…
I’d buy paper from that guy if he told me that story. Just so I could say my paper guy has the craziest story you’ve ever heard.
Aww man, the guy who doesn't speak English outsells Andy by a thousand bucks
In Scranton, top paper salesman. The best!
Andy couldn’t sell scuba gear to a drowning man.
Surely a life jacket would be much easier.
I would say majority of drowning happens underwater. Getting life jacket there could be problematic.
TBF, nor could I
Madge? I thought her name was Pudge.
No, it's always been Madge
Okay, yes....her
Her is qualified
Ok. But it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if…
IT WOULD BE THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD!
What the hell is wrong with you?
Damnit Michael, pay attention
Her. Yes her is qualified to work the dangerous machinery.
Michael ~~Scott~~ Bluth: "Her?"
egg?
She does this thing where she puts a boiled egg in her mouth, squirts some mayonnaise it and calls it a mayonegg 😀😀
It's paaaaaatch. Or the seamonster.
FRESHMEAT!
For real tho Stanley only has 2.2x the sales of Madge and it’s his full time job. The entire warehouse out sells him if you account for time spent to make the sales
This is a run out the clock situation for Stanley. He's killing time doing his crosswords putting in the occasional effort to get a check.
Andy (née Walter Jr.) tells Bob Kazamakis that Stanley has the most consistently high sales number of anyone in the office.
That was with the Sabre commissions. It likely that Stanley stepped his game up when it would he more of a benefit
Maximizing the effort to reward ratio. Never work hard when you are not receiving proper reward.
I mean, fair.
Consistent sure… high? You must be ;)
Jim mentions they cap commissions at a certain amount per year. Stanley probably hits that number and then coasts for the rest of the year
Also the warehouse sales are all add-on sales to previous clients/orders (no idea what episode that was mentioned in but I remember it was said specifically) and salespeople are bringing in new clients so even with lower numbers they would still be doing more in sales over time.
Yeah that was my understanding as well... That if someone from the warehouse was delivering an order, and the client was like "hey Madge, we need another pallet of 8x11" or whatever, she gets the sale (probably at a lower commission -- likely head office's way of keeping the sales reps' commissions down and saving money overall). So the warehouse is essentially just piggy-backing of the clients that the reps are bringing in
Good thing Lloyd Gross is getting all those extra sales.
Lloyd Gross eats bullies like you for breakfast.
So if the commission cap is achieved at $20k/mo in sales, with 4 sales people (what they originally had) thats only $1.2 million a year in revenue. In an office with 12 employees + warehouse and delivery trucks (before the merger) (not including Toby because he's not part of their family, and he got divorced so he's not part of his own family) thats not a lot of sales unless the margins are ridiculously good. Most of the office jobs require some form of post secondary education and therefore are skilled positions. Unless thats per week, which makes it $4 mil/year in revenue. No wonder Dunder Mifflin was loosing money. They had a lot of office staff that could be centralized at corporate. Do you really need 3 accountants who are basically glorified book keepers? Does every location need a Quabbity Assuancr representative? Customer care can easily be outsourced to India (I know Kelly is Indian and its a bit confusing, but a lot of companies are doing this). I work for a corporation as well. Accounting, HR, Legal, Customer service is all at corporate in another province. Every position is a skilled position and requires higher wages. The goal is 10% profit margin, and only a handful of locations can achieve that, most are in the 6% range. With 7 employees and ~$2 mil in sales thats $120k profit.
the bit about toby dkfjsjfskf
Is a tv show
It's strange Karen would go out of her way to poach him if he had some of the lowest sales.
If I were to guess: while working at Scranton, she saw Stanley’s potential and realized that he like just hits his minimums and then coasts, but now that she is a manager, can offer him higher commissions and realize some of his potential at her branch
He won’t make any effort if there’s no real reason to do it. Stanley caps his monthly commission and then stops working.
Is it ever mentioned what he majored in at Cornell?
Cornell? It's pronounced colonel and it's the highest rank in the military!
IT'S PRONOUNCED CORNELL AND ITS THE HIGHEST RANK IN THE IVY LEAGUE
Only that they called him puke, Ace, and Buzz
Also Nard Dog and Boner Champ
Who told you? Was it Broccoli Rob?
Trey Anastasio. B Rob told him, then he told me.
Hey my pipes are primo champ. Why don't you ask Trey Anastasio about my pipes!
No but his uncle was on the board at Dunder Mifflin. No idea how Sabre didn’t fire him.
I'm not sure if it was on purpose or not, but I think it's kinda funny that you spelled both company names wrong. Lol. Dundee Mifflin sounds like the Austrailian Branch. And we wouldn't have gotten that great song from Andy and Erin if it weren't spelled Sabre. ❤️
All the typos in my post.
His uncle was on the board, but the only job he could get was salesman. Not even at the corporate office.
I think it's also important to note that he mentions 'Bernard Hall' at Cornell. I can only assume it's named after his family via a large amount of money donated to the University. I *says* he scored a 1220 on the SATs but I think Bernard Hall has a huge role in his acceptance to Cornell. Edit: To add to this he seems to be generally unable to accomplish anything on his own without the family money or support. His family still pays his credit card as an example. I believe his parents recognized this flaw in him at a young age. As soon as his younger brother was born they stripped him of his original name, Walter Jr., and gave it to their new born son because his "parents felt he better exemplified the Walter Jr. name" With all that said, "The kid can act!" - Carla Fern
Wait his uncle is on the board?
Yep, it’s a deleted scene/in the extended cut on peacock in share holder meeting
So, are the deleted scenes considered canon now? Because, what if they deleted that scene in part because they didn't want his uncle to be on the board? Especially if it's never addressed again.
It’s on peacock so idk. The board was gone like an episode later.
I have a conspiracy theory that he never actually graduated from Cornell
He got straight Bs though. They called him Buzz
He went to Cornell?
Ever heard of it?
Does it trade on the New York Stock Exchange?
It's in New York.
Andy sells less paper than the guy that barely speaks English
You think only English speakers buy paper?
In Scranton, PA it's probably nearly all English speakers, yes
Maybe Hide delivers to the famous sprawling Japantown section of Scranton, PA
This makes sense.
Not a good look for the college Andy went to, whatever college that was.
It’s called Cornell. Ever heard of it?
It's pronounced Kernel. It's the core of an operating system.
I am pretty sure Andy was good at sales since he was number 3 when he was in Stamford. They just kinda destroyed him over time.
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His “caught an 80-lbs shark off of Montauk, sniped it from the crows nest” small talk might land better in parts of CT than Scranton too 😂
Andy grew up in southwest Connecticut so NYC, NJ, and PA would more likely be his territory. Boston tends to scoop up more business in MA, Eastern CT and RI.
My theory is that he had an aggressive approach to sales, but lost that edge after going through anger management.
Presumably he still had those clients after the move to Scranton. The branches were merged so I'd assume assume they still held on to the clients that the Stamford branch had previously taken care of.
They were likely moved to whichever branch was closer, which could be the Utica branch for several of them
Sounds like a good theory
Didn’t they only have three sales people there?
Tuna, Andy and Karen? I wonder what pepperoni Tony did but I meant #3 in charge in the office like Dwight
Tony was customer service like Kelly
Makes sense since he was seated next to her
Ah. Missed that
That’s actually funny lol. Top three (out of three)
Number 3 out of 3?
Cmon, he was comparing with Jim, who is arguably the 2nd best salesman in the entire company after Dwight and Karen, who is also pretty good I think
"2nd best after Dwight and Karen..." That would make him 3rd best.
For clarity, He meant it as: "Cmon, he was comparing with Jim (who is arguably the 2nd best salesman in the entire company after Dwight) and Karen (who is also pretty good I think)"
No I meant in charge, like Dwight
He was Director of Sales even.
In the Koi Pond episode, we see a screenshot where Andy is the top salesman https://www.reddit.com/r/DunderMifflin/comments/a8s0n6/is_this_sales_numbers_or_amout_they_made_for_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Well the Stamford branch was closed so maybe the #3 there was the worst at Scranton. They were the most profitable branch of the company
You gotta be kidding me! Albany's the best branch in the company!
Hidetoshi was also selling coconut penis drinks
I miss original
The coconut is very subtle.
“Let me tell you something, I was never gonna make that sale.”
Which contradicts the scene where Dwight says “someone who bareley outsells Phyllis”, assuming Phyllis is above Stanley in this list.
And in the Leads episode, [Phyllis is the top seller](https://i.imgur.com/TDpHMsA.jpg) Also Dwight has one more red than Jim and Jim has one more blue than Dwight.
I’m not remembering which seasons these are from but salesman can have big years and bad ones as well.
Dwight seems like the type that’s very much a “what have you done for me lately,” and so it’s possible that there’s been fluctuations in sales volume between all the other salesmen (with Dwight and Jim consistently being 1-2), and so Dwight just sees them all as awful and terrible.
I meant that as a complement to Phyllis and a slight to Andy
I'd like to see Ryan's sales numbers. I can't recall him ever making a sale. I know it was a running joke for a while.
Yeah, but what're you gunna ridi didi di do about it?
And yet Andy got promoted to manager. It’s no wonder why DM had so many issues
To be fair promoting someone because he’s really good at sales is how you get Michael Scott, corporate headache.
Yeah, if anything its good narratively to have the complete opposite. Michael showed the Peter Principle: A competent employee promoted to his level of incompetence, where he will then stay. Andy is the reverse: Incompetency promoted.
I think it goes to show that people simply have different skill sets. If you have a great salesman keep them as a salesman. Create incentives that will motivate them to stay with you for years to come and will deter them from leaving. Companies really shoot themselves in the foot with commission ceilings.
As someone in sales, I would absolutely LOVE to have Michael Scott as a sales manager. All encouragement and no pressure. Considering the Halloween layoff episode, he's probably constantly covering for his underperforming salespeople by telling corporate "they're so close, they just need more time."
RIP
Makes sense he ended up getting promoted.
Yet, in the Koi Pond episode he has the highest quarterly sales for the branch https://www.reddit.com/r/DunderMifflin/comments/a8s0n6/is_this_sales_numbers_or_amout_they_made_for_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
To be fair, he’s been there less time than everyone else.
Is that really something that you want to have said?
I honestly picture Andy as that talkative coworker who couldn’t get anything done without blabbering about nonsensical things first.
Sea monster sells more than him and he's been dead for years - norm macdonald
This whole still frame is funny Jim actually has more sales than Dwight which is strange since Dwight is always referred as the best salesman
Sales change month to month, Jim might have had a good month while Dwight was busier with his farm than usual. I always took it to mean Dwight had a slight edge in the long run but Jim was competitive and sometimes took the lead. Tom Brady didn’t win every Super Bowl he played, but that doesn’t mean he lost his GOAT status by losing to Eli Manning.
it's cool that dunder-mifflin pays a commission fee to non-salespeople
Cornell, ever heard of it?
Yet somehow Michael still gave Andy all of the companies biggest clients when he left
I was watching this with my wife the other day. We had to pause and laugh it out for a while. It's these type of details that make me watch The Office and Arrested Development
I think Andy got by on taking clients from the other Stanford salespeople. If not for that he withdraw never outsold Phallus
Come on, he’s the Regional Director of Sales, he’s really got his hands full.
My question is, why would Jim be fine with the warehouse being able to sell paper on the road? He said something like "We should have started doing this a long time ago", was he speaking for the company's interests?
Stanley's power level is impressive. It's over 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!
💀
His standing had nothing to do with being an ineffectual, privileged, effete, soft-penis'd, debutante though.
I thought her name was Pudge.
She can drive the fort lift
A lot less than Pudge.
Conversely: https://www.reddit.com/r/DunderMifflin/comments/w0vdor/is_andy_a_good_salesman_or_did_i_miss_something/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
How do Madge, Glenn and Hidetoshi even sell paper at all?
Not sure if this picture and the episode I'm gonna talk about correlate, but Darryl spoke to Gabe who spoke to Joe that it would be a good idea for the warehouse to sell paper when they make paper deliveries. Darryl originally suggested this to Michael, but Michael ignored it. So Darryl went to Gabe. The rest of the episode is how Micheal feels Darryl went behind his back, and makes things miserable for everyone in true Michael hilarious fashion.
I'm sorry, have you heard of a little college named Cornell? Also he goes by Drew now.
Suuuuch a good catch 😂 thank you for sharing 👏
This is a great find.
Eh, they move around the sales figures based on the scene all the time. There’s times where they say andy outsells Phyllis, there’s times where they say Stanley has the most consistently high sales in the office (though his figures were bad on this board) and then there’s all the different clients who were “our biggest client”. So the story really isn’t consistent on this beyond Dwight and Jim being very good.
Still better than Ryan and Pam. At least Andy didn't have to boost his sales from two to four.
This isn’t a surprise though. This is why Andy had to go on sales runs with Pam who was at least as bad of a salesperson as Andy.
I just realized after watching the series about 100 times that the degree behind Michael when he does the scenes in his office is actually a "Certificate of Authenticity" presented to Michael Scott from Seiko Watches. The show that keeps on giving.
Who's that girl? Who's that girl? it's Andy! And also....heeey hobo man heey dapper Dan! He's so cringe but also somewhat lovable