It is not horribly uncommon in the business world for, typically around the holidays in December such as Christmas and Hanukkah, employees to get presents from their bosses or the corporate branch of the company in which they work and often times these are business gifts or personalized gifts. This also happened on an episode of the famous NBC comedy show, The Office, which hits home for a lot of people because it really is very similar to what working in any office in America is like.
On this particular episode of The Office, a Christmas special episode, the Steve Carell character and boss of the office Michael Scott is sad because his girlfriend has just broken up with him. In the part that deals with personalized business gifts, Michael is sitting around moping about his failed relationship and the secretary Pam tells him that they are short one bath robe in the gift bags from corporate. Michael then tells his number two, Dwight, to take a robe from his arch nemesis in human resources Toby and give it to the person who is missing one. To cheer him up and get his mind off of his girlfriend breaking up with him, the office suck up Andy Bernard offers to take Michael to lunch at the local Benihana style restaurant and is accompanied by Jim and Dwight. As is fairly typical on the show, Michael acts like a fool at the restaurant but somehow manages to get two of the more attractive waitresses at the restaurant to come back to the office with him for the Christmas party.
Meanwhile, back at the office there is infighting within the party planning committee. Sick of controlling Angela and her tyrannical planning, Pam and Karen break away and form the competing committee to plan parties and begin planning their own Christmas party, which has things that Angela's does not such as karaoke and margaritas. In an attempt to get attention back from the new and more fun party, Angela falsely claims to the staff of the office that she has an announcement to make about their paychecks and tries to lure people to her party with various baked goods.
Finally, as Michael, Andy, Jim and Dwight return from lunch with their new found waitress friends the two competing Christmas parties begin. Michael, who has had a little too much to drink while out at his lunch, has trouble discerning which waitress he has been talking to all day and decides to mark her arm with a Sharpie marker so that he can tell the two girls apart.
While, The Office does not sound like a horribly funny comedy when described in writing and words the real beauty of the show comes in the fact that does in fact closely resemble many offices around the country, with all the stereotypical character traits and attitudes. Really, the show is one that can appeal to almost any working person in the nation and really all over the world actually.
Connor R. Sullivan has often purchased business gifts to give to his employees at Christmas. He orders personalized gifts to give to his employees when they have been with the company for five years.
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