[quote=yamashi1][quote=scaredyclassic]

Results? Merit? I don’t know that politics and the ability of manipulative sociopaths to seize control will ever be supplanted by mere merit.

This article by venkatesh rao on the series THE OFFICE explains it all and is a must read if you think the office is Shakespeare for our time,

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/%5B/quote%5D

Found the article to be quite humorous. Thanks for providing.[/quote]

I have watched THE OFFICE in its entirety 3x . I find it to be very instructional. But venkatesh raos view really brought it together for me. I would like to see more high level critical analysis of THE OFFICE, personalky.