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Dummies, Morons & Idiots

January 28, 2010 at 11:07 pm by: Jody Ward-Rannow

Litigation Value: $0 (which is good because Dunder Mifflin has no money left!)
Unfortunately, tonight’s episode was another repeat. Matt Rita did a fantastic job covering most of the employee relations issues raised by this episode when it originally aired in November. In this post, we will discuss two moments not discussed in the previous post.

Posted in Michael Scott, Oscar Martinez, Sexual Orientation Discrimination by: Jody Ward-Rannow
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Classic Rewind

January 22, 2010 at 10:18 am by: Chris Butler

Litigation Value: In the aggregate, $100 million; most of which is punitive damages
OK, so tonight’s episode – The Banker –- didn’t really bring us much new material, but it indeed highlighted five years of near-catastrophic employee-relations failures. As Dunder Mifflin verges on economic collapse, a potential investor dispatches its self-proclaimed “fact-checker” to conduct a due-diligence assessment [...]

Posted in Age Discrimination, Andy Bernard, Angela Martin, Creed Bratton, Discrimination, Diversity, Dwight Schrute, HR, Harassment, Hostile Work Environment, Investigations, Jan Levenson, Jim Halpert, Kelly Kapoor, Management, Meredith Palmer, Michael Scott, National Origin Discrimination, Office Party, Office Romance, Oscar Martinez, Pam Beesly, Phyllis Lapin, Privacy, Race Discrimination, Racial harassment, Ryan Howard, Sex/Gender Discrimination, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Sexual/Gender Harassment, Stanley Hudson, Supervisor issues, Toby Flenderson, Workers' Compensation, Workplace violence by: Chris Butler
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Old Wine in New Skins

January 8, 2010 at 12:32 am by: Matt Rita

Happy new year, faithful readers! Those of you who surfed away from the BCS national championship college football game — apparently sponsored by some company other than Dunder Mifflin — may have noticed that the most recent episode of The Office was another repeat. An erudite colleague and fellow blogger has already posted on that [...]

Posted in Dwight Schrute by: Matt Rita
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