What are your thoughts on Jim from The Office?

Absolute douche

Yeah upon rewatch, he's a douche and his whole adolescent "I like Pam but won't act on it" thing isn't cute, especially considering Pam is engaged to someone.

Honestly the whole show to me seems kind of outdated. It's not timeless like, say, Seinfeld.

He's an actual workplace bully who should've been fired around season 2.

Idris Elba showing up and sizing him up in the blink of an eye is a series highlight.

Hes cool

Slayven said:

I really liked the arc when Idris came in and didn't fall for his bullshit.

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One of the worst parts of the show

Seeing Jim show him up in front of David was hilarious

One of history's greatest monsters.

cagey said:

He's an actual workplace bully who should've been fired around season 2.

Idris Elba showing up and sizing him up in the blink of an eye is a series highlight.

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I tuned out way before then but would love a clip of this if anyone has one.

Slayven said:

I been re watching the show and goddamn is the dude a bit of a psycho when it comes to Dwight. His pranks go from cute to some Jigsaw level shit. Like he set up pranks to go off when he wasn't there AND he forgot about them. When did he find time to make sales?

I really liked the arc when Idris came in and didn't fall for his bullshit.

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There is A LOT of down time in your average office.

Also he didn't set it up to go off when he wasn't there. It was there for YEARS and went unnoticed by Dwight. That's why he forgot about it.

Jim is your typical "straight good guy". He is primarily in the series to be a juxtaposition to the rest of the cast. Just by being relatively "normal" the other seem more weird.

Better then starting fires and kidnapping people I say.

He's pretty cool. I think y'all underestimate just how much of a dick Dwight is; if I were Jim, I'd totally mess with him too.

The Idris episodes made me so stressed out. I felt like I was getting in trouble.

Years ago on my first watch I liked him. Now, I've been rewatching it and he's a complete asshole.

I'd imagine most of this place relates more to Dwight.

Playco Armboy said:

He's pretty cool. I think y'all underestimate just how much of a dick Dwight is; if I were Jim, I'd totally mess with him too.

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Exactly.

He's a jerk but Dwight eggs it on.

He's a complete pyschopath who should have been fired. If I were Dwight in that situation I would not have taken his shit, I would have given him a stern talking to and gone to corporate. Anyone that likes Jim is a sociopath. Thank god Idris Elba came in and put an end to the fun, that was the highlight of the show.

It's because he is Asian, isn't it?

Playco Armboy said:

He's pretty cool. I think y'all underestimate just how much of a dick Dwight is; if I were Jim, I'd totally mess with him too.

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Yeah I am kinda confused here

Sanjuro said:

It's because he is Asian, isn't it?

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Truth bomb.

I read a thing talking about how Jim sucks because he's the protagonist, but all he does it shrug and joke when his boss is being racist, sexist and whatever else because it doesn't really affect him personally. I think that's a pretty decent take.

Dwight's quite possibly a Nazi so I don't mind if he gets messed with so much.

I liked him before and on rewatch.

He's a bully.

To add to this, messing with Dwight often only winds him up more. He's supposed to come off as the relatable character but he's kind of a mean spirited jerk.

Slayven said:

they did good replicating the aura of have a new boss and no one knowing how to deal with it

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It was during a time in my life where I wasn't sure about my job security and while I'm nothing like Jim, I was already paranoid about getting kicked out the door. I have impostor syndrome so I take little gestures and comments that mean nothing and blow them up to the worst case scenario.

Daysean said:

Absolute douche

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pretty much

The dude is a nihilist. He believed and stood for nothing the whole series. His cute brand of modern cynicism is exactly whats wrong with everything in our society right now. No passion, no soul, no vitality and most importantly no courage.

He's only doing to Dwight what Dwight would do to him lol

Like everyone else on the show he's a paper thin stereotype that works well for like 2 seasons but they drug it out forever.

I thought of him as kind of creepy in regards to Pam, but she is just as guilty herself so... I don't know. They both kind of suck.

If you treat The Office as a portrayal of real life then everybody is terrible and some of them should be in prison.

If you treat it as a comedy with exaggerated characters, Jim is a cool guy.

Aftervirtue said:

The dude is a nihilist. He believed and stood for nothing the whole series. His cute brand of modern cynicism is exactly whats wrong with everything in our society right now. No passion, no soul, no vitality.

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Dwight is a terrible person.

Yaboosh said:

Dwight is a terrible person.

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Ya, but that's a given. The show doesn't portray Jim as one except for precious few moments.

Dwight is a terrible person. So I was fine with Jim "bullying" him.

TheIdiot said:

Yeah upon rewatch, he's a douche and his whole adolescent "I like Pam but won't act on it" thing isn't cute, especially considering Pam is engaged to someone.

Honestly the whole show to me seems kind of outdated. It's not timeless like, say, Seinfeld.

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Confused by your first sentence. What's wrong with liking someone and not acting on it because they're engaged?

huh, i watched all the seasons, including the christmas specials, and don't remember any jim or dwight

It's just a TV show

I did love their moments like this though

Of all the people in The Office, Jim is the least bit psycho.

Falconbox said:

Confused by your first sentence. What's wrong with liking someone and not acting on it because they're engaged?

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Yeah I expressed myself badly. I meant the whole sending her signals, pining after her, etc. He did kiss her in season 2 though IIRC.

I didn't hate Jim or Pam until they actually got together. Then they became the worst couple in TV history. The wedding episode, fucking awful.

Slayven said:

I been re watching the show and goddamn is the dude a bit of a psycho when it comes to Dwight. His pranks go from cute to some Jigsaw level shit. Like he set up pranks to go off when he wasn't there AND he forgot about them. When did he find time to make sales?

I really liked the arc when Idris came in and didn't fall for his bullshit.

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Idris was great and it was nice to see Jim out of his element for once.

I personally think the hate he gets is overblown. He's kind of a dick sometimes but Dwight asks for it and just cannot help but engage with Jim.

Works fine for a tv show character and a foil to Dwight, but I definitely related to him more when I was a high schooler watching the show.

Aftervirtue said:

The dude is a nihilist. He believed and stood for nothing the whole series. His cute brand of modern cynicism is exactly whats wrong with everything in our society right now. No passion, no soul, no vitality and most importantly no courage.

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Basically.

Late stage gen x apathy that gets less and less fashionable as time goes on.

You people who think Jim is a psycho, what word would you use to describe Dwight, the guy who set the office on fire after locking his coworkers inside?

Offering Dwight a mint every time windowsboot.wav played was hilarious.

Dwight is a workplace tyrant and himself a bully (see: his relationship with Andy and any situation in which his misogyny shows.)

Whatever Jim did to take him down a peg is 100% justified. Not dissimilar to screaming Tucker Carlson out of a restaurant.

If it wasn't for Michael, he'd be my favorite.