Constantly burying one’s head in the sand does not make a hero. If the boss refuses to even listen to valid complaints about how he’s running his ship, then he’s not a good leader. If the office screws up, someone should be held accountable. In this case, his concerns are valid and he has the documentation to prove it. I complained about this concept in my recap of the season premiere where the show painted him to be the bad guy because he said some people were winners and some people were losers. The problem with this storyline is that Robert California is right. After being convinced that the program is real, the office mates work, try to hack into Dwight’s computer to turn off the device, and scream at him when they make their inevitable five mistakes. If the office makes five mistakes in one day, the program will send an e-mail to Robert at 5:00 pm containing a consultant’s report from last year that said the branch should be closed (Dwight is probably not referring to that clip show episode from two years ago, but that was the most recent on-screen consultant I can think of) and every negative e-mail that the group had ever written about him. Andy then turns to his number 2, Dwight, who installs an “Accountability Booster” (described by Jim as a “Doomsday Device”).
All Robert wants is for Andy to fix the problem. Instead of discussing the situation, Andy smiles nervously and tries to change the subject to anything but the matter at hand.
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In Doomsday, Robert California complains to Andy about his “error prone office” whose sloppiness had caused a client to receive a free order one week prior. The question I have to ask after tonight’s installment of The Office is…are we supposed to cheer on incompetence? Robert tries to force Andy to face hard truths.