Shadowing-Übung: Regional Managers RANKED By INSANITY - The Office US - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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I have an announcement to make.
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Fraud was committed in...
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Do you have an announcement?
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I'm...
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I was making it.
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Everybody, David Wallace and I have talked, and we have decided to promote Jim to the position of co-manager.
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Co-manager of what?
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Of your butt.
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And your butt, and your butt, and your butt.
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All of the Scranton Branch butts.
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What's happening to you, Michael?
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What's happening to me?
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I am also being promoted to co-manager.
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We will be co-managers together.
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Jim Halpert, welcome.
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Thank you.
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AHHHHH!!!!
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Michael Scott, Head of Sales.
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You gotta do something, man.
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You can't just sit there.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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You know, it's funny.
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I used to stand in here and wish I was out there.
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Now I'm out there and I wish I was in here.
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Well, the grass is always greener.
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Yeah, except there's no grass out there.
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It's just a farty dirt patch.
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Well, it's what you wanted.
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I really need my job back.
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We made a terrible mistake here.
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For the record, I fought this, all right?
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And now, I'm not really sure what we do.
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We make a poster that says, Happy Opposite Day, and she sees it on the way out.
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That's stupid.
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Oh, I wish we had one of those amnesia flashlights for Men in Black.
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Just...
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Hey, what was that movie where their boss was within earshot and they could have just gone and talked to her?
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Lethal Weapon?
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That's it.
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I think we should do it with the Lethal Weapon line.
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You two are grown-ass men.
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What do I have to do?
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Fire you and get two people in here who don't need so much management?
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What?
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What I say...
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Michael's saying that he's better at being a manager, and I agree, because he's a better people person, weirdly.
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And weirdly, I'm a good dog person.
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Right guys?
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See?
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They love me.
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Fine.
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I don't care which one of you does which job.
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Just stop meeting with me to talk about it.
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Alright, alright.
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Oh, I gotta take this.
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Yep.
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Finish walking my dogs for me.
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And don't ride them.
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A lot of people try to ride them.
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Well, well, well.
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Hmm.
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Boss for.. what was it?
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Oh, four and a half hours?
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New record.
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Whoa.
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Previous record?
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Henry Rosten.
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Lost for nine years, four months, and he only left because he had family matters to attend to, and he...
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What?
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Michael?
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Okay, that's what I'm talking about.
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Big money, big money.
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Yeah!
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Mug duty?
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Yes, you clean all the mugs in the sink.
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This sucks.
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Yeah, seriously, it's like everything on there's work.
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I don't think you guys understand why we're doing this.
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Yeah, and I don't think that you understand wheels.
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I've been through several rounds of development with the team, and here's where we stand with the chore wheel.
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We've got prizes.
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Ten bucks, candy bar, manager for an hour, but there are also penalties.
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I'm sure Robert will be with you as soon as he gets in.
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That one looks empty.
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No, it's Indy's office.
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Oh, is it?
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I have one simple philosophy in business.
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If the seat is open, the job is open.
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It's how I came to briefly race a Formula One car.
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The three slowest laps ever recorded.
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So, what is going on?
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That does seem to be the question, doesn't it?
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Hey, this is messed up, bro.
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Who is this weird lady?
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I know.
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It's a lot.
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So who knows what's going on?
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Anyone?
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You?
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Yes.
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Wait, I am very good at intuiting names. Is it...chumbo?
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Jim, time for your review.
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No, it's not, because you don't really work here.
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Why are you so staunchly defending your friend who has abandoned you?
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Wouldn't you rather come talk with me, maybe definitely get a raise?
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See, that's the thing.
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I don't know if you can even give raises.
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Jim, have you ever heard of a character named Tinkerbell?
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Yes.
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I'm Tinkerbell.
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Hello.
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Mm-hmm.
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I'm a magical fairy who floated into your office to bring a little bit of magic into your lives, to give you all raises.
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And we are grateful.
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But here's the thing about Tinkerbell, Jim.
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Everyone has to believe in her, or she doesn't exist.
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No, she dies.
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She dies.
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Now, who here believes in Tinkerbell?
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Let's see it.
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Show of hands.
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I do.
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Come on, everyone!
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All right, guys, stop.
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I already spent the money.
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Hi.
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Come on Tim you're killing her.
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We believe.
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We believe.
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Look at this wonderful recognition of Nellie's leadership.
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I believe.
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After you make it sir.
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The search committee finally decided after a lot of deliberation deliberation
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on Robert California for the manager position who took one look around
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and left he drove down to Florida
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and convinced Joe to make him CEO CEO her own job he talked her out of her own job
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and I don't really know how someone does that but anyway then the position was his to fill and he chose I...
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It's unbelievable.
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True, I may have been the second choice, but I was the first choice's first choice.
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And about Dwight, I sensed that he might have some resentment about not getting the job, so I sat him down, we had a talk, and I told him, I need a really strong number two.
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I want you to be my enforcer.
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Smart, right?
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Very smart.
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This has got to stop.
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I can't get down.
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Hey.
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Hey, so we saw the new billboard.
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Yeah, pretty cool, huh?
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What better way to announce our new slightly lower prices than with an ad campaign?
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And what better face for an ad campaign than our new regional manager?
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How'd it look?
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You've seen it, right?
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No. Andy, somebody defaced it.
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What?
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How?
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Morning, Stanley.
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There's this thing that people tend to do with billboards that people tend to do with billboards.
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How do I put this?
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If there's an opportunity for a graffiti artist to work in a phallic shape, interacting with the artwork, it'll happen.
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And Andy gave them that opportunity.
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Aaron, how long did we order those billboards for?
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Six months.
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Oh, good.
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I need you to call the billboard company.
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Great billboard.
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Funny, edgy, right up to the line without crossing it.
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Loved it.
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Which one did you see?
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Washington Street.
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The one with like 20 dongs on it.
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Okay, don't be gross.
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What's going on?
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Somebody deface the billboards we just put out in an inappropriate way.
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Oh, that's funny.
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Wade.
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From the photo shoot with you and me?
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Yeah, Dwight!
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No...
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No...
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
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No!
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So, coasting time is officially over.
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Big changes are coming, and they're coming fast.
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And if you don't like them, this is called a door.
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You can walk right through it.
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Alright?
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I'm not here to be your friend.
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I like my life outside of this place.
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I live to leave at 5.
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Change number one, Daryl, per your request, The company is sending you to business school at night.
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Full ride.
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Deal with it.
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Seriously?
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Stone cold seriously.
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They are trying to figure me out, and I don't like it.
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Once they figure me out, they start to tell me what I want to hear.
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And I need to quickly figure out who's a good worker and who is simply a good mind reader.
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Because as soon as I'm hearing what I want to hear, I'm not going to care.
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Change to Toby, you're getting a new chair.
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Thanks.
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Don't thank me.
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Hey, don't thank me, guy.
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Okay?
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And I don't care if you like it.
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These sound like good ideas.
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Why wouldn't we like them?
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I don't care what your favorite flavor is.
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Here's a bowl of ice cream.
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You either like it or you don't.
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That's my attitude right now in this room.
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That's my attitude on Ice Cream Thursdays.
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All right?
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Clear?
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Any questions?
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Any questions?
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This all sounds great to me.
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But I could see how some people might think that they're bad.
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I don't know what to think.
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That is an astute observation, Kevin.
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Kev's got me pegged.
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Kevin, you do it.
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Yes.
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What are you doing?
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Okay.
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Here?
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Someone want to sit in Kevin's lap?
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Angela?
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No. Oscar?
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No thank you.
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Okay, Jimmy, this is for you to show you that anything is possible.
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Fantastic.
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Right?
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Yep.
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This is also for the troops.
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Doctor is in!
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Now what?
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How will your experience selling refinery equipment translate to our smaller scale here?
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You don't work in sales, do you?
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Human resources.
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You see, I sit across from a man.
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I see his face.
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I see his eyes.
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Now, does it matter if he wants $100 of paper or a hundred million dollars of deep sea drilling equipment.
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Don't be a fool.
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He wants respect.
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He wants love.
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He wants to be younger.
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He wants to be attractive.
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There is no such thing as a product.
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Don't ever think there is.
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There is only sex.
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Everything is sex.
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Do you understand that what I'm telling you is a universal truth, Toby?
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Yes.
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Okay, I'm almost a little concerned that you might be overqualified for the position.
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Do you think that you are?
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Do I look like someone who would waste my own time?
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No. You are a man of great confidence.
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Could you speak a little more to that?
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And what the role of confidence...
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would be in a dialogue with a support?
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Will you be heard?
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Will you have a voice?
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Will I steamroll over you?
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Do you feel heard right now, Jim?
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Do you have a voice right now?
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You can answer me.
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Yeah.
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That was your choice, not mine.
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The fallacy is that it is up to the steamroller.
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It is up to the object whether it will be flattened or not.
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And I can tell just from the small interaction we've had already, you won't be flattened by anybody.
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Do you agree with me, Jim?
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Yes.
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Yes, you do.
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I declare...
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Bankruptcy!
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People say I am the best boss.
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They go, God, we've never worked in a place like this before.
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You're hilarious.
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And you get the best out of us.
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Um...
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I think that pretty much sums it up.
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I found it at Spencer Gifts.
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There are 13 people working in this office, so 13 times a year,
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Michael gets a cake and balloons and some sort of joke gift and makes a toast.
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And there are two types of toasts.
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One is a joke about how old you are.
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Look at those wrinkles.
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Blacks do crack.
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Not crack the drug.
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And the other is something inappropriate or horrible. Or both.
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What else?
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He only sings the high harmony to happy birthday.
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And he is a very big believer in surprise parties.
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Maybe even arguably, possibly to a fault.
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Happy birthday!
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Happy birthday!
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Happy birthday!
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Happy birthday!
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So I think, yeah, I think getting these out of the way might be productive.
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Well, if you take a look at this, I tented my pants.
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I've made myself a nice pants tent shelter.
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And this little guy may be done under Mifflin paper someday.
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Nothing to worry about, just using the scope.
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Safety is.. on.
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Unfortunately a flock of birds has eaten the bait that I put out so I've had to turn elsewhere to find sustenance.
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And under this tree I think I struck the mother lode.
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These are nature's best mushrooms.
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Wild.
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And I have to say, these little buggers are damn tasty as well.
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No!
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No!
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No, Michael!
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No!
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No!
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No!
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Give him up!
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Dude, there is no way that Jim is just back here to hang out with Pam.
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Oh, you did not just say that.
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You don't know Pam.
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She is really cool.
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All I'm saying is forget about my chair.
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He wants the manager's chair.
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I thought you wanted that job.
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Yeah, I did.
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But I made too many mistakes.
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It's out of my reach now.
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Besides, I think Jim would be a fine manager.
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I'd be happy to see Jim as manager.
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So, the reason I called you in here is because Andy is moving on.
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Again.
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Again.
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And I'm looking for a new manager.
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And with his performance this year, I have been considering Dwight. Am I crazy?
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Not at all.
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It should be Dwight.
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You sure?
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You're gonna want to invest in a lot more liability insurance, but, uh...
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Hey, if there's someone who loves paper more than Dwight, I definitely don't want to meet that person.
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Say it again.
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Will you be the new manager? Where? Where?
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What branch?
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Here.
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Scranton.
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Come on.
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Come on, Dwight.
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Just get up.
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Let's go.
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It's good news.
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I'm sorry.
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I've just waited for this moment my entire life.
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I mean, I was interim manager once, but then I shot that gun.
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What?
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But this isn't interim manager.
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No. It's Dwight K.
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Schrute.
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Manager.
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Why do you already have this?
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In case Michael or Andy ever got killed in a traffic accident and it was a trade show on the same day.
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You will not regret this decision, David.
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No. I will never, ever let you down.
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I know, Dwight.
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I know.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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All right.
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You're gonna do great.
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You three are my search committee.
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You're in charge of finding me my next manager.
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All righty?
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Till then, we need a new acting manager.
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Now, who's got the most experience in this office?
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Uh, well, we probably don't want to go just on seniority.
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Who is it?
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Hey, Dwight.
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What's up?
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Shut up.
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Okay, well, you do know that Joe was right to take the job away from me, right?
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There's no debating that.
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But I will say, in your one week, every single one of the orders went out on time.
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And I think that is shagadelic, baby.
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It's a beautiful morning at Dunder Mifflin, As I like to call it, Great Bratton.
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Keep it running.
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Do I love being manager?
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I love my kids.
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I love real estate.
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I love ceramics.
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I love my job.
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I love wrestling.
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Find out what language this is.
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My family care.
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The cloth near my star's emers.
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These are bad stuff.
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Okay, team building.
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On this side of the room, Stanley, Phyllis, Jim, Phyllis, Jim, Ted, Elroy.
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And this side of the room, Pam, Meredith, Phyllis, Creed.
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He never called a meeting.
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Bo-body, Bo-body.
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What does the first B stand for?
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What are we doing?
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We're making acronyms.
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Okay, what does the first B stand for?
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Um, business.
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I like it.
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Business, good, Kevin.
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All right, the O.
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We need a new manager.
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First of all, I want to thank you for your years of patronizing our company.
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I've got some bad news.
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We're going out of business.
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Saving face.
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Yep, yep.
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I understand that.
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Basically everything is falling apart here.
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How is this on me?
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Hang up.
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Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.
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Indel has told us there were at least seven.
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Okay, I already see one.
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Give me...
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Okay.
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They're the same picture.
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Get me our biggest client on the phone right this instant.
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Who is our biggest client?
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Uh, just put him through to me.
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Okay.
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Hello, this is the client.
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It's Creed.
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FYI, I'm starting my own paper company.
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Looking to poach some chumps.
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You in?
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Yes.
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Cool.
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Let's keep this on the QT, okay?
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I want you to be a dead mama-jama.
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Great.
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Thank you.

Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion

Diese Sprechübung auf Niveau B1 basiert auf dem Video „Regional Managers RANKED By INSANITY - The Office US“. Dieses Video enthält 443 Sätze und 2627 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 21:18. Der Sprecher spricht gleichmäßig mit etwa 123 Wörtern pro Minute – ein angenehmes Tempo fürs Shadowing. 84 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen. 93 der 443 Sätze sind Fragen – gut, um Frageintonation und kurze Antworten zu üben.

Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video

Die 15 anspruchsvollsten Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:

WortAusspracheBedeutung
billboard Substantiv/ˈbɪlˌboɹd/Anschlagtafel, Anschlagbrett
butt Substantiv/bʌt/Po
deface Verb/dɪˈfeɪs/verunstalten, entstellen
deliberation Substantiv/dɪˌlɪbəˈɹeɪʃən/Abwägung
flatten Verb/ˈflæ.tən/plätten, flachmachen
toast Substantiv/toʊst/Toast, Röstbrot
inappropriate Adjektiv/ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/unangebracht, unangemessen
interim Adjektiv/ˈɪntəɹɪm/übergangsweise, interimistisch
tent Substantiv/tɛnt/Zelt
announcement Substantiv/əˈnaʊns.mənt/Ankündigung, Durchsage
acronym Substantiv/ˈækɹənɪm/Akronym
amnesia Substantiv/ˌæmˈniʒə/Amnesie
astute Adjektiv/əsˈtjuːt/gerissen, listig
earshot Substantiv/ˈɪɹˌʃɑt/Hörweite, Rufweite
fallacy Substantiv/ˈfæl.ə.si/Täuschung

Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

WortBedeutung
fall apart Verbauseinanderfallen
figure out Verbherausfinden
find out Verbherausfinden, erfahren
get up Verbaufstehen
hang up Verbaufhängen
look around Verbsich umsehen, sich umschauen
mess up Verbdurcheinanderbringen
put out Verbrausbringen, raussetzen

Sätze zum Wiederholen

Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:

  • Do you have an announcement?
  • What's happening to me?
  • For the record, I fought this, all right?
  • Why wouldn't we like them?
  • You don't work in sales, do you?

Grammatik in diesem Video

Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:

StrukturIm Video
Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tutwas committed · being promoted · are grown
Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig isthave talked · I've been · has abandoned
Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sachefriend who has · someone who would · someone who loves
Möglichkeit mit „might / may“ might/may + Verb – etwas ist möglich, aber nicht sichermay have · might have · might think

Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest

Der Sprecher verwendet 76 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel don't, I'm, you're. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.

  • Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: deliberation /dɪˌlɪbəˈɹeɪʃən/, amnesia /ˌæmˈniʒə/, earshot /ˈɪɹˌʃɑt/, flashlight /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/, mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/
  • Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: deliberation /dɪˌlɪbəˈɹeɪʃən/, inappropriate /ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/, refinery /rɪˈfaɪnərɪ/, seniority /sinˈjɔɹɪti/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/

Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:

  • /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): weirdly /ˈwɪə(ɹ)dli/, whoa /woʊ/, artwork /ˈɑɹtˌwɝk/
  • Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: billboard /ˈbɪlˌboɹd/, patronize /ˈpætɹəˌnaɪz/, productive /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/, dialogue /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/
  • /æ/ — offener als „ä“: flatten /ˈflæ.tən/, acronym /ˈækɹənɪm/, amnesia /ˌæmˈniʒə/, fallacy /ˈfæl.ə.si/, flashlight /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/

So übst du mit diesem Video

  1. Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
  2. Sprich Satz für Satz in normaler Geschwindigkeit nach und wiederhole jeden, bis dein Rhythmus zum Sprecher passt.
  3. Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie billboard, butt, deface.

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