Talk:Shareholder Meeting/@comment-2601:585:8300:3CF0:3947:BDA9:8BE0:F08B-20180523012000

I think it can be argued that Michael in this episode is responsible for putting the final nail in the coffin in Dunder Mifflin. His promises and riling the crowd up at the shareholder meeting really dug a hole that the execs wouldn't be able to talk their way out of; despite the continuity error of the stock price (above) it shows that the stock price dropped 86% (probably as a result of the meeting since the timing, though of course it depends on how long it took the limo to get from the conference center to the stock ticker shown, et cetera) and it's likely that his speech and the fallout after the execs revealed that Michael was speaking out of turn (or just out of his butt) would basically have put the company into a position it could not recover from. It probably would have gone bankrupt anyway if Michael hadn't been there, but it's possible the execs could have bought more time and maybe pulled off a miracle assuming they aren't just interested in bleeding it dry for personal gain.