Talk:Andy Bernard/@comment-196.52.39.15-20180415223907

The end of Season 7 is a perfect example of why I maintain that Andy's character didn't change during the last season - he was always a terrible person. Over the course of the last two episodes of the season, he basically got an entire business (Sabre) shut down - liquidated means there is no more Sabre, and that it's assets are sold off to pay creditors etc. So all the Sabre employees would be laid off, etc, because Andy wanted his job as branch manager back. One certainly could claim that Andy couldn't see that coming, but when David Wallace tells the company that Sabre will be liquidated he certainly doesn't show any concern for anything other than his "delicious moment" - even when he's persuaded not to fire Nellie he still laments his impotent (intentional usage) attempt at revenge. However, in the beginning of the following season he basically states that he kept Nellie on to make her life unhappy.

He lost his job in the first place because he took off for an unspecified period of time without telling anyone even though he almost certainly could have had the absence approved; while we don't know how long he was gone it appears to take several days at a minimum for him to return (the drive itself could be done in two days with an overnight stay or one if he drove straight through, which he probably did on the way down since he didn't even stop for directions, I suppose?). He does it again in season 9, showing consistent behavior. He openly threatened to kill Jim over Call of Duty way back when he first started showing up, and the original wall-punching incident. He constantly assumes everyone is interested in what he likes or has to say even to the point of calling his own phone repeatedly so he can hear his custom-made ringtone, etc etc. There are a lot of examples.

All that to say, Andy is a terrible person throughout the whole show, not just the ninth season like some people claim. He's narcissistic, impolite, self-centered, entitled, and frankly, dangerous. Early on I think his psychopathy is portrayed more as benign and it's easier to ignore, but having been forced to watch the show something like five, six times from beginning to end I have concluded that his behavior is consistent the entire show.