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"The Promotion" was the third episode of the sixth season and the shows 103rd episode overall. It was written and directed by Jennifer Celotta who also wrote Company Picnic and The Duel.

Synopsis

The office is still trying to adjust to having both Michael (Steve Carell) and Jim (John Krasinski) as bosses, with Jim getting a newly built personal office space in the main section. Michael and Jim constantly find themselves at odds with each other as Michael keeps having "conference room meetings" while Jim wants to keep productivity in the office place. They get a call from CFO David Wallace (Andy Buckley) who tells them that not everyone in the branch will get their desired raise and that they will have to decide how to disperse it amongst the employees. Michael gets annoyed when Jim keeps making pros and cons lists for each idea. Jim decides to give the raises to the sales staff since they bring money to the company. Michael is against the idea, but invites Jim to announce it to the office.

Jim tells the office that they are only going to give raises to the sales staff, which clearly upsets the non-sales staff. Dwight (Rainn Wilson), not wanting Jim as a boss, complains about the unfairness of Jim's decision despite being a salesperson. Michael, who was scoffing at Jim, is then asked to give his idea, but he does not speak coherently about it, leading everyone to say that Jim was at least being direct despite having a bad idea. Michael and Jim go back into the conference room to decide how to handle the raise issue. They ultimately decide that the raises should be performance-based, and decide to take turns placing beans on employee pictures to determine who deserves them. Jim believes that it is a good idea, but when Michael and Jim leave the conference room, Dwight goes into the conference room and shows the employees their plan. Everyone gets upset at Michael and Jim for this, particularly Pam (Jenna Fischer), whose picture did not have any beans, as Jim was trying to remain unbiased.

With the entire office now upset with both Michael and Jim, Dwight uses this opportunity to start an uprising against Jim personally. However, everyone in the office refuses to as they are more concerned about the raise issue. Michael then goes into Jim's office to check on him. Michael explains he felt terrible having to make those kinds of decisions on his own and he leaves to get Jim something. Jim comments that Michael is currently his only friend in the office at the moment, as everyone else, even probably Pam, is upset at him about the raise situation. Michael returns to give Jim his own new "World's Best Boss" mug and they share some gin together.

Meanwhile, Pam is trying to discreetly ask everyone to give cash as wedding gifts instead of actual gifts. She first tries Phyllis (Phyllis Smith) to no avail. She then manages to get Kevin (Brian Baumgartner) to write her a check, and starts to feel guilty about asking people for simple cash, but she gets ecstatic when she sees that the check is made out to "Mrs. Pam Halpert". At the end of the episode, Ryan (B. J. Novak) gives her an offer of either having $100 now or $5,000 in a year. She initially wants the $100, but after he tells her about an algorithm that can determine the winner of any college basketball game, she agrees to the $5,000. However, this allegedly

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 "The Promotion" was the third episode of the sixth season and the shows 103rd episode overall. It was written and directed by [[Jennifer Celotta]] who also wrote ''[[Company Picnic]]'' and ''[[The Duel]]''.
-The office is still trying to adjust to having both [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scott_%28The_Office%29 Michael] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Carell Steve Carell]) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Halpert Jim] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Krasinski John Krasinski]) as bosses, with Jim getting a newly built personal office space in the main section. Michael and Jim constantly find themselves at odds with each other as Michael keeps having "conference room meetings" while Jim wants to keep productivity in the office place. They get a call from CFO [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wallace_%28The_Office%29 David Wallace] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Buckley Andy Buckley]) who tells them that not everyone in the branch will get their desired raise and that they will have to decide how to disperse it amongst the employees. Michael gets annoyed when Jim keeps making pros and cons lists for each idea. Jim decides to give the raises to the sales staff since they bring money to the company. Michael is against the idea, but invites Jim to announce it to the office.
-Jim tells the office that they are only going to give raises to the sales staff, which clearly upsets the non-sales staff. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Schrute Dwight] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainn_Wilson Rainn Wilson]), not wanting Jim as a boss, complains about the unfairness of Jim's decision despite being a salesperson. Michael, who was scoffing at Jim, is then asked to give his idea, but he does not speak coherently about it, leading everyone to say that Jim was at least being direct despite having a bad idea. Michael and Jim go back into the conference room to decide how to handle the raise issue. They ultimately decide that the raises should be performance-based, and decide to take turns placing beans on employee pictures to determine who deserves them. Jim believes that it is a good idea, but when Michael and Jim leave the conference room, Dwight goes into the conference room and shows the employees their plan. Everyone gets upset at Michael and Jim for this, particularly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Beesly Pam] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Fischer Jenna Fischer]), whose picture did not have any beans, as Jim was trying to remain unbiased.
-With the entire office now upset with both Michael and Jim, Dwight uses this opportunity to start an uprising against Jim personally. However, everyone in the office refuses to as they are more concerned about the raise issue. Michael then goes into Jim's office to check on him. Michael explains he felt terrible having to make those kinds of decisions on his own and he leaves to get Jim something. Jim comments that Michael is currently his only friend in the office at the moment, as everyone else, even probably Pam, is upset at him about the raise situation. Michael returns to give Jim his own new "World's Best Boss" mug and they share some gin together.
-Meanwhile, Pam is trying to discreetly ask everyone to give cash as wedding gifts instead of actual gifts. She first tries [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Lapin Phyllis] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Smith Phyllis Smith]) to no avail. She then manages to get [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Malone Kevin] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Baumgartner Brian Baumgartner]) to write her a check, and starts to feel guilty about asking people for simple cash, but she gets ecstatic when she sees that the check is made out to "Mrs. Pam Halpert". At the end of the episode, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Howard_%28The_Office%29 Ryan] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Novak B. J. Novak]) gives her an offer of either having $100 now or $5,000 in a year. She initially wants the $100, but after he tells her about an algorithm that can determine the winner of any college basketball game, she agrees to the $5,000. However, this allegedly
-The office is still trying to adjust to having both [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scott_%28The_Office%29 Michael] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Carell Steve Carell]) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Halpert Jim] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Krasinski John Krasinski]) as bosses, with Jim getting a newly built personal office space in the main section. Michael and Jim constantly find themselves at odds with each other as Michael keeps having "conference room meetings" while Jim wants to keep productivity in the office place. They get a call from CFO [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wallace_%28The_Office%29 David Wallace] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Buckley Andy Buckley]) who tells them that not everyone in the branch will get their desired raise and that they will have to decide how to disperse it amongst the employees. Michael gets annoyed when Jim keeps making pros and cons lists for each idea. Jim decides to give the raises to the sales staff since they bring money to the company. Michael is against the idea, but invites Jim to announce it to the office.
-Jim tells the office that they are only going to give raises to the sales staff, which clearly upsets the non-sales staff. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Schrute Dwight] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainn_Wilson Rainn Wilson]), not wanting Jim as a boss, complains about the unfairness of Jim's decision despite being a salesperson. Michael, who was scoffing at Jim, is then asked to give his idea, but he does not speak coherently about it, leading everyone to say that Jim was at least being direct despite having a bad idea. Michael and Jim go back into the conference room to decide how to handle the raise issue. They ultimately decide that the raises should be performance-based, and decide to take turns placing beans on employee pictures to determine who deserves them. Jim believes that it is a good idea, but when Michael and Jim leave the conference room, Dwight goes into the conference room and shows the employees their plan. Everyone gets upset at Michael and Jim for this, particularly [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Beesly Pam] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Fischer Jenna Fischer]), whose picture did not have any beans, as Jim was trying to remain unbiased.
-With the entire office now upset with both Michael and Jim, Dwight uses this opportunity to start an uprising against Jim personally. However, everyone in the office refuses to as they are more concerned about the raise issue. Michael then goes into Jim's office to check on him. Michael explains he felt terrible having to make those kinds of decisions on his own and he leaves to get Jim something. Jim comments that Michael is currently his only friend in the office at the moment, as everyone else, even probably Pam, is upset at him about the raise situation. Michael returns to give Jim his own new "World's Best Boss" mug and they share some gin together.
-Meanwhile, Pam is trying to discreetly ask everyone to give cash as wedding gifts instead of actual gifts. She first tries [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Lapin Phyllis] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Smith Phyllis Smith]) to no avail. She then manages to get [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Malone Kevin] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Baumgartner Brian Baumgartner]) to write her a check, and starts to feel guilty about asking people for simple cash, but she gets ecstatic when she sees that the check is made out to "Mrs. Pam Halpert". At the end of the episode, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Howard_%28The_Office%29 Ryan] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Novak B. J. Novak]) gives her an offer of either having $100 now or $5,000 in a year. She initially wants the $100, but after he tells her about an algorithm that can determine the winner of any college basketball game, she agrees to the $5,000. However, this allegedly
 ==Synopsis==
 The office is still trying to adjust to having both [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scott_%28The_Office%29 Michael] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Carell Steve Carell]) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Halpert Jim] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Krasinski John Krasinski]) as bosses, with Jim getting a newly built personal office space in the main section. Michael and Jim constantly find themselves at odds with each other as Michael keeps having "conference room meetings" while Jim wants to keep productivity in the office place. They get a call from CFO [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wallace_%28The_Office%29 David Wallace] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Buckley Andy Buckley]) who tells them that not everyone in the branch will get their desired raise and that they will have to decide how to disperse it amongst the employees. Michael gets annoyed when Jim keeps making pros and cons lists for each idea. Jim decides to give the raises to the sales staff since they bring money to the company. Michael is against the idea, but invites Jim to announce it to the office.