Tighten Your Saddles

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Litigation Value: Cathy showing Jim the “Talla-Nasty” = yet more fodder for Jim’s sexual harassment lawsuit; five dots = a murky texting area and potential lawsuit for Darryl; and watching Dwight work himself into a human bedbug trap = priceless.

This After Hours episode has the gang engaging in conduct that should make any human resources professional cringe. Tighten your saddles, because it is bound to be a bumpy ride. While the Scranton branch is working late, the Florida team is hitting the hotel bar scene for some debauchery. As we have mentioned in previous posts, the fact that the conduct occurs outside the workplace does not necessarily free an employer from liability, particularly when a supervisor instructs her employees that bar attendance is “compulsory.” 

After Nellie instructs the Florida team to meet at the bar, Dwight and Packer engage in a showdown for the Vice President job and the opportunity to sleep with Nellie for personal gain. Unfortunately for the company, Nellie is eager to avoid spending the night alone and welcomes the attention. Dwight’s wooing efforts are interrupted when Jim calls him to investigate a bedbug situation in Jim’s room (a.k.a. Jim’s excuse to get an increasingly flirtatious Cathy out of his room). Dwight recruits Gabe — or “GSL” — to make sure that Nellie doesn’t spend the night with Packer. A few spritzes of Gabe’s inhaler into Packer’s drink is enough to send a very sick Packer to bed alone. In Dwight’s words, “A real man swallows his vomit when a lady is present.” Despite having a clear shot to make his move on Nellie, Dwight can’t go through with it and leaves her outside his room with a defective key. Instead, he spends the remainder of the night eating dessert with Jim, who is more than happy to be rid of the real bedbug, Cathy.

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