'Will I get over it? No, but life goes on': 25+ The Office memes for those who wish Michael Scott was their boss

Every office has a boss. Only one office had Michael Scott, and the rest of us have been grieving that ever since.

The Office ended in 2013 and people are still not over it, which says less about television and more about what it feels like to watch someone love their job, their people, and their branch of a mid-size paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania with everything they had. Embarrassingly, chaotically, completely. That's what we're all looking for, really.

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There is a version of Monday morning that exists only in theory, the one where you walk into the office and your boss is genuinely, chaotically, uncomfortably happy to see you. Not in a corporate wellness initiative kind of way. Not in a "how was your weekend" said while already looking at their computer kind of way. But in a "I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY" kind of way. In a "that's what she said" kind of way. In a Dundie Award, pretzel day, pretending to fire someone and thinking it's hilarious kind of way.
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Most people will never have this. Most people have a boss who sends emails with too many bullet points and schedules meetings that could have been emails and says things like "circle back" and "let's take this offline" with complete sincerity. Michael Scott would never. Michael Scott would make the meeting a film festival. Michael Scott would make the offsite a wilderness survival exercise that goes immediately and completely wrong. Michael Scott would make every single day of your professional life something you couldn't fully explain to anyone who wasn't there.
The Office created something that no other workplace comedy has quite replicated, a boss that loved their people. Sure, he could get on everybody's nerves (quite easily let's be real), and he was kind of a dork, but he really loves his team. Not professionally, not appropriately, and also not in any way that HR would sanction. But genuinely, completely, in the way that a person loves the thing that gives their life meaning. Dunder Mifflin Scranton wasn't just his job. It was his whole world, and everyone in it was his family whether they wanted to be or not, and he would embarrass himself completely and repeatedly and without any apparent self-awareness to make sure they knew it.
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That's the thing people are actually manifesting when they say they wish Michael was their boss. Not the chaos, though the chaos has its appeal on a slow Wednesday. Not the awkwardness or the cringe or the cultural sensitivity issues that would end careers in any realistic office environment. They want the version of work where someone is genuinely invested in the room, where showing up means something, where the dysfunction is at least interesting and the person running things cares too much rather than not enough.
Most bosses manage. Michael Scott, disastrously, sincerely, unforgettably, belonged.
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