The Office 1.3.1 Pam ! Pamela, Pamelamela Ding Dong ! Making copies. - I'm not making any copies. - Let's go ! Messages, date, lots to do lots to do... Information superhighway ! - Nothing new... - Let them unw... - There's nothing new. - That's not what you said earlier. Oh do you want me to repeat the messages that I gave you before ? For the... The most sacred thing I do is care, and provide for my workers, my family. I give them money. I give them food. Not directly, but through the money... I heal them. Today I am in charge, of picking a great new healthcare plan. Right ? That's what this is all about ! Does that make me their doctor ? Yes... In a way...Yeah, like a specialist. So which health plan have you decided on ? I am going to go with best, Jan. I am going to go with the one with the acupuncture, therapeutic massage... - You know, the works... - Wait acupuncture ? None of the plans have acupuncture. Have you looked at them closely Michael ? I think it was you who didn't look closely enough at the "gold plan". - The gold plan ? - Yep. I'm not even on that plan. Well I recommend it, it's very good. - You have to crack this things open. - You know the whole reason we're doing this, is to save money. So, you just need to pick a provider, and then choose the cheapest plan. Well that is... kind of a tough assignment. - It's not gonna be a popular decision around the old orifice. - It's your job... so It's a suicide mission, you know... - Michael, - I, I Know - Maybe, I, I mean... - There... there You know sometimes a manager... like yourself, has to deliver the bad news to the employees, I do it all the time. - Yeah, when have you ever done that ? - I'm doing it, right now. To you. Last night on "Trading spouses"... - There's... have you seen it ? - No, I have a life. - Interesting, what's that like ? - You should try it sometime. Wow - But then who would watch my TV ? So I like that Ding Dong ! There's a decision that needs to be made. And I'm having a unbelievably busy day. So, I'm going to let you pick a healthcare plan for our office, and then explain it to your co-workers. - Gosh ! - Yeah ! That is a great offer. Thank you. I really think I should be concentrating on sales. - Really ? - Yeah. I just don't thing that this is the kind of task, that I am going to do... You know who would be great for this ? Anytime Michael asks me to do anything I just tell me that Dwight should do it. Yes ! I can do it ! I'm your man. Right now this is just a job. If I advance any higher in this company, then this would be my career. And a... Well if this were my career, I'd have to throw myself in front of a train. Ok first, let's go over some parameters,how many people can I fire ? None, you're picking a healthcare plan. Ok we'll table that for the time being. Two, I'm gonna need an office. I think the conference room should be fine. You can use the conference room as a temporary workspace. Yes, I have an office. - Bigger than his ! - No, you cannot use it. - Ok I take it back it's a workspace. - Temporary workspace, you can use it. Thank you. _____________________________________________________________ Trading Spouses, often advertised as Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy, is a FOX reality show in which two families, usually of different social classes, swap wives or husbands for a week. Each family is awarded $50,000, with the stipulation that the guest mother decides how her host family must spend the money. The title of the show is a play on the title of the television program Trading Spaces. The show shares a very similar format to the Channel 4 United Kingdom (and subsequent ABC remake) program Wife