A pretty woman comes to the office to sell purses, and every man in the office is distracted by her beauty. Each attempts to win her affections with a favor or a smooth line, but only one lucky man can get a date with the purse girl.

Michael organizes a basketball competition – the office workers against the warehouse staff, with the losing team having to work on Saturday. Jim is eager to show off his athletic skills to Pam, even though she is cheering for her fiancé, Roy.

When the staff hears rumors that the Scranton branch will be downsized, Michael tries to distract everyone by throwing a birthday party even though the nearest birthday is a month away. Dwight, trying to protect himself from the downsizing, tries to forge an alliance with Jim. Meanwhile, Michael surprises everyone by pledging a very generous [...]

Michael, who doesn’t want to risk being unpopular with the staff, delegates the job of choosing a cheaper health care plan to Dwight. When Dwight begins to ask the staff personal medical questions, Jim and Pam fight back.

Due to Michael’s inappropriate workplace comments, the office staff must sit through a seminar on diversity and racial tolerance. Offended at having to give up control, Michael leads his own workshop on the topic and manages to offend everyone even further. Meanwhile, Jim tries to make his biggest sale of the year.

When manager Michael Scott learns his branch may be downsized, he tries unsuccessfully to hide this information from his staff. Meanwhile, sales representative Jim flirts with Pam, the pretty receptionist, and deals with Dwight, the annoying and arrogant worker who sits next to him. It’s all captured by the documentary film crew who observes the [...]