The Office: An American Workplace

Jeffrey sat at his desk, filling out some paperwork. He desperately wished he had something to film. The days of not having anything to do for his job were getting horribly boring. He looked up as the door to his office opened and Nina came in, carrying a cup and a bag.

"Here," she said, handing him the cup full of coffee and the bag which contained a 6-inch tuna sandwich with tomatoes, lettuce and black olives.

"How did you know? You always bring me exactly what I want." Jeffrey took a bite of the sandwich.

"It's part of my job," said Nina modestly.

"I don't think it is. I have the job description right here…" he pulled out a file and began to rifle through the pages. "It actually says-" Jeffrey began but he was interrupted by the phone on his desk. RRIINNGG!!!! RRIINNGG!!!!! Jeffrey dropped the file onto the carpet, not caring when the papers flew out and scattered all over the floor. Jeffrey lunged for the phone and smacked it to his ear.

"This is Jeffrey, head of documentary crews for hire, how may I help you?"

"This is Jan Levinson-Gould. I would like to hire a documentary crew." Jeffrey turned to Nina and covered the mouthpiece of the phone.

"THEY WANT US!!!! They want a documentary crew!" Nina clapped her hand to her mouth and ran out of the room. Jeffrey turned back to the phone.

"Sure. We would love to help you out. I just need some basic information from you and we can begin filming as soon as possible. We need some information on location and purpose of the documentary…"

* * *

"Okay, do we have all of the footage for our first episode of The Office: An American Workplace?" asked Jeffrey. "We have talking heads, introduction to all the characters, Nina did you follow the background plot about this branch?" Nina nodded. "Good, good. All right, I think we're done here, so I will edit this together and it should air on Thursday. James, did you inform Mrs. Levinson-Gould of the air time and date?" James smacked his forehead.

"Shoot, I forgot." He scribbled a message on his hand.

"Get on that James. It's been a while since we had anywhere to film and I don't want to blow this. It's thanks to Mrs. Levinson-Gould that we're here and we don't want to disappoint her." James nodded his head quickly. "All right. This meeting is dismissed." The cameramen filed out of the room, but Nina hung back to talk to Jeffrey.

"What's up Nina?" asked Jeffrey, picking up his briefcase and straightening his tie.

"We received a message from Jan," she began, handing him his afternoon cup of coffee. "She wanted one of the people who work on the show to view the first episode with her, and I thought that you should so that." Jeffrey took a sip of his coffee.

"Well, I was going to recommend you for the job."

"I just thought that because you're the executive producer and she knows you and you are the head of the company I thought she might want- I mean I can do it if you want I just thought that…" Nina trailed off. Jeffrey set down his coffee and rested his hand on her shoulder.

"Relax Nina. I'll do it. I'd love to do it." He grabbed his coffee and the newspaper that was lying on the table. "I'm going to go edit this. See you tomorrow Nina." Jeffrey walked through the open door and out to his car.

* * *

Jeffrey stood outside the door of Jan's house. He straightened his tie just to make sure he looked professional enough and then knocked on the door. A thin woman just a bit shorter than Jeffrey opened the door. She had blonde hair that curled out at her shoulders. She was wearing dark trousers and a pink silk shirt, her outfit just slightly more casual than the one she had worn in the first episode.

"Come in. Thank you so much for coming. The episode is just about to start I believe, so let's head over to the living room." Jeffrey and Jan sat down on the couch and Jan clicked on the tv. "What channel is it?"

"NBC. Channel 8." Jan pressed the number on the remote and they were just in time to see the show begin.

"This first episode is really about introducing everyone on the show," Jeffrey told Jan as the theme song played. "We followed Michael and checked on him like you wanted, but we also introduced Jim Halpert, Pam Beesly, Dwight Schrute and the new temp Ryan Howard who started the day we filmed." Jan nodded and the two watched the episode in silence.

"What did you think?" asked Jeffrey when the episode was over.

"It was perfect for what I wanted. Thank you so much. This was really great."

"You're welcome. Thank you for choosing us. Do you need me to stop by again next week?" asked Jeffrey as he pulled on his long trench coat.

"No thank you, but thank you so much for coming by this week," she said with a smile.

"My pleasure," said Jeffrey. "The next episode will be on next week at the same time. We're thinking of calling it just The Office and taking of the American Workplace part."

"You're the creative ones," said Jan with a laugh. "Do what you want."

"Okay," said Jeffrey, also laughing. "Goodbye Jan." The two of them shook hands and then Jeffrey walked out of her house and got into his house. During his drive home he couldn't help singing to himself. They had done it. They had gotten a new client, and they were going to keep this, no matter what they had to do. Life was good again.