Few companies have a turnover rate like The Office’s Dunder Mifflin. The paper company goes through employees quicker than Keven gets through M&Ms, and very rarely do employees leave on good terms with whichever rotating manager is steering the ship at the time.
Dunder Mifflin have lost some great salesmen, and more often than not they end up crawling back— but whether they returned or not, former employees either get fired or quit in some of the most theatrical ways. It’s the Dunder Mifflin way.
10 Devon White
It might be easy to forget about Devon, who served as a minor character on the show for its first two seasons. But midway through season two, he was fired when Michael was forced to downsize the company. After getting fired, there was a lot that happened to Devon that may have gone over viewers’ heads, but the character returned eight years later when Dwight, who became the regional sales manager, rehired him as the quality assurance manager.
9 Tony Gardner
Tony was the first of the wave from the Stamford branch to leave after they were transferred to Scranton. Being obese, Tony didn’t feel comfortable when Michael forced him to climb on top of a table. He didn’t agree with Michael’s management skills and it ended in him trying to quit. However, Michael fired him before he could quit because Michael “doesn’t hire quitters.” Tony had the last laugh though, as Michael was forced to pay him severance as a result of firing him.
8 Hannah Smoterich-Barr
With the employees of Dunder Mifflin being no stranger to maternity leave, there always seems to be a modicum of drama that comes with it. Hannah had just gotten back in to the habit of working after maternity leave, and she never really fit in with the Scranton group.
Hannah always took offense to what people said and often responded to others with healthy doses of criticism, but enough was enough when she was openly breast feeding in the office while working and she packed up her bags.
7 Martin Nash
Martin was the final member of the Stamford crew to be forced— and arguably bullied— out of the company. When it came to Michael’s knowledge that somebody in the office spent time in jail, he deduced that it may have been Martin based on the fact he was black. After it turned out to be true, Martin described his life in prison, and employees compared it to Dunder Mifflin. Michael got offended and locked the employees in the meeting room as a result, and Martin was another victim of Michael’s narcissism and was forced to quit.
6 Roy Anderson
Roy is one of the most imperative cogs to Pam and Jim’s relationship in the early seasons, and their clumsy, awkward, will-they/won’t-they tension came to an end at this very moment. Roy viciously attacked Jim in the office and he lost his job in the warehouse in the process. The best part of it all was Dwight coming to Jim’s rescue and proving he does have a heart after all.
5 Dwight Schrute
It’s hard to believe that Dwight would ever voluntarily leave Dunder Mifflin, being the most loyal employee the struggling paper company has ever seen. But in a dispute with Michael, the beet farmer was pushed to his limit and he packed up and left the company for much more successful competitor Staples— though it didn’t take him long to return. The episode is also one of the few times product placement has improved the show it was in, as Staples serves a hilarious purpose here.
4 Jan Levinson
After a very complicated relationship not just with Michael, but with Dunder Mifflin as well, Jan tried suing the company for sexism after she believed she was fired for getting breast implants. Being one of the most evil characters in The Office, as she made Michael sleep at the foot of the bed and used him in her deposition by stealing his diary— along with many other crazy acts viewers missed— Jan was one of the few characters that audiences were actually glad to see the back of.
3 Ryan Howard
In season four, the best season of the show according to IMDB, Ryan Howard left the company— but not on his own accord. Starting at the bottom rung as just a temp, Ryan climbed up the Dunder Mifflin ladder and became the CEO of the entire company. After spending his time showing off, he was fired for fraud and subsequently thrown in then clink. But being the forgiving company Dunder Miflin is, he got his job back after working in (and also robbing) a bowling alley.
2 Michael Scott
Dwight and Ryan weren’t the only people to dump the paper company only to be pulled back in. In the back end of season five, Michael Scott, the self-proclaimed world’s best boss, was pushed out of the company when he didn’t get along with Charles Minor.
After being neglected by higher-ups and not being respected for working at the company for more than a decade, Michael decided to start his own paper company and it was one of the best decisions he ever made. Michael inevitably returned to Dunder Mifflin after selling his own company within weeks in a deal worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The man’s a genius.
1 Ronni
Dunder Mifflin has had a revolving door of receptionists in its existence, but up until this point, viewers had only known the one gatekeeper of the company to be Pam. She was replaced by Ronni when she took time off to go to art school, and Michael often openly showed contempt for Ronni, sometimes even right in front of her. She only lasted two weeks before Michael got rid of her and replaced her with Ryan.
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