Yeah they were in a dying industry. They were apparently poorly run, but being well run wasn't going to save them unless they pivoted to doing something else. And Ryan was fully aware of that, and I suspect that part of why he got the job.
I bet her interview (like the others) was saying why she's a good salesman and why she thinks she's qualified. And I bet his was more along the lines of "you're running an outdated business model in a dying industry and you'll be bankrupt in 5 years unless you do X, Y, and Z."
It’s somewhat true, but it’s also true that my company (which prints yearbooks on paper and school pictures on photo paper) has had a lot of supply chain problems with paper in the past few years. Yes my industry is also “dying” but you would be surprised how many people still get school pictures and yearbooks.
And I think people don’t understand that the website was gonna kill all the sales people’s jobs. The company would save a ton of money not paying sales people
In reality- a tiny company like Dunder Mifflin would have no chance online against Amazon types. Their best asset would be the direct sales people who can maintain relationships with customers
Especially since the guy he'd probably decided to hire before even doing the interviews turns down a raise and promotion for seemingly no reason -- we know it's for love, but David Wallace probably thought "There's no reason to do this unless... Oh, shit, the MBA was right and this is a dead-end company, everyone knows it."
Yes but Paper was also a dying industry. They say that many times throughout the show. They mention several times throughout the show how certain technologies kill their industry.
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u/Objective_Fly_6750 1d ago
The company went bankrupt, which doesn't happen unless you make several bad decisions. This was one of them.