"Business Ethics" Quotes (page 3)

Every quote from The Office season 5, episode 2, in script order. First aired October 9, 2008.

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  1. Michael

    How do you tell somebody that you care about deeply, 'I told you so.' Gently with a rose? In a funny way, like it's a hilarious joke? Or do you just let it go, because saying it would just make things worse? ... Probably the funny way.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23383

  2. Holly

    Can I have everyone's attention? Excuse me, may I have everyone's attention, please. We need to finish the ethics seminar.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23384

  3. Andy

    No way, lady.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23385

  4. Kevin

    It's a trap.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23386

  5. Holly

    Everyone, please, I just need your signatures to show corporate that I gave you the training.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23387

  6. Meredith

    Don't sign anything.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23388

  7. Michael

    Ok, everybody listen up. If you are not in that conference room in two minutes I am going to kill you.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23389

  8. Stanley

    It's a quarter to five and I have started to gather my things.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23390

  9. Michael

    Get in there right now or I'm gonna lose it!

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23391

  10. Meredith

    Am I getting fired?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23392

  11. Michael

    Now is really not the time, Meredith.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23393

  12. Holly

    In this next section we examine the difference between sick days and personal days. Sick days are only to be used when an illness precludes you form doing your job or can spread to your coworkers. Personal days, on the other hand, are much more flexible.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23394

  13. Phyllis

    Thank you, Meredith, this was delicious.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23395

  14. Meredith

    Hey, where is the steak sauce?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23396

  15. Kevin

    I think we're out.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23397

  16. Meredith

    I got some in my minivan somewhere.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23398

  17. Andy

    Wait a second, how does the steak factor in again?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23399

  18. Kevin

    I think she got it as a tip, but I don't know why she didn't just take cash.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23400

  19. Phyllis

    I don't care what she's doing. I just hope she keeps doing it.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23401

  20. Stanley

    Amen. Just keep the ribs coming.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23402

  21. Holly

    Stealing office supplies is another big ethical area that there seems to be some confusion about.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23403

  22. Oscar

    That's a big ethical area?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23404

  23. Oscar

    Listen, I would love to have an honest conversation with management about ethics. Why isn't the company doing better? Mmm... it could be the pad of Post-its I took home last week. Or it could be the twelve million dollars in deferred compensation in stock options they paid the CEO for a year of substandard performance. I'm sure we'll cover both in the seminar.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23405

  24. Creed

    I've done some things I'm not proud of. Committed some atrocities in Vietnam, uh, two years ago. Princess Cruise Lines.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23406

  25. Phyllis

    During our honeymoon safari in Africa, Bob and I were driving late at night, and he'd been drinking, and suddenly thump. We hit something with our jeep. It was probably a man. We didn't know what to do. We heard the police were corrupt and they might beat us, so we just kept driving as fast as we could. We bribed the airline, got on a plane that night, and fled home. Maybe it was just an ostrich. In a soccer uniform.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23407

  26. Holly

    Have any of you ever faced any ethical dilemmas in the work place?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23408

  27. Michael

    Let's keep this rollin'... Ryan?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23409

  28. Jim

    Oh, but you mean other than embezzling?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23410

  29. Ryan

    Fraud, Jim, Fraud.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23411

  30. Jim

    Fraud.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23412

  31. Ryan

    Sure, last year you guys were riding me really hard for the website and I just peeled out my Z3 and I knocked the mirror off somebody's car. I never said a thing.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23413

  32. Kevin

    Wait, what?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23414

  33. Kevin

    You knocked the mirror off of my car.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23415

  34. Ryan

    Yeah, isn't that messed up?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23416

  35. Kevin

    Yeah.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23417

  36. Ryan

    That guy did a lot of things I'm not proud of.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23418

  37. Kevin

    Wait, when you say 'that guy', you mean you?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23419

  38. Ryan

    I mean the guy I used to be. I'm Ryan 2.0 and if it makes you feel any better, that guy did a lot of messed up stuff to me too.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23420

  39. Kevin

    No, you mean that you did a lot of messed up stuff to you... too?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23421

  40. Ryan

    Look, I feel you okay? That guy took no responsibility for his actions.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23422

  41. Kevin

    But are, are you gonna pay for my mirror?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23423

  42. Ryan

    If I have to answer for everything that guy did... I'm never gonna move on.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23424

  43. Kevin

    It was like two hundred dollars.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23425

  44. Ryan

    We're never going to get what need from that guy.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23426

  45. Ryan

    Hey, anybody see a pair of sunglasses?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23427

  46. Kevin

    Umm... I think I saw some in the kitchen. Oh! I didn't do that. That was Kevin 1.0, but he hurt a lot of people Ryan, and I can't accept responsibility for what he did.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23428

  47. Meredith

    What are we gonna do?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23429

  48. Stanley

    About what?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23430

  49. Meredith

    Holly. She's on the warpath. She is gunning for all our jobs. Do you guys have any dirt on her?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23431

  50. Phyllis

    Mmm... sometimes her stockings have a run in them.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23432

  51. Meredith

    No. Something I can blackmail her with.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23433

  52. Phyllis

    One time I said good morning to her, and she didn't say it back.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23434

  53. Meredith

    Stanley, didn't she say a bunch of racist stuff to you?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23435

  54. Stanley

    No, that was you.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23436

  55. Meredith

    You weren't even in the room! Thanks for nothing.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23437

  56. Meredith

    Hey, how did it go?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23438

  57. Michael

    Oh, cr..., oh, God. Meredith, you know what? I just need a minute, okay?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23439

  58. Meredith

    Okay.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23440

  59. Michael

    What do you need?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23441

  60. Meredith

    I'm getting fired, aren't I? I can't get fired. I got nothing else. Nothing. No skill set. Can't type, bad on the phone, not great with people.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23442

  61. Michael

    I... really want to keep you.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23443

  62. Meredith

    Where else am I gonna get another job that lets me come it at eleven and leave at four?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23444

  63. Michael

    Wait, what?

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23445

  64. Meredith

    I wish Toby was still here.

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23446

  65. Michael

    Nnnngah!

    Season 5 · Episode 2 · Quote 23447