Every successful work environment has a set way to show employee recognition. At Dunder Mifflin Scranton, Michael Scott started his own annual reward ceremony and named it “The Dundie Awards.” Before the dundie awards ceremony begins, each employee has to get a nomination certificate personally from Michael Scott (in which every employee receives one anyway). Of course this event is not like your ordinary awards ceremony that is usually based on work performance. Michael Scott decides to give out an award for just about anything, bringing out his comical and inappropriate behavior his character portrays during the entire series. Some awards that were given seemed to be civil and appropriate for a work setting. For example, in 2004 Stanley Hudson was given “The Great Work Award.” In 2011, Jim Halpert was given “The Best Dad Award.” Awards like those did not seem to violate any company restrictions. However, most of all the other awards that Michael Scott presented to his staff broke many company restrictions. For instance, in 2011 Angela Martin (played by Angela Kinsey) received the “Kind of a Bitch Award.” In addition, Andy Bernard (played by Ed Helms) “Doobie Doobie Pothead Stoner of the Year Award for smoking marijuana during his college years. These dundie awards continue annually until Michael Scott throws his last one on the 14th annual celebration. In this season of the last dundie awards, Michael Scott will be moving on and leaving the company for good in pursuit of starting a new life with his soon to be wife Holly Flax. He co-hosted the last event with the allegedly new branch manager Deangelo Vickers (play by Will Ferrell).
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