THE OFFICE: Secret Santa, Not-Secret Firings

Did anyone else spot this week’s Office episode, “encoded Santa”, borderline tedious? I don’t hunger for to go off on a whiny bluster, but why did Michael just fit out into an insane d*ck in behalf of thirty minutes? He’s always bumbling, possessive, and childish to various degrees, but conclusive night, he was just a unlikable A-hole from the jiffy the episode started through to the semi-respected plot development (which I’ll take to in a sec).
Michael’s testimonials — mispronouncing words five times, forgetting Russia still exists — felt Season One again, and coupled with his cross over-over from “awkwardly selfish” to “inexplicably gory human being”, it was the at the outset Office episode in a while where I verbatim kept glancing at the clock, as granting I was sitting through a Friday expand meeting [sidenote: we don't in fact have meetings at BWE.tv, or luxuries "computers" or "W-2s"]
I initially attributed my section eye-rolling to being in a ill-behaved mood after watching the Steelers’ already-nailed casket get lowered into the ground about the Browns earlier in the evening, but I watched 30 Rock right after The responsibility and it was frickin’ amazing — perhaps the best of the season, and a given of the best ever (“Did you rent this guy to come into my dressing lodge and keep punching me in the throat?”)
Anyway — I’m not posting this nothing but to whine, I’m posting it to debate a potentially major plot point that was raised in the adventure’s third act, which I’ll talk here after the jump:
IS THIS THE put to death OF DAVID WALLACE???
Amidst the Christmas d*ck-being, Michael learns from Wallace that Dunder-Mifflin has originate a buyer and the board pleasure have no choice but to peddle, spelling unambiguous doom for the followers’s highest-paid executives. Michael reacts to the newsflash with doom of his own and on the double passes the info along to the officemates, who right away panic and insist to get David on the phone without hesitation, which they do, via Michael’s horrid ‘get him on the phone’ method (all things considered my favorite part of the incident).
David then clarifies via speakerphone that at best the executives are in trouble and that the buyers would scarceness to keep distribution intact, especially the body’s most profitable branch. This can only mean one of two possible developments as a remedy for the show:
1) Wallace and Co. ordain be replaced by a new administration to oversee Michael, which will approximately assuredly lead to Charles-like controversy between Michael and his new prat-line oriented supervisor. Hopefully, whichever customer star they pick for the green boss can stay for more than six episodes (I reckon it’s better than nothing, but having Amy Ryan and Idris Elba both turn out in, be awesome, then have to be written perfidiously out of the show quickly was mignonne bluebally.)
2) The office will actually subject oneself to a major shakeup — relocation and/or firings — and Wallace was honourable lightening the truth when put on the boils by the employees. This seems play a part go overboard less foreseeable, unless the producers truly do want to make a everlasting “Coach Fox leaving Minnesota State for the sake of the NFL” caliber change in the commission continuum.
The common detail between these two events?
No more David Wallace.
You wouldn’t do that, bit, would you? COULD you?? The defence is that you can’t! There has to be some alternate — how about instead of Wallace they fired up, like… I don’t know, Jim?
I bear updated this photo to reflect the approaching Wallace / Dunder-Mifflin fallout:

Office chapter thoughts? Favorite/least favorite parts? Predictions hither the Dunder-Mifflin purchase? Leave ‘em in the comments, unless the comments from disappeared for the moment, which they likely to do.
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