Jim Halpert Quick Stats
- Name: Jim Halpert
- Occupation: Assistant Regional Manager, formerly Sales Representative
- Marital Status: Unmarried - Currently in a relationship with co-worker Karen Filippelli
Jim Halpert Bio
A five-year Dunder-Mifflin veteran, Jim insists the job is just an extended stop on the path toward his career and he has stated (albeit casually) that he would move to Maryland and take up a better job if it were not for receptionist Pam. His relationship with Pam is occasionally the subject of office speculation, which can be a bit uncomfortable considering her former engagement to Roy Anderson, a Dunder-Mifflin warehouse worker. It was revealed (in a deleted scene) that Jim and Pam went out for lunch together when they first met and had an amazing time, until Jim found out that she was already engaged to Roy. Jim lists a relative named "Larissa" (presumably his mother) as his emergency contact. He shared a house with a roommate, Mark, and was recently involved with a purse merchant named Katy but breaks up with her on a company "booze cruise" before revealing his love for Pam to his boss, Michael Scott, who, in an uncharacteristically serious moment, encouraged the dejected Jim to "never give up".
His nonchalant and cynical attitude toward Dunder-Mifflin are manifested by a PSP spotted on his desk, his comic deadpan camera mugs in reaction to surprising office developments, and his inciting comments during employee meetings. Jim also loves to pull pranks, the majority of them on deskmate Dwight Schrute. Although occasionally, the success of these pranks lead to inadvertently backfiring on Jim such as "The Alliance" or "The Fight" where Jim's flirtation with Pam gets physically awkward; or "Conflict Resolution" when his prank involving an I.D. badge pushes Dwight over the edge and demand that Michael seriously fire Jim or transfer him out of the Scranton office. Jim purchases a non-refundable ticket for an Australian vacation knowing the date overlaps with Roy and Pam's summer nuptials. After realizing that he wasted a lot of time playing pranks on Dwight, he investigates a transfer to Dunder-Mifflin's Stamford office.
Jim has confessed his love for Pam and kisses her on the season two episode "Casino Night". However, Pam, still intending to marry Roy, turns Jim down. At the start of season three, Jim has already transferred to the Stamford office and is even promoted. He earns the nickname "Big Tuna" from his coworker Andy Bernard (because Jim brought a tuna sandwich to lunch the first day). Jim has trouble fitting in - his pranks elicit extreme anger, some think that he sucks up to management, and no one understands why he always reacts to surprising developments by looking at the camera. He even casually confesses that he misses the atmosphere of the laidback Scranton office in favor of the supposedly more rigid Stamford branch. The supposed rigidity of the Stamford branch is called into question in the episode "The Coup" as the majority of the action shown in the Stamford branch during this episode revolves around staff at the Stamford branch playing the online game Call of Duty during work hours, and Jim's ineptitude at the game. His relationship with coworker Karen Filippelli, however, has grown into the two of them dating.
Jim drives an early 00's Toyota Corolla. His favorite food is soft-shell crab, but he eats a ham-and-cheese sandwich nearly every lunchtime at the same breakroom table. He even orders the meal when being treated to lunch at Hooters. However, the deleted scenes from the episode "Diwali" on NBC.com reveal that he likes sushi, favoring eel over tuna, much to the surprise of Andy.
When Jim meets up with Michael at a paper distributors' convention, he says Michael was a "great boss" and admits that he only transferred because of Pam. Michael considers Jim his best friend after this. When Jim found out that his Stamford boss Josh Porter accepted a job at Staples, therefore dooming the Stamford branch and putting most of the employees out of work, Jim muses to the camera during an interview: "Say what you will about Michael Scott, but he would never do that."
Jim was about to be named Assistant Regional Manager of Dunder-Mifflin Northeast, a new division that would have been created had Stamford absorbed Scranton. However, with Josh's departure, Scranton absorbed Stamford instead. Jim is still offered the promotion but he must relocate back to his old office. Jim is at first unwilling to return to Scranton because of Pam, but finally decides to do so. Karen, who admits in private that she likes Jim, goes to Scranton as well, along with a few other Stamford employees.
Jim and Pam's reunion is awkward. On his first day back, it is obvious that Jim has grown much closer to Karen during his time away. He implies to Pam that he is seeing someone, which is eventually revealed to in fact be Karen. Although on the surface, he truly seems to enjoy being with Karen, Jim vaguely hints during a conversation with Michael that he's not really interested in Karen and he's only in the relationship to avoid dealing with having his feelings hurt by Pam.
As he settles back into Scranton, Jim isn't surprised at all to once again be subject to Michael's immature actions. Jim was still promoted to Assistant Regional Manager, which was the job (and title) Dwight always wanted. But despite how he seems to have "evolved," claiming that pulling pranks would send him back to his old slacker lifestyle, it seems that Jim is settling back into his old ways by focusing his pranks on Andy Bernard, a new co-worker from the Stamford branch, as well as Dwight. After Dwight's departure, as Andy began to suck up to Jim and Michael to greater degrees, Jim decided to pull a prank on him. Karen and Ryan declined to participate, and so it was conducted with Pam. Not only did the prank lead Andy to lose control of himself and punch a hole into the office wall, possibly losing his job, but it also lead Karen to confront Jim about Pam (she previously learned of their past from Phyllis). Jim admitted to still having feelings for Pam, and it is implied that he and Karen broke up.