From Season 1 to Season 3, Dunder Mifflin Stamford was Dunder Mifflin Scranton's main rival, often outperforming them in sales volume. In Season 3, after Jim Halpert transferred, the Stamford branch became a main setting for the show The Office. As time passed and Dunder Mifflin began to lose money, the company's executive Board decided that the Scranton branch was to be closed with some of its employees transferred to Stamford. The planned merger, which was to result in the new Dunder Mifflin Northeast branch, was, for the most part, solely based on keeping Stamford regional manager Josh Porter, who was seen by corporate as having the most potential, in the picture. Unfortunately for the Stamford branch, Josh leveraged his potential new position with Dunder Mifflin into a senior managemen