Most people will never have this. Most people have a boss who sends emails with too many bullet points and schedules meetings that could have been emails and says things like “circle back” and “let’s take this offline” with complete sincerity. Michael Scott would never. Michael Scott would make the meeting a film festival. Michael Scott would make the offsite a wilderness survival exercise that goes immediately and completely wrong. Michael Scott would make every single day of your professional life something you couldn’t fully explain to anyone who wasn’t there.
The Office created something that no other workplace comedy has quite replicated, a boss that loved their people. Sure, he could get on everybody’s nerves (quite easily let’s be real), and he was kind of a dork, but he really loves his team. Not professionally, not appropriately, and also not in any way that HR would sanction. But genuinely, completely, in the way that a person loves the thing that gives their life meaning. Dunder Mifflin Scranton wasn’t just his job. It was his whole world, and everyone in it was his family whether they wanted to be or not, and he would embarrass himself completely and repeatedly and without any apparent self-awareness to make sure they knew it.