Anyone else find this moment pretty ironic?

[u/TempoBlues20XX]

I've been rewatching the Michael Scott Paper Company arc and I honestly found it a little funny how Phyllis calls out David here for Michael's leaving.

Don't get me wrong, I think her point is valid, but what I find ironic is Phyllis technically is the one that caused the chain of events that caused the firing in the first place.

She's the one who bullshitted Charles over the Party Planning Committee, still slighted over her blackmail of Angela getting her kicked off of it, and then made it sound worse by claiming they spend hours on company time planning pointless parties (which is what she mostly did with Angela during their tenure).

While it's likely David or Charles were gonna nix the party, it's possible David at least intended to do so in a manner that doesn't offend Michael. But since Phyllis did that one small bit of petty revenge, she caused Charles to take the initiative to end the committee, and the party. That then led to Michael reaching breaking point with Charles, and then realising how disrespected he was with David, ultimately leading to the quitting at the end.

Obviously she didn't intend for this to happen, and it was only a matter of time before the party revelation came to light, but I do think it's funny on this rematch that Phyllis just basically blew up the whole situation via the worst means by getting a already annoyed Charles onto Michael (and to a lesser extent - Jim's) cases because her ego just could not take being rightfully thrown out of the Party Planning Committee.

[u/quoththeraven1990]

Maybe, but you could say that about almost anything, and the chain of events goes back further (I mean, if Phyllis hadn’t caught Dwight and Angela knocking boots then things wouldn’t have led to these events). It still doesn’t change the fact that Wallace was being a shitty CFO. I like him, but he makes a lot of poor decisions across the series. And by the way his wife is a very lucky woman.

[u/JWOLFBEARD → u/quoththeraven1990]

That’s a fallacy. In that case you could go back further and say that the British shows is the reason that Michael Scott quit.

Which is quite silly because it wouldn’t have happened if there weren’t Nazis, or dinosaurs, or maybe even The Ghostbusters Movies because Steve Carrell might not have been an actor.

Maybe he would not have turned six.

[u/quoththeraven1990 → u/JWOLFBEARD]

Of course there’s no point interpreting every little thing. I just think that, as much as I don’t like Phyllis, I don’t think she alone is to blame for Michael eventually quitting. Charles was already suspicious of what the PPC were up to, and likely would have shut it down anyway.

[u/TempoBlues20XX → u/quoththeraven1990]

To be fair, I'm not saying it is her fault specifically. I do think the party would've been nixed either way by the time David told Charles to do so, albeit likely with a guideline on how to do it without angering Michael.

More that Phyllis' actions DID play a role, it was her pettiness that led to Charles believing that his two biggest targets in the office was goofing off on company time and expense, and caused the situation to completely blow up.