Rashida Jones says it ‘made sense’ she was let go from “The Workplace”: ‘Folks didn’t like me’

Rashida Jones was on The Office for a superb time, not a very long time. However it perhaps wasn't even a superb time, both.

On Tuesday's episode of the Good Hang podcast, Jones mirrored on her transient stint on The Workplace as Karen Filippelli, an worker of the rival Dunder Mifflin Stamford department and likewise rival to Jenna Fischer's Pam for the love of John Krasinski's Jim. "I had finished a 12 months on The Workplace and so they let me go, which made sense. It made sense," Jones informed host Amy Poehler, who would go on to costar with Jones on Parks and Recreation for seven years.

"You had such a troublesome job there, as a result of all people needed Jim and Pam, after which guess who exhibits up? A really likable, cool… and everybody was like, 'Oh no, wait," Poehler responded, trying to bolster Jones important estimation of her personal time on the NBC sitcom.

"It didn’t really feel that approach," Jones shortly lower in. "Folks didn’t like me. Like, followers weren’t about it."

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Karen first seems on the debut episode of the Workplace's third season. Jim has simply transferred from the present's central location, the Dunder Mifflin Scranton department, to the Stamford department. Anxious to slot in, Jim is relieved when Karen playfully roasts his behavior of staring on the digicam. The pair's evident emotions for one another develop right into a relationship that almost takes off, till Jim unceremoniously dumps her within the season's closing episode.

Jones understands now that her character functioned to "create pressure for the connection" between Jim and Pam "to be earned later."

"So I used to be the third level within the triangle. It's positive. I settle for it," she stated.

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Jones returned as Karen for 2 episodes of season 4, one episode of season 5, and made a closing cameo look on the season 7 episode "Risk Stage Midnight." By the point that episode aired in 2011, Parks and Rec was already in its third season.

Parks star Jim O'Inheritor mentioned the very fact in his 2024 memoir Welcome to Pawnee that The Workplace creator Greg Daniels initially conceived of the present that might develop into Parks as an Workplace spinoff tentatively titled The Stamford Department. Jones would have been the hyperlink between the sequence.

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Poehler revealed on Good Cling that when she and Jones, whose friendship precedes each sequence, discovered they have been each approached concerning the potential spinoff, "We each have been apprehensive that we had taken one another's half." When Poehler was finally supplied the lead position, Jones remembered that Poehler requested her to lunch and stated, "'I'm so sorry, they supplied me the half.' Each of us pondering it was the identical half I used to be on maintain for, being created by a pal of ours."

The confusion was shortly cleared up, and heartbreak averted when Jones was supplied the a part of Ann, permitting the off display finest associates to play on display finest associates for years to come back.

You’ll be able to watch the remainder of Poehler's interview with Jones on the Good Cling podcast above.

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