Talk:Cam Relationship/@comment-4818278-20120513163324/@comment-3553219-20120515215631

Sam was 14 or 15 in iOwe You she is 18 now. In iOwe You she was just forced to serve people. Here she got to actually make sales which is very much like a performance/conartist thing. People grow up. And I have worked many many retail jobs in my life. Last year I did a job that was completely on commission so I just got paid what I sold (horrible job but good for a college student). Freddie's tactics would get him fired eventually no matter what. "Just go over there" in response to wanting airbuds? Calling someone a moron (and she heard him)? Charm is how you make sales. It is the whole plot of The Office US. Michael Scott is annoying if you have to deal with him all of the time but the absolute perfect salesman. Freddie is a horrible salesman. That is just a fact in the episode and not surprising given his personality. He would have been great as someone fixing the computers. Like Carly's rapist.

"Sam had no interest in being hired and stepped into Freddie's sale to just make a comment"

First of all doesn't that make Sam's behavior better? She didn't try to overshadow Freddie. She wasn't trying to get him fired. She wasn't trying to do anything to him. Someone offered her a chance to make money by conning people into buying stuff and she took it. That doesn't make her a jerk. You can hate the plot and think the writing was lazy. But I don't see how that makes Sam "evil" or anything.

"as if suddenly surprised that Freddie got angry enough to be fired despite Sam's quick ascension over Freddie"

But she SHOULD have been surprised. She should have been SHOCKED that Freddie would overreact to the point where he would scream at his boss in front of everyone. He completely overreacted there and it was surprising to her because he doesn't normally behave that way.

"Sam's CHARACTER TRAIT of not being a people person and "hating" people)"

Sam has always been able to fake being pleasent and sweet if there was something for her. Here it was making sales. Beyond that she has changed a lot since that character trait was established and we have seen her be much much nicer to people through out season 4 and now 5.

Character traits that appear in tween girls change over time. That is *normal* because people grow up. Sam has grown up a lot. Freddie couldn't accept that idea and was a jerk to her. Which is 100% fine. I don't mind that Freddie was a jerk. Sam deserves it and she didn't seem to even mind. But I don't think it is fair to turn that around and say she was actually a jerk in this episode. When she wasn't for the most part.