 The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode , Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) finds himself lonely and wanting a relationship after breaking up with Jan Levinson ( Melora Hardin ) . While looking through an office @-@ supplies catalog , he falls in love with a chair model . Meanwhile , Kevin Malone ( Brian Baumgartner ) and Andy Bernard ( Ed Helms ) fight to reclaim lost parking spaces , and Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) tells Pam Beesley ( Jenna Fischer ) that he is going to propose . 
