 The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In this episode , Take Your Daughter to Work Day results in four children spending the day at the office — Toby Flenderson 's ( Paul Lieberstein ) daughter Sasha , Stanley Hudson 's ( Leslie David Baker ) daughter Melissa , Kevin Malone 's ( Brian Baumgartner ) fiancee 's daughter Abby , and Meredith Palmer 's ( Kate Flannery ) son Jake . Pam Beesly ( Jenna Fischer ) tries to befriend at least one child , Melissa develops a crush on Ryan Howard ( B.J. Novak ) , Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) tries to impress the children by claiming he was a child star , and Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) struggles to show secret girlfriend Angela Martin ( Angela Kinsey ) that he can be stern with Jake . 
