Why dwight left

For a minute, it seemed like that might not be the case. Make of it what you will: pic. Typed too fast. The contract with Dwight Howard is guaranteed.

My mistake. Everything else is the same. He looked so sad clutching his bobblehead. Phyllis baffled Karen and me with her gift of a big-haired, makeup-heavy makeover. I would swear his eyes were screaming.

There was no big blowup. And how hard would it have been to take her seriously sitting there in that getup? Can he handle it? Ryan also gruffly refuses to join in the high jinks to Jim's dismay. Finally, Jim approaches Pam , who readily agrees. In a carefully choreographed plan, Jim steals Andy's cell phone and leaves it with Pam. Later, Pam hands it back to Jim as he heads for the kitchen and stands guard as Jim pushes up a ceiling tile and launches the phone through the empty space to its final resting place, atop a tile roughly above Andy's desk.

Karen briefly notices the actions of the two. Stanley also notices the sound, but ignores it. The pair trade calls to Andy's phone, frustrating him to the point of accusing Phyllis of the theft, who ignores him. Andy, still happy that Dwight is gone, continues sucking up to Michael. Due to Andy's pursuit of "face time" with his boss, Michael begins avoiding him, stating that Andy is "annoying the bejesus" out of him, even walking with him to the bathroom.

Angela reveals to Michael that the reason Dwight visited the corporate office was to deliver her tax documents, noting that no other employee — Andy in particular— would have done so. Andy offers to hang out with Michael, but Michael declines, requesting that Andy stop his annoying behavior. Michael's rejection of Andy's offered friendship, combined with Pam and Jim's prank, pushes Andy over the edge.

He punches a hole in a wall, shocking his co-workers and quickly prompting a petrified Jim to hang up the phone. Michael leaves the office to try to get Dwight back. Michael finds Dwight working at Staples and admits to him that he was wrong, telling Dwight that if he would go out of his way for a "random coworker" like Angela, he had misjudged him from the beginning. But of course, Dwight almost became manager a few seasons earlier. When Steve Carell left the show in Season 7 , the writers had to figure out who would succeed him in the manager role.

That was Paul Lieberstein for Seasons 7 and 8. But the character of Dwight was not built to be the lead.