Meredith Palmer - Biography

Biography

Meredith Palmer is the socially inappropriate and sexually promiscuous Supplier Relations Representative at the Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch (however, in the first season, her job was said to be an Accountant). Little is known about her early and personal life, but, over the course of the series, some tidbits of information have been revealed. She has been married twice, with one of her ex-husbands leaving her for a woman that works as a garbage collector (who is addressed as "Mom" by Meredith's children). She has two children, a son named Jake, whom she has custody of, and a daughter named Wendy (described as "The good one") who is in the custody of one of Meredith's ex-husbands. In a deleted scene from "Garden Party", Meredith reveals that she is a former boxer.

Meredith is an alcoholic, and it has been alluded to that she often arrives at work with a hangover, as she has complained that people talk too loudly and that the office lights are too bright in the morning. Although she has insisted that she does not have a drinking problem, there are many things she overlooks that are serious signs of addiction, such as keeping a flask under the seat of her mini van, knowing the names of numerous bars around Scranton, and even ingesting hand sanitizer for the alcohol in it. In "Moroccan Christmas", to the disgust of her co-workers, she reveals that she also suffers from pornography addiction.

On several occasions, it is shown that she is attracted to her co-worker Jim Halpert, which visibly frightens him at times. More than once she has made advances on him, such as asking him to sign her cast for her fractured pelvis (which is located on her crotch). As Jim has no interest in leaving his wife, Pam, for Meredith, she has become hostile towards him; she once egged on a mild argument between Jim and Pam on what they would do if they won the lottery, whispering "Get a divorce", confided to Robert California that she finds Jim "Creepy", and provided Jim with an unwanted pamphlet about getting vasectomies as a Christmas present.

Meredith drives a very beatup Ford Aerostar, which she was once seen nonchalantly crashing into another car, in the episode "Women's Appreciation". It also appears that Meredith is rather poor; in "Frame Toby", she reveals that she works a part-time job as a maid, and in "Michael's Last Dundies", it is shown that she lives in an extremely run-down house.

It is also somewhat of a recurring gag that whenever there is any physically injuring consequenses that occur due the nonsense that happens in the office, Meredith is usually the one who suffers. Among other indignities, her hair has once been set on fire, Dwight almost suffocated her by stuffing her head into a garbage bag, she got rabies from a bat, that was one of several wild animals to gnaw on her during a single year, Michael accidentally hit her with his car, Pam once threw a football that hit her in the face, and, while "planking" on top of a bathroom stall, she was knocked down when Dwight sprayed her with a fire extinguisher.