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Sabre is the new corporation that has taken over Dunder Mifflin, and they have sent a box to the office. Michael decides to open the box and finds a new scanner, printer and fax machine, which he distributes to the office staff. Erin notices the box is addressed to Gabe who works for Sabre and is arriving for a visit shortly, so the office staff reassemble the box and seal it up again.

A representative from Sabre named Gabe meets the office team. Andy and Erin have a song prepared for his arrival. Gabe is so impressed he wants to upload a phone video of the song to the company website. Michael has mistakenly been calling the new company “Sa-brea” (a poor french rendition of the word) instead of Sabre around the office. Andy and Erin sing their song but keep calling the company “Sa-brea” by mistake. Awkwardness ensues during the song.

After the song, the Scranton employees watch a “Welcome to Sabre” video starring Christian Slater (playing himself) and the company’s CEO, Jo Bennett (guest star Kathy Bates). Jim watches the video and seems unimpressed. Gabe tells the employees there will be some changes starting today, including the addition of a firewall blocking social networking sites and games, as well as tracking of wasteful time spent on websites. A cost cutting measure eliminating paper cups from the water cooler and substituting Sabre aluminum water bottles instead leaves Michael upset about the new company changes.

Jim and Pam find a great daycare center four blocks away from the office. They make an appointment to tour the daycare. As they look around before the scheduled appointment they fall in love with the center. Jim opens the bathroom to check it out and see a man sitting on a teeny tiny children’s toilet. Embarrassed, Jim appologizes and closes the door quickly, wanting to leave, but Pam insists they stay for the interview.

Gabe calls in on a video conference to Sabre’s CEO Jo to give her an update on the office. Michael stands behind the computer encouraging Gabe to ask why changes have to be made. Jo senses someone else is in the room and has Gabe turn the laptop around so she can see Michael, who is pretending to just come in the room. Michael expresses his frustration with the changes from the new company and Jo is not impressed. Jo suggests Michael think things over before talking to her again, seeming more than happy to fire Michael if he complains again. Michael decides to take a drive to clear his head.

The daycare manager, the same man Jim walked in on in the bathroom, meets with Jim and Pam and they all sit down for the interview. Jim is uncomfortable and Jerry, the daycare manager, is abrupt and none too friendly when interviewing them. When Pam asks Jerry if the interview is not going well because Jim walked in on him in the bathroom, Jerry won’t answer. Jim gets ticked off at this point and asks Jerry why he didn’t just lock the bathroom door. Pam concedes out loud that the interview is going badly and she and Jim leave the daycare.

Michael drives to David Wallace’s house to ask him for advice. After spending time watching David shuffle around in his bathrobe and look unmotivated, Michael and David jump into the hot tub. David has a new business idea for a giant vacuumn that sucks up kid’s toys to help keep toys off the floor. David asks Michael to go into business with him with his invention. Michael thinks this is a dumb idea and quickly leaves David as he looks lost, waving at Michael as Michael backs out of Wallace’s driveway.

Erin waits patiently for Andy to ask her out, the only problem is that Andy figures its Erin’s turn to ask him out after his Christmas drum extravaganza. Andy keeps dropping big hints to Erin. Andy and Erin both hope each other will ask them out on a date.

After Michael’s depressing visit with David Wallace, Michael decides working for Sabre doesn’t sound so bad after all. Michael gathers Gabe and the office staff, proposing a toast of fresh orange juice (what Michael thinks would be the official drink from Sabre’s corporate office in Florida) to welcome Sabre to Scranton.