Jim has noted that basketball "Was kind of thing" in high school. No high school is ever revealed his alumnus during the show, however, both Dunmore High School (as evidenced in a deleted scene from "Product Recall" where he asks a high school student about a former teacher) and West Scranton High School (as evidenced in "Email Surveillance", when Pam holds up his yearbook displaying their mascot name, "Invaders", across the front) are referenced. In the episode "Dwight's Speech," Jim tells Dwight that he majored in Public Speaking, however, he later denies this. Jim began working at Dunder Mifflin between 1998 and 1999 (as evidenced in "Pilot" and "The Merger," where Jim says that he still loves when Michael says, "Wazzup!" crazily after seven years, and that on his first day at work Michael played an orientation video which parodied "The Blair Witch Project").