<P> Michael has criticized Pam for simply forwarding calls to voice mail without answering and (in a deleted scene) for not sounding enthusiastic enough when speaking on the telephone . Pam is usually happy to abandon her work if asked to do something else by Jim . She will do extra, unnecessary work (such as making a casket for a dead bird or paper doves for the Office Olympics) to make other people happy . </P> <P> Despite the abuse she takes from Michael, she never goes any further than calling him a jerk in the pilot . In later seasons, however, she becomes more honest and forward with Michael and will often make sarcastic comments toward him . </P> <P> While engaged to Roy, Pam denies, or is in denial about, having any romantic feelings for Jim . When Jim confesses his love for her at the Dunder Mifflin "Casino Night" she turns him down . She later talks to her mom on the phone and says Jim is her best friend (though she doesn't say his name), and says "Yeah, I think I am" to an unheard question . She is interrupted by Jim, who enters and kisses her; she responds by kissing back . </P> <P> Season three marks a turning point for Pam's character: she gains self - confidence and appears less passive and more self - assured as the season progresses . In "Gay Witch Hunt," the season's opener, it is revealed that Pam got cold feet before her wedding and did not marry Roy after all, and that Jim transferred to a different Dunder Mifflin branch, in Stamford, shortly after Pam rejected him a second time, after their kiss . Pam moves into her own apartment, begins taking art classes, a pursuit that Roy had previously dismissed as a waste of time, and buys a new car, a blue Toyota Yaris . Jim returns to Scranton later on as a result of "The Merger", and brings along a female co-worker, Karen Filippelli, whom he begins dating . Jim and Pam appeared to have ended all communication after Jim transfers to the Stamford branch (aside from an episode in which Jim accidentally calls Pam at the end of the work day), and their episodes together following the branch merge are tense, despite both admitting to still harboring feelings for the other during the presence of the documentary cameras . </P>

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