Always hated guys like this in high school and college and real life after that..........Little self-serving prick. What's infuriating is these kinds of people advance in life more than others.....Sad.
You gotta remember, that with Pete, everything is an act of somekind. He's a very skilled account man, capable of making others feel good and that's his angle on women, too. But in the competetive work environment his narcissitic side and pride/ambition makes him very prickly and undesirable.
Pete was the best character on the show. Most enjoyable to watch. Yes he was a entitled prick. But what made him great is that because he was such an ass he always got into trouble or got smacked down by others around him.
Whether it was at work, with his wife, her father, his family, or other girls he got involved with, his personality always made him look like an ass or a loser. Which was enjoyable to watch. Then he'd somehow have to go crawling back hands and knees to put the situation at ease.
Since he never really got away with anything, you can't hate him that much.
Pete is one of my favorites. I should hate him; on the surface we are total opposites. However, he has such an awkward, sad, pathetic loneliness that it is difficult not to empathize with him. The moment when he's in the elevator with Don after his fight with Lane, and he says "I have nothing," is arguably the most heart wrenching moment in the series for me. I loved that he found some kind of happiness in the end.
This is an environment of welcoming, and you should just get the hell out of here-Michael Scott
A good example of how bad he fails is when I think it was the 2nd to last season where they first show Don fooling around behind Megan's back and he make's it look so smooth and easy. Then they cut to Pete doing the same thing with his CT neighbor's wife in his city apartment and it just looks so awkward you can hardly bear to watch it.
Then to top it all off, that girl goes and tells her husband who beats her up and is forced to stay with Pete and Trudy, and she eventually tells Trudy what happens and it totally wrecks his life as Trudy lays down the law with him.