re: Is Jim Halpert just an a-hole?

No

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He constantly picks on Dwight even though Dwight is a good enough guy who maybe takes his job a little too seriously and is a bit of a brown noser. He's a hard worker while Jim has nothing better to do than constantly prank him for no other reason than his own entertainment.

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Practical jokes doesn't make you an a-hole. Jim actually ends up making Dwight normal enough to be the manager at the end (And Jim actually recommends him to David Wallace at the end). Dwight also ends up as friends with Jim and Pam so apparently Dwight doesn't think he's an a-hole.

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He goes after Pam when she is engaged. Then she ends her engagement and he moves out of town and gets another job at the other Dunder Mifflin branch and basically leaves her high and dry.

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Well basically your whole timeline is off. He tells her his feelings. She rejects him. So he moves away because it's awkward. Then he gets together with Karen. Jim and Karen come back to Scranton after the branch closes. So there's no way Jim left Pam high and dry.

As for going after an engaged girl, Jim is single. Nobody can control their feelings. He tells Pam his feelings once and plans to leave it at that. The decision to leave Roy was on Pam. If anyone is the a-hole in that situation it's Pam. (Or Roy for just constantly being a dick to Pam).

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He then starts a relationship with Karen while he still has feelings for Pam and basically leads her on.

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This was kind of an a-hole move but pretty understandable. He feels pretty bad about it in following episodes.

I always hated Jim. Was the main reason I never could really get into the office. Those goofy arse looks at the camera, just everything about him. frick you Jim.