Working Season 1, Episode 17: Labor Pains

1

Pilot

Matthew Peyser starts his new job, only to learn that the office is filled with people that do nothing – and he gets promoted because his portfolio is switched with another workers'.

30 min

2

Close Quarters

Matt catches the ""close-quarters syndrome"" and starts dating a daffy co-worker who's really not his type.

30 min

3

Rumoring

To up his value to the company, Matt starts a rumor that he's been offered a better job with another company, but his plan backfires.

30 min

4

Quick Out Of The Gate

Matt's drive to become a valuable employee earns him a reprimand for making everyone else look bad. Meanwhile, Abby and Hal fight over the gorgeous latin copy guy.

30 min

5

Sexual Harassment

A sexual harassment seminar transforms the staff into sexless zombies, putting a crimp into Matt's plans to date a new colleague.

30 min

6

Lost Weekend

When Matt's father comes to spend a weekend with him, Tim makes them go all the weekend making Matt decide between working and spending the weekend with his father.

30 min

7

Creative Matt

The office is invited to a party at Tim's house, and the bored staff convince a drunken Tim that Matt and the guy that he came to the party with are a gay couple. Tim uses this information to his own advantage by setting up Matt with his boss's son.

30 min

8

Top O' The World Ma

When one of Matt's decisions costs the company big bucks, all of his decisions tends to disaster. Meanwhile, Delaney tries to pick up a girl at work.

30 min

9

Medieval Christmas

Hal's chauvinistic boss submits a sexy photo of her for the company's pinup calendar.

30 min

10

The Breakfast

A member of Senior Management invites Matt to breakfast – and then uses everything Matt says to form a case against Tim. Meanwhile, Evelyn replaces Jimmy with an ape and convinces Abbey that her job is in jeopardy.

30 min

11

Enemies: A Love Story

When Tim's wife leaves him, Matt becomes the victim – Tim wants a buddy to talk to and Matt is the only one who can't come up with an airtight excuse not to hang out with him.

30 min

12

Sam I Am

Matt goes out on a limb to help an old college buddy land a job, and soon comes to regret it when he won't show up.

30 min

13

Boys Club

Deale casts for the new worker, with the Help of Matt. But he soons decides for one particular, chauvinist man. Until this new ""guy"" transforms into a woman. Tim fires her and then hires Matt dressed as a woman, so she stays with them, at least until the end of the season.

30 min

14

Hatchet Man

Matt is challenged to prove he has the right stuff by firing an inept temp.

30 min

15

Mum's The Word

Matt ends up babysitting a coworker's little terrors to protect her from Deale's vindictiveness.

30 min

16

As Bad As It Gets

Matt puts a little danger in his life when he picks up an edgy beauty in a bar, only to learn that she is Tim's daughter, and that she's too much for him.

30 min

17

Labor Pains

Tired of being taken advantage of, the staff, with Matt as their leader, goes on strike.

30 min

18

The Gold Digger

A co-worker shows interest in Matt after he's enrolled in a management-trainee program.

30 min

19

Equality

Matt helps a career woman shatter the company's glass ceiling, but the ""Old Boy Network"" of execs triples her workload in hopes that she'll crack under the pressure.

30 min

20

The Lying Game

Perfectly honest Matt has to ""massage the truth"" when Abby asks why he won't date her.

30 min

21

Due Process

Matt tries to push a proposal that the company initiate a four-day work week, but runs into some serious bureaucratic stonewalling.

30 min

22

The Brown Noser

Tim tires of being a ""money-grubbing, care-only-for-myself phony"" and quits his job.

30 min