Now playing Season 1, Episode 3 — Rumoring
October 8, 1997
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Season 1 • 22 episodes
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'.
Matt catches the ""close-quarters syndrome"" and starts dating a daffy co-worker who's really not his type.
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.
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.
A sexual harassment seminar transforms the staff into sexless zombies, putting a crimp into Matt's plans to date a new colleague.
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.
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.
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.
Hal's chauvinistic boss submits a sexy photo of her for the company's pinup calendar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Matt is challenged to prove he has the right stuff by firing an inept temp.
Matt ends up babysitting a coworker's little terrors to protect her from Deale's vindictiveness.
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.
Tired of being taken advantage of, the staff, with Matt as their leader, goes on strike.
A co-worker shows interest in Matt after he's enrolled in a management-trainee program.
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.
Perfectly honest Matt has to ""massage the truth"" when Abby asks why he won't date her.
Matt tries to push a proposal that the company initiate a four-day work week, but runs into some serious bureaucratic stonewalling.
Tim tires of being a ""money-grubbing, care-only-for-myself phony"" and quits his job.
Working is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1997 to 1999. The series was created and executive produced by Michael Davidoff and Bill Rosenthal.
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.
Fred Savage
Matt Peyser
Maurice Godin
Tim Deale
Yvette Freeman
Evelyn Smalley
Arden Myrin
Abby Cosgrove
Steve Hytner
John Delaney
Rebecca McFarland
Val Gibson
Debi Mazar
Liz Tricoli
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