Working — Season 1

Aired 8 October 1997 • 30 min

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'.

Aired 15 October 1997 • 30 min

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

Aired 29 October 1997 • 30 min

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.

Aired 5 November 1997 • 30 min

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.

Aired 12 November 1997 • 30 min

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

Aired 19 November 1997 • 30 min

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.

Aired 3 December 1997 • 30 min

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.

Aired 10 December 1997 • 30 min

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.

Aired 17 December 1997 • 30 min

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

Aired 7 January 1998 • 30 min

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.

Aired 14 January 1998 • 30 min

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.

Aired 21 January 1998 • 30 min

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.

Aired 28 January 1998 • 30 min

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.

Aired 4 February 1998 • 30 min

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

Aired 25 February 1998 • 30 min

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

Aired 18 March 1998 • 30 min

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.

Aired 25 March 1998 • 30 min

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

Aired 1 April 1998 • 30 min

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

Aired 15 April 1998 • 30 min

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.

Aired 29 April 1998 • 30 min

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

Aired 6 May 1998 • 30 min

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

Aired 13 May 1998 • 30 min

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