She introduces Iris to two other temps: aspiring actress Paula eagerly awaits post-work happy hours and the chance to flirt with attractive men, and naive Jane is engaged to marry a man who makes up for his rude behavior by buying her gifts.

Margaret hopes to become an executive assistant to stressed-out manager Mr. Lasky, but her goals are thwarted when he dies of a heart attack.

Eventually, Margaret proposes a one-day strike from work due to mistreatment and being underappreciated as temps, and her friends halfheartedly agree to join her, but none of them follow through and she is fired by HR manager Barbara when she returns.

The friendship between the temps dissolves, as Jane left the company to get married and Paula was transferred to the accounting department.

On her last day, a pleasant but distant senior executive agrees to sign a glowing pre-written letter of recommendation for her, which contains Margaret's name and achievements.

[5] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[7] In a negative review, Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly called the film "as empty of drive and imagination as its poor-little-victim heroines, who never seem more than sulky, overgrown high school girls".