Insurance salesman Okabe is scolded by his wife for their shortage of money and for always being behind with their rental payments.

Okabe, afraid that Mrs. Toda might sue him, scolds Susumu and comforts her son, taking him home.

Mrs. Toda, who has heard that a child was hit by a train, is relieved by the sight of Okabe and her son and agrees to buy an insurance from him.

[3][4] Naruse biographer Catherine Russell called Flunky, Work Hard!

a combination "of nansensu comedy,[a] tendency film, and shoshimin-eiga with a particularly flamboyant method of decoupage".