The Job Lot - Season 1 (2013)

Trish panics on learning that an undercover inspector is coming to rate Brownall House. She is certain he is hard-of-hearing Alan Tucker and goes out of her way to be helpful - as well as acting as marriage guidance counsellor to a pair of notorious benefit cheats. And there is a further complication when regular claimant Graham appears to have died. In fact the inspector,a young woman,is seen by Angela,who is customarily unhelpful and disinterested so Trish ,as damage limitation,sends in the charming Karl. Unfortunately the inspector mistakes his easy manner for an ...

Karl brags about having had sex with his new girlfriend,barmaid Mia,but is appalled when she comes in to sign on,as she is working and claiming and he is not meant to date clients. Thus he makes excuses to keep her from his colleagues. However she tells him she will soon be working on a cruise ship and encourages him to join her. He gives written notice but Trish,bleary-eyed after a visit to the optician,cannot read it and he eventually withdraws it. Angela buys a coffee percolator but is too mean to let the others use it so George gets revenge by putting new-mum ...

On her birthday Trish asks Karl to be acting manager to which he reluctantly assents as Angela spitefully drops him in it when an angry claimant glues herself to her desk and the queue of job-seekers increases. Furthermore nobody takes Karl seriously when he gives Paul a warning for storing his carpets in the office. Trish confides in Karl that she is angry with her ex-husband for leaving her for a younger woman and makes him accompany her to his house,where she breaks in and reclaims her dogs. Mission accomplished they return to work and Trish's birthday party.