Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss seems to be more interested in getting into her pants than trying to find lost data on the Russians. Melinda resists his advances and begins working her way up in the Pentagon, finding subtle ways of getting her policies implemented by manipulating the slovenly males that populate the Pentagon, including finding a way to defuse the mounting conflict with the Russians
Os funcionários do Fábrica de Pijamas Sleeptite (Durma Bem) estão procurando um colossal aumento de 7,5 centavos por hora e eles não vão aceitar um não como resposta. Babe Williams (Doris Day) é a representante mal-humorada dos empregados mas ela pode ter encontrado alguém igual no superintendente de vendas Sid Sorokin (John Raitt). Quando os dois se juntam eles acabam discutindo muito mais do que as questões de trabalho!
