Posey is the brash, subversive ruckus-raiser, Margaret. Iris (Collette, who played the title role in Muriel's Wedding) is the new girl, a wimpy nonentity who's largely content to suffer in silence. Sitting at absent co-workers' desks and regarded by “permanents” as ambulatory office equipment, their moments of greatest emotional intensity come from trying to wheedle extra staples from the stingy putz who guards the supply cabinet.
The story, co-written by Sprecher and her sister, Karen, centers on four young women toiling in the cube farm of a large credit bureau. Jill Sprecher's first film contains so much grimly accurate detail about the low-level contract worker's lot that I have to believe she's spent her share of time in that particular absurdist hell. Having worked alongside office temps for many years, I can truthfully say I'd rather squeegee windshields at stoplights than share these poor wretches' netherlife of thankless, anonymous conditional employment.
