Jack Issel is a natural-born slacker who has just graduated from business school and joined I.N.C., a large American corporation based in Chicago. On his trip up the corporate ladder, he sees the dirty underside of the corporate world and how it corrupts people. His two mentors, the stuffy and buttoned up chief financial officer Scott Dantley and the chief operating officer Bob Nixon show him first-hand how to cheat and blackmail one's way to the top. Jack is further aided by his personnel officer Max Landsberger who tells Jack that money and power come before people in the corporate world. Jack's supervisor and the public relations vice president, Jane Caldwell, also tells Jack exactly the same thing as Jack learns that Jane is a shady vixen who is hell-bent on sleeping her way to the top by seducing every man she meets to get ahead in what she sees as a man's world.