The Social
Log Line:A group of civil servants battle boredom, sanity and each other as they try to forget how undervalued, underpaid and unhappy they are in their work.
Pitch
crubs meets Father Ted
Tagline: It’s not what you do, it’s what you do to get you through the day
The social features a wide array of diverse characters, a benefit fraud investigation team who think they are the Sweeney, hanging around in strip clubs to catch gyrating lap dancers who are claiming Incapacity benefit, dressing in bear suits on fun runs to catch benefit cheats, and joining Karate clubs to catch those able bodied folks fiddling the social.
"Shotgun" Jimmy who is favourite in the office pool to one day come in and kill his colleagues, who still lives with his mother at 38 and stalks people when the go out at lunchtime and tells them how he hates the young bitches who bully him in work
Paul who is too smart for the job, but too lazy to find another one and spends a large amount of his time bored in work, at the pub, or moaning too his girlfriend about how crazy the people in his work are.
"Lucky" Lucy who is exactly the opposite of her name. A woman who comes back from her woman’s self esteem group to find her boyfriend nearly killing himself after replicating what he’s seen in a documentary about Michael Hutchence and who gave her bank details to a "nice man" from the Nigerian consulate.
Eddie, a boss with the patience a of saint, who puts up with complaints ranging from people eating onions with their lunch, electronic staplers that are too loud, a radio rota which needs more work than an Israeli-Palestine peace agreement, and an employee who never comes to work using excuses like "I was living in the wrong house for two years"
Ryan, a barely functioning alcoholic who tells tales no one believes and is unfortunately in charge of customers security details (think tax credit information leaks)
The big boss, rarely seen except when wanders around the office with his hand deep in his trouser pocket playing "pocket billiards"