I’m All Right Jack

Stanley Windrush chats with his father at the Sunnyglades Nudist Camp, where he is persuaded to seek a corporate career. He goes for an interview with Detto, a detergent company, and makes a deeply unfavourable impression. He leaves without a job offer.

He is interviewed by Num-Yum, a processed cakes factory; the cakes taste good but the production process is disturbing. He samples the products and becomes visibly sick, unable to continue with the job. He still fails to secure the position.

A recruitment agent sends Windrush a letter explaining that after 11 interviews in 10 days he has made a singularly unimpressive impression. The industry seems not to be for him. This rejection ends his corporate job search for the moment.

Uncle Bertram Tracepurcel and Sidney DeVere Cox persuade Windrush to take an unskilled blue-collar job at Tracepurcel's missile factory, Missiles Ltd. At first, he is met with suspicion from the shop floor and the idea of joining the union is contested. He accepts the opportunity.

Communist shop steward Fred Kite asks that Stanley be sacked for not possessing a union card. The conflict foreshadows the labor drama to come. Windrush's presence generates tension on the shop floor.

Following a period of work-to-rule, Kite takes Windrush under his wing and offers to lodge him. When Kite's daughter Cynthia drops by, Windrush is invited to stay, increasing his integration into the workers' circle.

Major Hitchcock hires Waters, a time-and-motion study expert, to measure efficiency. The workers resist, but Windrush ends up showing him how much faster he can work with a forklift than the veterans. This puts him at the center of the experiment.

Kite is informed of the study results and calls a strike to protect the wages of the union workers. The strike highlights the tension between efficiency, management, and the union. Windrush becomes a focal point of the labor conflict.

Cox, Tracepurcel, and a representative of a Middle Eastern government discuss a large contract at inflated cost, planning to skim off a million pounds. They justify the higher cost as faster delivery, aiming to line their own pockets.

The union meets and decides to punish Windrush by a Coventry-style boycott, communicated in writing. The resulting tension triggers a broader sense of grievance across the workforce.

Windrush crosses the picket line to return to work, revealing his connection to the company's owner. Kite asks him to leave his house, prompting Cynthia and her mother to join the strikes. The country experiences a cascade of strikes.

Cox tries to bribe Windrush to resign, but Windrush refuses. On a Muggeridge-hosted television program, Windrush reveals the underhanded motives of all involved and throws the bribe money into the air, triggering a riot.

Windrush is accused of causing a disturbance and bound over to keep the peace for 12 months. He is last seen with his father relaxing at a nudist colony, only to have to flee from the attentions of the female residents, unlike the opening scene when he was fully clothed.