 It deals with both the personal relationships among the staff (including romance, friendships, and feuds) and the highs and lows of running a business.The latter topic includes rationalisation, incorporation (and later exclusion) into an American holding company, and having to move the office several times.Running gags in the show include the constant personal absence of the company's manager, Mr. Lurzer, and that the attempts of his subordinate executives - especially personnel manager Dr. Herbert Brokstedt (Joachim Wichmann), and his successor Dr. Adalbert-Wilhelm Schmitt-Lausitz (Ralf Wolter) - to motivate the rest of the staff tend to produce anything but the desired effect.