Out of work and out of money, Maya is forced to ask for a job from the one person in the world she least wants to work for- her father Jack. When she gets there, she has to face some unexpected competition from Jack's current employees: fashion editor Nina, who fears Maya will squeeze her out of her job, secretary Finch, who fears Maya's presence will diminish his influence with Jack, and head photographer Elliott, who hates having to put up with Maya's resentment of his attitude toward women. The biggest obstacle of all proves to be Maya's own pride and her hatred of all Jack and Blush stand for.

Maya begins work at Blush. Jack welcomes her to the office by showering her with a ton of gifts and presenting her with a great new office, complete with the best in office accessories. Maya is completely caught up in the thrill of it all until she discovers the reason her father is doing it- to distract her from her plans to change the magazine.

Finch gets extremely annoyed when everybody wishes him happy Secretary's Day- he despises being known as a mere secretary. He storms out of the office and ends up in the arms of a gorilla at the zoo. Also, Maya tries to talk Nina out of getting breast implants.

Fed up with Maya and Nina's constant bickering, Jack asks Maya to throw Nina a birthday party as a goodwill gesture. Maya tries her best to be nice, but Nina's relentless barbs push Maya to her limits. Also, Finch claims that Elliott's success with women is entirely due to his glamorous job, so he comes up with a bet to prove it: Elliott must pick up women, same as always, except he must do it under the pretense of a different job title assigned to him by Finch.

Appalled at how bad she looks in her current ID photo, Maya agrees to let Elliott take a new photo of her which will make her look more attractive. Unfortunately, Elliott makes her look a little too attractive. A racy dream that ensues only adds to the trouble. Meanwhile, Finch power trips big time by writing a lengthy new office policy which seems to serve his own interests more than those of the office.

Jack returns from his trip to China and he brings back gifts for everyone, including a strange candy called Lemon Wacky Hello. The Hello proves to be very wacky indeed, as it contains a hallucinogenic drug that puts everyone into an acid-trip-like state and disrupts Maya's first chance to put the magazine together by herself.