What I found was that secretaries know the work they do is important, is skilled, but they also know they're not treated with respect. They call themselves "office wives". They have to put gas in the boss's car, get his coffee, buy the presents for his wife and mistress. So when we came to do the film, we said to Colin , OK, what you have to do is write a screenplay which shows you can run an office without a boss, but you can't run an office without the secretaries!