Original title
يوميات مدير عام
Released
1/31/1995
Origin country
SY
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
58
A journalist working in the same newspaper as her husband, and intellectual conflict arises between them because of the differences between the nature of men and women. The series shows the relationship between the spouses, revealing many attitudes of the “Eastern Man”.
As Ahmed Abdul Haq takes over the position of the general manager of the company, he begins to get to know the employees, while his wife Amira seeks to improve her appearance to suit his new position.
Amira's material demands increase. Ahmed refuses the employees' attempt to compliment and exploit him, so he disguises himself and infiltrates the company to discover the truth about what is happening behind his back.
Ahmed refuses to hire his nephew in the company, while he tracks the negligence of the employees, including the employee Abdul Azim whom he reprimands. Mamdouh takes a bribe at work.
Mamdouh is disappointed after Ahmed refuses to agree to the deal that he took a bribe for. Ahmed disguises himself to help a man clear his papers despite the intransigence of the employee Abu Samir. Mamdouh gets angry at Ahmed's orders to stick to the attendance record.
Ahmed is annoyed when his wife brings a maid into their home. The tension between Mamdouh and Ahmed increases. Ahmed confirms the integrity of Abu Sherif after his refusal to accept an illegal transaction of Sobhy Al-Qusayr.
Ahmed agrees with Abu Sherif that he will review any legal transaction that passes to the latter who offers him a promotion. Ahmed refuses to let Amira change the furniture of their house.
Amira almost reveals Ahmed's secret after her visit to his work and orders him to change his secretary. Ahmed gets angry after Adnan and Samira buy the furniture for them. Abu Zaher and Abu Ra'ad seek to transfer Ahmed from his position after he exposed that they have taken a bribe.
Ahmed is beaten by Abu Ra'ad while he disguises himself after he believes that he is the one who passes the information to the director. Ahmed's family fails to hide this news from everyone.
Mamdouh takes advantage of Tariq's unpaid bill for a restaurant and asks him to turn to him in these situations. Abu Ra'ad returns to ask Abu Zaher to sign an incorrect transaction, but when he refuses, the owner of the transaction beats Abu Ra'ad.
During his disguise, Ahmed joins the procurement committee staff, only to discover that they are cheating and receiving equipment not up to code.
When Ahmed discovers Tariq's secret bill, he solves the problem and warns his family that his employees might exploit this. Ahmed reveals to Abdul Azim that he's giving private lessons during work hours.
Ahmed transfers the treasurer Selim from his job after defrauding a client. Ahmed refuses to mediate for Hossam in order to win a recruitment competition for the company. Mamdouh accuses the employee Khaled of ruining a car belonging to the company, so Ahmed decides to intervene to find out the truth.
Ahmed disguises himself as a buffet worker and follows up on employees and clients. When Mamdouh asks Tariq to make his father sign the illegal transaction without his knowledge, Ahmed finds out.
Ahmed intervenes to solve a problem facing the employee Samer. Mamdouh returns to meet Tariq. Ahmed is surprised by a meeting with the ministry while he is in disguise.
Amira suspects Ahmed's relationship with another because of his repeated disappearance from his office. Ahmed reveals Mamdouh's plot with other workers against Khaled. Ahmed interferes in selecting members of the procurement committee.
A friend of Ahmed records a conversation between Akram and his girlfriend, Feryal, in which he confesses to corruption. Ahmed quarrels with Amira because of her offer to him to sign Mamdouh's transaction. Tariq gets angry because of Ahmed's decision to handle his inheritance with his sister.
Maha and Hossam are worried about their father's greed to have gain from Ahmed's position. Amira quarrels with her husband for refusing to mediate for her relatives. Ahmed confronts the employee Akram with the recordings.
The police arrest Feryal and Akram. Ahmed asks Gamal to take the position of Akram. Mamdouh accepts an applicant for the competition after the end of the application period. Ahmed discovers Mamdouh's manipulation of those who deserve extra pay from the employees.
Ahmed refuses the minister's request to include his friend in the competition. Ahmed discovers manipulation in the applications for the competition, but he fails to obtain evidence against Mamdouh. He objects to the list of winners in the test submitted by Mamdouh.
Ahmed enters the oral examination committee in disguise, and is surprised by how the committee gives easy questions to those with connections. Ahmed asks Abu Sherif to form a new examination committee.
As the test is repeated, Lu'ay succeeds, despite Mamdouh's attempts to make him fail. Mamdouh forges Ahmed’s signature on the transaction, which he refused to sign, and it becomes clear that it belongs to Adnan. Mamdouh fails to obtain the list of the names of those who passed the test.
Tariq gets into a car accident and hits the young Ramy. Ahmed takes care of his treatment. Mamdouh offers to help Tariq with his problem in exchange for money.
Mamdouh is prevented from signing any transactions without Ahmed's knowledge. Ahmed disguises himself as Nabih and works in the warehouse to review the books after learning that there were stolen items in them. Mamdouh requests the formation of a committee to destroy materials in the warehouse.
After finding him looking into the warehouse's notebooks, Mamdouh begins to dig around Nabih. A fire breaks out in the warehouse when Ahmed arrives to see the files, while the police investigate the matter.
After finding his keys in the warehouse, the police are investigating Ahmed and they find out what happened to him on the night of the fire. Abu Hassan and Abu Hamed admit to burning the warehouse to cover up the theft that Mamdouh knew about.
The police arrest Mamdouh, after Ahmed discovers his forged signature. Ahmed signs a transaction while in disguise, but after the truth is revealed, he is released.
Ahmed treats patients in his clinic for free after they complained about the high prices. Samira and Hossam invite their parents to their house. The Minister of Health, Mazen, assigns Ahmed the position of general manager in a government institution, and Amira worries about his disappearance.
Emad rages at the news of Ahmed's appointment, while Amira and Tariq are pleased with the news, which they spread among their acquaintances, despite Ahmed's objection. The directorate employees help those who have transactions to make.
Emad meets with the employees to clean the directorate's site before the arrival of Ahmed, who disguises himself as a client with the help of Waheed and visits the directorate. Ahmed rebukes Tariq for his involvement in financial corruption with others.
Abu Adnan (Adnan's father) is jealous of Ahmed, who returns to the directorate in disguise and is surprised to find some employees absent without substitutes for them. Amira's sister advises her sister to abandon her humility.
Ahmed reconciles Tariq and his sister after their quarrel. The employees celebrate due to the delay in Ahmed's assuming his position, and the latter notices that the employees are late for their shifts.
As Ahmed tells the employees that he's related to the manager, they facilitate the procedures of his transaction, much to his surprise. Ahmed rebukes Amira for hiring a maid without his permission. Tariq causes an accident and uses his father’s position to escape from his predicament.
Ahmed photographs a mysterious incident of exchanging money between the employees, after which he discovers that the employees of the secretarial department are hired through patronage. Tariq befriends the girl who got him involved in the car accident.
Ahmed officially assumes his position, whereupon the employees worry as he won't meet them in an official meeting, while Ahmed decides to keep tabs on Emad.
Ahmed announces to the employees what he found out about them while he was in disguise and hands an employee a video of him taking a bribe. Amira lashes out at Ahmed for refusing to hire a driver for her.
Ahmed returns to meet the minister about exposing the employee who received a bribe. Adnan makes deals with businessmen, taking advantage of his relationship with Ahmed. The secretaries feel nervous due to Ahmed’s decision to transfer them and replace them with others.
The new secretary, Hala, arrives at the directorate and faces the employees' hatred and arrogance. Ahmed makes sure of Hala's integrity after her former boss transferred her for refusing to get involved with him.
Ahmed hires Abu Sherif as his office manager in order to convey to him the news of the employees. Ahmed discovers that there is a shortage in the directorate of technical and creative cadres. Ahmed returns to disguising himself in the directorate and faces the abuse of Abu Sana and Abu Akram.
Amira quarrels with Ahmed again over her wish to have a personal driver like him. Ahmed meets up with Abu Sana in his office, causing the employees to worry.
Ahmed insults Abu Sana in the presence of the employees and gets him out naked in front of them, after which he rebukes the employee Alia for using the work phone for personal calls. He also rebukes Emad for neglecting a transaction he previously handed over to him.
In agreement with Abu Jamil, Ahmed disguises himself as a worker in the directorate to monitor the employees. Amira's friends ask her that Ahmed intercede for them in a competition related to his work.
The garage worker is surprised by Ahmed's helping him, whereas he rebukes his boss, Walid, for his personal use of the directorate's cars, after which Maha grieves because of her failure to get pregnant.
Adnan spreads a rumor among the family that Ahmed is corrupt, contrary to what he lets on in front of them. Ahmed refuses to comply with Amira's urging regarding the appointment competition, whereupon he appoints Mansour to be in charge of the garage.
Walid becomes incensed because of the news of his transfer from his position and complains in front of Emad. Ahmed informs Abu Sherif of the appointment of his son, Khaled, only because of his competence, after which he notices Emad's interference in examining the identities of the contestants.
The competition takes place, but Ahmed discovers with the help of his spy that there are double standards from the jury of the competition for those who have influential patrons, so Ahmed disguises himself as a female member of the jury.
Ahmed announces to the committee his knowledge of everything that has happened. Tariq and Dana start frequenting nightclubs. The employees in Ahmed's office begin to worry due to his disappearance from his office.
Amira enlists the help of an expert to teach her to be elegant. As a rumor circulates that the general manager is disguising himself and monitoring the employees, Ahmed watches them get nervous.
Ahmed rebukes Abu Akram for taking a bribe. An anonymous journalist publishes an article about Ahmed's corruption. Abu Jamil confesses to Ahmed that he took a bribe from Emad in exchange for getting him implicated in an illegal transaction.
Emad discovers that Tariq, Ahmed's son, is the boyfriend of Dana, his stepdaughter. Adnan offers Ahmed a bribe in exchange for a transaction, and he refuses.
Tariq tells Amira about his relationship with Dana. After disguising himself, Ahmed discovers that there are employees in positions that do not correspond to their educational degrees.
As Ahmed follows the news of the directorate's warehouse while in disguise, he discovers that the warehouse manager forces his employee, Asim, to sign for the receipt of goods that have not yet arrived. Emad issues an order for the use of a car belonging to the directorate without Ahmed's knowledge.
Amira establishes a women's rights association. While in disguise, Ahmed discovers that the warehouse manager has made deals with illegal vendors.
Amira accuses Ahmed of cheating on her after he snuck out at night and turned in thieves to the police. Ahmed promotes the employee Nasser to the position of warehouse manager after making sure of his integrity. Tariq introduces Dana to Amira. Adnan divorces Maha.
Maha justifies to Ahmed her divorce, saying that the reason for it was her refusal that Adnan take a bribe. Ahmed is surprised by Mamdouh's quarrel with him while he is posing as an employee from the Electricity Authority. Amira accuses Ahmed of marrying another woman.
Fouad discovers Ahmed's trick when he applies for a job while in disguise, accuses him of fraud, and kicks him out of his office.
Ahmed confronts Abu Amer with using his position to obtain an exorbitant offer from some hotel. Emad sets Ahmed up by making him sign a document at a press conference.
While Ahmed is in disguise, an employee accuses him of being a thief, whereupon all the employees in the directorate chase him. The police interrogate Tariq after the collapse of a building he built that does not meet the correct specifications.
It is revealed that the mysterious person has been cooperating with Emad. The police interrogate Ahmed about the transaction that Emad got him implicated in, but Dana intervenes and saves Ahmed after she confesses to eavesdropping on Emad's plan.
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