Drew joined in the August and was expected to hit the ground running. He had a good CV and had impressed his new boss at his interview. Now, with hindsight, being economical with the truth here and there had been a miscalculation. Lisa, the Senior Sales Executive at Skintight was a hard task master and didn’t accept anything short of a hundred per cent from her team. Drew discovered this to his cost in his first week.
Drew had sent a note to Lisa, outlining customers that met their main stockist criteria. She emailed him back the same day.
‘Drew. Is this meant to be funny? When I receive communication from my staff, I expect to be afforded the courtesy of accurately punctuated and correctly spelled emails. Please take note…
Lisa’
Drew had to re-read his email and found that he had mis-spelt the word separate.
‘Strewth! That’s picky,’ he thought to himself.
The thing was, Lisa wasn’t just an assertive boss, she was also hot. Exceptionally so. She was twenty-nine. She had progressed through the company with her razor sharp intellect, attention to detail and astute business mind. She had impressed her bosses and was promoted to Head of Sales after just one year. She continued to climb the corporate ladder and became a junior Director, eighteen months later.
Drew had read her bio on the company website and it was glowing with testimonials from customers.
Lisa was 5 feet 8, but walked tall in her heels. Her business suits were bespoke and accentuated her cut glass figure. Drew would steal the occasional glance at her amazing ass, whenever she moved through the office, oozing authority. Her breasts were not just ample, but statuesque, owing to her slim waist and child-bearing hips. Not that she had the time for children. She might do, in a few years but she was too focused on her career for now.
Another example of Lisa’s management style revealed itself to Drew in his second week. Lisa appeared next to him, quietly, as she always did. She had an almost stealthy way of popping up next to people’s desks. Drew looked up and she leant against his desk, her long, luxurious hair cascading over one shoulder. Her hair was as intense a strawberry blonde as you could have, without actually making her a redhead.
“When will the sales trends report be ready Drew?” Lisa asked, softly.
Lisa’s voice was feminine, with rounded vowels and a hint of crushed velvet. A little shudder went through Drew’s spine as she spoke.
“Tomorrow morning, I hope.”
“Six o’clock tonight,” she said, quietly but firmly.
“But, I’ve got to do the…”
Lisa looked at Drew with her sapphire blue eyes. They pierced his soul, her looks a heady mixture of beauty and asperity.
“Tonight, six o’clock,” he confirmed, with a gulp.
He eventually completed his task and laid the report on Lisa’s desk at six thirty.
“Sorry it’s a little late."
“Hardly acceptable!” said Lisa. “But as you’re new…” she added.
“OK, well see you tomorrow,” said Drew.
“Indeed you will.”
Drew turned to leave.
“Drew?”
"Yes?"
“You work out don’t you?”
“A bit, yes. I’m just off to the gym now in fact,” he said, indicating his sports hold all.
“Good. Sound in mind and body.”
“Yes…”
“Let’s hope you can pay as much attention to your report-writing as you do your abs!” said Lisa, acerbically.
Drew flinched at the back-handed compliment and left the office. He thought about work and Lisa specifically, that night. Was it just because he was new, or did she show the other staff more respect? She seemed to delight in belittling him and go out of her way to make his life difficult. Yet, no matter how often he complained to himself, he couldn’t get over her beauty; her sheer radiance and sexual charisma. The next day was a Friday, so it was a short day. However, the pile in his inbox appeared to be growing as were Lisa’s demands.
In the middle of the morning, Lisa came over and leant with one hand flat on Drew’s desk. Her perfume was amazing, and had the intensity of a rare purple rose. Drew looked at her, his eyes wandering lustfully, beginning with her ankles, following every contour of her body. Lisa picked up a few shards of pencil sharpenings and let them flutter to the floor.
“What’s this?”
“I sharpened my pencil.”
“I know what it is you dick! I mean why is your desk so filthy.”
Drew looked round, conscious that one of his colleagues would overhear her upbraiding him.
“Look at me when I’m talking to you Drew.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Remember Drew, I’m very near the top of the ladder. You’re barely climbing off the bottom rung. I expect to see my face in your desk on Monday!”
“Yes, I…”
Before Drew could finish his sentence, Lisa had turned away quickly and walked off, leaving him to stare at her amazing butt. He looked at his desk and blew a little dust from the surface. It looked as clean as everyone else’s.
Drew spent the weekend at his girlfriend’s. Being called a dick was beyond the pale as far as he was concerned. He thought about airing his concerns with his girlfriend, but he was wary of appearing meek. Never the less, Lisa’s behaviour was bordering on bullying but he didn’t know what he could do. There was no one to speak up for him, not that anyone would for fear of getting on the wrong side of her. Drew tried to put work to the back of his mind and enjoy his weekend.
Monday came all too soon and saw Drew in a meeting with a few people from the office, Lisa and the Financial Director. There had been a slight dip in Sales in the North West region and a meeting had been called to discuss it. The Director was a mature man with flecks of grey in his hair and his blue-grey eyes twinkled through his spectacles as he looked at Lisa. She was all “Yes Sir” and “No Sir.” Lisa not only had a head for figures but she knew how to fawn when it was needed.
The meeting came round to Drew’s department and he found himself in the spotlight. Suddenly he couldn’t lay his hands on the right report and rifled through his folder, desperately trying to produce it. He felt the glare of the meeting on him and Lisa stood up, snatching the file from his hands.
“Pathetic!”
Drew looked stunned.
“Excuse me?”
“I ask you to do one simple thing and you fuck it up!”
The Director looked at Drew over his glasses, and there were awkward glances between the other members of the meeting. There was a slight delay and then Lisa withdrew a light blue sheaf of papers from the folder and handed it to the Director.
“My apologies Sir. I think you’ll find it’s all there.”
The man smiled and nodded. Lisa looked at Drew and he shivered inside. She had a look of triumph in her face but it was mixed with something else. Her face bore a look of satisfaction – pleasure almost. He sat quietly for the rest of the meeting. He didn’t get it. Why was someone so perfect outwardly, full of so much ill will? And why him? She could be curt and had high expectations with other people, but it was only he that received the kind of abuse that he experienced in the meeting. Drew returned to his desk feeling a little hollow. The job paid well, but money wasn’t everything. Yet, the working conditions were good and the bonuses generous. He just wished Lisa would get off his case.
It was the Wednesday and Lisa had asked Drew to stay late. He was meant to be taking his girlfriend out, but when Lisa asked he had learned not to argue. He had made his mind up to see out the month and hope things settled down. Lisa had emailed him a list of sales figures as long as his arm and he needed to get answers by seven thirty. Frankly it was impossible and his heart sank as he heard her footsteps approaching. He had observed that her skirt was rather shorter than normal, so that on occasion he had lost time, staring at her as she moved here and there.