You get home at around seven in the evening after another hard day at work. Your wife Emma has prepared your diner but is sat on an armchair sobbing; she has her face in her hands, unaware you have arrived home. You quietly walk over to her and with a hand on her shoulder you ask her why she's crying. She tries to speak but she makes no real sense. You try...
We were invited to my new boss's house. We had just moved and I had just started with the company so it was an important first meeting. He was of course very rich and had a few children; a girl 8 or 10 years old, a toddler, and a grown son who had dwarfism, likely around 21 years of age. Well this particular incident occurred without anyone knowing except f...
The next day at work, Lou was surprised to receive an engraved invitation from his boss for he and his wife to attend a get-together at his boss's house. He showed the invitation to Jay, and he said, "Yeah, Vickie and I got one too. We're going to go for sure. Mr. Ellis's get-togethers are something else, to say the least. We went to the last one, and it tu...
Mike had been working for the company for about 8 months and had just been watching the interactions of the people which worked there. The company was small, only eight people worked there and most of the time the boss, Lucas, was out of town. His wife, Lucy, ran the administrative side of the company so she usually stayed behind, alone. Lucy was about 48 ye...
It was about eight in the evening a few days later when the doorbell rang. When Pat answered the door she was surprised to see the Boss. Not knowing what else to do Pat asked him to come in. She led him to the living room where I had been reading. "Hello Steve" he said. "I'm sorry not to have been in touch sooner but things have been very busy and lucrative...
Melanie smiled politely as she handed the check to the blonde in the business suit who had just exited her boss's inner office. She had made today's check out to Tracy for five hundred. The memo block just said 'consulting'. Checking her watch, she calculated Tracy had been consulting for about twenty-five minutes. 'Nice work, if you can get it', Melanie mus...
I was running late. Again. And this was an important meeting with all the board members today too. Damn it. Stupid heels, I wish I could move faster. I'm gunna get that look from my boss again and I know I'm skating on thin ice. He's only a reasonably young executive, as a lot of them are in such an emerging company, but he can be strict. Especially about pu...
The first time I cheated on my husband it didn't work out like I had imagined. This wasn't something I had planned, I didn't even know the guy, it just happened. I was at work one very hot late summer afternoon, waiting to get off work when the boss's wife asked me to stay for a UPS delivery that we'd been waiting for all day. The install crew was leaving o...
The Adventures of Dave – in praise of older women Ruth – The First Time It was 1984, I was almost 30 years old and starting a senior job for a merchant bank in London. Head of Commercial Advances. Property loans, import export loans, foreign exchange lines and metal dealing advances. The heady world of city life was something to be enjoyed and we certainl...
It was starting to get late, we were just wrapping up our end of the year work party, My husband Bill and I run a software business, which is doing very well, and we take good care of our employees, It turns out our competition has booked the restaurant for the same day. Both parties seems to be mixing well, everybody's having a good time, I'm sitting at th...