My name is Lisa. Life was OK really until the credit crunch and all the worries about recession. The place where I work is a food factory where they make meat products. Most of their stuff is a bit expensive and sales have fallen because of people buying cheaper food. My husband has a secure job as a coastguard. That's reliable, but we really need my wages because after the rent and the car payments, food and everything there's no money left.
Anyway, what happened was that my firm got taken over. We all thought we were going to lose our jobs, but it wasn't that bad. Some people had to go, but I have been there quite a long time and I was OK. The only change was that we got a new foreman from the company that took us over. That really changed everything.
My job is to pack sausages. The sausage meat shoots out of a machine in its skin in a long straight tube. What I have to do is twist it into sausage lengths, cut off a row of eight of them and fold them into a bundle when they go into the wrapping machine. At the end of the production line, quality assurance look at all the packets as they go by and they take out any that are not fit for sale.
The new boss settled in for a few days. He introduced himself and told everybody he wanted a happy workforce, but he was really frightening. He is about forty and very tall, which I am not, and he's got a scary loud voice. Twice during the first week he came to me at the end of the shift. The first time he threw two packets of sausages down in front of me and said. This isn't good enough Lisa. Look at these. We can't sell sausages that are all different lengths. I couldn't look up at him. I just mumbled a sort of sorry and went off to clock out.
Next time it happened there were three packets. He tore one open and threw the sausages out in front of me. Most were OK, but one was much too long and the next one to it was a silly little short thing.
"You should know how to handle a sausage properly by now." He said.
Of course I blushed bright red and looked down. I think he sensed something about me that interested him because the next thing he said was that if I valued my job I was going to have to buck my ideas up and concentrate a bit better, but his voice was a bit softer than it should have been. I was definitely scared of losing my job, but something in the way he said it made me think I was not going to get the sack.
At the end of the week we were having a big meeting. All the new top bosses were going to be telling us about their plans for the company and what had to be done for us to survive in the new situation. Scary stuff.
When the shift was finishing and we were just going to go to the meeting, the new foreman turned up again with a packet of sausages in his hand. Oh No! I thought. He is going to sack me. Instead of that he just threw the packet down and said.
"That's six Lisa. Six of the worst. We can't have any more of these poor standards. That deserves six of the best I think. Don't you Lisa?"
Before I could say or do anything he stomped off to the meeting. The management said a load of stuff that I didn't really understand except that things were going to be tough and we all had to work harder and better for no more money. Drinks and sandwiches were laid on afterwards and I had a couple more glasses of vodka than I ought to when Karl, the foreman came over to me.
"You and I need to talk young lady." He said. "Come on out to my car."
Before I knew what I was doing I was following him out to the car park. We were driving along in a direction that I didn't know and my head was spinning. I didn't dare say a word and I was scared. I wasn't sure whether I was scared that I would lose my job or scared of Karl, but I couldn't get 'six of the best' out of my head. Even in my woozy state I knew it didn't make sense about sausages. Doing six good packets wouldn't make up for doing bad ones when I did thousands every day. Six of the best was what my Dad used to say about getting the cane at school in the old days.
Karl drove into really dark woodland and then he drove into a picnic place. There was nobody around at all. He got out of the car, came round to my side and opened the door.
"Get out."
Still without saying anything I did what he said. He took my arm and led me round to the front of the car. It was a big, black Volvo with a long front. He told me to bend over and put my hands on the bonnet. I wasn't sure whether to do what he said or not, but I did.
When I was there he said:
"You know your work isn't up to standard don't you?" I didn't really want to agree, but I heard myself saying
"Yes."
"Yes Sir" He said. And it will always be Sir in future in this sort of situation. Do you understand?
"Yes Sir." What sort of situation. I thought. This was really strange.
"You have got to make your mind up now. There are two choices. Either I put you on a warning at work and you start down the route to losing your job or you agree that I help you improve your standards. Which is it to be?"
"But I don't understand. How...."
"OK get back in the car and I will give you a warning in the Personnel Office on Monday."
"Oh! No Sir. Please help me Sir."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes Sir. Please help me. I can't lose my job."
"OK. This is the deal. You get six of the best on your bottom now with my belt. At the end of every week I will review your progress and see what correction you might need. Do you understand?
My legs were trembling and I suddenly realised that my knickers were soaked. I was still frightened, but I was excited too. I had felt this feeling before when I had let one or two people do things to me.
"Yes Sir. I understand."
"OK"
"You know I am going to spank you with my belt and you agree."
"Yes Sir."
"After each stroke you call out the number and say 'Thank you Sir."
"Yes Sir."
I heard him undo his belt. Nothing happened for a few seconds and then there was a hard whack on my bottom. It really hurt. I yelped a little bit and forgot that I had to call out the number. He waited a while and said.
"Right. We will start again. This one is still going to be number one. If you don't call it doesn't count."
This time he took hold of the waist of my trousers and pulled them down to my thighs.
He got back in place and very soon I felt the sharp thwack of the leather belt on my buttocks. I yelped again. The pain was sharper this time, but I did remember what I had to do.
"One. Thank you Sir."
After the third stroke I had managed to stay in place and count properly, but my bottom was really stinging. Instead of carrying on, Karl took hold of my knickers and yanked them down. I was so embarrassed. What if somebody drove in or a dog walker came by? I thought. For all I knew there could be somebody now lurking behind a tree and seeing all this. And then I flushed bright red again. I thought about my wet knickers. Karl must have seen that and even felt it. So embarrassing. I didn't have time to wonder or worry any more as the fourth stroke of the belt landed. He was standing on the other side of me now and the end of the belt curled round my other hip.
I was crying by this time. One of my tears dripped onto the car bonnet and I suddenly remembered.
"Four. Thank you Sir."
"Just in time. You nearly got another one then."
Thwack!
I jumped this time and cried out. My whole bottom was on fire.
"Five. Thank you Sir."
I managed to get back in position and the last stroke hit me straight away. When I had called out the number and I knew it was finished I didn't get up. I wasn't sure what was going to happen next. I was worried about being seen, but I was also starting to feel a really warm, tingling glow. My bottom was hurting, but there was a nice feeling as well and I was more excited than I could ever remember.
"Straighten your clothes and get in the car."
I did as I was told, wriggling a bit to try to get comfortable on my punished bottom. He didn't say much as we drove. He took me to the end of my street. As I got out of the car he said.
"Work as normal Monday then Friday I will see what you need. You want to keep your job don't you?"
When I got indoors Gordon, my husband, was watching TV with his computer on his lap. He had sport on the telly, but he switched the screen on the computer so I knew he had been watching porn on that.