It's a strange thing to experience. I work the bar and people often tend to forget I'm there. They do things and say things in front of me that they wouldn't do or say in front of someone else. But I don't count. I'm just part of the furniture.
However, I will admit to some surprise when even the boss seemed to forget I existed. I always have to come in early, before the dining room opens, making sure that everything is in place.
This day I was at a loose end. I was too far from home to actually go home for a while, because as soon as I got there I'd have to turn around and go to work. It was also a scorcher of a day, and as I was fairly close to work it seemed reasonable to me that I should just get to work early. I could get my preparatory chores done and then sit back in air-conditioned comfort and watch TV until it was time to open the dining room and bar.
So I rock up to work, waving to the boss who was sitting in the dining room chatting to some bird, as I entered. He gave me a nod and then ignored me. Part of the furniture, that's me.
I fiddled around doing this and that. The bird the boss was talking to wandered off and another one popped up and sat at the boss's table and they started talking. I could hear a bit of what they were saying as I went back and forth and I pretty quickly caught on to what was going on.
We were short staffed and the boss was looking for a couple of replacements. The economy was tight and jobs were hard to come by, so the boss was able to be a bit picky. From what I heard he was now going through his short list.
I'd settled down to watch TV and if you didn't know I was there you wouldn't notice me, but the point was the boss did know I was there. It just hadn't registered with him.
What turned out to be the final interviewee came in, and I knew she was the one the boss wanted. He always keeps the one he wants until last. That way he can offer her the job on the spot if she does meet his requirements.
This woman was a honey. Blonde with a lovely pair of knockers and legs that stretched all the way up to heaven. Short skirt and a see-through blouse that revealed a lovely lacy bra. Completely wasted doing waitressing jobs, but like I said, times were hard.
As far as I could tell the interview went well and I thought the woman was a shoo-in for the job. The way she was smiling and chatting, so did she.
Then the boss put the hard word on her.
Now I knew that the boss had sex with some of the waitresses, but he'd always been kind of discrete about it. The girls didn't have much choice in the matter if they wanted to keep their jobs and he always picked women without husbands. Like I said, I knew this. Proving it was another matter entirely, because he was always so careful. Lust must have made him a little careless this time.