My name is Rachel (or perhaps not). I am white, blonde, of medium height and slender body, with B-cup breasts (although I have nordic features, my buttocks stand out, like in many Latinas, although not too much). My family is middle-class with artistic-type careers and liberal minds. I was a party and disco girl with enough sexual experience with other young guys of the night scene, and I even had a discreet fling with a lesbian. In one way or another, this cheerful but intelligent attitude opened the doors for me into a new sales corporation. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to coordinate a new sales system by Internet, although they would provide any phone support with live operators, so I had to settle down and become trustworthy and punctual. Unfortunately, other colleagues were content with a fixed schedule of 9am to 5pm (17:00), after all, they did not have much responsibility as part of the team, because, either they were married and/or with children, or they didn't want to abandon a style of relaxed life, from which I had to abstain due to demands of my profession. They assigned us a guy called George, a computer expert, who turned out to be the typical "nerd": skinny, somewhat short, unattractive face, unstylish haircut, and although he dressed tastefully and is clean, the proverb applies, which goes: "you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." At first, I avoided any relationship with him, as the rest of the work team did, beyond the strictly professional dealings.
I imagine that I earned the position due to my dynamic attitude, because as far as computers go, the only thing that I knew was how to use the common applications of text and office, and even how to surf the Web, but I don't understand the internal workings of the software nor the electronics of the machines; for that, we had the "guru," aside from another expert in security, in order to avoid the threats of identity theft and other frauds by Internet. There are also artists and graphic designers, in order to make our pages more attractive, and so they could sell better, besides accountants that made tables and charts of the sales projections, which allowed me to verify how the group kept within schedule of reaching the goal of the virtual store, in order to inform to the board of directors. These other members of the team did value his knowledge, but were inconvenienced when they had to ask him for advice, besides, they also knew computers, although less than he did. There were neither secretaries nor receptionists, since the use of the computer facilitated the productivity and the communication with the suppliers and the clientele is channeled to a "voice mailboxes" switchbox and the Internet, of course.
Certain day, at mid-morning, my computer crashed and it even shut off, and if I tried to reactivate it, it made weird beeps and the screen remained black. Neither I could move my work from that station to another, because I didn't have time to back up what I was doing, for this is done by the end of the day, and not every day. Not only did it annoy me, but it also frightened me, because there was a meeting scheduled in a few days, in order to report about our progress. The most obvious thing was call to the people who sold this computer to us, because I thought that our specialist could only program the data bases that merged the other members' output. Tech support could not assure me that they would fix my computer that same day, and much less, recover my work; now I was really worried: this would be the end of my professional career. Overcome by frustration, I began mumbling obscenities; I thought that I would die right then and there.
Due to the small office space where we worked, the cubicles are very close to each other, and for that reason, George heard me and found out about my predicament. He had to overcome his fear toward his immediate boss before approaching me. I wanted to ignore him, uncomfortable with his appearance and demeanor, even more with the prospect of owing him any favor, but I was already desperate, and then, he insisted, saying:
"Excuse me, Miss Rachel: I might know how to recover your work."
I was left with no choice but to allow him into my cubicle to take a shot at it. I didn't expect much from this busybody, because I believed that no matter how much he knew, he was out of his league with computer hardware. He was able to power on the computer, but not my operating system works, so we could not access nor copy my documents. He asked to speak with the computer store, and in an even more complicated vocabulary than that of the technicians, he narrowed it to a new hard drive, for he ruled out any other problem. He went out himself to get the part, and upon returning to the office, he also replaced it for me and then reformatted with the original CDs. Finally, he restored as many files as possible from the damaged disk, and thus he saved my life, that is, my day's work, without only a few minor changes.
The experience made me reevaluate my opinion about George, discovering a chivalry in him, almost an admirable gallantry, that moved me. But I noticed his ungraceful and ridiculous aspect again after solving the incident, and I didn't feel in the mood of thanking him, so we quietly went our separate ways to continue with our jobs. But upon arriving to my apartment at the end of the day, I had flashbacks of the incident, like a war veteran or a rape victim with post-traumatic syndrome, I even wept with remorse before falling asleep. The busy itinerary allowed me to bury the matter and justify my feelings toward him as mere gratitude.