When boarding a feeder flight at LA Airport, Andy Ash felt he was turning the page of a new chapter in his life. Thanks to Rebecca Marsh's instinct in hiring him when he was at an all-time low, the two of them had pushed his rebound and he believed he was heading for a job that was tailor-made for him. He wasn't an admin guy.
Entering the busy terminal, Andy looked for Lola. She said she would wear yellow.
He noted a fairly good-looking broad with sunglasses perched in her hair. She wore a yellow shirt but also wore white shorts. Oh gee, just look at those stunning legs. He could lick those all night.
He looked around for a babe in a business suit and then a voice behind him said, "Andy?"
"Lola?" he said, spinning around and gaped and looked at those legs.
She murmured, "Do I kiss you?"
Without bothering to reply, Andy kissed her.
"Wow," he said.
She said she was equally impressed.
"You are everything Sally described to me. I recognized you as you entered and saw you look at me as if looking at a hooker."
"I noticed your yellow top and then caught sight of your legs, that's all."
She smiled. "That's surprising; Sally said you were a tit-man."
Andy hid his embarrassment by digging into the inside pocket of his jacket to pull out his sunglasses and said he had over-weight luggage to collect.
"I sold most of my surplus stuff via the Internet including my skis."
"You should have kept your skis. Utah is fairly close to here and Colorado is the next state."
"I can always start again. I enjoy buying new gear."
It was simply, friendly and if somewhat stilted conversation and Andy thought well they were just getting to know one another and she probably felt the man-woman sexual thing clicking between them as well.
They went out wheeling his luggage and Lola said, "There's your new car ahead of us, the Taurus. I ordered black because it's the classy business color."
"Right in that case I won't change it."
She looked surprised.
He smiled and said a joke and she said, "Oh god, I have our company's only executive with humor as my boss."
As she laughed, Andy focused on her tits for the first time. They weren't large but were well pointed and wobbled. Obviously his PA wasn't wearing a bra. He had no idea what that meant but what he did know he liked her being braless.
The company's administration was on the top four floors of an eight level building. Andy was on to top floor, occupying an office suite next to the directors of marketing and PR/Promotion. The company's main income streams were from the newspaper, the TV broadcasting and radio division and from the commercial division that was ailing due to the digital revolution. People were now printing their own pamphlets and low-volume publications and even birthday and Xmas cards.
"We have an executive lunch in your honor at 1:00," Lola smiled and adjusted her sunglasses as if to force him to notice something about her wobbled. "Meanwhile I'll run you around the executive floor and then down to HR to complete formalities – your photo for our website is one thing they require."
Andy said, "I know that publishing is done away from here but do we have our own IT department?"
"Yes of course. This is California and we are advanced in technology."
"Is that so... then why do we have analogue phones?"
"I have no idea of what you are talking about."
"These are not digital phones and anyway I want us connected to the switchboard via mobile phones so we get our calls wherever we are. You will be out of the office much of the time with me and we won't want to come back to the office to find heaps of messages awaiting attention. Clients want instant contact and instant decisions. I suppose California is not up with that yet?"
She colored and said, "Are you serious about engaging me in field work?"
"Of course, that's what our operation is about and won't be accomplished sitting all day behind a desk."
"Omigod how exciting."
"Yeah well let's skip meeting the executives. I can do that over lunch. Take me to IT first please and then I'll be directed to HR."
"HR will be waiting for you. I um gave your ETA when requested."
"That's fine. If they ask say the naughty new boy has gone on a self-guided tour and probably is lost."
"Are you sure you've worked for a corporation?"
"You cheeky bitch."
Lola appeared relieved to see him laughing.
The female IT manager was younger than Andy. Well that's how IT worked, he thought and suspected early burnout or death by boredom was the fate of IT eager-beavers desperate for stardom.
They introduced themselves
"Eiliyah, what kind of name is that?"
The dark-skinned Muslim said calmly, "The name my parents gave me sir. They were not born in this country."
"Great name and you call me Andy. I'm not much older than you."
"But you work on the executive floor."
"Eiliyah when I say..."
"I understand Andy. I welcome you to this company."
"Do you know Lola Jennings?"
"I certainly do. She has the body of a film star."
"Perhaps I haven't noticed," Andy grinned. "She's my PA. We will be working away from the office a great deal. I want those ancient phones in our office suite replaced by digital phones and for us to have cell-phones capable of having calls to my and Lola's office switched though to us after five rings."
"I understand. That will require our outside telecommunications provider to be contracted for that work."
"Well you do it for me please Eiliyah. I'll have an authorization down to you by 2:30 today but I'd appreciate you starting with the preliminaries. What person do I get to sign the authorization?"
He said, "The director of operations."
