"And the Sales Person of the Year is Eric Thomas." Announces the CEO, as he stands at the podium at the Annual Company Kickoff Meeting. Eric jogs up to the stage, shakes the hand of the CEO and takes a moment to pose for a picture.
Ellen leans in to me and says, "Eric is so full of himself. When did he get so cocky?"
"I don't know but he is getting hard to be around lately." I replied. I have been friends with Eric for about six years. We met through mutual friends and quickly became good friends. I actually got him his job here. We have a lot of common interests and Eric confides in me often, mostly about his exhibitionist fantasies - like in the first part of this story. He likes to show off his body. But all in all, Eric is an ok guy.
A few months ago, Eric asked me to arrange a party where he would be naked, blindfolded and "perform" for the ladies at the party. He asked me to invite some of my female friends and girls in my night class. He thought that type of audience would be perfect as he didn't know them and they didn't know him. Although I didn't invite those ladies- instead - I invited 3 ladies from work and 2 mutual girl friends to watch his show. To this day, he still doesn't know that 3 women in the office saw him completely naked and watched him jerk off.
"Maybe we need to knock him down a few pegs!" declared Ellen. Ellen did not like Eric.
She thought he was a self-absorbed jerk who talked down to women. I think many women in the office felt that way.
"What did you have in mind?" I asked with a small grin on my face knowing how conniving Ellen is. Ellen is a friend of mine but I wouldn't want to be on her bad side. She makes life miserable for people who cross her. She has been working in the same position for 10 years now. She keeps getting overlooked for management jobs as they promote the men ahead of her. She seems to have a chip on her shoulder.
We both thought for a few moments. Then I said "Remember that time we tricked him and you all saw him naked. What if we told him who was in the room when he jerked off? He would be embarrassed to know it was you."
Ellen smiled and added, "Yes that would be good but he would only be embarrassed for a short time. It would be better if we could witness his humiliation. What if we reenacted the party and had even more ladies he knew in the room? Then we take off his blindfold."
"That would be too cruel. I don't want to humiliate him. What if we had him walk into a room wearing only his underwear? We will have him blindfolded, walk him in the room in his underwear and then take off the blindfold to show him who is in the room. That would be funny." I said.
Ellen wasn't thrilled with my idea but she played along. We constructed a plan and I approached Eric later that night. "Hey Eric, Congratulations. It's a great honor to be sales person of the year. I know you worked hard."
"Thanks, Josh." replied Eric. "I appreciate all your help and support getting me this job."
"Hey, on a side note, some ladies from my MBA class have been asking me if you are going to do a repeat performance any time soon? I know you have mentioned it a couple of times. You want me to organize something for you?" I asked Eric.
"Wow, really? They asked about me? That would be so awesome." answered Eric, excitedly.
"Ok, let me see what I can do and I will let you know." I replied.
Eric got a huge smile on his face and walked away. Ellen came up to me and asked if he was interested. I said yes and she said she has a lot of ladies interested. I thought to myself, who wouldn't be interested in seeing Eric. He is a good looking guy with a great body. He is very cocky but I think some ladies like his confidence.
Later that night, I caught up to Eric and told him I spoke to the ladies in my MBA class and they are all available tomorrow night.
"Tomorrow night might be difficult. We have department meetings until 5:30." replied Eric. "Then a bunch of people are going out to dinner and drinks."
"Well, I was thinking we could do it in my hotel room." I answered. "The company got me a hotel room since I'm in charge of all the meetings and banquet. I have to stay tomorrow night because of the Company Banquet. You can come to my hotel room, get naked, do your thing, and you can still meet everyone out for dinner. We will start right after the department meetings."
"OK, I think that will work." Eric said.
"Ok, come to room 118 around 6:00." I said. "Sound good?"
"Sounds perfect." Eric replied. "Thanks Josh!"
I looked at Ellen and winked acknowledging our plan is working.
The next day was packed with team building exercises and division meetings. I didn't have time to think about our plan. Ellen must have been bored in her meetings as she kept texting me about new ladies who were joining us for the show. I started to wonder if too many people were involved. This could become overwhelming.
Exactly at 6:00, there was a knock on my hotel room door. It was Eric and he was looking a little nervous. He walked into my hotel room, looked around and asked where everyone was. I explained this was a suite and everyone is in the adjoining room. I instructed him to get undressed here and I would blindfold him and take him next door. Eric agreed and starting to get undressed. I told him it would be more of a tease to keep his underwear on when he enters the room so he did. Before I put the blindfold in place, I put earplugs in his ears so he couldn't hear anything. Eric didn't object, his mind was elsewhere at this point. I tied the blindfold in place and made sure Eric could not see or hear anything.
I texted Ellen that we were ready and she immediately texted back that they were too. I grabbed Eric by the arm and guided him towards the door. It was not the door to the adjoining room, but the door to the hallway that leads to the hotel meeting room I reserved. I made a quick peak to make sure there was no one in the hallway. I grabbed Eric's arm and pulled him forward through the door. Luckily my hotel room was close to the meeting room where everyone was waiting.
Ellen opened the meeting room door so I could continue to guide Eric from behind. As we stepped into the meeting room, I could not believe how many people were in there. The meeting room was probably 20' x 40' with a large conference table in the middle, with large executive style chairs. All the chairs were filled and many more people were lined up against the walls, all facing the front area. In my quick approximation, there were 20 women, ages ranging from younger 20's to late 40's. I looked around the room and there were people from marketing, account management, sales, communications, and accounting.