Note on the players: Kenny has a cunt, and uses he/him. Felicity has a cock, and uses she/her. Don't get weird about this.
"Oh, Kenny! I forgot to mention, we've got a new hire coming in for training tonight. Train her how to close? And then we get our evenings back, or some of them at least. She sounded pretty desperate for a job so she should be willing to put some effort in."
Kenny smiled, already mentally updating his calendar to reflect some slight relief from the monstrous amount of shifts he'd been pulling lately. Working at the Washington And Marquette Bakery was fun, but they were dramatically understaffed, and having someone to pick up a few closing shifts would be a blessing.
"Oh, and go easy on em, would you?"
"What do you mean?" Kenny asked innocently.
"You know you can get power-trippy, especially if they're cute. And I want my evenings back. So don't chase her off."
"Sure thing boss. You can count on me."
.......
The sun was thinking about wandering towards another glorious spring sunset when the bell on the door jingled, and in walked trouble. Kenny ran a quick calculating eye over 'new hire'. Pretty features, accentuated by a thick coating of lipstick and dark eyeshadow. Tight white pants and a tight white shirt stretched over a lean frame. Her hair was long, a bit curly, and bleached blonde, and she seemed to have half a grin on her face at all times.
*A floozy. There's no way she's got what it takes, no way she's going to take this seriously.*
Kenny tried to reign his thoughts in.
*Wait, we're trying to be friendly. Trying not to scare her off. Maybe she only looks like a cream-puff.*
She made her way up to the counter and stretched out a hand.
"Hey, I'm Felicity! Sounds like I'm getting trained in on closing?" She gave Kenny a once over and dialed the grin up a notch. "And maybe we could grab drinks after?"
Well, there it goes. Kenny felt his face and voice shifting.
"I don't drink. And we aren't friends. You're an employee. I'm Kenny, but while we're working, you can call me Chef. When I ask you to do something, I expect you to answer 'yes, chef'. I do not expect you to ask questions, talk back, or hit on me. If that's going to be an issue, you can turn around and leave. Is that understood?"
The freshly slapped look on "new hire"s face sent shivers down Kenny's spine. *Oh, that's good. I don't care about the extra shifts, it's worth it.* And yet after the initial shocked look wore off
"Yes, chef".
Not quite 'kicked puppy' facial expression and tone, but the bubbly, flirty enthusiasm was definitely subdued. I can't believe she bought the 'yes, chef' bit, it's a fucking bakery. She must really be hard up for this job.
"That's better. Tonight we'll go over cleaning up and prepping for tomorrow. Prove to me you can handle that and you can move up to actual baking."
"Sounds like a plan." Kenny arched an eyebrow until the stuttering correction arrived. "I mean, yes, chef". With a grudging nod, Kenny handed her a toque *must keep up appearances*, and they moved to the back room.
The last two hours had been something out of a slapstick nightmare. It started innocently enough. Fliss had dropped a sack of flour, it burst and coated Kenny's shoes and pants. Not the best first impression, but she seemed genuinely sorry and had hurried to sweep up the excess while apologizing profusely. But the accident and the verbal admonishment served to make her more nervous, jumpy, scatterbrained, and preoccupied, creating a spiral of mishaps that grew ever more improbable. As she was sweeping the flour, she backed into one of the machines, jostling buttons, handles, and nozzles. The only warning was an insistent beeping behind her before a deluge of jelly sprayed out, coating Felicity's ass, and as she turned around to grapple with the machine, chest, in bright, sticky red. "Which, ah, button or handle Chef!?!" Kenny, wisely, stayed far away from the spraying catastrophe side of the machine and instead calmly reached behind and pulled the plug. The machine slowly gurgled to a halt, leaving Felix dripping quietly onto the floor.
"Wonderful, very helpful. I'm going to fix this-" Kenny made his way over to the machine, readjusting nozzles and resetting handles so plugging it back in wouldn't result in further mess "while you move the sheet cake that somehow didn't get covered in jelly outside of the disaster zone." Chagrinned, Felicity hurridly moved to comply with a meek "Yes, chef" before Kenny could warn "But wipe your shoes off first! ~~~ Oh. Well, nevermind." Part of him wanted to be furious at the escalating kitchen chaos, but most of him was busy stifling a grin at the sight of Felicity, flat on her back, her delicate features completely obliterated by the sheet cake now covering the top half of her body.