Eighth Night: The New Girl
By Peethagoras
Foreword
Many thanks to those who have inundated me with requests for the next episode – here it is!
I must apologise for the erratic publishing of my stories, but my professional life takes priority. Even in these days of recession I find that my professional time is pretty well fully occupied, and, being a contractor, that means my personal time too. So, I write my stories while in between contracts.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this offering, and I am well advanced in formulating the plot for the next episode, which will be the last in the series.
Two Weeks Previously – 8am Monday, Start of Day Shift
"Good Morning, girls," Sally began, "As you know, Bob, the leader of 'B' shift, left to take up a post with a competitor, and Jacqui leaves us at the end of this week to take over his shift as shift leader. I think we all agree, it is a well deserved promotion. Congratulations Jacqui, we wish you all the best in your new post, and may the two boys remaining in that shift not inhibit you in any way."
Everybody knew what Sally meant.
"You also know that effective now, Emily is the newly appointed Deputy Shift Leader. Congratulations to you, Emily, and we all expect you to uphold the traditions of this shift. I am sure that Jacqui will endeavour to introduce our traditions to the girls of her shift once she takes over."
"You bet I will," interjected Jacqui, "and, if I can, I'll include the boys too."
"First task then is to get your girls to sit bare-assed on the photocopier and place the unmarked photocopy in the envelope that we started. Which reminds me, there is a pair of you here that has not yet copied your 'credentials'.
"In a couple of hours, there will be a new girl starting, so, for this week only, there will be seven members in this shift. Her name is Samantha, and she was recruited internally from another department.
"Emily, I want you to take Samantha 'under your wing' and induct her into the team. I am confident that your qualities, especially your exhibitionist quality, will make her a fully participating member of this shift."
Emily was dismayed at having such a responsibility placed upon her. She would not be able to have any fun on night shift during the breaks.
Sally continued, "I need not remind you that discretion is the key-word from now on. Overalls are to be worn at all times while on-shift; no naked bodies in the computer room. Anyone going on safari should disrobe well away from the rest room. In fact, any of our storage rooms out in the main office will lend itself very well for leaving your clothes in." Sally remembering well the storage room on the floor above that Emily showed her a couple of night shifts ago.
"Ok then, let's get to work."
The girls commenced their duties.
Midnight, Sunday, Samantha's First Night Shift
In the preceding two weeks, Samantha (now known more commonly as Sam), under Emily's guidance, had learned a lot about operating a mainframe computer. Thinking that the job was glamorous, Sam was soon brought down to earth when she found out that she was essentially a servant of the computer; the computer asks for a tape and Sam mounts the tape, the computer wants special forms to print and Sam feeds the forms into the printer. Nevertheless, Sam enjoyed the work.
In addition to the hands-on training given by Emily, Sam's training had been supplemented by several training videos using the equipment set up in a meeting room designated for use by the Data Processing Department. The equipment comprised a large screen TV (26 inches was the largest screen in those days) and a video recorder. Not VHS or Betamax, which had not long been on the market, but one of those favoured by media companies and organisations. The tapes were in cassettes, but were wider than in the domestic video recorders. There was no television receiver in the recorder therefore it couldn't record except from a TV camera, and there was no camera in the DP Department.
So Sam started on her first night shift. She was amazed to find that she was the only girl wearing jeans; everyone else was wearing a skirt and top, or a dress. Sam wasn't to know that the normal attire for a night shift was no clothes at all, and that it was easier to step out of a skirt or dress than to roll jeans down your legs and pull them over your feet. Conversely, it is quicker to slip a dress or skirt back on if you need to cover your naked body in a hurry.
The other girls had still come to work prepared, for it was their intention that on their breaks, while Sam was on duty, to go on 'safari' (as their naked activities were so named by Elaine on that second night). Even Emily came prepared for she had hopes of getting away on her own for a bit of naked fun.
The first hour of the first night shift of the week is always busy; the computer has to be brought back to life after its weekend in standby mode. At 1am, Sally announced that two of the shift could go on a break for an hour. Anne and Susan managed to get the slot and hastily left the computer room.
In the corridor outside, Susan asked, "What are we going to do? Everything within reason has been done and recorded on the Polaroid snaps, and we can't risk anything more daring for it increases our chances of being seen and probably caught."
"I've been thinking about that, and have come up with an idea. Follow me," Anne replied.
Anne led Susan down the corridor and went into the 'training' room where the video equipment was kept.
Anne continued, "I got the idea when I showed Sam how to use the video equipment for her training videos."
Anne opened up a cabinet adjacent to the stand supporting the TV and video recorder, and took out a cassette. "This tape is blank and I thought we could record our activities. We don't need to do anything new, just do what we have been doing, but we can record it live and show it to the rest of the shift,"
"But we don't have a camera," Susan pointed out.
"I thought of that too. Come with me," Anne said as she left the room carrying the blank tape.
Susan followed, saying, "Aren't we going to take our clothes off?"
"Remember what Sally said about keeping our clothes on when Sam is nearby. Besides, we'll be needing our clothes on if we are to carry out my idea."