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Pissing From a High Place
To say that Krysten Young was pissed off was to put it mildly. She was angry as a volcano. Angry as a super volcano. Angry as the biggest volcano that the Earth had ever seen. She had overseen this development on behalf of her boss, Jeffrey Madushanka, and the fat fuck had laid her off without even giving her a week's notice now that it was virtually completed.
Since her dissertation at the university had gone so horribly, disastrously wrong, she realized that she would have difficulties being taken seriously in any scientific setting so she wasn't too surprised when her applications and CV were either ignored completely or she received a proforma letter back thanking her for her interest but telling her that a more suitable applicant had been hired. Knowing that she had all the necessary qualifications, she persisted and persisted but the rejections kept on coming and she was starting to worry that her next post in academia would be flipping burgers in some fast food outlet near a cow college in one of the flyover states.
Then her best friend, Laura, had mentioned that a local developer was looking for a project manager for an apartment complex he was constructing and suggested she try for it. Although it was outside of her scientific experience, she had nothing to lose so wrote a carefully worded application emphasizing her skills in dealing with funding applications, liaising with different people, problem solving and successfully achieving all her targets. She didn't expect to hear back so she was pleasantly surprised when she was called for an interview.
That morning, almost a year ago, she stepped out of the shower determined to make a good impression. She would rather be hired for her brains than her beauty but the way things were going job-wise she wanted to gain every bit of advantage she could. Krysten was aware that she was no supermodel, more the girl next door type, but she was quite attractive. She stood an average five foot six inches with a pleasant oval face and a fresh-faced complexion coupled with clear gray eyes and blond hair shading to light brown. She had kissable lips, especially when enhanced with lip gloss, but she didn't like her nose much which she thought was a bit too long and not quite straight enough.
As she stood with her arms raised, which lifted her boobs nicely as she brushed her shoulder length, slightly tousled hair she looked down at her body. Her C-cup boobs weren't as perky and uplifting as she'd like but tended to lie against her chest wall. They weren't that saggy but she'd never make a Playboy centerfold she told herself sadly. And her pinkish nipples and areolas weren't as well defined as she would have liked. Nor was her belly as flat as she'd like -- time to start another diet she told herself -- while her hips were a little too broad and as for her thighs, she hoped she wasn't going to get the dreaded cellulite, the curse of her sister's life. She glanced down at the swell of her pubic mound with its tidily trimmed landing strip and the hint of her rosy labia sticking out beneath.
Like many women, she knew she was being too hard on her body and had been drip fed a series of unreal expectations all her life but she could not completely shrug off her insecurities. With that she crossed to her little wardrobe and picked out a thong as she didn't want any visible panty line today and teamed it with a nude push-up bra that would make the most of her assets. She smiled at the effect as she glanced at her reflection. Over it an office appropriate white blouse but she left a couple of buttons undone. If she leaned forwards she could give the interviewer a nice glimpse of her milky white cleavage. She didn't want to use such tactics but in an interview a girl had to try and get every up-tick she could, especially as she had no prior experience. A thin gold chain around her neck would certainly draw his eye in that direction. She slipped on a gray pencil skirt and formal jacket and knew she looked the part at least even if she did have a swarm of butterflies fluttering in her stomach.
She drove into town giving herself plenty of time but there were no delays. The developer's office was on the edge of the business district of town, in the middle of a strip mall and sited between an off-track betting shop and a skeezy looking payday loan and pawn brokers. Hmm, didn't look so promising, she thought. There were some generic computer generated images of flashy buildings with pavement cafes in the window so she parked nearby, made sure her car was locked properly and let herself into the office.
"Ah, you must be Krysten Young," said a man emerging from a back room. "I'm Jeffrey Madushanka. Thank you for coming." He had a strong South Asian accent. She saw that he was maybe an inch shorter than herself with a heavy, jowly face, bushy eyebrows a side parting and an old-fashioned mustache. He sat behind a cheap desk covered Styrofoam take-out boxes that smelled of stale curry together with papers and blueprints. He shook one out and turned it around.
"This is the block I am looking to build. What do you think?"
Krysten took the chair facing him. She leaned forward to study the build design. As she leaned forwards she noticed Jeffrey's eyes swoop down to take in her cleavage. She bent forwards a little lower, nothing to obvious, and despite herself was glad that the air conditioning was turned up high as she felt her nipples get poky. Use any trick in the book if it helps, she told herself. She studied the plan for a minute before speaking.
Half an hour later, Krysten thought the interview went well, she made some valid points, but was aware that ultimately it came down to experience and personality. But she consoled herself with the thought that this interview would be good experience for the future. At the end she stood and shook hands with Jeffrey Madushanka. His shake was hot and sweaty and she resisted wiping her palm on her skirt.
"I have other people to see but I will let you know," he told her. That was a dismissal and she didn't expect to hear again from him. The position would go to some roughneck with construction experience she told herself.