Everyone in the story having sex or getting naked is over 18.
The story of how for the past two years I have been watching my female boss and co-workers get naked or how the COVID pandemic has been the best thing that ever happened to my sex life. I am not saying this is a 100% true story, I am also not saying it is made up. Let's just say all names have been changed.
I'm an International buyer of component parts and retail products for a major FTSE 100 corporation. I'm one of a very few guys on the team. Since there is a multilingual requirement for the job most of the people in the United States based department are either foreign born or first generation Americans with a mix of women from India, China, Mexico, or Eastern Europe.
These are my COVID sex stories.
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My life changed on February 14th 2020 valentine's day.
On February 13, the Chinese government issued an extension of orders to shut down all non-essential companies, including manufacturing plants, in Hubei Province due to COVID-19. Within an hour our headquarters in London was holding an emergency meeting. Of course due to the time difference it was around 11pm on February 12th in London and around 6pm for me in Vermont. And like any meeting called at the last minute, everyone who need to be on the call was late leaving the rest of us sitting there waiting.
"Okay, Happy almost Valentine's day everyone, I know many of you have plans so I don't want to keep you. We wanted to have a quick meeting to review how COVID is impact our branch locations in China."
"It's so horrible. I feel so bad those people in China are getting sick. I'm glad we live in the United States. It could never happen here." Jenni said in her bubbly tone.
"Its here too. They confirmed at least 13 possible cases from those people quarantined at that military base. Plus, all those people on those cruise ships, plus now one person in Wisconsin." Someone with a Southern accent added.
"One case is no big deal."
"It's a huge deal." Ami stated in her southern coast of England English accent. "You know there is that classic math problem. A fast growing species of algae is accidentally introduced into a lake in a local park. It starts to grow and cover the surface of the lake in such a way that the area covered by the algae doubles every day. At the start if only 1% of the water surface is covered by algae, how long does it take to cover the whole lake in algae?" She was ethnically from India, but had been raised in the UK. No matter how many times I had video chatted with her, my mind just couldn't wrap itself around the idea of a small brown woman speaking with a British accent. I couldn't match the accent to the person on the screen.
"Maybe 100 days, right? At 1% per day." Jenni said unsure.
"Wait, I think it is 99 days because it grows at 1% a day right but already has 1%?" Someone added from somewhere.
"The answer is less than a week. I remember this one." I spoke up, my icon of a plague doctor appearing on everyone's computer screen around the world as I started talking. "Its exponential growth. On day four it is less than 25% covered, then 50% on day five, then 100% on day six."
"Precisely." Ami smiled at me over the video screen. Her white teeth a contrast against her much darker skin. It was enough to cause a painful bulge in my pants. Just one glance from her left me erect. She was in our corporate legal department at our global HQ. As a buyer, it was rare for me to be on a call with her or interact with her in any way. Usually those brief interactions were enough for her to the focus of my masturbation sessions for weeks after.
"They should never have let them fly back in. The government should have made the planes land on an island somewhere... somewhere far away." Someone complained.
"American has the best health care system in the world. I'm not worried about it spreading here. We need to plan how we can cover our locations China if they stay off line."
"When is this meeting going to start?" someone from the New Jersey office asked, as usual, they had called into the conference call from some meeting room so I had no way of seeing who was even asking the question over the speaker phone. "What can we even do about China closing?"
"We could short stock. In theory, the whole Chinese economy could plummet." some product manger out of London replied, I had worked with him a few times before but didn't know him well.
"We should put some of our 401k into Put Options." I said, unknowingly changing my life forever. "They are legal in the states, not sure about England. We might be able to triple our investment. Maybe make way, way more if there is a stock market crash like there was back on Black Monday, October 1987." By this time, over 500 call ins from around the world were on the video call waiting for the meeting to start. Each of those call ins might represent a single person or an entire office.
"What are those?" New Jersey asked. "I could use three times as much money."
"Can you show me too? This is Jason and Tina out in the California branch." some guy in a Hawaiian t-shirt asked. "I could use the winning lotto numbers to if you got em."
"Good morning American colleagues. I should like to learn as well. This is Lieke from the Netherlands." I had done my internship in the Netherlands. Lieke and I had gone to bed together when I had first got out there. We never had intercourse. After the condom was and the clothes were off one drunken night she had decided she was not ready. Then she burst into tears. I spent the night giving her a backrub as she cried over a recent breakup with some guy. By noon the next day all the women in the Rotterdam office had heard about it, they decided I was a sweetheart.
"I did my internship out of Rotterdam. Tell Lottie I said hello." I smiled. Lottie and I had never been a couple. For a while I was one of a few guys she regularly had sex with. We went on dates but were never an item. I never fully understood European dating but understood that part of why she was having sex with me was that at some point in a few months I would be half a world away. I was a fun foreign boy toy for her.
"Good morning Alessandro. I'm on the call as well. It is too earlier for me here." Lottie replied, she was a little drunk. I got a little tingle every time she said my name, she had a way of making Alessandro sound like a sexy name. No doubt she had gone out drinking after work, likely had to rush home when they texted her there was an emergency meeting.
Some bald, middle aged British guy pop into the video chat. "The meeting will commence shortly. Danial is still in discussion with the company solicitors." He said in a posh English accent. I had no idea who Danial was or what they were discussing. I did know that 'The meeting will commence shortly' in British English translated into American English as 'it will be at least a half an hour, maybe much more, before we are ready.' He quickly dropped off the call.
"You wanted to review trading methods that are profitable during a down turn, please continue." Ami commanded me.
"Well, that gives me at least half an hour to teach a little about put options." I smiled to everyone as I clicked the share screen option on my computer. "Everyone in the US go to the 401K & investments logon, SIPP & investments logon option for the UK team, foreign stock market option for the Amsterdam team. I am not sure if it is the same for the India team. Click the little green button on the company website. Okay, first step..." for the next hour and a half I reviewed with my colleagues around the world how to purchase put options and things like Margin investing and 3X bear ETFs.
I used real world examples, purchasing over $5,000 of put options in my 401K. most of it in high risk options with a strike price so low the options only cost either a penny or five or six cents per share. I invested about $12,000 outside of my retirement fund going over examples of selling call options, using margin loans, shorting, and another put option example for a group of late comers. One of the put option examples I used for both groups was Boeing, explaining to the group how we could make money if the stock price fell.