This is Part One of a two-part story.
I don't consider myself particularly good-looking, and I don't have an exceptionally large cock. I guess I'm not the wittiest guy in the world, and I certainly don't have all that much money. And though I do love women, love everything about them and have always loved everything about them, I was never really
that
kind of guy. Consequently, I am as surprised as anyone by the story I'm about to tell. But I can assure you, it happened. How I don't know, but it did happen.
It all started about five years ago when the mid-sized, global company that I had been working for since I finished college folded, closed up shop faster than anything I've ever seen before. One day hundreds of us spread across the country and in several other nations on three continents had jobs, worked with clients, made money -- then, the next day the corporate executives declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and before the week was out, we were all asked to leave our respective buildings in a half dozen different states and four countries around the world. No notice, no severance, no explanations.
Later, we got a little information. We were told our pensions were protected, but then it was discovered that several senior executives had conspired to embezzle a sizable portion of that pension money from the trust in which it was held to help fund company business. Presumably, this was done to stave off bankruptcy. It didn't work.
Soon, those executives were headed to prison, and because most of the money was gone, we employees became the company's creditors, just like all of the businesses to which they owed "real" money, and thus, we knew that, at best, we could expect to collect pennies on the dollar for what we'd put away for retirement. In short, we were fucked. Maybe we could have organized a lawsuit, but that seemed nearly impossible considering how spread apart we were and how divergent our priorities and interests.
Most of us didn't even have a chance to ask our supervisors if they could write letters of reference for us. Everyone was gone in the blink of an eye, and we were pretty much left to our own devices to file for unemployment and, subsequently, to find alternative jobs.
I was one of the lucky ones. I just happened to have a friend from college who was working for another mid-sized, global company called
OccSafe
that was headquartered in the same small, California city where I lived. The company conducted occupational safety audits of manufacturers throughout the world. That job opened up only a week after I found myself unemployed, and my friend, who didn't even live in California, managed to get me an interview.
Since I had experience in my previous position as someone who could provide communications expertise, internal trainings for our various employees related to the services that we offered, as well as external trainings for our clients, I was in a perfect spot to qualify for a nearly identical position with
OccSafe
. I went through a rather extensive interview process, and, long story short, I was lucky enough to get the job. As it turned out, really lucky.
The first two years in my new position were pretty uneventful, and I just tried my best to learn the ropes and understand the corporate lay of the land, so to speak. I learned who did their jobs well and who did not, who could be trusted and who could not, and over that span of years, my performance reviews were solid, if not spectacular. Truth be told, I was consumed with what was happening at home between my wife and me. After a number of years of marriage, things were not good.
Then, three years ago,
OccSafe
hired a new CEO, and he began to implement some rather significant changes. The changes took a little while to actually take shape, but pretty soon some people -- all of whom absolutely deserved it -- were fired, and new people were hired in their places -- people from all around the world, including some from a number of our foreign headquarters, and things started to look differently around the office. In general, that was good, very, very good!
And when that happened, it started becoming more and more difficult to concentrate at work. It might not have been so troublesome, if the distractions weren't so pervasive. Not that I'm complaining, mind you, but having one or two good-looking, exotic, young women around would be one thing, but when the distractions came by the dozens, it seemed to me that I wasn't getting much done on a lot of days.