Ch. 04 - Recruits
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This story contains characters from other stories but is intended as stand alone.
All comments and feedback are gratefully received as I'm hoping the feedback will encourage improvements in my work. This is a work of fiction from the deep dank recesses of my mind and any resemblance to real people is purely accidental.
This story contains lesbian sex, if this not to your liking, please visit some of my other submissions, otherwise I hope you enjoy.
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Susan was a very shrewd businesswoman. She produced nothing and didn't get involved in low level detail however the two qualities that she possessed that had brought such good fortune was her ability to see a good product that she could sell on and combine that with building a reliable team that she could leave to make low level decisions on her behalf as each and every one of her senior managers wanted the company to succeed.
All of her senior managers had been with her since the beginning, and she had a special talent of ensuring that she knew what made each of them tick. She ensured that whenever they needed more staff, she would listen to their arguments for expansion and act accordingly. Susan put part of the company's continuing success down to her recruitment process of hiring woman for the most part.
There were male employees, but they were the exception rather than the rule. Their product was lingerie and men, younger men especially, got all goofy over the product. A by-product of the company's success was empowering women, and only a few men could buy into that; some did, John was a prime example. She had recruited him as their IT guru when the company was in its infancy but recently promoted him to Art Director thanks in no small part to the fact that photography was his life's passion, it made a good alternative to outsourcing the job to professional photographers as she had done originally, it made more sense to keep John's skills and bring the picture taking in house.
This was another instance where she could best gauge what made him tick and encouraged him by providing the tools he needed. Initially he had used his own camera's but as he became more proficient the company had funded the best of the best for him. It was his other role of IT guru that had brought him to Susan's office one day as he nervously took a seat opposite Susan. It was at the end of the working day, and no-one would be disturbing them as Susan began "Stop fidgeting will you. You've got something to say and so I'd hope you were comfortable enough in having me as a boss to be able to come to me with anything. I know you've always got my back and I want to assure you that I'll always have yours."
John took a deep breath and replied, "I'm not sure how to phrase this but some of your browsing history that the server logs may leave us open to outside attack." Susan looked non-plussed and so he re-phrased it saying, "Some of the lesbian porn sites you visit could leave a trap door for hackers, I want to beef up our virus protection to ensure we are protected as best we can."
Susan looked a little sheepish and chuckled before saying "Is this you trying to tell me I need to reign in my activities. Does the chosen subject matter surprise you?"
John shrugged and replied "Your choice of subject matter has exactly zero to do with me and I've downloaded some lesbian porn for myself so I'm hardly going to criticise. Some of the larger sites are fine, it's just some have their own security issues, and I wouldn't want us to be adversely impacted by association, the porn story sites are largely ok, it's the video and streaming stuff that has the worst reputation. Some additional security, an email alias and knowing which sites to avoid ought to be all that is needed."
Susan nodded as she thought and replied "Ok, I like your suggestions. Do what you need to do to protect us. Just steer me where you think is best and I'll comply." After a pause Susan added "I hope the transition in roles is progressing smoothly. Don't forget if it gets too much, flag it up to please and I'll do what I can."
"Thank you" came John's reply before he added "If it helps yours isn't the only user with porn sites listed on the browsing history. I'm going to have a discreet word with the one male employee that has browsed in work time. You're the boss, this is your company and therefore your time, but I take a slightly dimmer view of paid employees doing the same when they are paid to do a job. The bloke is the easy one to speak to, the two women -- who incidentally share your tastes -- are a different prospect and wondered if you could address them on my behalf."
Susan's ears pricked up at learning two other women shared her tastes. "Yes, I will gladly have a word with them, who are they?"
John initial response was "Kerry the bubbly blonde in Customer Care is the biggest user. She doesn't spend too long browsing but uses the broadband speed to download a fair bit making me suspect she does her searching at home before hitting the sites here."
"And the other offender?" asked Susan.
John then paused before adding "Annette who works in Logistics but then I already knew her tastes and therefore wasn't surprised. As she has posed for me in the past, I'd appreciate it if you could go easy on her as I have another plan that might involve her that I'd like you to consider."
Susan considered this for a moment before saying "I'm intrigued to know how you knew about her tastes already but before that, let's hear this plan of yours."
"Well, I haven't got all the facts and figures together yet" was John's opening pitch and continued" but I wondered if there were any merit in getting rid of the professional models we seem to always use -- and I might add let me down big time at this last deadline -- and instead offer bonuses to some of our own employees to pose for me. It might end up saving us a bit of money but I'm more interested in being able to schedule my workload more efficiently."
John went quiet then and waited for Susan's response. Nodding she said "I can see that your idea has merits although I'm not sure how easy it will be to persuade some people, they may not like having their face splashed about. Thinking it through though, you've moved more to body shots this last brochure, is this what you had in mind?"
John shrugged, saying "Not directly, that change was to get buyers focusing more on the product than the model. Another reason I'd prefer to use 'real' people is because I'm not keen on projecting false body consciousness on people, there's too much of that for my liking as it is."
Susan was nodding throughout but chipped in with "I agree. I'm guessing you have some people in mind already. I'm also guessing Annette is one of them, is that how you know her tastes?"
John fidgeted again before answering "This must remain in this room but yes, I have had the joy of photographing her quite a few times along with Andi from Finance, she's another that I'd be keen on including as she has an amazing body to go along with her looks. If you promise to be discreet, I might even be encouraged to share with you the pictures from their joint session as that is your thing. I'd need some fuller figure ladies though, but I haven't put too much thought into who yet until I knew the idea had legs."
Susan leant forward and crossed her hands saying "Oh the idea certainly has legs. In fact, if you do share the photoset with me, I think you should definitely run with it, and I'll back it with the company's bank balance. What we paid the professional models we can pay our own people, work out the figures and I'll make sure Payroll are briefed in. I know of two of our younger employees that I can encourage to pitch in, one of which has a fuller figure and the more I think of it, Kerry falls into that category, maybe I can encourage her to help out if we don't hinder her internet browsing. There are also a couple of people I know at our suppliers that would definitely help us out while we build up our internal talent base. Just out of interest, when you photographed Annette and Andi, did you join in or was it more voyeuristic?"
John was pleased that Susan was supporting him but felt the need to ask "I have had the joy or partaking with both, yes. If I can be equally frank, I'm curious how you are so certain that these people will take part -- head cropping or not. Would the young lady with the fuller figure be your very own Assistant Gemma? Come on you know I have your back and discretion is my middle name."
Susan barked a laugh before replying "Yes, she is one I had in mind, I'll bet you'd like to see her in very little underwear?" John simply smiled and nodded, not wanting to interrupt Susan's train of thought. "How can I say this? I've been intimate with both Gemma and Bea plus a friend and her assistant from one of our suppliers. If you can wrangle me an invitation to get to know Annette and Andi more intimately, I'd certainly like the chance of hooking up with one or both."
John chuckled and said "I almost feel like a pimp. I'm guessing now you know Kerry's download preferences that she is also on the radar?"