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Please do not read if under 18 years of age or offended by sexually explicit stories and situations.
(c) 2002 Couture
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Sharon didn't care very much for her new supervisor, nor, did most of her co-workers. It wasn't as if any of them held any great love for their former supervisor either, but at least Mrs. Feldman had been tough enough and canny enough that they didn't mind thinking of her as their boss. However, the new supervisor, Kristie was fresh out of college and green as spring wood. To make matters worse, Sharon had put in for the job and didn't get it. As a result, Sharon was taking particular relish in making Kristie's job difficult just on general principle. And it was Sharon who was instigating the latest caper to get Kristie fired before the young graduate even had a chance to get settled in.
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"I don't know about this Sharon," Gwen said, taking a drag on her cigarette, exhaling and then flicking off the ashes. "I mean, not only is the newbie gonna look bad, *we're* gonna look bad."
Sharon shook her head and grinned slyly. She had gathered her flock of saleswomen outside the back of the building, where they went to smoke during lunch. She didn't gather everyone, just the ones that mattered: the successful ones. There were eight of them all together.
"No, Gwen," she said. "That's the beauty of it. We all had great sales when Mrs. Feldman was here. Now, when Sales go down and the only thing that has changed is the supervisor, then you can bet your bottom dollar they're gonna get rid of the new supervisor." She took a drag on her cigarette and blew the smoke out through her nose. "As long as we all stick together."
"Come on Sharon," Doris said. She was the motherly one and a little on the chubby side. She wasn't aggressive, but she was so nice and had a Mrs. Cleaver way about her that people couldn't hang up on. It worked for her. "She's a nice girl. Let's just give her a chance."
"She's embarrassing, is what she is," Sharon said. "Come on, are you with me?"
One after the other, they all answered yes.
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Two weeks later, Doris was called to Kristie's office. Thirty minutes later she returned and sat down next to Sharon.
"What did she want?" asked Sharon.
"She just wanted to talk about things. She's really upset about how the sales have gone down. She asked if there was anything she was doing wrong or what she could do to help." Doris shook her head and she had that sad motherly look in her eye again.
"Dear God," Sharon said, knowing Doris had fallen for the new girl's pathetic plea. "What did you tell her?"
"Nothing . . ." Doris mumbled, and then finally caved in. "Well I had to tell her something. She gave me the poor puppy dog look. I told her that the other day when Janice rang the bell nothing happened. Our old boss would have given her cookies."
The bell was the brainchild of Mrs. Feldman. Whenever one of the reps sold a thousand contracts, they would run up and ring a bell enthusiastically. Mrs. Feldman would take the rep into her office and give them a home-made cookie. Stupid really, but the reps got into it and the cookies were damned good. Besides, most of the fun was in teasing the other girls about how good the cookie was.
Sharon knew she had to do something fast before Kristie did something on her own to motivate the other women. The girl had already gotten to Doris.
It was then that Sharon had an idea that was so devious it surprised even her. There was no way she could tell the other girls about it. They would never go along . . . Not in a million years.
That afternoon, as they were getting ready to leave the office, Kristie rang the bell. "Ladies," she said. "Tomorrow, I want to hear this bell ring."
By that time Sharon had sold two hundred contracts already. She only had a fifty more to go.
'Oh don't you worry little Kristie,' she thought to herself. 'I'll definitely be ringing your bell tomorrow.
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Sharon sold the fifty contracts before 9:30. She walked proudly to the front and rang the bell. Heads peeked over the cubicle walls. Doris smiled and looked relieved. The rest other seven reps conspiring against the new boss looked betrayed.
Kristie quickly rushed from her office grinning from ear to ear. The bell had rung. Her urging the day before was successful. This leadership thing wasn't so hard after all.
"Yea! Come in - come in to the office Sharon," she said, urging Sharon into the office.
Sharon sat, while Kristie twittered around like a nervous school girl.
"Here Sharon," Kristie said, opening a box of homemade cookies. "I didn't know what kind to make or how many Mrs. Feldman used to give, so I made all kinds. Take as many as you want."
Sharon peered past her nose, down at the proffered cookies and made a wry face. Kristie's heart was pounding from excitement, but now her face began burning from embarrassment. She had done something wrong, otherwise Sharon would have taken a cookie. Kristie was certain, she was most assuredly going to get fired and with her student loans, she was going to have to go live back at home with her parents to get by. Tears welled in her eyes.
Sharon looked at the young girl's hurt expression and almost burst out laughing, but she managed to hold her cynical expression. What a newbie! The girl was pathetic. "You're not going to cry are you?" she asked sarcastically. "Oh my God, you are!"
Kristie blinked back her tears. "This isn't right is it? God, how am I ever going to do this job?"
Sharon picked up a cookie and nibbled at it. Good, but not as good as Mrs. Feldman's. "Poor thing," she consoled. "It's a sweet thing to do I guess, but you must have misunderstood about Mrs. Feldman. She didn't *bake* us cookies. She . . . well, she *tossed* our cookies."
"I don't understand," Kristie said, wiping away her tears.
Sharon made 'V' with her finger, put it to her mouth and flicked her tongue up and down luridly.
Kristie's face registered shock. "Oh my!" was all she could say. They never mentioned anything like this in college - NEVER.