My boss was a bitch. Not just to me, but to everyone else we worked with, too. Linda Todd Consulting was the most successful firm in the city, she knew everybody, and had her fingers in lots of pies. If her customers and clients needed a deal with anyone else in the city they knew that she would put them together with the best partners. For a very reasonable fee, of course.
Personally, I was done with the bitch, and during what was supposed to be her greatest public relations coup I was going to get even with her, and make sure it was live streamed all over the city. And if certain contacts came through, maybe all over the country.
The fact that Linda, sorry, she required the staff to call her Mrs Todd, was so well connected, and so successful, was the only reason that I worked for her as long as I did. I was her "executive assistant" for two years before her biggest betrayal and then for another year after that. I was the only other woman working at the firm besides Mrs Todd. I don't count the steady stream of temps that worked the front desk, those rarely lasted long enough for me to recognize them, much less remember their names. I like to think that their experience at LTC served them well at every other place they ever worked, "At least I'm not still at LTC!"
I only intended to work for Mrs Todd for two years as I finished my business degree, but due to her unreasonable demands and last minute changes I ended up having to repeat two classes I needed to graduate. One of those last minute changes was a trade show the week before my finals that I "had" to attend and then somehow my return flight got cancelled so I missed two of my exams causing me to have to repeat those classes. Mrs Todd pretended to be sorry, and even paid the tuition for repeating the classes, but she still pissed me off. The extra year wasn't horrible because the repeat class load was much lighter than I had been handling and she did pay fairly well. The whole experience was good training in how I would never want to do things, I learned not to fuck over staff for your own personal needs, even if you pretend there is some business basis for it.
And that was just the big "business" betrayal, the small personal slights were worse. Luckily I've got older brothers so I was used to being bullied and put down, although with them it was usually in a loving way. Her constant digs about my appearance, and body, and how I wasn't that smart didn't really affect me since I knew none of it was true. What did get to me was when she would steal period supplies from my desk and not replace them, or even tell me. That led to a couple of messy situations I should have avoided.
The guys in the office were all nice enough, but she had them all trained like puppies. Subtle and not so subtle flirting, playing favorites and pitting them against one another got her the results she wanted. Some of the guys didn't even seem to realize how much she manipulated them. I could see it, I don't know how they couldn't. I also couldn't understand how her husband and her church friends couldn't see how she really treated people.
As her assistant I was aware of a lot more going on with LTC than Mrs Todd realized. I saw an email that I definitely was not supposed to see that led me to uncovering a big business deal that would be great for Mrs Todd, but horrible for most of the staff. I saw the message just before I fnished my last exams, which I had carefully avoided letting Mrs Todd know about, of course, so I was already on my way out.
Mrs Todd was planning to sell LTC to a large multinational that wanted to expand into our market. She would be paid handsomely and would keep being the face of the company for a couple of years, but about half of the staff would be replaced by corporate people. That was great news for Mrs Todd, potentially devastating for those being replaced. I would be gone, so it wouldn't really affect me.
It took a lot of effort to set up, and I had to be pretty tricky about it, but my plan ended up working out perfectly. Without telling them what they would miss I convinced the guys being retained to distract the corporate suits. Then once I showed the guys being let go what was being done to them, they saw the value of their part in the show. I even got several of the most recent temps to come back to help with the live stream. I did have to actively collect their names and contact info, but that wasn't hard. They were treated so badly by Mrs Todd that they were happy to screw with her. Betrayal goes both ways, bitch.
Among other things, Mrs Todd was a micromanaging bitch, but if you knew how to phrase things she was easy to manipulate. And after three years I knew how to phrase things. She thought it was her idea to live stream the corporate change announcement, "Everywhere we can!" She thought it was her idea to pose for pictures with the staff before the announcement was made so that everyone would still look happy for the photos. And since she was such a micromanaging bitch you could be assured that by saying "Mrs Todd I think you should..." that she would respond with, "We will do it just like I planned."
The hard part was to get her into the dress, but even that wasn't much of a challenge. Mrs Todd was always digging me about my appearance, but we were about the same size. We were both fairly fit and tone, but her breasts and ass were a little bigger than mine. On more than one occasion she had made me trade clothes when she had some kind of clumsy accident and messed up her own. After all, it was much more important for her to look good than for her lowly unnamed assistant. She had also been very jealous of the little black dress I wore to the holiday party, and by bringing "that dress" in on the day of the announcement because "My boyfriend is taking me someplace nice later.", it was available when she somehow spilled something on herself. Of course it wasn't the same dress I had worn previously and earlier in the day I had hidden the black slip that I had worn with that other dress in Ms Todd's office.
The party was just beginning, I had gotten each of the temp girls set up with business cell phones connected to groups where Mrs Todd wanted to live stream. One of the girls even had Mrs Todd's personal cell phone so that she could stream to all of her friends, family and church groups. The two corporate suits had arrived and were being entertained.
"Uggh, Jennifer, I need you." I let my smile hit my face but then quickly wiped it clear as I turned to Mrs Todd.
"Yes, how can I... oh no!" I turned to Mrs Todd, and saw the stain on her blouse. "Ok, quickly, into your office!"
She led me into her office, turned and looked me up and down. She wasn't happy with what she saw,. My clothes were fine, but not up to the standards she needed for photographs. "I need something else to wear!"
Knowing there was nothing to see, I looked around the room, "What else do you have?"
"Nothing, the dry cleaners didn't drop anything off today!"
"Take off the blouse, maybe I can clean it?"
"No, that will take too long, get me your dress!"
I made sure to look dismayed, "Oh, no Mrs Todd, I need that for later!"
"Well I need it now, and if you don't let me use it you will need to find another job! I only need it for a couple of hours!"
