Sarita sat at her desk in the noisy office starring in horror at her screen. She had screwed up big time. As a senior trader in a major investment bank she was expected to run sensible but insightful buy/sell strategies and, for the most part, she did a fantastic job. However, on this occasion she had got it massively wrong and once her latest trades were booked, an immediate loss of almost £5 million would be crystallised. It would probably get her fired.
Sarita stood to lose a huge amount -- and not just her six figure salary. As a British Indian girl with demanding parents she could not afford to suffer the humiliation of losing her job. She had already disappointed them once by marrying a white guy, although they had come round once they got to know him. Things were just getting back on track in her life and she couldn't face seeing it all come crashing down.
Indeed, Sarita was a girl who, on the face of it, had everything. Her skin was a beautiful brown and she possessed the biggest eyes and an utterly gorgeous smile. She kept her petite 5.2 body in great condition at the gym meaning her ass and legs were firm and toned, which perfectly offset her 32D tits. Sarita knew how to use her amazing looks and often wore tight, short skirts to the office and never did up the top two buttons on her blouse. Indeed, there were loads of guys in the office utterly crazy about her.
However, right now she felt anything but sexy ... in fact she felt awful.
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More in hope than expectation, Sarita pulled up the Trade Procedures page on the company intranet to see what processes her trade instructions would follow .... perhaps there was the chance of intervening. Her fears seemed to be justified when she saw that, given her high permission level, only one check would be made before the trades were booked -- and this was a purely technical check by the IT team. The IT team operated like a machine and it would almost certainly have been done already. However, it had to be worth a try to see if they could help.
Sarita picked up the phone to the IT team and it was answered by Steve, the team supervisor. Sarita hated Steve ... he was a big, fat, lumbering, lecherous white guy who loved eyeing up anything in a skirt ... he would even adjust his chair to get an eyeful if Sarita was unfortunate enough to pass his desk.
However, she was desperate so she put on her friendliest voice ...
"hey Steve its Sarita ... have you by any chance booked the IQS trades I just processed?"
Steve instantly smelt a rat ... "why do you ask?"
Sarita knew he was playing games but her priority was pulling the trades if at all possible, so she decided to be honest and told him "look Steve, they are bad trades and they need to be pulled before going in the system."
There was a long pause before Steve said in a very quiet voice "I can pull the trades, but I might need a bit of persuading - lets meet upstairs in meeting room 5." Then he hung up.
Sarita was stunned. On the one hand she was relieved beyond words that the trades hadn't been booked. On the other hand she was disgusted that Steve seemed to want private time with her ... God only knew what he had in mind.
Sarita considered calling HR and this would definitely have resulted in Steve getting reprimanded and being made to stop the trades ... but equally she would have to admit her fuck up. In fact, if it was known that she had only avoided losing £5 million by pure luck then she might get fired anyway. She looked at the photo of her wonderful husband on her desk and realised she simply couldn't let him down. She therefore made her way up to meeting room 5.
*****
The door to meeting room 5 was slightly ajar and, as Sarita walked in, she saw that Steve had plonked himself on the large sofa at the end of the room.
She tried to keep things proper and simply said "hey Steve, thanks for making time, I'm sure we can figure out a process for stopping the trades."
However, Steve just looked at her with his beady eyes, rested his hands on his massive stomach and said "close the door you fucking slut and come stand in front of me."
Sarita was appalled and turned to walk out ... but where would she go? The answer was obvious ... she had to comply and just hope like Hell things didn't get too bad. Therefore, she closed the door, switched on the "meeting in progress" button and walked over to stand in front of Steve.