NOTE -- All naughty activities in this story are completed by people 18 years of age and older. No pets were harmed with the writing of this story. A big thank you to "Snookered" for editing duties.
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Lunching with a business associate recently we reminisced about our college days. The classes, the all-nighters to prepare for an exam, fake IDs and women.
Clearly Matt was a player back then, and I was, well, a book worm. I hardly had any luck with the ladies, and spent most of by interactive time with them studying, watching games or walking the quad. Oh, I did date, and actually got lucky a time or two, but it was Matt who was the big ladies' man.
One of the topics other than females we spoke about were our Internships and how they were great preparation for the business world. At our university it was required that students have two internships before graduation. My first was kind of dump, a gofer in the PR department. The internship consisted of copying, filing and mundane work in an office environment. The big highlight was writing a couple press releases about campus successes.
But as a 20-year-old guy it was not very exciting. The following year, however, was a whole lot more memorable. That's when I interned in a VP's office, and Mrs. Hopkins stated on my first day there would be no goofing off, work meant work, and by the same token I'd get to do meaningful work. My role was to be one up from the administrative assistant dealing with questions/comments on various policies.
For my part, I had to become very familiar with policies, and had a lot of face time with Mrs. Hopkins on issues which presented themselves. This was a whole lot different than my past jobs, like ice hockey referee and counter guy at a fast food restaurant.
I loved the face time with Mrs. Hopkins, as she was a brilliant lady. She was also an attractive woman of about 40 who never had a hair out of place. I loved the conversations with my boss, as she taught, listened and gave me enough rope to raise the possibility of screwing up all the while learning. It was a great time.
My supervisor was more than just attractive, she had a certain aura about her that exhibited confidence and the ability to handle a variety of situations. She dressed professionally, but one couldn't help notice her 34C top and legs that were to die for. Her dresses covered her knees but when she sat the leg that showed clearly displayed work in the gym.
Our office did a lot of work for west coast affiliates, so it was often required that our work day end later than east coast time when there were big meetings on the west coast. My work hours on such days would start a couple hours later than normal, and I'd stay in the office a couple hours past normal closing time.
Often Mrs. Hopkins and I and maybe one or two others would remain in the office for these west coast phone meetings. I was fine with that, as I was learning a lot and was happy to be an active participant in these meetings rather than one of 10-12 people in the normal meetings.
As you can imagine, with so much face time with my boss there were times when we'd share stories of our home life. She'd talk about her kids, I'd talk about school or future goals. Every so often she'd ask me about dating and girls, or she'd mention about not getting time outside the home having fun due to children activities. Her husband's job kept him on the road, and she lamented the time without him.
Then came the fateful day when Mrs. Hopkins had to head home early to handle a problem with one of her kids, and she didn't want to cancel a meeting with the group from the west coast. She said I was well briefed, and could handle it on my own. I took that as a compliment...until I royally screwed up and made a wrong interpretation of a policy that ended up costing the company time and money.
The immediacy of the problem and my misinterpretation of the facts led to a decision that was implemented quickly.
"What in the hell were you thinking," said Mrs. Hopkins the next day after calling me into her office. "We have discussed this situation numerous times. How could you screw up so badly?"
"I wasn't thinking. I just screwed up," was my quiet reply. I stammered about misunderstanding the question and answering from the hip, but that just made things worse.
"This has caused me a ton of embarrassment, and it's going to cost us money," said the woman. "I trusted you not to screw up, and this is terrible. This is the third screw up in a month."
We stared at each other before my head hung low.
"Didn't I teach you well? Didn't I trust you to not be stupid? I should fire your ass right now. I can't believe the problems this causes. I'm going to do everything in my power to fix this."
I apologized again and again. I'd forgotten about the two other mess ups, which were nowhere near as bad as the present one, and apologized even more. But there was no mistaking that she was steamed.
"If you were my son or daughter and did this, I'd beat your ass. You would never make such a stupid, nonsensical mistake again!"
I laughed and that just made her angrier. She turned beet red, shot daggers from her eyes at me, and told me she wasn't kidding.
And then came the sentence I can't believe I heard.
"Close the door and lock it. Then, Get your ass over my desk, Jon, right now! Immediately. You are being punished."
Obviously, I didn't believe her, but I locked the door and stood next to the desk.
"Are you stupid? Didn't you hear me? "
She meant business. I didn't think she'd hit my ass, but I did think she was attempting to humiliate me for my mistakes. I did not want to do what she said, but what could I do?
"Take off your belt and bend over the desk. NOW."
Off came my leather belt. I put it next to me on her desk. Then I bent over her desk.
"Drop your pants!"
I should have run to HR, but I lowered me trousers and prepared for the worst.
Humiliated, I felt her hands pulling my underwear down, and soon heard the swish of the belt, which smacked against my bare ass one, two and then three times. These were not the hardest of spanks but they did sting, and it was humiliating to be treated like an insolent child. More swats followed, as she reminded me of my stupidity. After about 10 she stopped, told me to get dressed and went behind her desk and watched as I made myself presentable.
She told me to stand in front of the desk and apologize, and then recite the policies and interpretation that were at issue. She corrected my mistakes, and demanded that I read the policy manual again overnight and return the following morning. At that time, she'd decide as to whether I'd still be interning or, well, sent back to school as a failure. That of course would require an additional semester down the road.
That night I rubbed my ass and realized the swats really weren't that hard nor painful, clearly not as painful as screwing up and then baring my ass for the woman. I was humiliated. I thought briefly of talking to someone about what had happened, but quickly realized I needed to get through the week and convince my boss that I was with the program and wouldn't make the same mistake again.