Greg yawned after the 8am office meeting. The entire sales team had been called in early for a briefing to be told about 'organisational changes'. Which in the world of IT Sales, could mean anything from a company takeover to mass redundancies.
Thankfully, the news wasn't that dramatic. In essence, the management were recruiting a telesales team to do all the cold calling, in the quest for more new business. Greg sauntered down to the coffee machine, feeling quite pleased. He hated cold calling, spending hours on the phone, just trying to find anyone with a vague interest in their range of products. As far as he was concerned, he was more than happy to shed that part of his job.
A few weeks later, Greg was called into see Dave, the sales manager, in his office. When he went in, several of his colleagues, other account managers, were there already.
'Time to meet the new team, guys!' Dave announced, with his usual exaggerated enthusiasm.
'Please don't mention fucking "blue sky thinking" or "acting outside the box", for fuck's sake,' thought Greg. At the age of nearly 40, he was a bit more cynical than some of the youngsters who surrounded him.
'I do hope "my" person isn't going to be like Rosemary,' he thought. Rosemary was Greg's shared PA and was what the guys called 'an albatross' - AKA 'big old bird'. Greg often thought she had missed her vocation of becoming a prison officer. She had a demeanour which matched her stature.
The assembled team headed downstairs, to where the new team had been installed in a large room with 'pods,' containing a desk, chair, PC and so on, with a dividing screen between each to help isolate them. It was a mixed group of fairly young men and women. As soon as they finished whatever call they were on, they took the opportunity to take their headsets off and be introduced to the sales team. Greg was quite impressed that Dave could recall all their names without a crib sheet.
Finally, they got to a blonde woman in her early 30's. 'Greg, this is Louise. She's going to be mainly working for you. She has lots of experience, so should be a great asset to you,' said Dave.
Louise stood up to formally introduce herself. At about 5' 5", she was average height, with quite long, wavy blonde hair, a lovely smile and blue eyes which smiled at the same time. Trying not to make it totally obvious, Greg quickly scanned her up and down, to check out the rest of her. She was on the bigger side of average but was one of those women who looked rather sexy because of her curves. She certainly had a fine pair of tits, by the look of it. When she spoke, she had a lovely, engaging voice. Greg could understand why she was in telesales.
'Yes Dave, she does look like she's "experienced". I like the idea of "great asset", too,' thought Greg. Louise sat back down at her desk, giving Greg a chance to check out her bottom and legs. She was wearing a fitted skirt, which wrapped very nicely round her curves.
Inspection tour over, they all filed back into Dave's office for the predictable pep talk. While Dave yammered on about 'giving them our full support' and the '80/20 rule' and a bunch of other sales manager-speak, Greg had drifted off into a very pleasant daydream, in which he was banging Louise, bent over the office desk, with her skirt hitched up round her waist, sinking his cock into her willing pussy, when he was jolted back to reality by Dave asking him some idiot question. 'Sorry Dave just got a bit of a thick head this morning. Could do with a bit of fresh air, mate.'
The weeks passed and Louise settled in very nicely. She was doing a good job, producing quite a number of sales leads for Greg to work at. They tended to have an informal daily meeting to catch up and over time, they started opening up about more than just work. It turned out that Louise had a regular boyfriend who stayed with her several nights a week, and by all accounts, banged her like a barn door on a very regular basis.
Which meant a couple of things: first, Greg sadly had to dismiss the notion that 'she might not have had it for years and is therefore now gagging for it'; second, they were able to be quite professional and kept their relationship strictly in the 'business/friendly' category. Which was good for the business but did nothing for Greg's favourite fantasy of giving her a damn good rodgering over his desk. Hey-ho.
Returning from a meeting one day, Greg saw the VM light flashing on his desk phone. He pressed the Play key and Louise's voice came over the speaker. He listened to the message three times, not because anything was unclear, but because of her voice. There was something about it which made him absolutely melt. He began to imagine how she would sound, if they were both lying in bed, post-coital, discussing the amazing sex they had just had.
He was still in that frame of mind when he called her extension to return the call. The line was busy, so he was put through to her VM... 'Hi Louise, just got your message; thanks for that; you've done really well. By the way, I have to tell you, your voice sounds incredibly sexy on the voicemail! Enough to make a guy's knees go weak! Speak soon...' and hung up.
'Shit! Why the fuck did I go and do that? he suddenly thought, jamming his fist in his mouth. The phone system didn't allow VM's to be recalled or deleted once they'd been recorded. She's got a boyfriend, for Chrissakes! He suddenly had visions of sexual harassment tribunals and all kinds of shit, when his phone rang.
'This is Greg,' he answered abruptly.
'Hi, it's me. Jesus, Greg. You reckon I've got a sexy phone voice. Yours made me absolutely tingle all over! Leave me a voicemail any time you like!' Louise laughed and hung up. Greg stared at the phone for a few moments in disbelief.
The flirting and sexual tension between the two steadily increased as time went by. This puzzled Greg, because Louise was clearly getting shagged good and proper, on a regular basis. She certainly didn't seem to be lacking anything in the boyfriend department - and she clearly wasn't in the target-rich 'bored and married looking for a bit of extra-curricular' category.
Then one day, Louise came into work sporting a serious black eye. Greg immediately quizzed her: 'What the fuck has he done to you?' feeling right ready to go and punch the bastard's lights out.
'Calm down, Greg. It was an accident, honestly'.
'Yeah, they all say that, to stick up for their partner,' he said.
'Honestly, we were having the most amazing sex. Somehow, I slid off the bed and bashed my eye on the bedside cabinet. It really hurt but... well, it was worth it!' She tried to laugh, but winced with the pain, putting her hand over her eye.