Kate and I are both in out early twenties. We work together in the corporation as sort of general secretaries/dogsbodies, meaning that we just do what we're told and get stuck with all the crap work that no-one else wants. We're told it's to give us a good grounding across the whole business and it will pay in the long run.
It's sure paying pretty poorly in the short term. I'm always short at the end of the week. So is Kate for that matter. By the time payday is due to roll around we're both bring sandwiches to work to save having to buy lunch.
It also means that we tend to stay in our little office come the lunch break so that we don't get suckered into buying something we don't need but really, really want. I'm sure you know the sort of thing I mean.
We shared the same little office off in the corner of the lower ground floor. Actually, not so little. The reason we have it is because it's in an inconvenient place and for some reason the buildings air conditioning doesn't seem to reach that office.
Anyway, Kate and I were relaxing in our office one Friday afternoon. We'd had our sandwiches at our desks and were now just veg'ing out for the rest of the lunch break. It's not as though any of the work on our desks was urgent. As a matter of fact we weren't even sitting at our desks; more like sitting on them as we nattered.
So while we were sitting, chatting, these two sales guys wandered into our office. We'd seen these guys around a couple of times and they were always mildly flirtatious. All the sales people are. I don't think they can help it. One of the odd jobs that we get is we have to do spot checks on the salesmen's petty expense claims. It's not that they're trying to rort the system. It's just that they can be rather creative when claiming expenses.
So these two guys wander in and we slid off out desks and promptly pointed out that we were not really there. It was lunchtime and we'd gone down the street. Come back later.
They just laughed at us and said they were just dropping of their expense claims forms. They'd been tapped for a spot check and told to give us the forms. I just took them and tossed them into Kate's in basket. (After all, if she'd taken them, she'd have tossed them into my in basket.)
Naturally I thought that would be the end of it, the two guys would turn and go about their business, but like I said, the sales guys just can't help flirting, even if they're not trying to entice a customer. For that matter, neither Kate or I are what you'd call gargoyles. We were both quite attractive young women. So these two bozos couldn't help themselves. They started flirting with us.
Now I had no objection to a little harmless flirtation, and I'm quite sure Kate didn't mind either. Both the bozos were nice looking and really quite charming. I mean, if you're going to be a successful sales person you need a certain amount of charisma, and these two were a couple of the company's best.
