Bill didn't react well when he learned his new boss planned to fire him.
He was seething as he drove home. He paced back and forth in his living room, swearing and punching couch pillows. He had a stack of print-outs of emails his boss wrote outlining her plans to find some pretext for firing him so she could give his job to a girlfriend she'd met when they were both students at Harvard Business School. As far as Bill could tell, his boss and her girlfriend were both pampered little rich girls who'd never had to work for anything. They didn't care that he'd worked hard for his job, earning each promotion by demonstrating he was smart, organized and dedicated.
The worst thing was that his boss - her name was Dela - planned to steal his pension savings and use that money for a pet project. That was illegal, but Bill knew that the laws favored employers, and that he'd have to spend so much money fighting for his rights that it would barely be worth it.
He poured himself a glass of bourbon and wondered what to do. He'd discovered Dela's little conspiracy by searching through her emails. Dela had done such a poor job learning about the regional office she was supposed to manage that she didn't realize that one of Bill's many duties was supervising the IT department. He had access to every part of the system - including the emails. When he made his discovery, he was so angry he could barely make a print-out of the emails and slip out of the office before anyone discovered how upset he was.
For a while, Bill thought there was nothing he could do to protect himself. But then he realized that there was something special in these emails. What Dela wanted to do consisted of age discrimination. Bill was only 39, but Dela's emails stated that she felt he was too old to do his job properly - a fact contradicted by his stellar work record. Bill realized that if he took these emails to a discrimination lawyer, he could win a big settlement and get Dela fired.
But it would be iffy. Bill wanted to ensure that there was no way Dela could wiggle out of this trap. He sat on his couch and thought, and thought, and thought some more. By the time he finished his second glass of bourbon, he knew just what to do.
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It was the end of the day, and the employees were leaving the office building. It was Friday, and everyone was anxious to start the weekend. Bill called his boss Dela and said he needed to show her some documents.
"Can't this wait until Monday? I'm ready to go home," Dela said.
"It's important," Bill said. "It will only take a minute."
Bill had rigged the door to his office so it would close behind Dela after she entered. She pushed the door open, strode into his office, and walked to his desk. The door closed and locked behind her.
"What's so important that it can't wait until Monday?" she asked.
"You need to look at this," Bill said, holding out a stack of papers.
Dela reached for the papers, and when she did Bill quickly locked handcuffs around her wrist. "What the fuck are you doing!" she asked, surprised. Bill managed to lock up her other wrist, then shove a ball gag in her mouth and snap it in place behind her head.
Bill had done all this with the benefit of surprise, but the surprise was over. He went around the desk, grabbed one of Dela's ankles as she tried to kick him, and shackled her to cables attached to the bottom of his desk. He went to shackle her other ankle, but she managed to spike him with her high heels. It hurt, but fortunately it didn't bleed. Bill didn't want to leave blood behind to provide any evidence of what was about to happen.
He'd rehearsed this in his mind several times. Bill was one of those guys who could do almost everything, from car repair and remodeling to working with computers. He'd rigged up a very solid set of bindings that held Dela securely in place. He made some adjustments to make sure she was held tightly, bent over the desk in an awkward position, her legs spread behind her.
The gag muffled her voice, but Bill could tell she was trying to swear loudly. He sat in his chair and waited for her to quiet down. Dela eventually realized she was trapped, and no one could hear her. "Instead of yelling, you should be asking yourself why this is happening," Bill said. "You should be thinking about what you did that made me so mad I'm willing to do this to you."
He held up the stack of papers. "If you were better at your job, you'd know that I'm in charge of supervising the IT department," Bill said. "You'd know that when I realized you were up to something, I could go read your emails. That's not against any rules, by the way - when you came to work here you signed an agreement that lets the company look at your computer records anytime we want.
"So that means I found out about your little plot to fire me. Didn't they teach you anything at Harvard Business School? What you want to do is a violation of federal laws against age discrimination. Creating a written record of your plan to break the law is pretty stupid. I could take these emails to a discrimination lawyer and put an end to your career. I figure that you are so arrogant you don't think any rules apply to you. I assure you, if we go to federal court, the judge will not feel that way."
Dela was in an uncomfortable posture. She was bent over so far that the only way she could look Bill in the eye was by bending her neck so much it hurt. This was happening very fast. She found it difficult to believe that the man she'd planned to fire was smart enough to have trapped her like this.
"You have been a very naughty girl, haven't you? You need to be punished. How do you think I'm going to punish you?" With that, Bill opened the center drawer to his desk and withdrew a huge hunting knife. Dela's eyes got wide when she saw that big blade. Bill had no intention of hurting her with the knife, but he wanted to scare her. What happened next depended on Dela reeling from fear and anger. He needed her to be consumed with strong emotions.
Bill got behind Dela and began using the knife to cut away her dress. He cut the straps to her bra and the waistband of her panties. It wasn't long before Dela was almost naked. She still wore a sexy pair of black nylons and stiletto heels, but Bill liked the way they made her look, so he decided to leave the nylons and shoes in place.
"I can understand why you always wear such slutty clothes," Bill said. "You have a fine looking ass. I'm not surprised you want to show it off to every man you see.
"I want you to wear this blindfold so you can concentrate on what's about to happen. To focus on how it feels," Bill said as he slipped a blindfold over Dela's head. Quietly, he fetched a camera and tripod from its hiding place behind a chair, and aimed the camera so it showed Dela from her knees to her elbows. You couldn't tell she was tied in place by her wrists and ankles.