This is a complete story in and of itself, though I might decide to
write a continuation. If I do it will be complete as well, and not
reliant upon the first one.
Worldcom Services (Story One)
by: jo199
part 1
Joe got out of the cab, still looking at the piece of paper in his hand that
said, Worldcom Services Inc., 29779 Beacon Shoreline. He was so
distracted by his excitement that he belatedly thought to pay the cabby, but
by the time he'd looked up from the paper the cab was two blocks gone
and he was forced to recall that the tab had been prepaid by his new
employer anyway. That generated the realization that he was moving up
from a nine and a half dollar per hour job at the 'Stop and Go' to one that
actually used his college skills to the tune of three times that money. It all
seemed too good to be true after a decade of underemployment, and he
was thinking that maybe it was, considering the neighborhood he'd been
deposited in wasn't exactly mid-Manhatten; in fact nearly every building
nearby was fenced off and abandoned.
The building in front of him had that converted warehouse look to it,
though the address put him at an entrance to what he guessed to be a good
dozen offices behind the main door. Further back, the building definitely
still looked more warehouse than converted. There was only a single
handful of cars in the lot, as if only a few offices in front were staffed.
He went in, finding a receptionist sitting behind a phone and computer
terminal She told him he'd been expected, and to, "Just have a seat in one
of the seats near the back."
Near the back was a short row facing the television. Joe looked around
for a magazine before sitting down, but couldn't find one. It struck him
that he'd forgotten his briefcase, where he always had at least a magazine
or half finished novel, but then remembered that he'd already been hired,
and not needing a resume or anything paper, had not brought it. Feeling
in his breast pocket, he didn't find a pen either, knowing deep down that
he should have at least brought that!
"Ma'am, do you have a pen I can borrow. I'd be willing to pay you for
it," he said over his shoulder at the top of the receptionist's head, it
showing just over the desk. As he asked, he felt in his pants pocket for
some change, and discovered he'd forgotten both his wallet and keys.
She stood up, leaned over displaying about half of her ample breasts, and
said, "Oh, don't worry about that. They'll give you everything you need
when you get in!" Joe half paid attention to both the dismissal and
titillation, him now worried about how he was going to get home without
asking for a handout from his new boss. Nothing beats the uncertainty
and confusion of a first day, he lamented, turning back to face the
television.
Knowing how stupid it was to come to the first day of a job without a
briefcase, pen or even ID, Joe sat back and put his hands in his pockets,
thinking he was about as ready for this as a five year old is for the
separation of kindergarten.
All there seemed to do was wait, watch the dead screen on the TV and
fondle the straps on his garter belt under the thin fabric of his pants
pocket.
"Oh god, I didn't do that," whispered Joe under his breath, realizing how
utterly dumb it was to wear lady's lingerie under his new, cheap, business
suit. He'd done that before, but not the garters, and not under thin dress
pants, and definitely not on the first day of a life altering job. The garters
had rather noticeable straps that could hardly be disregarded as jockey
lines. Garters went up and down, and stretched away from the body at
certain angles. They had those big hooks that connected to the hose right
where the thin pants of his suit was supposed to be lying flat on his thigh.
Joe took his hands out of his pockets and set them on the bulges where the
hooks were obvious. He whispered to himself over and over, "Come on,
Joe, you dumb ass, at least don't forget to put your hands there every time
you sit down, or they're going to think you're a fairy."
Of course, I'm not a fairy, Joe told himself, knowing that his enjoyment
of cross dressing was simply a fetish thing he did to get off. He'd
breached the subject with a couple girlfriends, and even played at putting
on one girlfriend's panties while making love, but he was definitely not
gay. In fact, the male body repulsed Joe. He fancied himself a lady's
man. No, thought Joe, this is way overboard! What had I been thinking
this morning? Nothing! When he thought about it some more and still
couldn't drag up the memory, he put it aside, and thought about how he
was going to get past the current obstacle.
Feeling decidedly uncomfortable, Joe crossed his leg. Finding the pants
leg riding up, he had an easy view of about eight inches worth of hose at
his ankle. It was a pattern that was neither sheer nor remotely male.
Swallowing, and glancing to see that the secretary hadn't noticed, he put
his foot back down on the floor, sitting wooden.
"Ma'am, do you have a bathroom that I can use?" There, that will do it,
he imagined; just go into a stall and take the damned garters and hose off.
"I'm sorry, the restrooms are in back, and they'd prefer a pass. If you
could wait, I'm sure they'll let you use the facilities just as soon as they
come for you," said the secretary, again displaying her breasts, as if that
was part of the training. In fact, Joe imagined he'd seen a little bit of
aureole that time, and some kind of tattoo just above and a bit to the
outside of her left breast. The thought was getting him hard at precisely
the same time he was hoping to rip off the garters and become decidedly
less sexual. After all, he only had two hands with which to hide things,
and the panties he'd for some reason decided to wear were not much good
at holding things down. As for the secretary, he was pretty sure she had
signed some paper proclaiming that she'd leave no stone unturned in the
pursuit of being completely unhelpful.
"Shit," whispered Joe, grabbing his pants and pulling his nylons up with
great handfuls of fabric so the garters wouldn't stretch, and then
smoothing back the slacks. He still found the hooks hard to miss without
his hands there to hide things. Thinking the worst, he looked down at his
shirt, and was relieved that his coat and tie hid any telling signs created by
where the bra cups connected. Then, doing a double take, he noticed that
when he bent over, pulling the coat loose some, he could easily see the
black fabric of his bra as it overcame the thin, white fabric of his shirt.
God, he thought, I can't even remember having had a black bra? He sat
back, resolving never to take off the coat under any circumstances and
making sure the coat covered well. That's when he realized he'd stuffed
his B cup bra, small mounds noticeably swelling when the coat was pulled
tight. This was getting to be god damned ridiculous, he told himself,
shaking his head; what's the matter with me?
Joe considered unbuttoning a few buttons and reaching in, pulling the
stuffing out, but he knew that he did his stuffing with thick water balloons
to get that natural bouncy feeling, and what would he do with the stupid
balloons? What if the boss came out just when he was doing it? Worst
yet, what if he broke the balloons trying to extract them without loosening
the rather tight bra straps. No, he thought, it would be best to shake
hands, and then ask to see the restroom right away. As soon as I get my
first paycheck, resolved Joe, I'm going to go see a shrink and do
something about my obviously out of control sexual compulsions!
Between the ideas that he'd cross dressed on a day like today, forgotten
everything of value, and apparently done all of that without enough
thought to make it into a memory, well, that's crazy, realized Joe.
Suddenly the television came on. One of those national morning shows
was on. He never watched them because he was always sleeping in from
late shift at the 'Stop and Go', sometimes followed by late night cruises
on the internet. He glanced over at the receptionist, wondering if she'd
started the TV with a remote or if the TV was on a timer? It seemed to him
that he'd been waiting for some time. Joe looking at his watch. Of course
he'd forgotten it, so he sighed and looked over his shoulder, finding a big
analog model. It was precisely nine o'clock, one half hour since he'd
arrived. Maybe they really start at nine, just like the television, and just
wanted me to be a bit early, he thought.
He decided that if he got interested in the television, that, that would do
the trick. Someone would surely come to interrupt his interest. On the
TV, a pudgy guy was in the street of New York, interviewing hysterical
women as they bounced up and down on the other side of the
entertainment community's version of police tape. As if sympathetic to
the bouncing women, the television brightness keep a similar pulsating
pace. Joe knew this lady who had aluminum wiring, and her electric did
that. The further away from the breakers they got, the worst it got too.
He wondered if his office would have a computer, and how well it would
perform with bouncy electric? The more he watched, the more absorbed
he seemed to get into the broadcast, ultimately hoping they'd forget about
him until maybe something like after lunch. He remembered the lady with
the aluminum wiring again, and recalled that she was living on disability,
half due to some minor medical issue, and the other half probably due to
her addiction to daylight shows. At the moment, thought Joe, I can kind
of relate, feeling as if he'd grown an instant addiction to what he
recognized to be an otherwise boring broadcast.
part 2
"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Mister Winters. You must have
thought it terribly rude of me. My name is Victoria Slone. I'm the Vice
President of New Personnel," said a tall and brunette female voice
standing almost directly in front of Joe.
Joe found it hard, but he managed to rip his eyes away from the
television. He got up, and instinctively offered his hand. "Oh, that's
alright. I was enjoying the waiting room," he countered, realizing that one
leg had gone to sleep and the room seemed to be spinning like it
sometimes did when he'd gotten up too fast from a long nap. Joe glanced
over at the clock, and noticed that it was one thirty. That just didn't seem
at all right.
"Let's get you started then. Right this way," said the lady, leading him,
(Joe limping on the pins and needles of a sleeping leg), down the hall and
into an office. Where they sat down.
The lady laughed a casual laugh and proclaimed, "They still haven't fixed
the air conditioning to my liking on this side of the hallway. Please, feel
free to take off your coat and make yourself comfortable. We only require
the full uniform on those few occasions of direct customer contact."
Joe took his coat off and without a passing thought, hung it over the back
of his chair before sitting down. The new employee crossed his legs, sat
back and folded his hands in his lap. He really liked this Victoria Slone
lady.
"It says on your resume that you have a degree in marketing, but up to
now you've had to content yourself with marketing candy bars and
cigarettes at the 'Stop and Go'. Most unfortunate. You must be eager to
get involved in something more to your particular talents, I imagine,
Mister Winters."
"Yes ma'am. I found that I actually could use some of my training even at
the 'Stop and Go', but it's not what one might call upwardly mobile," Joe
confessed, finding her eyes almost magnetic. He found himself wishing
she was to be his boss, and though it seemed a little odd, he understood
that nothing would please him more than to tackle an assignment and win
her praise.
"Is that what you're looking for, Joe? Are you concerned with upward
mobility, or is it the satisfaction of a job well done that motivates you the
most?"
"Hum. I guess I'm supposed to say job satisfaction, but I think it's
probably a poor employee who isn't interested in moving along. I mean,
a stagnant employee might well be just that due to his or her lack of
motivation. On the other hand, I can honestly say I'm eager to show what
I can do. For the first few years that's probably going to be my greatest
motivator; doing the job well," said Joe, feeling a little like a kid right out
of college, panning the lines straight from the job hunt book. He'd not
been too good at panning those lines right out of college because he knew
better and thought the suggested answers dishonest. For this insight he'd
earned ten years at the 'Stop and Go', while the more certified members of
the me generation, who for the most part were stictly in it for the
advancement, had no problem with nonsence like hypocracy, and had
gone right on to Pillsbury Corporate HQ as a reward.
"That's nice," she said, no doubt familiar with the standard interviewing
skills material. "Have you ever heard of Worldcom?"
"Uh, no ma'am. I really haven't. I should have looked it up, I suppose,"
said Joe.
"It's probably not listed. We are a new, startup venture, though I'd guess
we'll be fortune five hundred by next year, and potentially the sky is the
limit. We have a major presence on the internet, though only with our
partners. Our core business is training, a wide range of services and
product distribution. This portion of the organization is involved with the
liquidation of products, only in our specific case it's at the warehouse
level. We collect abandoned products at this facility, recondition them,
and pass them on in better shape than before, or at least in sorted order,"
said Victoria.
"I understand. They say that warehousing is twenty-five percent of the
cost of retail," Joe stated, remembering more of his college training than
even he'd expected.
"Exactly, Joe. You don't mind me calling you Joe, do you? Well
anyway, we plan to start at the warehousing and distribution level, and
from there vertically integrate, which I think is a classic approach in
business that has proven successful in companies with less advantages
than we have."
"It's good to be with a company that is thinking of expansion at it's core,"
Joe said, feeling like he'd hit some kind of jackpot.
"Why thank you, Joe. We're glad to have you."
"I am curious though, how does the internet come into play?"
"Excellent question. But, before I start, I can see that you are
uncomfortable. I'm really sorry about the room temperature. It is very
hot in here. Why don't you take off your tie. In fact, you might as well
take off the shoes too; I have," said Victoria, smiling as if amused and
showing a nylon toe around the corner of her desk as proof.
"Oh, don't mind if I do," said Joe, stepping out of his shoes, and
removing his tie. Joe put the tie over the back of his chair, and loosened
another button on his paper thin shirt. Feeling cooler, Joe crossed his leg
over his knee, displaying reinforced toes and heels on his fishnets.
"That's better. Well, as I was saying, the internet is where we get our
client lists. Of course, the lists we generate are also often sold. We do
this in two ways. One approach is to go to Mexico where the laws aren't
so stringent, and tap right into the phone hubs where calls are decoded.
Here, we have to go to sites and offer them money for the lists. Usually
we promise not to spam the people who log into the sites, and that keeps
our costs low. Let me see," paused Victoria, looking through a folder that
Joe immediately understood must be his new record with the firm. "Oh
yes. Here we are. We first made contact with you on one of our more
successful partner sites, Fictionfantasia.com. From there we researched
your mailing address, and then we had a name, and some college records
after that, and well, you see how that works. It's a bit of a jump from the
old marketing research days, isn't it Mister Winters?"
"Oh yes, I remember that site. I sometimes enjoyed the fiction," said Joe,
feeling a little uncomfortable about the thought that others knew he visited
the transformation site, but not being quite able to put a finger on why he
thought he needed to be apprehensive about it. Joe decided that his
paranoia was just silly, and added, "I've even written a few things on
there, to be honest."
"Oh yes," said Victoria, still looking at the file. "We had you contacted by
a man named Tyzer, and a lady who goes by the name Tiffs on dalnet's
chat line. Both, I see, found you on hypnofantasia; they are the playful,
hypnotic personality type, I can tell you. Good client partners. In fact, I
suppose the inquiries from us happened after that verification of your
qualifications by them for the position we have in mind for you, Mister
Winters." Victoria seemed to sense something, looking at the vent. "Oh,
you know, it's so hot, isn't it. I mean, this is unusually hot. People pass
out in this kind of heat. I really wouldn't mind if you took your shirt off.
Of course, you'd understand why I can't join you that way; unladylike
I'm afraid, but in your case, I don't see the harm. I've been to the
ballpark and seen worse," suggested Victoria, sitting back in her chair
and looking at Joe like he was some kind of lab rat.
"Gee, I don't know," said Joe, thinking it maybe a little too strange,
though not really sure why.
"You really should take your shirt off, Joe. I want you to take your pants
off as well. It's the right thing to do. No hanky-panky implied, so don't
be shy. You do understand that it is my wish ... because of the unusual,
probably unhealthy heat, you see."
Joe couldn't explain it, but he instantly realized that it was the right thing
to do. "Yes, of course," said Joe, stripping his pants and shirt off. Joe
sat back down in the chair after adding the things to the back of his chair.
The new employee felt a little embarrassed that his cock was standing up,
making an unsightly swelling in his thin, white panties, and threatening to
poke out, so he tried to concentrate on keeping things under control. After
a few seconds the cock complied, and started to shrink. Thank god,
thought Joe, not wanting to do anything embarrassing on his first day at
the new job. He seemed oblivious to the fact that he was sitting in the
chair opposite the ravenous, but fully dressed Victoria Slone, him wearing
only panties, bra, garters and stockings.
"I'm sorry! You're hungry," said Victoria.
"Yes. Should we break for lunch?" He asked.
"I'll have the secretary bring us in something light," said Victoria before
phoning over. Less than a minute later the secretary came in with a couple
of glasses that looked like 'Metrical' shakes. One was strawberry, Joe's
favorite, Worldcom knew. Not that 'Metrical' was the kind of lunch Joe
usually had. On the other hand, he knew it would please Victoria, so he
drank it without complaint. Victoria tilted her glass back, faking a couple
of swallows on her vanilla, but otherwise left her glass untouched.
In the interim, Joe filled out the standard employment paperwork while
Victoria added suggestions, assurances, and where needed, statements of
fact, including where to sign the agreement upon a minimum wage
contract, defined as a $865 per month salary with a waver excluding
overtime pay. Next came the obligation to $100,000 for consultation,
room, board, and future psychiatric care, to be paid until released from
employment at eight percent interest, the interest portion to be maintained
by monthly payments of $665. Victoria had him whisk his signature over
a power of attorney and a nice little open ended commitment to one of
Worldcom's own private mental facilities for sexual addiction, the facility
itself conveniently located at 29777 Beacon Shoreline. In order to insure
safekeeping and the ability to pay for taxes as well as odds and ends, the
Shoreline facility was given rights to manage and invest any left over pay.
Of course, Joe also signed his W-4, claiming his usual one exemption.
"You're really taking a big step up by signing on at Worldcom," assured
Victoria, which brought a winning smile of thanks from Joe. Lunch and
paperwork done, Joe realized that he was wet with sweat from the
imagined heat. He was doing his best to keep his eyes open too, but
managed, barely, understanding that he didn't need to do anything that
would risk the huge opportunity to become an associate with this
amazingly generous and expanding organization.
"I think you might want to freshen up before we go on. Please, take your
time because I have other business, and it will probably take between an
hour or two. If you get done before I'm through, please take a seat in my
office. For now though, feel free to use the facilities, and whatever you
might find of interest in there. Oh, and I'm sorry, but the men's room is
broken. It's not a problem though, because only myself and the secretary
use the one across the hall. I'll tell her you're in there," said Victoria,
leading Joe out the office door, and pointing towards the ladies room
door.
Still in undergarment drag, Joe thanked her, and casually walked into the
ladies room to freshen up. The secretary looked over the counter, having
heard the office door open, and smiled as she watched the new man float
across the hallway on his titty toes.
"He's coming along nicely," the secretary said to Victoria just as the
second appointment came into the door.
"Yes, I believe he is. Watch and make sure something doesn't go amiss
and he walks out before I get back. Here are the contracts to send off to
corporate files. Oh, and his old things are in my room. Take them back
and put them in the queue when you get a chance, if you don't mind," said
Victoria to the secretary.
"Why of course, Ms. Slone," answered the secretary formally, as the new
arrival stepped up to the counter.
"Hi. I'm Robert Jeffeny. Here for the new job," said the man to the
women. The secretary directed him to the back few chairs in the lounge.
Noting that all was in good hand, Victoria left to get a real lunch while the
two processees were on automatic. "One in the washer; one in the dryer,"
joked Victoria to herself as she waltzed to one of only five cars in the lot,
though she had to make space for a delivery truck as it drove through the
gate to the back warehouse before heading to her favorite lunch time
restaurant.
part 3
As soon as Joe stepped into the ladies room a song started. "Good
timing," he said to himself, realizing that it never worked out that way
when he was changing channels on his car stereo. In the background,
however, there seemed to be a strange sort of whispering. He locked the
bathroom door, admired the large space and decor, and then pulled down
his panties, sitting on the seat to pee. The lights were flickering up and
down too, he noticed. First the television in the lobby, and then the air
conditioner, though the temperature seemed fine over on this side of the
hall, and then the 'Muzak' and lights in the lady's room. Maybe, if he got
the right position, he'd be able to help the office maintenance people figure
out a rewiring scheme, thought Joe, smiling at how well things were
going so far. Victoria had been positively charming, and the opportunities
for pay, job security and advancement seemed endless, Joe seemed to
recall, though he didn't really want to think about that part of things too
much; preferring to concentrate on the opportunity to impress the Vice
President of Personnel.
"Yes, impress Victoria. You need to do everything you can to impress
her. She's your boss. You need to do things her way so she understands
that you are a team player," said something profound and wise inside of
Joe's brain. "Yes, I'll have to focus on impressing her for now, and
whoever I am assigned to work with after that," echoed Joe's mouth. A
successful business man is ninety percent good attitude, he recalled from
his studies. That made no end to sense.
Joe took some toilet paper and wiped his pee pee. Pulling up his panties,
Joe walked over to the bathroom vanity, and sat down in front of the
mirror. "You need to fix your face a lot better than that. You've barely
touched it!." The better half of his brain seemed to tell him. Joe sat
down, and started with a closer shave, and then some foundation.
Remembering that he needed to maintain a professional attitude, he went
light on the shadow, lashes and lipstick. "And the hair! God forbid!"
The one side of his brain seemed to scold. Why had he opted for a nearly
shaved head. It's so, well, feminist, he mocked. There were two wigs,
one a blond and the other brunette. The blond one was kind of too cute,
but it did go well with his eyebrows, so Joe opted for that one.
"Now, what should I wear?" He seemed to be asking himself, though an
echo in his head made him think that maybe it had been a lyric in the
music. He listened more intently, looking up at the speaker in the ceiling
and found nothing coming out but a popular song. "What are you
imagining, you deluded fool," he said, talking to himself, and going over
to a closet to see what was in there.
There was this really red raincoat, and a nice formal gown. "Pick
something that is appropriate for working in, though not casual," his brain
said to him again, as if a separate voice again, though he found the logic
perfectly correct. After all, he was at work, reasoned Joe. Pushing the
raincoat and formal aside, he saw a nice black dress with white, lace trim
about the short sleeve cuffs, collar and hem. The skirt part of the dress
looked really full, which a bird in his head told him was coming back into
style, even at work. It looked kind of cutsie too, like the hair, he was
thinking, the little bird adding that if both the hair and the dress were cute,
things were sure to match.
Joe stood in front of the mirror, and put the dress on. It buttoned in back,
but he managed, and then tied the little cloth belt so it left a nice wide bow
in back. Around the hanger was an apron. "You never know what you'll
be doing. It's best to be prepared. You know, spills, dirty hands, and
you need to consider that you don't have a second dress in here to change
into if you get dirty," the wee voice said. Joe looked back at the formal
dress and raincoat, and nodded agreement. A person couldn't really work
in either of those things in the event the dress he had on got ruined. He
took the apron off of the hanger, and tied it on, now sporting a double
bow in back, one white and the other black, which he found quite lovely.
The dress had the advantage of being open at the bottom. The neckline
was low too, and it was short sleeve. His bra showed some, but he didn't
dwell on the unavoidable. All of that will be an advantage in the hot office
on the other side of the hallway, he told himself. He had to admit that
he'd not felt like he was dressed professionally enough over there before,
the reasons he felt that way elusive, but sure. "I mean, what is
professional anyway," he reasoned with himself, "Other than an attitude
and the right match in costume to duty." All of that old business school
stuff was really beginning to pay off in spades.
Under the dresses he found a white pair of sneakers, some four inch
pumps and some very modest looking black shoes with maybe an inch of
heel. You had to hand it to the new company, he thought. They always
have at least one thing that's perfect, he realized, putting on the one inch
black pair. Maybe it was a test to see if he knew how to dress for
success? Joe was determined to pass, and found the choices just too easy.
"There! And to think you were worried that you'd embarrass yourself on
the first day, Joe! When your recruited like a college graduate should be,
the companies take care of you. Ten years late, but here you are, where
you belong at last," he told his reflection in the mirror, sitting down to fix
the wig until every curl was absolutely perfect, which, like for most
women, took a good, solid hour.
The music began to chant, "You look perfect this way."
"I look perfect this way," answered Joe, as if humming a song that was so
familiar it needed only to pass straight from the ears to the mouth without
bothering the brain.
"You can see how this will help you become a better employee."
"Yes, a perfect employee," returned Joe.
"Hard work has its own reward."
"Hard work is its own reward."
"You put up the right image, work hard, and obey, life will be your bed of
oysters," explored the music.
"Right image, work hard, and obey," mumbled Joe, the commands and
replies stuck there for awhile.
When Joe thought that he thought the hair perfect, he stood up,
straightened his full skirt, puckered his lips at the mirror, and walked out
the lady's room door, returning to Victoria's office.
"You look about ready to be introduced to your first responsibility, I see,"
said a waiting Victoria.
"I'm actually excited to get to work. I know it's late, but I'd be positively
delighted to at least get a taste of it," said Joe, not even taking his seat on
the same chair he'd sat on two hours earlier. He paid no heed to the fact
that his clothing was no longer draped across the seat back.
"Well then follow along. For safety reasons, I want you to pay real close
attention to what I tell you to do though. We start our new people out on
the floor, working right alongside the workers ... you know, to get a
feeling for the operations end, and the floor can be dangerous if one is
careless. Starting an employee out on the floor is done, as you know, in
many companies. If things work out you aren't there long, but it
depends. Some of our graduates manage better on a warehouse floor than
in more enclosed places," explained Victoria as she and Joe moved down
the back hallway. Victoria opened a large, metal door, and waved Joe into
the huge, cavernous warehouse.
Joe stepped in. Across the floor space, Joe could see at least two dozen
employees hard at work between a conveyor belt and some bins. As best
Joe could make out from the distance of the doorway, they were an all
female crew. In fact, there wasn't even a pair of pants in the lot, as if the
women had all been recruited from some religious cult that insisted upon a
skirt code. Joe had guessed wrong about the warehouse not being
utilized, and then was guessing again that there must be an employee's
parking lot on the other side of the building.
Victoria took the precaution of donning a pair of earphones for noise
protection. Joe didn't ask for any for himself, noting that other than the
music, and the slight hum of a conveyor belt and delivery truck engine
well back towards the garage doors, the place was fairly quiet. Besides,
he didn't want to miss a single word of instruction from Ms. Victoria
Slone as he followed her like a lapdog down a couple steps to the main
floor.
"Over here we have the bins!" Yelled Victoria as if the music Joe could
hear leaking out of the headphones was way louder than what Joe was
hearing on the floor; some ear protection, mused Joe. Not wanting to be
impolite, Joe nodded, and followed her over, his heels clicking loud
enough to win a few glances from what otherwise proved to be
disinterested faces. Women at a conveyor belt were taking items from the
belt, and putting them into bins across the walkway.
"The sla ... I mean, the woman are responsible for from five to three bins
each. As you can see, the bins are labeled. Let's look at some about two
thirds of the way down; that's where we'll start you. Never mind the
work, it's how we learn to identify with our workers, you know, like the
Japanese model where management pitches in. Well, here we stand
shoulder to shoulder for awhile, so we don't fall into the trap of insisting
upon examples that are unrealistic. Oh, here we are. I'll just be moving
the responsibilities aside for the workers to each side, and then we can do
three bins from here. I'll show you and you'll learn as we go," said
Victoria.
"What is this stuff?" Asked Joe, pointing at the conveyor belt.
"OK, we're ready. The things on the line are from liquidation of used
materials. At this location we specialize in resources purchased from
homes and apartments that have been abandoned. In some cases the
owners have died, and nobody knows any relatives. In others it might be
someone who's earned a nice twenty years to life sentence in jail.
Relatives often sell things off, not having use for the things left behind. It
varies. Sometimes we even empty a pawn shop. We clear it with the
authorities, which in some cases might be none other than the building
supervisor who's had to look at the junk for a couple months. Anyway,
for next to nothing we can pick it all up. Once sorted, cleaned and
packaged, it has value. Things like furniture and appliances go to a
different place. So, as you can see, the bins are a way of breaking things
down into categories. Behind you, you see our three bins," said Victoria,
grabbing a handful of socks and another of photographs. She turned
around, setting the photographs into a bin labeled Heirlooms. The socks
were tossed into a bin tagged, waist-down-under-wear. She didn't have
anything for the third bin, upper-underwear.
"Oh, I get it. So, what happens when all this stuff gets to the end and
something doesn't fit into any of the categories?" Joe asked.
"That's easy. At the end is a bin on wheels. The person down there takes
the things that are passed over and wheels them back to the head of the
line. Everything goes somewhere, and if it doesn't after three passes,
someone who's been here awhile looks it over and decides if it's special
or trash. Ninety-nine percent of the time it's trash. So, do you think you
have the hang of it, Joe? Could you work for us here for the rest of the
day, you know, just to learn the ropes of this part of the business?"
Asked Victoria.
"Of course. I'd love to get busy," said Joe, smiling back.
"Excellent. Well, have fun. They bring in a truck about every half hour.
Considering we serve ten percent of the eastern seaboard with this one
facility, they keep you hopping," said Victoria, walking away. Joe
watched her go, feeling kind of guilty that he wasn't hopping right too.
For the last half of the walk, Victoria seemed to reach a bit of a gallop, as
if she wanted out of the warehouse as quickly as she could manage. Joe
guessed she had another client. Victoria seemed awfully busy, he
realized, though he really hadn't seen her do all that much. It's all secret
management stuff; behind the scenes kinds of things, Joe told himself,
thinking he'd find out that part of the business soon enough.
Right now I have to do some sorting, Joe told himself, grabbing a couple
pair of underwear and something that looked like a pocket watch. Was a
pocket watch an heirloom, he wondered? No, probably jewelry, he
decided, putting it back down and tossing the male shorts into the waist-
down-under-wear bin. As he twisted from the conveyor belt to the bins,
he just loved the way his garters rubbed, and his skirt swirled. Every so
often he'd remember some previous safety training on relieving back
strain, and would turn with his feet, enjoying the way his feet felt as they
clicked around in the femi one inch heels. This was so much fun, he
thought. Yes, it's so much fun. It was as if one side of his brain was
speaking to the other again, like in the bathroom.
"You just love working here," he thought he heard, turning to see if the
person beside him had said something.
Looking the other way, he realized that neither of his coworkers had said a
thing. Or had they? To be sure not to offend anyone, he said, "Yes, I
really enjoy doing this for some reason." Joe picked up a T-shirt and a
souvenir plaque from a military tour on Guam, and tossed them into the
appropriate bins.
"I love this work," said the woman to Joe's left side. He looked over and
saw her smile toward him, though the eyes seemed miles away, absorbed
in the work no doubt, thought Joe.
"She's not your type," Joe thought he heard someone say. He looked
back toward the worker on his right, but the woman was busy. Well, of
course she'd not my type, thought Joe. In fact, she's kind of ugly, he
thought, glancing at both of the people beside him. The eyebrows are
way too bushy, he knew, though there'd been an attempt to work on
them. Both had this square jaw that made them look, well, kind of like
men. Joe laughed when he started wondering if there was a religious cult
made up of ex-Romanian female weight lifters? Then again, the dresses
weren't all that modest. In fact, both women had short dresses that flared
out like his did, and he was sure they had on garters for their stockings, a
thought instantly verified by a slight movement that made the straps
visible. The hats made them look like maids, which of course was a little
out of place in the factory - for them.
"Whores are beautiful people," rang in Joe's mind, causing him to scowl
and wonder where he'd gotten such an off color thought. Shaking his
head, he regained his original thought. Oh yes, realized Joe, I too have a
dress on and a hat that makes me look like a housemaid, not to mention
the practical apron, but that's different. I know that I'm management
material, a college grad who has been recruited for an upwardly mobile
position. I'm only on the floor to get a feeling for the business, and then
move on to something better suited to my professional attire after a few
days, his thoughts continued.
Of course he looked different for a reason, he told himself, putting a lone
photograph of someone's mother into a bin. Why the rest of the crew was
dressed like maids was, well, silly. They looked like fairies, he decided,
which might not be as bad as being a female Romanian wrestler put out to
pasture. Joe laughed under his breath.
The stuff on the conveyor belt was thinning. Another truck was backing
up to the head of the line. Several workers immediately helped off load
the vehicle. There'd be more stuff to sort in no time, thought Joe, hardly
able to wait for the opportunity to do some more manual labor. A maid
wannabe, (Joe had decided that, that was what they were), came by and
filled up a water cup by his station. In spite of the worker's overdress,
Joe thanked her and greedily drank half the water. Water and work are the
best things in the world for my girlish figure, thought Joe with a smile,
realizing that his figure was already looking way better than most of the
Romanian wrestlers nearby. That stood to reason, because he was maid
material, having been trained already at the best of institutions, and
recruited just for that. After all, he was recruited specially for that, not
this, and was only doing duty on the line for a few weeks, after which
he'd be moved on to more appropriate work. Of course, he'd have to
work hard and prove that worth, which was no issue for Joe, used to
working as a counter girl at the 'Stop and Go'.
"If you work hard, you may be granted better duties as a Worldcom
maid," said the music. Joe looked up, realizing that it wasn't the workers
who were giving him all of the very helpful advise. It was more like God
Herself, speaking through Her angels from the music. Joe felt an almost
spiritual chill thrilling him to his core as he looked up into the dust covered
warehouse beams and saw rays of light shifting from the high, overhead
windows. In fact, he had a brief glimpse of a revelation, realizing that
Victoria, as a Vice President of Worldcom, must certainly be at least close
to the true Goddess Herself. He had, through no greatness of his own,
been blessed to have sat mere inches from a woman who no doubt was at
least a Saint. Only the exhilarating hum of the conveyor belt restarting
kept him from shouting out with ecclesiastical glee. There is much to do,
he decided, putting his hands to the rubber, as if feeling the empty belt
was better than idleness.
"Obedience is wonderful," echoed from the speakers, bouncing off of the
high and wide warehouse walls like the distant voice of the Goddess. Joe
no longer flinched, no longer imagining secular sources for the voices of
angels.
part 4
"All right now, girls, if you'll strip your garments and ready for
inspection before we're attended to for the night," said the woman whom
Joe took to maybe be a Priestess. She was dressed in the honorary
business suit, all grey and knee length, with white hose and sensible black
shoes, something that Joe now regarded as sacred attire.
Joe realized that the music had stopped, and with it, the world seemed to
be slowly clearing up. Still, he had some kind of need to follow everyone
else's lead. At the same time, he felt kind of like he'd missed a little piece
of his life, the last thought being of himself working on the conveyor belt,
which he was sure was somewhere else in the warehouse. For some
reason he couldn't remember most of what had happened that day at work
after the first couple of truck loads. He was getting pretty aware of the
fact that he was damned hungry, and his calves hurt a ton from standing in
the inch tall heels well into the evening. Again following the other
worker's leads, Joe stripped his wig, apron, dress and underwear, was
soon buck naked alongside a long row of equally naked men. A worker
came around behind them all, scooping up the garments for cleaning.
There was no mistaking things now, Joe understood; these guys he'd
been working with were fairies for sure. Joe wasn't too much of a fan of
gay people, though he wasn't repulsed by them either. Nearly every last
one of them was shaved below the eyebrows, and he was sure half of
them were growing decent sized breasts. One short blond guy three down
and the TV who'd just picked up their clothing were both at least a half
size short of a C cup and at least four months of head hair, thought Joe,
stifling a laugh as he stood nearly at attention, spaced from the men to his
left and right a rough meter each. It all reminded him of his military days,
everyone kind of looking the same after the shave and issue of T-shirts
and jockeys, or in this case, maybe in the shower would be more accurate.
The lady executive type looked at them with an unhidden look of
arrogance, as if her control was both natural and a tool she enjoyed
abusing. Joe found himself instantly disliking her and paradoxically
instantly wanting to please her at the same time. Her eyes wandered from
man to man, then from cock to cock, as she walked down the line of men
like a drill sergeant. Joe looked down, and saw his penis standing at half
mast. That, of course, was completely out of line, he thought. He looked
over at all of the flaccid penises to either side him, noticing that none of
the other men had an equal infraction, and that some looked about the size
of what he'd expect to see on adolescents, as if the bigger the breasts the
smaller the penis, not that he lingered with his looking. Joe squeezed his
eyes shut and tried to think of things decidedly non-sexual so his would
soften and not stand out. After all, there were a lot of naked men here,
and to be hard under the circumstances seemed kind of faggish to Joe.
By the time the executive lady got to him, Joe had things under better
control and found it easier to breath, though she did look at him longer.
Well of course, understood Joe, I'm the new executive in training, and
she would want to get a longer look at her soon to be peer. Or maybe it's
just that I'm bigger, he wondered. She seemed to be enjoying a long look
at his lower anatomy. Joe fought between some need to remain respectful
and a sense of behavior that had him wanting to smirk his term of training
with the common troops off. He let himself throw her a wink. She
looked deeply into his eyes and shook her head no, as if saying that she
was unimpressed, after which she walked on. Joe's stomach churned,
upset that he might have displeased her with his break of protocol.
There were what looked like wide, fake leather footstools, the middle of
which seemed cut away in a violin pattern. The stools were positioned up
against a series of steel rails. "OK, slaves, on your knees and crawl
forward to your positions," commanded the woman.
"I don't find it amusing that you are calling us slaves. I'm a new
employee here, and though I'm here to learn what the common employee
goes through, I am still management material. I don't even think it's
amusing to call the labor pool something that demeaning," Joe thought he
should say, turning his head toward the woman. When he tried to say it
however, his head snapped back forward, and he found himself
stammering like he had a stutter. Everyone else seemed perfectly content
to get on their knees and crawl toward the leather stools and rack of metal
piping - some more eager than others. The female executive apparently
expected no rebellion, casually walking off the floor and through a door
that Joe guessed led to the front offices.
As if he'd faded out for a few seconds, Joe came out of a haze that found
him crawling forward as well, and already leaning across his padded
stool. The men beside him put their heads between the pipes, the pipes to
either side barely wide enough to accept the heads. When their heads
were on the other side of the pipes, they stopped moving forward, their
shoulders up to the pipes and their legs up to the edge of the cushioned
footstools. There's no way I'm going to do that. It's stupid, thought Joe!
To his utter amazement though, he came out of another cloud, his eyes
wide as saucers as his head joining the others on the other side of the pipe.
He had the sensation that half of him was in one room and the other half
in another, though only a pair of steel pipes separated his head from his
body.
There was a loud clank, and the pipes to either side of his head closed.
Joe panicked, pulling back, but the pipes were just narrow enough for his
neck, capturing his head. Looking down, and then straining a look up, he
saw that the pipes were just as narrow from the top to the bottom. His
heart was racing, but he was relieved to know that the pipes didn't close
any further, and most of the other men weren't as upset. Trying to relax,
Joe found that the cushions under most of his body were really kind of
comfortable, the back part higher so the knees didn't really carry any
weight. He did find it a bit humiliating to realize that his butt must have
been up a bit too high, but at least he wasn't any worse off than the rest of
them, his mind finding comfort in the knowledge that he was part of the
group. Other than his legs, the knees of which were sinking into a soft
drainage trough in the floor, and the space in the cushions at his chest, Joe
felt like he could drop his head and go right to sleep. It had been a terribly
hard day, thought Joe, straining to look up at the high windows. He was
still in the warehouse, he saw, though in a partitioned room he guessed.
Another transvestite stepped in front of Joe, hung a bottle of orange liquid
on a hook, and stuffed a feeding tube into Joe's mouth. Beside that, a
bottle of water was hooked, and another hose stuffed into the other corner
of Joe's mouth. He was feeling worse and worse about all of this, as if
he was beginning to rediscover a former self that wouldn't have even
imagine such treatment acceptable.
The music restarted playing just then, noticed Joe, as he learned to decided
to at least eat before he started protesting. He alternatively sucked from
one side to the other, the orange stuff apparently his meal.
Suddenly a pair of hands were vigorously rubbing Joe's body. Startled,
Joe dropped the orange tube, the contents of the unvented bottle dripping
slowly from the released tube. He tried to look around, but couldn't see
much of the transvestite who had been assigned to clean the slaves with
the soap and hair remover solution. The hands were thorough, realized
Joe, touching him everywhere, and seemingly lingering at his genitals
where the hair was thickest. The attendant worked right up to his neck
and down his arms, including the spaces between his fingers. Forcing his
body up at places, the hands lathered his stomach and chest.
"It's OK, you cows. Let the attendant clean you. Please release all bodily
functions at his time," said a voice on a PA system, overriding the usual
music. Joe was so glad to hear an executive's voice again, as if it
reconnected him to a better world where he'd soon play a more important
part. He even gained enough composure to lean out a few inches and
regain the orange tube before much of it was wasted. Without the
slightest thought, Joe relieved himself before the attendant finishing the
cleaning. As a last step, the attendant came back through and ran a thin
cleaning brush up and inside everyone's anus, topping the whole cleaning
with a hosing while the music echoed, "Cleanliness is close to
Godessliness for all associates of Worldcom." After they'd all been hosed
off, towels were used to clean between their bodies and the cushions, the
rest left to dry off in the warm air of the sleeping and maintenance
quarters. Up front, the attendant who'd issued the food came by, cleaning
heads with soapy, warm rags, and brushing teeth with a single electronic
toothbrush. It was amazing how good it was to know that everything was
being taken care of, thought Joe as the meal was finished and the empties
taken away.
"Please put your hands directly below your shoulders, and set your feet
together," said the voice in the music. Joe obeyed, almost not feeling two
new set of pipes closing around his ankles and wrists. Thus, with the
closure of three banks of pipes, thirty-seven slaves, including the meal
attendants and cleaning specialists who'd secured themselves at a special
row of cushions and pipes at the far end, were secured for the evening.
Hormones and steroids raced through their systems, conditioners and
steroids caressed their skin, and a muscle reducing meal churned in their
little bellies, the lights fading for seven hours of beauty sleep. The music
turned into a lullaby and eyes closed as they found the cushions perfectly
balanced for comfort. It being his first day of hard labor on heels, Joe
was one of the first to doze.
He woke up with a start in the middle of the night. Other than faint
quarter moonlight peeking in up above, the warehouse was dark. An
occasional snore could be heard, as the music was gone for a two hour
respite at the witching hour.
"Where am I? What's happening? Oh God! No! This is wrong! You
can't treat human beings like this!" Screamed Joe. The new employee
had no idea why he was here, the day now a whirl of memories of
waiting, interviews and hard work. Most of the snoring stopped, telling
Joe that he'd woken most of the others. "Talk to me! What's this all
about? Is there anyone here who isn't crazy?" He screamed again, the
full impact of what had happened to him coming forward as he started to
remember bits and pieces of the afternoon and early evening in greater
detail. He shook himself, imagining he was in a nightmare, but he found
no release.
"I ... I ... what is happening? Oh Jesus. I'm stuck in this thing! Why
are they doing this to me? What has happened to me? This is
kidnapping!" Came the voice of the other man processed that afternoon
out of the dark.
"Please be quiet," and "We should be sleeping," were the more passive
majority of the voices, though a few voices seemed to say the passive
phrases as if questioning their validity.
A door to the office opened and shut, letting in a wedge of light, and then
a flashlight beam. Joe looked around in fright, realizing the flashlight was
coming around behind him where he was defenseless. The person passed
him by, walking past to the end of the row. But, he thought, I have to
try! This is a chance to plead my case. "I'm not supposed to be here.
I'm a new executive! There's another man here like me too. Please, at
least let us go."
"Yes. Help us. This is a mistake. I'm supposed to be an executive. I
have my own apartment in the city! I'm not into this like these others,"
Said the other protesting voice down the way where the person from the
office was close.
There was a zap, a spark of lightning, and then a blood curdling scream
from the direction of the voice that had joined Joe's in protest. Joe knew
exactly what that had meant, recognizing the voice and ozone smell of a
police zapper.
The flashlight got closer as it came down the line behind him. Joe could
hear the distinct click of what he now recognized to be female shoes,
though around here he understood that, that didn't necessarily mean a
woman. Then the shoes stopped just to his rear and the flashlight played
around beside him and the others close. "Was it you?" said an
authoritative female voice.
"No ma'am. We should be sleeping," came a voice beside him, so
compliant that Joe imagined the head full of cotton candy.
Ten seconds later Joe felt the point of the zapper prod as it was pressed
into the meat of his left ass cheek. "Was it you?" Repeated the voice
behind Joe.
"No ma'am. We should be sleeping," Joe heard himself consciously say,
doing everything in his power to sound as sheep-like as the man beside
him had sounded, and amazed at how well he'd managed to do exactly
that.
The wand mercifully left his backside, and the voice repeated the same
question, apparently to three other neighbors, bringing the exact same
response.
"Well then. I don't think we will be having any more problems then, shall
we," said the woman's voice in the dark, her flashlight playing around
one last time and then reaching off toward the door from which it had
come. The door opened and then shut, leaving them alone in the
darkness.
That brought spasms of claustrophobia and fear to Joe, who for the first
time since he'd realized that he'd been wearing female underclothing in the
lounge that morning, was fully aware of his humiliating and dire
circumstances. He wanted to say something, to form some kind of
conspiracy, maybe just whisper some inquiries, but he knew better than to
try that again, opting to get loose on his own instead. He twisted his
wrists, but found it impossible to remove them from the frame below his
shoulders. His legs were worse. Bending his head just right, he found
that he could get most of one jaw out, but the top of his head was not even
close to small enough to get through, and it was a struggle just releasing
the wedged jaw. He was stuck, he realized, frustrated.
He tried to think of something else, but the best he could come up with
was the idea that he could resist in his mind. He had to keep telling
himself to resist the suggestions, having figured out that it must be some
kind of hypnosis that is doing most of this work. Joe even recalled that
Victoria woman telling him something about the internet connections he'd
made with Tyzer and Tiffs. He'd let them hypnotize him on-line, and he
was betting that, that had been the start of it, though he had no recollection
of any major success there. Then again, he found that he couldn't recall
all that much of what they'd done with him while he'd been cyber-
hypnotized either.
It was all kind of confusing, but captured like this, like a cow in a barn,
imagined Joe, brought the main theme in pretty clearly. They were
making men into virtual slaves, feminizing them and paying no better than
five dollars an hour, or maybe half that, imagined Joe, realizing they'd
worked well into the night and had signed away overtime pay. The whole
factory crew couldn't be costing them more than seven or eight hundred
dollars an hour at that rate. Then he remembered signing over most of his
pay for room and board. The bars and cushions were a little elaborated,
but no more than in some barns, and once installed, nearly free, not to
mention that the orange stuff was hardly executive fare.
Oh God, thought Joe; they can't help but be successful with costs this
low. The new numbers in his head came out to more like seven or eight
hundred dollars a day. That was like nothing, considering the fruits of
labor of over three dozen employees. What did it mean to be a permanent
pione under the foot of a new, and inevitably successful system of
exploitation, wondered Joe? I have to resist while I can, he tried to
cement into his head! Now, if I can just keep that idea of control in mind,
he rehashed over and over for an hour as the men around him broke into
new rounds of snoring and an occasional whimper.
Suddenly the music started again. He could make out the voices clearly
now. There was no way to avoid it, as clear headed as he was. The
words seemed terrible to Joe, causing him to moan. They were going on
and on, he understood, the content and intention totally unveiled:
"You are relaxed. Obey us. Work hard. Never complain. Worship all
people not of your low class. Relax, work hard and enjoy. Forget your
past. You are now happier than ever to be slaves at Worldcom. There are
no cares. No need is unmet. All of the people supervising have done this
for you. They are your superior beings. You love their direction.
Obedience relaxes and pleasures you. You crave being told what to do.
Remember all directives. Forget all past cares. Do no tire easily. Long
hours help the time pass until you are accepted. Authoritative women
appeal to you. Obedience is highly pleasurable. Erections are
embarrassing and slow your progress. You want to become a woman.
Erections are counter to that goal. Becoming a woman has so many
rewards in the organization. You want breasts. You enjoy being cleaned.
You enjoy your maintenance position and quarters. The food at
Worldcom is wonderful. All cares are met. All in the past is forgiven and
forgotten. Relax and enjoy those new things around you. You will soon
become a better working woman. Advancement is through compliance.
Soon you will move on. Obey all directives. Speaking without request is
troubling. When troubling thoughts occur, just relax. Think of the
pleasure of work," the endless and varied diatribes repeated, almost as
loud as the main vocals, thought Joe, shaking his head to beat off the
influence. I can do this, he thought. I can stave off this undercurrent of
lies! If only I could yell without being zapped, or just hold my hands up
to my ears, he lamented. Slowly though, Joe tired, and then finally lost
himself in sleep. By morning the entire episode of disloyalty was
swallowed as surely as the morning meal of estrogen laced, orange liquid.
part 5
Joe could hardly wait to put on his new garters, stockings, heels, bra,
maid outfit, apron and wig. The outfits were different, having been
roughly tossed to each worker based on general size. The shoes were the
same, he noticed, delighted. Joe also noticed that one of the more
advanced 'girls' was wearing the dress he'd worn the previous day,
though the stockings and wig were different. The purple lipstick he was
issued was really different from the various shades the rest of the workers
wore, making him feel special. This is like the best part of the day, he
thought, almost giddy.
Delighted to be off to work, and one step closer to his goal of moving up
in the organization, Joe was marched off with the rest of them, soon back
on the floor, and through chance, at the exact same station. There was
half a truckload to finish, and then a new truck came in. His lower calfs
hurt a lot, but he seemed to find it easier to walk than one of the fags
down the line did, that one limping badly, as if someone had hit him in the
ass or something. Joe shrugged it off, and felt a little guilty about
thinking of the man as a fag. The queen was just trying to do a good job
for the employer, thought Joe, trying to put himself into the place of one
of the executives and imagining how hard it must be to please everyone all
of the time. It was the same old story, he realized; management always
put in long hours and never got any respect. He wasn't going to fall into
that trap, he resolved, knowing how good his employers were. It just
wasn't right. This management team really cared. After all, there were
bad employers out there, and he definitely didn't want to switch jobs and
get into some sweat shop where he'd have to deal with the likes of them.
It was so perfect here, he thought as the first items from the new truck
started by.
He picked up some underwear, and tossed it into the bin. There were a
few socks next, the kind he remembered he used to wear when he was
being so pedestrian and boring. Oh, this is neat, thought Joe, picking up
a framed picture. This looks just like my poor dead mother's picture.
Even the frame is the same, he thought, putting the picture into the
heirloom bin. Next he grabbed a free standing award. 'Soldier of the
Month,' was the main heading. Definitely a heirloom, he decided.
'Specialist 4th Class Joe Winters,' was inscribed under the main soldier of
the month part. Joe froze a minute, wondering how his old army award
had ended up with a load of abandoned property? He turned back around,
the award still in his hand, and looked closer at the piles of things
streaming by, finding all of it vaguely familiar. Oh Dear Goddess and
CEO, his mind swore; it's my stuff! He started pacing back and forth in
his heels, as if not knowing what to do.
No supervisor interrupted him while he dealt with the problem, though
Victoria and a couple other executives were being entertained by it as they
watched from behind a soundproof one way glass two stories up.
Considering that the music was on, going on the floor wasn't all that
delightful, requiring either headgear or a pause in the training. That didn't
mean, however, that things weren't under control, thought the Vice
President of plant personnel processing.
Watching a new slave fall out of trance was one of their favorite break
time activities. (Workers who'd been there more than a few days simply
didn't fall out of trances, though they sometimes regained a faded hint of
control after a few weeks of inattention, though by then it didn't much
matter). The sport of baiting a new bitch into loosing it was so cherished
that they often made sure to time employee specific deliveries so they
could watch. Most of the deliveries were in fact, from households of
slaves chosen for other introductory assignments or even from some,
more over than under, the table deals, but at least one out of every
hundred deliveries was tied to one of the ladies on their floor; everyone
eventually seeing their own lives pass before them. They never tried it on
the first day, and rarely tried it on the second, thinking it pushing the
envelope of the training a bit tight. Sometimes the arrangements were
delayed, and the new sissy didn't even flinch, which seemed a waste of
good fun.
As always, there was a little office bet going that Joe would panic and
break rank. Victoria had bet the plant manager a hundred bucks on Joe
holding the line, or at least not running, though she knew it would