I have the job of managing all of the staff in my department and with most of them I am able to take a fairly hands off approach be setting their objectives and then allowing them the freedom to achieve these but knowing that I am always there to offer support and advice if it is needed or to resolve any problems with other departments that they encounter. There are a couple of staff who I can’t take this approach with and one of them was Paula who is nominally my second in command through the position she holds more than her attributes in the position. I like Paula a lot but do find it very difficult to manage her because she needs a lot of support and reassurance that she is doing a good job and will get stressed at the slightest thing. Any deadline or major visit to the department or other event will leave Paula having kittens and getting very down on herself despite the fact that her work is very good and always meets my expectations. The biggest problem though was when Paula got stressed or down on herself then she becomes prone to throwing temper tantrums like a two year old or going about in a strop like a bratty teenager upsetting staff and clients in equal measure so I then have to spend a lot of time pouring oil on troubled waters.
There have been many times when Paula has thrown all of the toys out of the pram when one thing doesn’t go write and I’ve regularly commented to my darling wife Anna that I should have taken her over my knee and spanked her bottom like a petulant teenager. Anna always provided me with her own bottom to relieve my stress on these occasions because she adores being spanked and punished generally. I have taken Anna out for a meal one evening to celebrate her recent promotion at work and we are in a pub afterwards chilling when Paula and her boyfriend, Mike, came into the bar and came over to us. I have always thought that Mike didn’t do anything to help Paula with her underlying problem of a lack of self-confidence and seeing how he was treating her in the pub I’m sure he caused a lot of the problems. Anna has had more to drink than she normally would because I was driving and we were celebrating her promotion and had been teasing and tantalising me all night. She was at her mischievous best but even I didn’t expect the outcome when I introduced her to Paula and Mike.
‘So this is the girl that you want to spank every time she throws a tantrum at work is it?’ Anna says and as soon as she has finished the sentence she realises what she has said and a shocked look crosses even her face. It was nothing compared to the shock and embarrassment that was on Paula’s face and after an awkward silence she gave a nervous giggle before quickly making her excuses and leaving us.
‘I’m so sorry Ken. I know that I shouldn’t have said that but it just slipped out before I had a chance to think about it or stop it’ Anna said apologetically.
‘Don’t worry my dear you will be very sorry when we get home. Paula is very strait-laced and I’ve no doubt that you have really embarrassed her’ I say but with no anger in my voice.
Anna looks relieved at this and starts to play one of her favourite little games with me in trying to avoid the inevitable sore bottom as she knows exactly what is going to happen to her. Anna is a wonderful exponent of this game as she played it regularly using her puppy dog eyes and long fluttering eye lashes to show pure contrition and promising me her body to get out of the punishment and any other strategy she could think of for the rest of the night until we walked through our front door. I loved this particular game as well because I was playing the stern, unbending disciplinarian doing what needed to be done to right the wrong although it was very difficult at times not to give in to my doe-eyed submissive. When we got into the house I immediately bent Anna over the back of our sofa and delivered a long but not too hard spanking with my hand and a few swipes with my belt which left Anna’s gorgeous bottom bright red and toasty hot. With her remaining submissively draped over the sofa we had sex.
I was quite nervous when I went into work the following Monday and had no idea how Paula would react to Anna’s comments. Paula came in very sheepishly and avoided me all morning and I wasn’t going to force the issue until lunchtime when I was going to go and speak to her.
‘I’m sorry for any offense that Anna caused you on Friday evening Paula. She should never have said what she said particularly in a public place and she has been dealt with for it’ I said.
‘Don’t worry about it Ken it was embarrassing but eventually I saw the funny side of it. What I would like to know though is whether you would actually carry out the threat you’ve obviously outlined to Anna and presumably used in dealing with her for speaking out of turn’ Paula said taking me by surprise and I decide that it is time to lay my cards on the table.
‘Yes I have said to Anna on many occasions when you’ve thrown a tantrum or acted like a bratty teenager that I would like to spank you and yes I did spank Anna when we went home on Friday evening’ I said avoiding the other part of Paula’s question.
‘But would you actually be prepared to punish me when I get down on myself and throw the toys out of the pram?’ Paula followed up obviously keen to have me answer the question.
‘Yes I would do it but only with your consent to be punished’ I answer.
‘In that case you have my full consent to spank me and more whenever I throw a tantrum or am about to do so because of the stress’ Paula said, ‘I have asked Mike to do it for me a number of times but he is too much of a wimp and I think he also enjoys seeing me suffer the stress and angst because it reinforces his control over me’ Paula said with real venom in her voice.
‘What do you mean by ‘and more’’ I ask because the thought of having Paula bent over waiting for the application of my tawses, canes and paddles was an appealing one but even just having her draped over my lap with a bare and very red bottom on display would be an attractive sight.
‘You can use tawses, canes, crops, paddles or whips on my bare bottom if you wish. I was punished with the cane in my private school whenever my behaviour threatened to get out of hand and I didn’t have any of the problems that I now have’ Paula answered which suggested that she had an idea where the root cause of her troubles lay.
‘Very well Paula I will punish you when you have succumbed to a temper tantrum or when you have behaved badly towards your colleagues or our clients. These punishments will take place at my house and Anna will be in attendance at all times for your own security although she does not have to witness the punishments if you do not want her to. When I feel that punishment is warranted I will inform you by email giving you the date and time that the sentence will be carried out and any lateness on your part will add to the punishment. Do you give your consent to this regime?’ I explain and ask.
‘Yes Ken I give my consent to this regime and I would appreciate Anna being present to witness the punishments although I trust you not to take advantage of the situation’ Paula answered.
‘How did you get on with Paula?’ Anna asked when I got home that evening as she knew that I’d been worried what the reaction would be.
‘It went very well Anna. Paula wondered if I actually would punish her in these circumstances and I have told her that I would be happy to do so and she has given her consent to the use of all of the implements that we have. I have explained that the punishments will take place here with you in attendance and she wants you to witness the punishments for her piece of mind I think and possibly for moral support as she knows I punish you as well’ I answer noticing Anna smiling.
‘I can’t wait to witness these punishments and possibly participate as well’ Anna says and participation would be interesting for me to see because she has never shown any inclination towards accepting my offer of allowing her to punish me because I would be more than happy to have her switch on me.
It was about ten days later when my first opportunity to punish Paula arose because her computer had failed to do something she wanted it to, and which it shouldn’t do, and she lost her head with the person who looked after our IT infrastructure and equipment leaving her in tears. I had heard and seen this and Paula just looked at me and I gave a subtle nod of my head before calming our IT person down. I emailed Paula my address and the time of 6pm and received an immediate and simple reply of “Yes Sir” so I texted Anna and told her to lay out all of our punishment implements when she got home from work explaining that the first punishment of Paula will take place at 6pm this evening. When I got home Anna had laid out all of the implements and was waiting with great interest for details of Paula’s offence so I told her what had happened.
At exactly 6pm there was a knock at the door and I opened it to see a very nervous looking Paula standing on the doorstep so I led her in and straight through to the lounge as I didn’t want to add to her nerves by delaying the punishment any more than I had to. One of the dining room chairs had been placed in the centre of the floor and I sat down on it before instructing Paula to place herself over my lap which she did without any hesitation. Anna was watching the action avidly and without any further delay I began to spank Paula over her skirt delivering twenty hard smacks before I pulled the skirt up. There was no protest from Paula with this and already I could see a pink tinge on the skin particularly where it wasn’t protected by Paula’s plain white knickers. I resumed the spanking covering every part of Paula’s bottom with crisp smacks and before too long she was struggling a bit over my lap and at one point she put her hand back to try and protect her bottom so I took hold of her hand and held it out of the way.
‘Paula this is a punishment that you have consented to receive for your behaviour this afternoon and it will be carried out but should you try to interfere with the punishment it will become worse’ I said calmly.
‘Yes Sir I know that but it is many years since I’ve been punished in this way and it is very sore’ Paula answered contritely.
‘It is about to get worse for you as I’m now going to remove your pants and continue the spanking on the bare bottom’ I explain.
‘Okay’ Paula says very nervously and I lower her pants to mid thigh noticing that her bottom is already red and warm but I remember Shelley’s tears from earlier in the day which steels my heart to continue with the spanking. I worked all over Paula’s bottom with my hand bringing it to an even scarlet and Paula was now snuffling and her yelps were now betraying her pain.
‘That is the spanking completed Paula. You may now get to your feet and rub your bottom before I complete your punishment with six strokes of the tawse because your comments to Shelley this afternoon were unacceptable and I will not tolerate you reducing a colleague to tears. Had you not been accepting this punishment then I would have had no choice but to use the formal disciplinary procedures against you. You will therefore bend over the back of the chair with your elbows on the seat and you will make no attempt to move from this position until I indicate that the punishment is complete. Do you understand these instructions and why I am punishing you further?’ I ask.
‘Yes Sir I understand your instructions and I understand why I am receiving the tawse. I know that I was wrong and I will be making an apology to Shelley first thing tomorrow morning. Thank you for punishing me privately and not invoking the formal disciplinary procedures’ Paula said before taking up her position.
I pick up our medium weight two-tailed tawse because I think that it will be severe enough to teach Paula the required lesson and if not then there are more severe implements available for future occasions. I laid the first stroke square and hard across the centre of Paula’s bottom drawing a loud cry from her but no significant movement other than a quick shake of the bottom as she tried to remove the sting. I waited until she was still before delivering the second stroke just as hard and below the first one getting the same reaction from Paula. Although Paula’s bottom was already scarlet the tawse marks were clearly visible and much darker and I’m sure that Paula would feel them for at least twenty-four hours particularly as I carried on with the same weight of strokes and by the end of it tears were flowing down Paula’s cheeks.
‘You may now stand up and rub your bottom if you wish. If not you can restore your pants and skirt as that is the punishment complete’ I say immediately after delivering the sixth stroke because I don’t want to humiliate Paula by keeping her on display. Anna offers Paula the chance to tidy herself up before she left but Paula declines so Anna shows her out of the door.
‘That was an excellent punishment Ken. I think Paula will feel it for a few days and will think more carefully about the impact of her words in the future’ Anna said as she returned to the lounge and it was noticeable that Paula did sit down very carefully the next day at work. She did apologise to Shelley first thing in the morning before coming to see me at lunchtime.
‘Thank you for my punishment yesterday. I am very sore but I do feel calmer and if it is to be an effective deterrent then they do need to be genuine punishments which that certainly was’ Paula says.
‘I can assure you that when I punish you they will be genuine punishments because I do want them to be deterrents and you will only be punished when you genuinely deserve it’ I reply before the conversation moves to more general matters and I take the opportunity to try and boost Paula’s almost non-existent self-confidence in a subtle way through praise for her recent work. Paula seemed more open with me than she had been in the past and it came through just how much pressure her parents had put on her as an only child and their hatred for Mike because of the fact that he was always putting her down and doing nothing to support her personally or professionally. I felt exactly the same things about Mike and deep down Paula knew it as well but she wouldn’t admit it to herself at this point so I wasn’t going to push it down her throat because I’m sure the resistance of her parents’ was one of the things that stopped her from breaking the relationship with Mike.
I realised from this conversation that she would really benefit from a girls night in, or out, with Anna as she would be able to boost her self-confidence more in an evening than I could in a couple of years but it would have to happen ‘naturally’ so to speak which meant that Anna would have to instigate it. Over dinner that evening I talked to Anna about my conversation with Paula and she agreed that a girls night in would be a brilliant idea and we decided that the best time to set it up would come the next time that Paula needed punishment. I would give Paula a time to turn up which was about fifteen or twenty minutes before I came home giving Anna the chance to arrange something if she could. It was about three weeks later when Paula next needed punishment which suggested that the first time had been a deterrent. This time however it was even more serious for Paula because she had really lost her temper with one of our major clients and had sworn at her. I took the client away and managed to placate her enough not to remove the business entirely but it did cost us quite a bit of money to do this so I was really angry with Paula and she kept out of my way. 6.30pm was my chosen time for this punishment and I would arrive home at 6.50pm to give Anna the chance to work her magic.
‘You’ll need to come round this Friday evening when Ken is playing snooker Paula’ Anna said just as I was walking into the lounge.
‘I’d love that Anna. How about 7.30pm?’ Paula answered. Playing snooker on Friday hadn’t been part of my plans but if Anna was coming round then I was more than happy to make it part of them. I picked out the heavy weight three tailed tawse and a cane from our collection of equipment and placed them to the side.
‘In view of your outburst to Marie this afternoon and the amount of money it has cost us to retain the business you will be receiving twelve strokes with the tawse and six strokes with the cane following your spanking’ I say calmly but my annoyance is clearly visible in my voice.
‘I’m sorry Ken. I have no idea what got into me and I take full responsibility for my actions and accept the punishment’ Paula said and I was very glad she hadn’t tried to make any excuses for her behaviour as that might well have increased her punishment.
Paula took the spanking very well as it was even harder than the one I’d given her last time and she took up the position over the chair when instructed to do so without any complaint but after the first stroke her hands flew back to protect her bottom which probably wasn’t surprising as it was a much heavier tawse. Anna came over and took hold of Paula’s hands so that she couldn’t disrupt the punishment again and I decided against awarding any extra strokes this time. I laid the strokes on very hard this time and because of the width of the tawse some parts of Paula’s bottom were visited two or three times with very painful consequences. These areas could be seen clearly because of the almost purple colour that was forming from the bruises. I picked up the cane and tested it through the air noticing Paula wincing with each swish and then she flinched when I tapped the cane against her bottom.
Sharply I cut the cane down through the air landing it perfectly across the centre of Paula’s bottom drawing a sharp cry from her throat as it landed with a loud crack. I watched the initial white line colour into a dark red before delivering the second stroke perfectly parallel to the first and a couple of inches below it providing me with my aiming point for the remaining strokes each of which had a sharp swish followed by a loud crack followed by an even louder cry from Paula until the last one landed with a real shriek coming from her as cruelly I had landed it diagonally across the others to act as the reminder that her behaviour was completely unacceptable.
‘Thank you Ken. I promise that I will try my hardest to control my temper and my tongue from now on’ Paula says with genuine contrition in her voice.
‘I hope that you do Paula because I really don’t want to have to punish you more severely in the future which is what will happen should you carry out a similar offence. Now I suggest that you allow Anna to help you tidy yourself up before going home’ I say and Anna gave her no option by taking her up to the bathroom and then through to our bedroom to tend to both the bottom and Paula’s make up. I started dinner for Anna and I as this was happening but before dinner took place Anna demanded the same punishment as Paula had received which I was more than happy to give her before giving her a long bout of oral sex.
Friday soon arrived and I had arranged snooker with a few friends and before going out I wished Anna luck not that she would need it I was sure. It was well after midnight when I crept back into the house and into bed where Anna was sound asleep although she did wake up, look over at me drunkenly before falling asleep again. The group of us who’d been playing snooker last night had agreed to a game of golf early the following morning so I was completely unaware that Paula was sleeping in one of our spare bedrooms as she’d gotten as drunk as Anna so couldn’t drive home.
“Anna my darling, I’ve gone to play golf this morning with the lads I was playing snooker with last night. Sorry. I will be back around lunchtime and will take you shopping this afternoon.” I write in a note for Anna which I left on the kitchen table.
It was just after 12 noon when I arrived home to find a very delicate looking Anna sitting at the kitchen table with a large carton of orange juice and in her dressing gown. It was obvious that she was nursing a major hangover because she didn’t even want to go shopping which was our normal Saturday activity. I got thumbs up when I quietly asked how last night had gone but no conversation yet and because Anna was so good to me when I had a hangover I left her completely in peace and made as little noise as I possibly could while playing on the computer. It was the middle of the afternoon before Anna became properly human and started to tell me about last night.
‘We started off by sharing a bottle of wine but by the end of the night I think we’d had about four bottles and Paula had to stay here as she couldn’t drive and there were no cabs available in a reasonable time. We’d started talking about corporal punishment after the punishment that you’d given Paula and the marks were still highly visible so I massaged some cream into Paula’s bottom but she wanted another spanking so I gave her one and I must say it was a wonderful experience. I think I will take up your offer of punishing you sometime my dear particularly if you keep playing golf and missing my Saturday morning shopping trips. Anyway after a long spanking I dipped my hand down between Paula’s thighs and she spread them for me so I started to play with her and very quickly she climaxed and that was like removing the cork from a bottle of champagne. She really opened up to me after that and we did go to bed but I knew you wouldn’t mind and it did Paula the world of good. She started to talk really openly about her parents and Mike and I have given her some advice on how to change the situation with Mike but given how low her self-confidence is I’m not sure whether it will work to begin with but we have agreed to see each other regularly’ Anna explains.
‘That sounds like a very interesting evening for you both and no I don’t mind you exploring Paula’s body because you have always been good about letting me fulfil my need to be punished although if you are going to do it from now on then that will be even better’ I answer and we end up making love on the sofa in the lounge.
Shortly after we’ve finished this bout of very sensual sex there is a very loud and aggressive knock at the door and I answer it to find Mike standing on the other side of it.
‘Your wife beat Paula black and blue and forced her into a lesbian sex session last night’ Mike alleges loudly and I pull him inside the house before closing the door. Anna has heard all of the accusation and steps out into the hall to confront Mike directly.
‘Firstly Mike I did not beat Paula black and blue. She has asked you previously if you would punish her because it helps her to keep her temper under control but you have refused to do it for her so we have provided this service for Paula. You have refused to do it because you know full well that if she gains her self-confidence then she will see you for the spineless, manipulative little boy that you are and will dump you quicker than snow off of a dyke so it is in your interests to keep her downtrodden. Second I can assure you that there was no force involved in the sex last night and should you take that allegation any further then I will prove it to be false and take you for every penny that you have. Your behaviour towards Paula has been absolutely abysmal and I can say quite categorically that she deserves much better and if you do not change your attitude towards her then I will be doing everything I can to make sure she gets that someone better. If I had beaten anyone black and blue then it should have been you and not Paula’ Anna says with more dominance and assertiveness than I’d ever seen and Mike froze completely before trying to back out of the allegations he’d made but he only succeeded in digging himself deeper into the hole.
Anna walked up to Mike and even though he was a good bit bigger than she was she had absolutely no problem in manhandling him into the lounge and sent me for all of our punishment implements. I returned quickly with them keen to see what was happening but also keen to ensure that Anna was safe although my fears were unfounded because she was standing directly in front of Mike who was quivering like a jelly standing naked from the waist down.
‘If you want to keep Paula as a girlfriend then you are going to have to become much more respectful and supportive towards her Mike and to help you with this process I am going to highlight each of your faults and the improvements that are needed driving the point home with a cane. Then Ken will phone Paula who will come to this house to accept your apology and promise of improvement. Do you understand me you little shite!’ Anna said with a calmness which frightened even me but strangely aroused me at the same time, ‘Ken will you phone Paula and have her come here as soon as she can. You will find her personal mobile number in my mobile’.
Anna looked at me and then the canes and I understood what she was after. To the best of my knowledge she’d never used a cane in her life before so she wanted me to select the easiest one for her to use. I picked out a fairly short and stiff cane because this would be the easiest for Anna to aim because it stayed in a fairly true arc on the downswing and it also had a handle on it which would make it easier for Anna to grip. I placed the cane into her hand and whispered, ‘imagine that you are playing a single handed forehand drive on the tennis court’ in her ear because Anna had played a lot of tennis in the past and the actions would almost mirror themselves. I watched the first couple of strokes land across Mike’s bottom before giving Paula a ring explaining what Mike had accused Anna of and what exactly was happening to him now.
‘I’ll be right over Ken. Make sure that Anna leaves some space on his bottom for me’ was the final comment from Paula which I passed on to Anna. Anna continued outlining Mike’s faults and with each stroke of the cane he was getting noisier and noisier but things were about to get much worse for him because Paula was soon in the lounge looking down on him and particularly his bare bottom which was nicely striped.
‘I trust that I have got my point across to you Mike. Paula is here to accept your apology and hear how you are going to respect and support her from now on’ Anna said sternly.
‘I have absolutely nothing to apologise for and I will not be changing my behaviour’ Mike very stupidly says so Anna hands Paula the cane she’d been using and picks up a very similar cane from our collection before passing on the advice that I’d given her about the tennis technique.
Anna stands on the other side and uses a backhand drive technique so that they can deliver consecutive strokes of the cane until eventually Mike collapsed in a sobbing heap offering up abject apologies to Paula but something had snapped inside her and she refused to accept these apologies.
‘I have known for a long time that you are the cause of many of my problems but I didn’t think that I was strong enough to break away from you. Now I know that I have friends who will look after me and who will nurture me so that I get the best out of myself and you are not worth the grief. We are finished and I don’t want to see you ever again’ Paula said strongly.
Mike picked up his clothes and left but Paula remained and as soon as Mike was gone she burst into tears so was pulled into a cuddle by Anna and for the next few months she lived with us as she put her life back together again getting an incredible amount of support in the process and also regular discipline from Anna for personal matters and a little bit from me for work matters but the improvement in Paula’s temperament at work was a wonder to behold with the support that Anna was offering.