Falling for the compliment

By subken

Within the company I am working for the Managing Director is widely feared because of the absolute authority that she has over everything and everyone in the company. Miss Lambert is a total tyrant exerting her very strong will at all times to ensure that she always gets her way and even though she does give staff autonomy they always act in the manner that Miss Lambert would want for fear of receiving one of her absolutely legendary Friday afternoon dressing downs. These dressing downs were regularly discussed in the pubs on a Friday evening and there was always a lot of resentment and comment aimed in Miss Lambert’s direction but no-one was actually brave enough to say anything to her face-to-face.

I have always been quite a forthright character but even I decided that it wasn’t worth taking on Miss Lambert directly but during the course of an investigation into the corporate computer systems as part of my information management brief I became aware of a loophole in the security and I used this one weekend to put up a very rude message about Miss Lambert on our corporate Intranet which sat there until the Monday morning when news of it spread like wildfire throughout the company and seemingly almost everyone had a chance to see it before the IT department removed it. Being close friends with some of the staff in the IT department I knew that they had traced the message back to an anonymous email address but that was as far as they got. This was great because it meant that the security loophole hadn’t been discovered.

Having gotten away with it this once and seeing the buzz that it had created within the company I decided that I would try something again in a couple of weeks time just when things had calmed down and IT would have been less vigilant about things. I went even further the second time and changed Miss Lambert’s personal profile on the Intranet to give it a much greater degree of accuracy according to the many staff that saw it on the Monday morning. It was just about the only topic of conversation that morning and many print copies of the profile were circulating within the company much to my amusement. I could only imagine the grief that the head of the IT department was getting from Miss Lambert because again they couldn’t trace who was behind the message although this time they did discover the route into the system and closed it off.

“As you will all be aware some very uncomplimentary statements have appeared about me on the Intranet in recent weeks. These are directly libellous and I am seeking appropriate legal advice on them. It is clear that the person responsible for these messages works for the company and they can be sure that when they are caught, and they will be caught, they will be dismissed. I will give that person one week to identify themselves to me and if they do this then they may be allowed to keep their job.

For those of you who have printed copies of these statements be advised that this is an inappropriate use of company resources and as per each of your contracts this is a disciplinary offence.”

This was the email that came round from Miss Lambert that afternoon and there were very long queues by all of the shredders after reading it getting rid of any print copies of the statements. Miss Lambert was due to visit our department for one of her regular meet and greet sessions the following morning and as my bad luck had it my boss was away at a conference so it had fallen to me to take Miss Lambert around the department. I tried to act completely normally around her and thought I had been relatively successful in this even though I had found it very difficult. Obviously I hadn’t been as successful as I thought because very shortly after Miss Lambert left the department I received an email from her.

“You will report to my office at 6.30pm this evening.” Was all that it said and instinct told me that the game was up.

As I made my way up to Miss Lambert’s office I was very nervous about what fate awaited me. Miss Lambert’s PA had already left for the evening and the office door was open so I knocked on it and was called straight in.

‘What you did was both very clever and very amusing Kenneth’.

I was taken aback by this and fell for the compliment hook, line and sinker.

‘Thank you’ I responded and as I was half way through saying it I realised that I’d fully admitted my guilt and therefore dropped myself in the mire right up to my neck. Realising that there was no way of backing out of it now I simply asked.

‘How did you know? What are you going to do about it?’

‘Well it was relatively easy because the style of writing in both of the pieces was very distinctive and also had a familiarity to it so I went back through the papers that I have recently received and found a perfect match in the report that you wrote for me on the future of the Information Service. Your patent unease around me this morning simply confirmed that you had been the author of both pieces. As to what I am going to do about it well I could very easily dismiss you for either of the pieces but there would be no fun for me in that option and having reread your report on the Information Service and looking in detail at your personnel file I think that your skills could be very useful to me in a number of different ways. It is particularly interesting that you managed to cover your tracks from the IT department twice. I am therefore prepared to offer you an alternative to dismissal’.

As Miss Lambert was saying this last sentence she was laying a cane and a whip on her desk. I couldn’t help but look at these and then I looked up at Miss Lambert and saw an absolutely wicked smile on her pretty face.

‘Your choice Kenneth is either dismissal or you can accept whatever punishment I decide to give you now for these two offences and then you will be transferred out of your current job to work directly for me on whatever projects I choose to have you working on. The choice is entirely yours’.

‘So if I choose to work for you directly then no doubt you will punish me as and when the mood takes you will you not?’

‘Naturally  but further than that you will be bound to me as a partner both professionally and personally and if you ever displease or disobey me in either side then you will be ruthlessly punished and indeed you may also be punished purely and simply because I feel like doing it. However there will be ample opportunity to submit to me mentally and physically which should suit you from what I’ve heard from the girls that you have gone out with throughout your life. Again the choice is entirely yours to take’.

‘I will take the opportunity to come and work for you directly and to accept whatever punishment you deem necessary’ I say because in reality there was no decision to be taken.

‘There’s a good boy. Strip completely’ Miss Lambert said and I could feel her eyes roving all over my body as I did as I was told. When I was naked I didn’t see any point in trying to hide anything from Miss Lambert so I just stood facing her with my arms by my sides awaiting her next order or action. It was an action as Miss Lambert walked over to me and from very close quarters she looked me up and down before saying.

‘Well that is an acceptable acquisition I have made’ treating me almost like a business purchase which gave me a very strange feeling.

‘Have you been punished in recent times Kenneth?’

‘Not since I left school Miss Lambert’ I answer.

‘Well I would say that it is very overdue in that case. You will turn away from me and put your hands behind your head keeping them in this position until I tell you that you can move them’,

I do as I am told and feel the tails of the whip trailing over my back and shoulders almost tickling me in the process. This tickling sensation does not last long at all because the next thing I know the whip is connecting with my back with a fair bit of force behind it. I shake my back to try and remove the stinging sensation but this doesn’t help one bit’.

‘Keep still Kenneth’ was Miss Lambert’s immediate response.

To give me something to focus on other than the discomfort and eventually pain that I was feeling I started to keep count of the lashes on my back and I kept this up until I reached fifty and then I gave up on this because it was getting even more disconcerting to think whether Miss Lambert was ever going to stop.

‘That Kenneth was for the first of the pieces now I will deal with the second and more serious pieces. You will bend yourself over the conference table for a caning. As with the whipping you will stay still in this position until I instruct you otherwise’.

As soon as I was bent over the table the first stroke of the cane arrived and it imparted a fiery sting that took me by surprise. I dashed a hand back to rub the line and was caught across the knuckles by the second stroke.

‘I warned you to stay still Kenneth. If you don’t do it then I shall be forced to tie you down and carry on the punishment for longer’.

Seemingly with complete abandon Miss Lambert lashed away at my bottom with the cane but in fact she was in total control of herself and I knew then that I would be feeling lots of this and I realised that this thought actually appealed to me.

‘I am really going to enjoy having you as my enforcer within this company Kenneth and I am sure that I will enjoy having your personal betrothal even more’.

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