Out Of Touch - Office Leverage M/F
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2025 6:52 pm
Dear all,
This is a quick message to say all holiday requests are cancelled/refused until further notice. If you have holidays booked, you can cancel them. We all need to go the extra mile for this company over the next few months so we can break our previous profit record.
If you don’t turn up, you can expect your pay docked and I will be accepting no exceptions.
Lets go team!
Kendra.
As I read the e-mail from the boss of this company, you can imagine the reaction of both myself and other people around me in the office. Various amounts of tutting, head shakes and muttering were apparent.
I had also joined in with this reaction, I mean how out of touch could she possibly be? I had started working here just over a year ago and should have seen the signs. All the red flags were there from the start. As a new member of the team I was kept relatively separate from everyone else. Soon enough staying late went from a one off to most evenings. I was tired. I think everyone else was to.
My name was Danny and I was an assistant at this financial services company. I was in my late twenties with short brown hair. Most people would probably describe me of an average build. On this day I was wearing black trousers, a long sleeved light blue shirt and black shoes.
Now you might query why people would stay in such a company. Its a valid question and one that is complicated to answer. Kendra did not like complaints. As a powerful woman at the head of this company she knew how to reel people in. Pay in fairness was above average and each job was advertised with certain perks. Those who had no problem being walked over would be allowed to stay. Those who expressed dissatisfaction could find themselves out of a job and blacklisted. Kendra could be quite the cold hearted, calculating bitch when she wanted to be.
As the rest of the office descended into dissatisfied grumbles, grumbles which I was fully prepared to join in with, something caught my eye.
My mouse clicked to open the e-mail and I was...shocked. I needed to keep this as discreet as possible. This had to be fake surely. Was it another employee that had set up a similar e-mail address that was similar? Like an archaeologist transcribing hieroglyphics carefully I studied each character of the e-mail address with care. This was genuine, I could feel a flutter of excitement.
I had to be careful with my next move. It was time Kendra’s reign was taken down a notch or two. Had she even realised the error? This was big. This was leverage potentially. There were so many options here.
This is a quick message to say all holiday requests are cancelled/refused until further notice. If you have holidays booked, you can cancel them. We all need to go the extra mile for this company over the next few months so we can break our previous profit record.
If you don’t turn up, you can expect your pay docked and I will be accepting no exceptions.
Lets go team!
Kendra.
As I read the e-mail from the boss of this company, you can imagine the reaction of both myself and other people around me in the office. Various amounts of tutting, head shakes and muttering were apparent.
I had also joined in with this reaction, I mean how out of touch could she possibly be? I had started working here just over a year ago and should have seen the signs. All the red flags were there from the start. As a new member of the team I was kept relatively separate from everyone else. Soon enough staying late went from a one off to most evenings. I was tired. I think everyone else was to.
My name was Danny and I was an assistant at this financial services company. I was in my late twenties with short brown hair. Most people would probably describe me of an average build. On this day I was wearing black trousers, a long sleeved light blue shirt and black shoes.
Now you might query why people would stay in such a company. Its a valid question and one that is complicated to answer. Kendra did not like complaints. As a powerful woman at the head of this company she knew how to reel people in. Pay in fairness was above average and each job was advertised with certain perks. Those who had no problem being walked over would be allowed to stay. Those who expressed dissatisfaction could find themselves out of a job and blacklisted. Kendra could be quite the cold hearted, calculating bitch when she wanted to be.
As the rest of the office descended into dissatisfied grumbles, grumbles which I was fully prepared to join in with, something caught my eye.
My mouse clicked to open the e-mail and I was...shocked. I needed to keep this as discreet as possible. This had to be fake surely. Was it another employee that had set up a similar e-mail address that was similar? Like an archaeologist transcribing hieroglyphics carefully I studied each character of the e-mail address with care. This was genuine, I could feel a flutter of excitement.
I had to be careful with my next move. It was time Kendra’s reign was taken down a notch or two. Had she even realised the error? This was big. This was leverage potentially. There were so many options here.