Office Discipline and Tea

A while ago I met a long lost friend in Birmingham for lunch, we used to work together but hadn't met for 20 years, everything went great, you wouldn't have thought it had been so long, seemed like yesterday and we agreed to meet again soon. So yesterday we met up again and I ended up with a sore bottom.

P left early directly from home as he was visiting a client and wouldn't be back until late afternoon. As I wasn't meeting Jen until 11.30, I popped into the office first, answered some mail, left P some messages which needed his attention, plus one from me reminding him where I was and that I'd transferred the phone over to mobile and would be back by 5.00 ish. I took the train, its quicker and easier, and met Jen, great fun again, loads of laughs, lovely lunch and we'll definitely meet again soon, we're going to see if we can get in touch with some of the other girls we used to work with, we all used to get on great, out on the town frequently and used to go on holiday together; of course they could have changed by now but Jen hasn't and she said I hadn't, so we'll see.

On the train back to the office I got to thinking how unusually quiet my phone had been, apart from a couple of texts it had been dormant which is unusual on a normal day but especially as I'd transferred our business line to it. When I got back to the office I saw P had beat me to it, his car was in the car park, in I went, hiya love, how did your meeting go, no answer, Oh bad meeting I thought to myself, leave it he'll tell me about it when he's ready. I took my coat off and was just about to sit down when he called me over to his desk - ''What does this message say?'', I looked, it was the one from me that I had left on my special little notepad which I hardly ever use, Remember seeing Jen, back at 5.00, phone transferred, ''You mean that one?'' I asked pointing to the page. P stood up, ''You did transfer but you transferred it to my mobile NOT yours and I had that many calls I had to switch to answer''. Oops.

''How many times have you transferred the phone that you can make a mistake like that? Obviously your day out was taking up your attention rather than the business, well I'm going to make sure you remember next time''. He took my arm put me over his desk pulled up my skirt and gave me such an unexpectedly sharp spanking with his plastic ruler I could hardly believe it, it was over quickly but it was so swift it took my breath away and left me tingling. He pulled me up, I didn't quite know what to say, I heard myself saying ''sorry'', followed by ''would you like a cup of tea''.

Five minutes later we were exchanging days over a cup of tea, funny how things work out.

In work today for a few hours doing a bit of research regarding new business, quite exciting, I'll let you know how we are doing.

I wish you and your family a Happy Easter.

Ronnie
xx