CHAPTER 2
HOW I GOT STARTED CH2
It was a Friday Afternoon. I was getting ready to return one more phone call and go home when the CFO called me in.
“Rick I need to talk with you before you leave.”
Oh shit, what the fuck have I done now I thought to myself? Was it,oh shit the nuclear solution? He’d found out about my dating the woman from marketing? I was getting fired for sure this time.
“Give me ten minutes or so, I need to return a call to our Phoenix Office. Seems there’s a problem there.”
“Don’t return the call, that’s what I need to talk with you about.”
“Oh, well I won’t need the ten minutes, I’ll be right over.”
I was relieved to hear that it was going to be for something other than my dismissal.
I had already quashed rumors concerning of my life outside the office, with what I thought was a really good reply.
“Hell Sir, if I had half the fun my reputation did I wouldn’t be able to make to work more than three days a week.”
We laughed and agreed that my reputation far exceeded my actual life.
Truth was I worked six and one-half day weeks in spite of my actual life far exceeded my reputation. That’s another story.
I walked into the waiting room outside his office expecting to be told to sit down. There were two others waiting to see him
“Hi Rick, he’ll see you now.”
Dang, the fucking Royal treatment.
“Hello Rick please sit down, it’s five o’clock can I offer you a drink.”
A drink was exactly what I was going to have as soon as I got home, I was tempted but I refused protecting my reputation.
“Rick you obviously know that there is a problem in Phoenix. Well it’s worse than you could imagine. The GM quit as did the purchasing manager and his secretary, all effective today. We think there’s a chance there’s been some embezzlement due to them all leaving at the same time. That’s just chance for all we know they joined some wacko religious cult. I need some someone to go out there and find out what’s going on before the stockholders find out make it an issue at the next stockholders meeting.”
“I understand sir, may I recommend Mike for this, he’s really good with details and people.”
“No you may not, I recommend you. But thanks for your thoughts. Now when can you get out there?”
“Well I guess I’d need two or three weeks to tidy things up here before I could go out there for any length of time.’
“Good, I’m glad you can do this, here are your vouchers for tickets you leave Monday.”
“But.”
“Thank you Rick I won’t keep you “
And thus I was sent west to Phoenix. Unfortunately my luggage went somewhere else.
Since I was going to Phoenix I had elected to wear shorts, a golf shirt and running shoes.
I made my way to the luggage carousel and saw the lady holding a sign with my name displayed on it. I waved and made my way to her.
Pretty smile, nice legs, great tits. Okay, I’m a chauvinist.
“Hi, I’m Becky. I’ll take you to your hotel for tonight and pick you up tomorrow and take you to your apartment”
“Hi Becky, I’m Rick but you know that. Sounds fine, let’s get my luggage, does the hotel have a restaurant? I’m starving.“
“Dinner for two on the company dime? Doesn’t get much better than that. We have to buy our own booze but dinners free.’
The carousel went round and round but no luggage. We went to the lost luggage counter. My bags were in Los Angeles and would be here tomorrow afternoon.
Went to dinner and during the course of our after dinner drinks we discovered our mutual love of marijuana and other drugs.
She suggested that we go to her condo before my hotel and indulge ourselves in her stash. I knew and she knew that I knew that she knew that I would never. make it to my hotel.
It was a Friday Afternoon. I was getting ready to return one more phone call and go home when the CFO called me in.
“Rick I need to talk with you before you leave.”
Oh shit, what the fuck have I done now I thought to myself? Was it,oh shit the nuclear solution? He’d found out about my dating the woman from marketing? I was getting fired for sure this time.
“Give me ten minutes or so, I need to return a call to our Phoenix Office. Seems there’s a problem there.”
“Don’t return the call, that’s what I need to talk with you about.”
“Oh, well I won’t need the ten minutes, I’ll be right over.”
I was relieved to hear that it was going to be for something other than my dismissal.
I had already quashed rumors concerning of my life outside the office, with what I thought was a really good reply.
“Hell Sir, if I had half the fun my reputation did I wouldn’t be able to make to work more than three days a week.”
We laughed and agreed that my reputation far exceeded my actual life.
Truth was I worked six and one-half day weeks in spite of my actual life far exceeded my reputation. That’s another story.
I walked into the waiting room outside his office expecting to be told to sit down. There were two others waiting to see him
“Hi Rick, he’ll see you now.”
Dang, the fucking Royal treatment.
“Hello Rick please sit down, it’s five o’clock can I offer you a drink.”
A drink was exactly what I was going to have as soon as I got home, I was tempted but I refused protecting my reputation.
“Rick you obviously know that there is a problem in Phoenix. Well it’s worse than you could imagine. The GM quit as did the purchasing manager and his secretary, all effective today. We think there’s a chance there’s been some embezzlement due to them all leaving at the same time. That’s just chance for all we know they joined some wacko religious cult. I need some someone to go out there and find out what’s going on before the stockholders find out make it an issue at the next stockholders meeting.”
“I understand sir, may I recommend Mike for this, he’s really good with details and people.”
“No you may not, I recommend you. But thanks for your thoughts. Now when can you get out there?”
“Well I guess I’d need two or three weeks to tidy things up here before I could go out there for any length of time.’
“Good, I’m glad you can do this, here are your vouchers for tickets you leave Monday.”
“But.”
“Thank you Rick I won’t keep you “
And thus I was sent west to Phoenix. Unfortunately my luggage went somewhere else.
Since I was going to Phoenix I had elected to wear shorts, a golf shirt and running shoes.
I made my way to the luggage carousel and saw the lady holding a sign with my name displayed on it. I waved and made my way to her.
Pretty smile, nice legs, great tits. Okay, I’m a chauvinist.
“Hi, I’m Becky. I’ll take you to your hotel for tonight and pick you up tomorrow and take you to your apartment”
“Hi Becky, I’m Rick but you know that. Sounds fine, let’s get my luggage, does the hotel have a restaurant? I’m starving.“
“Dinner for two on the company dime? Doesn’t get much better than that. We have to buy our own booze but dinners free.’
The carousel went round and round but no luggage. We went to the lost luggage counter. My bags were in Los Angeles and would be here tomorrow afternoon.
Went to dinner and during the course of our after dinner drinks we discovered our mutual love of marijuana and other drugs.
She suggested that we go to her condo before my hotel and indulge ourselves in her stash. I knew and she knew that I knew that she knew that I would never. make it to my hotel.
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