Just Bored by Karen Blayne

Oh by the way red tape first.

Be warned these short stories contain mature content or naughty bits and as such may corrupt you if you’re under 12, 16, 18, 21 or 25 depending where you live thus they are not suitable for you so put them back on the shelf and let them age for a year or two.

They were sort of scribbled for fun. They were first posted on asstr.org. If you’ve paid money for this book just be aware the author has not received any payment. In fact no one has permission to charge money for this book and copyright is retained by the author. ©2013 Asstr.org accepts donations if you’re feeling rich or even if you’re not.

Alan sat back in his tall black leather office chair and mused about what to do next. There was a knock at the door and the disruptive Alison with the long legs peeped in. “You wanted to see me?” She was on her third department now in three months, the first two had mentioned she didn’t seem to fit and her current supervisor was expressing some level of frustration, still she had very good legs. Six months was her probationary period he wondered if she’d make it. “Tony needs to go on some course or other and they won’t run it unless they have three people so I’d like you to take it as well. Can you see Tony for the details and sort out the travel arrangements etc.” “OK.” Alison stepped back into the corridor. As office junior she got all the odd jobs, picking up the dry cleaning, making sure the coffee pot was fresh and full, still it paid 30 cents an hour better than Mc whatever besides her insides had just melted when she’d managed to kiss Tony under the mistletoe at the Christmas party.

She drifted down to technical section and Tony’s desk where she perched on his desk so her short tight skirt would show her legs off better waiting as Tony was busy on the phone. She smiled at the guy on the other side who promptly blushed and looked back down at his screen. She glanced at Tony, he looked stressed, what he needed was a break, a holiday. Tony put the phone down and looked enquiringly; you never knew exactly what Alison would arrive with. It could be a supply of paperclips or a command from on high to attend a meeting. “I’m to accompany you on your training course.” “Really?” “So Alan says they want a third warm body to run the course and I’ve been volunteered. When and where is it?”

Alison scoured the web sites looking for the best flights to San Francisco. Odd if they stayed overnight on a Saturday they got much cheaper flights. What the heck she’d always fancied a week in San Francisco. She waited until Tony stepped away from his computer then quickly submitted a leave form for the week following the course and closed the HR program afterwards. She went back to the airline options, two changes at two hubs, three hours for security hassles, they’d spend more time sitting around airports than flying. Just out of curiosity she checked out Amtrak. Well Tony had a model steam loco on his desk and they had WiFi as well. Cool a bit longer but by the time they could have their own private room interesting. Tony all to herself for hours, they’d go by train besides it was cheaper than flying. Thursday she reminded Tony to bring in a bag on Friday since they were travelling directly on Friday evening.

Tony looked puzzled as the cab drew to halt “This is the railroad station?” “Our train leaves in ten minutes.” “We’re travelling by train?” “If you’ve ever tried going through security with nipple rings you’d go by train next time as well. I don’t know who was more embarrassed me or the security guy, and I don’t want to meet him again.” “I didn’t even realised you had pierced nipples” “Sorry to disappoint you but I was wearing non-piercing ones actually. I’d had one too many rum and cokes and forgotten to take them off.”

Alison guided them into a fairly large sleeper with its own shower and toilet. “I was looking forward to catching up on my emails at the airport.” Mused Tony, “Well it’s supposed to have WiFi on the train so you could play with your lap top in here, although I’d like some attention over the next two weeks.” “Two weeks?” “One week of course then one week’s holiday in San Francisco, I thought we’d use your room for the first week then my room for the second.” “Are we sharing a bed?” “There is a top bunk but if you promise not to steal all the blankets I might let you share my bottom bunk.”

Tony curled up in the arm chair and brought out his lap top to catch up on his correspondence. Alison got undressed and lay back on the bed and gently masturbated. Eventually Tony looked up after seeing to his correspondence. “What are doing?” “Masturbating, I thought I’d warm myself up in case you felt like joining me, actually its kinda cool masturbating in front of you, or should I say warming? I could show you all my hot spots in case you might need them sometime?” She bit her lip wondering if she’d been just a bit too forward. Well you had to judge it just right, too forward turned them off sometimes, not giving them a big enough hint meant you never got anywhere. “Well since we’re on the train for the next little while I supposed we have to do something to pass the time.” She hurled the pillow at him hard and they fought all over the double bed until eventually he pinned her down with his extra weight and strength. “So now you’ve got me at your mercy are you going to take advantage of me?” She asked hopefully undoing his fly zipper and feeling his engorged rod with her fingers.

When they eventually arrived at the course they found they were the only two on it. The third had cancelled at the last minute because something had gone wrong at work. Alison wore a pretty summer dress that she sometimes wore as a top over jeans but Tony liked to look at her legs and she liked the attention. “Would you like to introduce yourselves?” “I’m Alison and I’m here to make the numbers up so Tony can have his course.” The instructor looked taken back. “Do you have any background in computers?” “Not really apart from messaging with my friends.” He looked at Tony “You look as if you might know most of the course already so since we’re only a very small group shall we see if we can get Alison passed the exam on Friday afternoon?” Tony nodded his agreement and Alison got taught enough to pass the exam and Tony had all his questions answered. Alison soaked up all the attention and Tony was kind enough to go through it all with her each evening to reinforce the day’s lessons.

Alison wondered into Alan’s office. “Hi I’m back what would you like me to do now?” She looked at the unstated command is his eyes. “That was badly phrased wasn’t it where would you like me to sit and work? Oh I’m a certified something or other by the way, I passed the exam on the last day.”

He escorted her down to the computer technical area they were always saying they were short of qualified staff and found her a desk. “Alison’s managed to pass her communications exam so she’s qualified to be a gofer at least.” He enjoyed saying that as the pair of them sat there had both failed their tests at the end of their course.

Alan checked his email, there was one from Bob saying that the Unix file transfer reports hadn’t been received yet. Oops no data in the regions then, not good. He checked who was supposed to have submitted the job, the infamous Alison. He sent an email and requested her presence in the office. Pity he liked the kid and especially her legs but the lack of data would cost them serious money so she’d have to be let go. For forms sake he’d give her a chance to explain first of course. Meanwhile he sent an email to HR requesting them return him the standard lawyer approved letter for letting people go with her name etc. on it ready for his signature.

“Alison there don’t seem to be UNIX reports saying successful file transfer to the regions? Why not?” “I was just bored copying the files over then setting the jobs up in UNIX and it didn’t make any sense anyway. The data bases are all Windows these days and we process it all in Windows in the regions so I just set up a couple of task schedulers to do it all in Windows and run the jobs directly in the regions.” “But what about file compression isn’t that what saves us money on the UNIX side?” “Oh I checked first the Windows ones I use to send files to my friends make the files a fifth of the size than the UNIX tools we were using and they tell you if the file is complete so you can save a tree and not print out the reports. I set them up to be sent at 2:15 am since we don’t get charged Internet usage between 2 am and 8 am.” She glanced at her watch, “If you ring one of the regions you should be able to check.” He picked up the phone and checked. “Do we use those expensive UNIX servers for anything else?” “Not as far as I know.” “Off you go then and don’t mention this to anyone.”

He mulled for a moment or two then searched the Internet looking for UNIX conferences in Europe until he found two, two weeks apart. He looked up Bob in the HR system, his wife Melinda worked for the company as well. He got up and after collecting Bob’s wife walked her to Bob’s office. “Bob, I know you’re doing such a great job but I wondered if you could pick up something new at one of the upcoming UNIX conferences. I think they’re two weeks apart but if you don’t mind burning two weeks’ vacation that would save on the air fare and I’d be happy to pay for your wife to go with you. The first is in Paris and the second in Amsterdam.” He turned to Melinda “Same deal burn two weeks’ vacation and I’ll do the paperwork saying you’re attending as well.” Melinda looked at Bob in amazement. “I’ve got a flight booked in your names for this evening, which will give you a couple of days to get over the jet lag before the first one. Why not go home now and pack, the tickets will be at the airport waiting for you. Off you go now and enjoy yourselves.” Melinda led Bob out of the office before he could blink.

He dug round to find Tony’s desk. “You know I’ve always wanted to look at the server room think you could show me round?” Tony blinked, look at racks of servers was the guy mad there was nothing to see. Still one never quite knew with senior managers, their whims should be catered to.

“On the left is our latest rack mounted servers, the next cabinets are the fibre channel data storage systems, then we have the router racks and finally in the corner we have our central network enterprise UNIX system.” Alan walked up to it. “Are any jobs running at the moment?” Tony typed in few commands, “Only the enterprise backup system that runs every night.” “But that could be run from a Windows server?” “Well yes.” “Shut the UNIX server down for me and switch the backups over to a Windows server.” “Well yes I guess so, but Bob won’t be happy.” Tony typed in the commands and the LEDs went out. Alan closed the front and turned the key. “Thank you, don’t worry about Bob but let me know if any one notices it’s not up, and it’s not to be powered up without my permission.” He left Tony drop jawed as he returned to his office.

“Procurement, could you put a hold on the twelve UNIX servers we have going through? If the vendor queries anything just say Bob’s out of town for a month and I’ve requested you hold the purchase until his return.” He rubbed his hands and sat back to see what would unfold. Bob had sworn that it was essential to use UNIX for an enterprise backup system and to transfer the big data files to the regional offices. Alan just wasn’t happy about the price per MIP on the UNIX boxes or the support costs.

A month went by and no one seemed to notice anything amiss other than in some regions the resident UNIX gurus sent an email saying that they couldn’t connect to the central server but when asked what business process it was affecting they were unable to answer so were told that it would all be sorted out on Bob’s return.

“Welcome back Bob, the central UNIX server has been switched off whilst you were away and everything seemed to run as normal. So we’ve decided to go green and leave it switched off. I can offer you a position looking after the Windows regional server in our new branch we are about to open next week if that is satisfactory or we can offer you a package?” Bob went white and asked to consult his wife. “Not a problem, take a few days off and take your time shall we say I expect your answer by the end of the week. Oh your pass no longer works for the server room by the way.”

“Alison I’ve signed off on your probationary period and moved your position to a tech level 5 on Tony’s team is that satisfactory?” Alison looked as she she’d just found the cream pot, Tony’s team, she’d enjoy working under him.