JennaRP
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- Joined
- Apr 28, 2018
"Idiots. Surrounded by idiots." Those were the words Lauren Jenson muttered in her office as she read through the financial reports for the quarter. She was the CEO of La Mode, a fashion company that had taken the industry by storm over the past few years, and she was worth millions, as evidenced by her lavish office on the top floor of the high rise building. However, the buyers were just not doing their job lately, at least not as well as they should, and it was hurting the bottom line, which Lauren couldn't stand. She missed the days where she ran more of the operations, now just having to delegate so much that she felt like little more than a figurehead sitting behind her desk. She knew that the company would run like a well oiled machine even without her. It's what she'd always wanted, but now that she had it, she missed the old days.
That all led to boredom, which was dangerous for someone like Lauren. She would spend her days shopping and sitting in on meetings she didn't care much for. But then she began tinkering, as if to see what she could get away with. All charges and collections needed to go to her for a final signature, and she'd found that the accounting department was little more than just a bunch of data entry interns when it came to processing most contracts. So, almost on a whim, she added a clause to a contract to send two percentage points to a new account for research and marketing. The account, of course, was simply a hoax, just a personal account that only she could draw from. When it worked, she got a rush, finding herself adding that clause to more contracts and watching the balance of the account build.
So that's what her days had mostly been for the past few months. Along with her boredom came absurd requests to her secretary though. She felt like the girl didn't like her, but HR just wouldn't let her fire the girl without cause, leading to it being Lauren's mission to get the poor thing to quit. Coffee requests, then scolding her when the coffee wasn't made correctly - which of course was an ever moving target, leading to sending the girl back to make it again, sometimes even three times. Having her read over the contracts that Lauren was sure she couldn't understand, only to dismiss any kind of feedback she'd receive or taking any of the good ideas and conveying them as her own to the board. She was sure it would only be another week or two before she could send the girl off and bring someone new in - perhaps a boytoy type would be fun, a smile curling onto her lips as she thought about it.
"Are you finished with that report yet?" she sent in an instant message to her secretary. "Honestly should have been done hours ago. You aren't going home tonight until it's done."
That all led to boredom, which was dangerous for someone like Lauren. She would spend her days shopping and sitting in on meetings she didn't care much for. But then she began tinkering, as if to see what she could get away with. All charges and collections needed to go to her for a final signature, and she'd found that the accounting department was little more than just a bunch of data entry interns when it came to processing most contracts. So, almost on a whim, she added a clause to a contract to send two percentage points to a new account for research and marketing. The account, of course, was simply a hoax, just a personal account that only she could draw from. When it worked, she got a rush, finding herself adding that clause to more contracts and watching the balance of the account build.
So that's what her days had mostly been for the past few months. Along with her boredom came absurd requests to her secretary though. She felt like the girl didn't like her, but HR just wouldn't let her fire the girl without cause, leading to it being Lauren's mission to get the poor thing to quit. Coffee requests, then scolding her when the coffee wasn't made correctly - which of course was an ever moving target, leading to sending the girl back to make it again, sometimes even three times. Having her read over the contracts that Lauren was sure she couldn't understand, only to dismiss any kind of feedback she'd receive or taking any of the good ideas and conveying them as her own to the board. She was sure it would only be another week or two before she could send the girl off and bring someone new in - perhaps a boytoy type would be fun, a smile curling onto her lips as she thought about it.
"Are you finished with that report yet?" she sent in an instant message to her secretary. "Honestly should have been done hours ago. You aren't going home tonight until it's done."