Extracurricular activities

After not quite making it as the next Stephen Speilberg, and not managing to earn enough to pay my rent and bills (bloody temping agencies robbing my money) I land myself my next temp job as a PA. Hold back the excitement when I tell you, I have moved away from Construction Industry and find myself in the engineering world! I know, I land the most glamorous of jobs...

So on a five month contract I begin my role as a PA. This is not the first time I have acted as a PA, but it is the first time I have worked for an unreasonable (to put it nicely) prick! A young CEO, married to his job and on a complete power trip, oh how I am in for a treat. What keeps me going at this point is being able to watch his face go bright red and watch his veins pop out of his head every time he falls into a rage. (This happens on a daily basis, oh how I wish he would explode!)

My luck comes in when the whole office apart from me goes on a trip to Budapest (that’s after I am subjected to two induction weeks of stress, lots of ranting and a bit of raving.) So with a week of peace and quiet I begin to get on with the work they gave me. It’s at this point things begin to start to get a bit more interesting…

One thing I have learnt from my previous jobs is the importance of deleting emails!! I learnt this at a very early stage… the people in this office have not quite mastered this. After they insisted on giving me access to the previous girls email, (the daughter of a senior member of staff) I begin to have a good old snoop. GOLD DUST… I come across a few emails which indicates not all the relationships in this office are strictly shall we say working!

So as I find out that the not so nice boss is sleeping with the Director. SCORE! This gets me hooked, so I start going through the inbox, the sent items and the deleted items to see if I can find anything more about their sordid affair. As I delve a bit deeper I come across an even better bit of scandal, not only is he sleeping with the Director, he is getting it on with another member of staff!! I really am in my element now. Tut Tut Mr CEO, you should really learn to keep your pants on (or at least be a bit more careful when your sleeping with your staff!)

This makes this office just slightly more bearable. The next time he starts ranting at me, there is that smug bit of me thinking I can share his dirty little secrets with the rest of the office, or drop some not so subtle hints to let him know I am aware of his extracurricular activities. So as I ponder as to what I do with this information, I sit tight knowing that I have got one up on my boss. Temp 1 – CEO – 0!
Two lessons learnt… everyone should have an ammunition file! (Just in case) and I would make a damn good spy!