Thread: When Devotion to Work becomes Obsession (Tyr and Sanja)

Troy Borden was the sales manager of Borden Mechanical a large tool manufacturer his great great grandfather founded over 100 years ago. His family had some irrational thought that their family heritage, the company would best be served if those family member wishing to work for the company worked their way up by merit and not simple nepotism. So he was doing exactly that, though it grated his nerves, as hed been born into it and deserved the riches that the company produced. His grandfather was decrepit and senile, while his father was more occupied with his hobbies than running the company. Still he knew when to lay low and when to voice up, so he kept his mouth shut and head down. Though being part of the family did have advantages, in this small town, Borden Mechanical was the largest employer and being an old style company still owned a significant portion of town. The company was invested in the town, and the town was invested in the company, so it was mutually beneficial situation, where each wanted to see the other succeed, and one that allowed Troy Borden some unique advantages. So the sales department for Borden Mechanical had become Troy Bordens fiefdom and in some ways his harem. Often when selecting new sales staff, he considered their physical characteristics as well as their experience and education. Given the limited hiring potential in the town of Foster, he often sought applications from areas afar. With things like Facebook, Linkedin, and such, he often had a very good idea what they looked like, add to that credit reports and such, he knew what kind of financial position they were in. He hired the young, the attractive, the single and those in some need. Borden Mechanical never offered quite the same salary that companies in the big city did, but it could offer something they couldnt bordering, food, even clothing and do so economically. These were benefits that other companys couldnt and didnt offer, and made up some of the difference, plus Borden Mechanical often hired those with less experience or those overlooked because they were women or minorities. These same practice also gave Troy some advantages in those he selected for his department. Oh he hired men, and all the others he was supposed to, but he also found those that he could have fun with or at least he thought so. And if anyone were to look over his choices, hed have a multiple valid reason for hiring them, like one Chloe Pender. Everything he read, made him interested and someone that had potential to join his department. Hed had a phone interview already, read her resume, and check out her background, so he knew a lot. She was gorgeous, smart, educated, and unemployed and deeply in debt. She needed a job, and needed one right now. From the looks of it, she probably would soon need a place to live, and this afforded him the perfect opportunity to help someone out, himself. It wasnt that Troy couldnt find women, and women didnt want him, it was the kind of woman that he wanted that was more difficult. He enjoyed the smart, the educated, the beautiful, the young ones, but that wasnt enough. No they had to have a special quality that was more difficult and harder to define. So he gleaned through the applicants, hiring those he thought did, and if they didnt work out, he still let them work for him, though when they left he wasnt upset. Hed found a few, but most never held his attention, or weren't interesting enough to keep for long. Still he had hopes, and if nothing else, he didnt have a friend with benefits, he had a department with benefits. So he sent off the letter, hiring the newest sales associate to his department, telling her the time and place she could report to work, also included was an attachment, containing her employment contract, non-disclosure agreement, rental agreement, and company card to be used for security and at the various company stores to buy things.