A Cost-Cutter's Sweet Revenge Her playful lips are wrapped around a peppermint candy stick. She occasionally stops sucking and twirls her wet, pink tongue around the sweet, sticky shaft and lets a purring moan of contentment escape those pink, pouty lips. Her dreamily half-closed eyelids shield her deep blue, baby doll eyes while she’s lost in her thoughts. Her thoughts now consist of sucking the sweet, sticky shaft around and around. She drifts mindlessly on a wave of snow-white bliss. Her curly blonde hair protects a once bright mind now hopelessly addled by dumb drops. How did we get here? ********** We are a cozy little group of four food chemists toiling away developing various food additives for our corporate overlords. Sometime during last year there was a corporate cost-cutting summit and we were assigned our own personal cost accountant watch-dog. That's when Candice, sorry, Ms. Johnson (emphasis on the ‘Ms.’) entered our happy group and turned everything gloomy. She made it very clear when she joined our group that she wasn't going to tolerate any sexist abbreviated version of her name. She was to be referred to as Ms. Johnson or Candice within the group. Trimming expenses and curtailing our perks was her mission in life. With a cut-cut here and a cut-cut there, here a cut there a cut… well you get the picture. One of the perks of our job was access to free lunches at the company canteen over in the main building. But she made it clear that there was no more ‘free lunch’. Candice reported to her managers that the privilege was no longer needed. …the next moment changed everything
