Chapter 25: Twenty Five

Hellfire rained down in Ordering.

Seulgi made just one call. She called the VP in charge of the Ordering department. All she had to say was: “Your people are making my people’s life unnecessarily difficult.”

With just those nine words, the department got an attitude readjustment. Consequently, so did all of the other departments after they heard what happened to the people in Ordering. She used more than just those few words, but those were the ones that mattered.

On the floor of one of the plants, someone else was unceremoniously fired and ejected. He was thrown out so hard that he bounced. He had already been warned once, so it was not too big of a surprise that someone complained about him. The surprise was who made the complaint.

There is a saying about dropping a pebble into a still pond and making ripples. Well, Seulgi had dropped a cinder block into that same still pond.

Yeojin and the rest of the younger staff – male and female both – no longer had to worry about unwanted advances. That sort of thing was already in the corporate handbook, but it was not enforced as strictly as it had needed to be. Now, it was going to be enforced fairly strictly.

Office romances happen. It’s just a fact of corporate life. However, now it would be 100% consensual. Power plays were not only unfair but unethical, immoral, and illegal.

As usual, Seulgi was not aware of the impact that she made. Her girl Yeojin would no longer be bothered. Unless she wanted to be, of course. That was all that mattered to her.

The fact that the undeniably adorable Yeojin was now ‘hers’ was now a subconscious fact.

People forgot that her nickname is ‘Bear.’ And when Mama Bear comes out, it’s usually for blood while protecting her own. It’s rare for her to get mad. It’s even more rare for her to get angry. Mess with one of hers, she’ll get furious. Both Ordering and the manager of the line that Mr. Handsy had got earfuls.

In the past, she even had to tell one of the girls in accounting that Jackson was hands-off. She, with exquisite politeness, explained that not only was he one of her coteries and therefore ‘hers’, but he was also very married with a lovely wife and beautiful child. Fortunately for everyone involved, she was smarter than the guy in the factory. She backed off and then everything was copacetic.

There was one quite brazen Thai fellow named Bhuwakul that would flirt with Seulgi whenever possible. He was irrepressibly charming. The flirting had nothing offensive and was not entirely unwelcome. He could flirt with her in a playful way and also knew when to stop. The wall around her heart was slowly being chipped away by this guy. Being vulnerable to anyone was scary, but Bhuwakul did not scare her.

Normally, he asked about her day, if everything was alright and if she needed anything or was having any troubles, and that he’d be glad to help. Then he would then slip something flirty in. His favorite way was to say that he wanted to dance with her because she looked like she could burn up a dance floor. The fact that this superlative man moved like a professional dancer added to the temptation to join him on the dance floor. Someday, she would agree. He had heard her singing to herself in the breakroom when she thought that she was alone. After hearing her sing, he doubled down in his determination. 

The first time he said that to her, she was appropriately gobsmacked. She was not used to very pretty boys flirting with her, but it was not uncomfortable in the way that many of the other guys had tried. And the few girls that were just as creepy.

What Seulgi was also blissfully unaware of was that there was a betting pool as to when she would accept Bhuwakul’s invitation. Being the saucy guy that he was, Bhuwakul is the one who initiated it. There was a second betting pool for if she found out about the betting pools, if she would be amused, exasperated, angry, or just go ballistic. Bhuwakul was hoping that she would be flattered but was smart enough not to temp that particular fate of her finding out.

After making a couple of calls that were hailed as a near apocalypse by the recipients, Seulgi assumed – correctly – that the issue had been resolved and got back to work.

She got an update on the Im project. It had made it through the company's legal reviewers, it was on the way up to the VP to present it to the Im Company. There should be an update soon on the presentation. This was not strictly permitted, but the reviewers had tactic permission from the upper management to do so.

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Sometimes the person giving a presentation would ask Seulgi to watch the presentation and critique it, correcting any faults before presenting it to the client. Sometimes there were some minor corrections. Only once was something drastically wrong that got fixed with quickness. Considering the ramifications of what *could* have happened, and all of the potential lost revenue, nobody complained when Seulgi reviewed their material again. Ninety percent of the time, she was asked for her opinion, especially by the higher level people. It was one of the higher ups that had the massive error that she caught. If the presentation had gone out as it was, the contract would have failed and the presenter would have lost his job at the minimum.

No one with any sort of intelligence would complain if Seulgi reviewed their material.

The morning progressed as it usually did. There were emails, reports, decisions, advice, and the occasional random person stopping by to greet her.

Today was one of those days that Bhuwakul stopped by for a quick chat. With the smile that nearly blinded her, she could not get upset at the interruption. This tiny interaction left a smile on her face for the rest of the day.

There were many happy sighs from people walking by and seeing that smile of hers. One guy almost besmirched himself by nearly walking into the network copier next to her door.

Seulgi (and everyone else) knew that there were people who would deliberately print to that specific printer, despite being in a different department or on a different floor altogether, just to peek at her. She didn’t mind as long as they did not disturb her work too badly.

The first time this happened, there was a line of people. She told them off for being too noisy and disturbing everyone around them.

The second time it happened, she deliberately slammed the office door. She loudly slammed the door. This was the first time that she demonstrated that she had her limits as to what she would put up with. This was quietly spread throughout the office and people started behaving better again.

This still happened occasionally, but it was mostly just happenstance anymore. That and her fans were more circumspect about their peeks.

Seulgi knew that she was beautiful – how couldn’t she? The fact that she knew but didn’t really care just made her oddly more attractive. So, she knew that people would use this printer, walk by, and such just to look at her. Normally, it was innocuous, but there were a couple of creepy people too. So, she was careful in her interactions with the people she didn’t directly know. She had been professionally polite to everyone in her clique until Jackson cracked a joke at her expense. Everyone lightened up after that. But these people were the only ones that knew just how bad her jokes were.  

In the years that she had been there, there were only two people who she had to get official with. Neither would take ‘no’ for an answer, much like what happened to Yeojin earlier.

The really strange thing was that these two creepy people actually hooked up due to shared interests. They had a disturbing shrine to her that she was unaware of at their home. Fortunately, they had other interests outside of their obsession with her.

There was still the occasional click of a camera taking her photo every now and again. She did not understand the attraction of doing this, but whatever. So long as they didn’t get her scratching her butt or picking her nose, she’d be (mostly) OK with it.

She did go ballistic when she found out that someone had posted her pictures online for sale. Lawsuits were proposed. The site was taken down, the person was fired, and people quit taking her picture for about six months. Since people were behaving, she let people take her picture at the company Christmas party.

 

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