When Peter arrived at the Nustock Air-Con depot for the start of the week staff meeting he was surprised to see dramatic new signs on the gate and across the front of the building. The main heading was now ‘Wild Energy’ and below this were the words: Natural Pools – Solar Power – Wind Power – Zero Carbon Air-con. The background was a colorful painting copied, apparently, from Monet’s water lilies with wind turbines on the arched bridge. There was a late model Ford E-Transit parked out front with the same picture and wording on the side. This version had a naked swimmer plunging into the lilly pond. He parked his plain white panel truck with NustockAirCon.com written on the side and headed into the office.
Melissa was standing on a stool behind the reception desk pinning a new poster to the wall. Instead of her usual office attire of shorts or jeans and a plain company tee shirt, she was wearing a short tee dress with Wild Energy across the back in bold gold lettering. As she reached up to attach the poster she gave Peter a beautiful view of her bare buns. His eyes popped that was something he never thought he would see!
When she stepped down and turned round he could see the front of the shirt had a large water lilly pattern on it.
Noticing Peter looking she grinned. ‘Like what you see?’
Peter wondered if she was referring to the décor, her tee shirt or her bare ass. Melissa was well over forty, and sometimes she was a fierce bossy manager who took no prisoners and at other times she acted like one of the lads, so he never knew how she would respond to banter. He decided not to find out she meant. He simply replied, ‘very much.’
‘Nice shirt isn’t it? What do you think?’ Melissa pulled the shirt down, which strained against her breasts, making her lack of a bra even more obvious, and moved to show it off from different angles.
There was no avoiding comment. Peter replied ‘Beautiful design, pretty, short, suits you.’
‘Glad you like it because you will be wearing one soon, if you stay that is.’ She continued with a grin. ‘For me this shirt is a sort of half way house. My kids have been pushing me to “free my body” ever since the poll. They stripped off around the house and even went to town naked as soon as it was legal, they only dressed for school. Neither of them has worn a stitch of clothing since the summer break began. So maybe you will soon see even more of me, who knows?
‘Today when I dressed in this shirt the kids were overjoyed and leapt up and down waving their arms like this.’ Melissa jumped up and waved her arms over her head, clapping her hands. Inevitably the hem of here shirt was lifted almost to her naval. Her pubic bush was trimmed into a neat heart shape and her labia were large and florid.
Peter stared transfixed. All his obsessions and the trouble it caused him resurfaced he tried to stutter a response but nothing came out.
Melissa brought her hands down again. ‘Oh my god I’ve done it!’ she muttered blushing. ‘I’ve dreamed of doing this for ever and when the poll passed I tried to go nude in public so many times and bottled out. Now I’ve done it, at work to a man. Please don’t condemn me for it!’
‘No problem,’ Peter muttered his reply. ‘So many people go nude now and you have a very nice pussy.’ Thinking, swallowing and getting control of himself he they asked, ‘What’s going on?’
‘Oh sorry, yes we need to come back to earth. Nustock Air-Con has merged with the Wild Pools Company. At the same time we’ve gone “CO” hence my flashing stunt. I was called in on Saturday evening and spent all night and Sunday assisting. The signage contractors were working until ten last night to finish.’
‘So you knew it was coming when you rang me yesterday?’
‘Sorry about that. I knew two weeks ago and have been sworn to secrecy, all the staff had to be kept in the dark until this morning.’
‘Have we still got jobs then?’
‘Most or all will have if they accept the offer. The presentation has started, so you had better get in there quickly.’ It’s next door in the old Pets Paradise building.
Peter headed back out and into adjoining unit of the retail park, noticing for the first time that the new sign spread over both units. The interior fittings of the unit had bees stripped out and now consisted one large white painted open space. About fifty chairs were arranged in rows and most were taken. As far as he could see almost every employee of Nustock Air-con was present. There was also a dozen or more strangers either topless or wearing tee shirts or tank tops the same green as the one Melissa was wearing.
A large screen had been set up at the far end where a power point presentation was being displayed. David Mc Alastair owner of Nustock Air-con was describing his company and why they were merging. Essentially air conditioning as a stand alone business was in decline and they had to diversify.
When he had finished a tall blond woman stood to address the assembly she was dramatically clad in a long gown in a brilliant mixture of blue and green. ‘Hello everybody, I am Belinda Murphy Director of the Wild Energy Partnership. I’m very pleased to meet you, the Nustock Air-con family.’ She spoke enthusiastically about the future and how their new company was going to combine the strengths of both and secure the jobs of all the current employees and more, by offering affordable combined solar and wind power together with new types of air conditioning and a range of natural swimming pools.
There was another big change coming. The company was going to become a partnership in which all employees would have shares and a say in the running of it. It was also going to promote the Body Freedom movement and become a clothing optional workplace.
Belinda then said, ‘I am going the be a very hands on partner in this enterprise and you are going to see a lot of me.’ As she said this she slipped off her gown to reveal a fit toned body with an all over golden tan. There was a smattering of applause mostly from the people without shirts.
David Mc Alastair then stood up and said, ‘if you can’t beat em join them’ as he removed his tunic before embracing Belinda in a more or less chaste naked hug. This produced more louder applause and several Air Con employees removed their shirts or dresses.
Peter was surprised to see just how many of the women were without underwear and his old problem once again began to surface. This brought his attention back to his split with Sara. This quickly negated his arousal. He also found himself checking his phone for messages from Sara. He had to keep bringing himself back to the job in hand.
Whilst the directors were further describing the changes a young man wearing only a smile and green tennis shoes came around with a folder for each employee containing brochures for the new company and a second document describing the offered new contracts including membership of the coop. It all seemed a great well thought out idea which would result in better work satisfaction and income for everybody.
Then followed a brief question and answer session and people were told to study the information and that there would be another extended staff meeting the following Monday where further questions could be asked and discussed. Everybody would have the opportunity to sign, up or if they wished, could continue on their current contract until April.
It was after 11 am before they were finished and those on the maintenance team could go to the office and collect schedules for the rest of the day. With the schedules they were handed a bundle of the brochures for all customers and a small wad of CO stickers which were to be offered to anybody who opened the door naked.
The changes going on around him kept on reminding him of the fight with Sara. There were two occasions when customers opened the door to him naked. The first was an elderly man who apologized and said it was the AC’s fault but showed no actual embarrassment and made no attempt to cover up. The other was a rather overweight woman who glared at him as if defying him to react. He had manged not to show any surprise and chatted with her about the weather and about the trouble she had with her system. He handed both clients a CO sticker and the man said he would certainly display his.
Peter also began observing more people going around naked and several shops displaying the circular ‘CO’ symbol. This change was also featured on the evening news and the reporter even interviewed several naked people. She used careful camera angles to avoid displaying genitals most of the time, but didn’t use pixelation. The piece ended with her starting to unbutton her dress and a rear view shot of her walking away naked.
To becontinued