I hope you enjoyed the first “Work Affair” that my wife experienced. There have been others, and this is one of them.

For several years as our kids were growing up, from middle school through high school, my wife did not work outside the home. I had a very good job and was able to provide financially for our family and we did quite well. This allowed my wife to be involved in their lives at a time when she could really help shape them into young adults.

Once they had graduated from high school, my wife was not certain what to do with her time. It just so happened that she was talking with one of the neighbor women and the lady asked my wife if she would be interested in a job opening that she knew about. My wife and I talked about it, and decided that if she wanted, she should check it out.

Well, she not only went in one day and checked it out, but she also got the job on the spot. That evening when I asked her about it, she told me that she took the job. She went on to tell me that her manager reminded her of Denzel Washington, and I knew she thought he was a hunk!

After a few months she seemed very happy, and she told me that she loved her new job. She said that she worked with a lot of nice people, and more importantly, she was doing very well at her job. She had already received one pay raise and after another few weeks she received another. Things were going very well for her.

She had been at her job for nearly a year when one evening she said that she had to tell me something about her job. She started off by telling me about the project that she was working on. It seemed that the previous executive assistant had not done a very good job at organizing things, and that was one of my wife’s strengths.

She said she was working on the second floor all by herself, going through stacks of files that had either been misfiled, or not filed at all. She said that her manager was told his department was going to be subject to an internal audit sometime in the coming months, and when he found out about the state of the filing system, he was very nervous.

When she told him that she could put things in order, he was relieved. She was spending nearly eight hours every day organizing these files. As she was telling me about all of this, I could not help but wonder why. Why did she say she had to tell me something about work, and everything she had said so far was just what she was working on. I did not think that was all that she wanted to tell me about.

I started to think that maybe she was leading up to something that happened between her and her manager, since she was so enamored with him. She then started telling me about this janitor that started coming onto the second floor as she worked. At first, it was all about the piles of papers that he had been sent to clean up after she had organized and digitized so many files.

She then said that he would come up and just stand there talking with her as she worked.