This is a Flashback Friday for More Than Capable.
“Alistair isn't here right now,” Glenda Patton spoke curtly into the phone receiver. “He's off living the good life, or as good as you can being terminally unemployed anyway... He's day drinking with his friends somewhere – all financed by me, his mother, of course. That boy hasn't had a job in years. I swear he'll be sponging off me until the day I leave this mortal coil.”
“Well, I am calling from an agency he worked for a couple of years ago.” A woman's shrill flustered voice came down the phone. “I believe it was a convention... Anyway, we have a major new client that we need to provide staff for and I am just going through a list of everyone associated with our past campaigns to see who is available. Only...” The woman paused uncomfortably. “Well, this is a little odd. I am calling people who worked this particular convention because our client has some rather specific requirements for their staff. It puts me in a rather tricky situation but employment law prevents me from openly discussing what they are – just to say Alistair isn't typical of the rest of the former employees I have called from this list...”
“Now listen here, lady!” Glenda snapped. “My son Alistair may be many things – lazy, entitled, not to mention frequently inebriated, but one thing he is not is a moron. If your client has special requirements, he is more than capable of meeting them as well as any one else on that list of yours. You stop your fussing and email me over the form for that job of yours and I will have my son ready to start next week!”
A week later and Alistair was attempting to force a determined smile onto to his face. The makeup helped hide his real feelings, but the name-badge that hung at his hip betrayed him by embarrassingly displaying his regular male appearance and a facial expression that better represented how he felt about his mother once again getting him a job where he had to dress as a woman all day. 'She-Hub' was a new tech franchise in town that had just bought all remaining stores from another failing company, and while they couldn't officially only hire women, their marketing gimmick was that everyone who worked in their stores looked like an absolute babe – even guys who had been forced to apply by their overly pushy parents.
Alistair tapped in the password on his tablet as he strode towards a group of guys eyeing up some gaming laptops. He could already tell they were the kind that would make jokes about his 'software' and ask how RAM he could take and he sighed knowing how much of his legs were showing from under the tiny skirt. Nothing had ever come of his basketball career but he still had the the long limbs that made the uniform look like little more than a belt. He reminded himself to take care when bending as these were definitely the sort of guys who would try to sneak a peek. For once he was grateful for the thick glossy pantyhose he had to wear. He smiled at the man who appeared to be the one looking to make a purchase and his stomach seethed with humiliation. He hated leveraging his sexuality to make sales but if he was ever going to land a job in this economy where he didn't have to wear heels, he would need the sales figures to back it up.






