Sana Ali
Sana was very excited this morning as today was her last day as intern and from tomorrow she will become a permanent employee with a proper designation , she’s already 31 and still haven’t got a stable career so this was a big thing for her.
She got up from her bed and went for a shower wore her light blue shalwar kameez and duppata , put on her hijab making sure her thick waist length jet black wavy hair are properly covered and left for her work in a women’s clothing boutique.
As she walked happily and reached the door she saw a truck parked in front and stuff being loaded in the truck, seeing this her Smile turned upside down and she quickly ran in the shop directly to her boss.
Sana: Madam! What’s happening , why is the stuff loading in the truck.
Marry: Oh Sana! You scared me, you know the business is slow and it’s being very hard to match the expenses, so I’m just getting the back area cleaned and adding a new section.
Sana sighed in relief and got to her work, the boxes kept coming and going whole day and just before the was about to end Marry called all the staff.
Marry: Girls , as you all know that we are opening a new section so you will be working extra hard from now on, as you will be dealing two totally different types of customers. I will also assign you all your new designations and you guys don’t need to worry to much as I have hired one more girl to help you and one of you 3 will be also assigned permanently to our new section. So please make sure you guys visit our tailor for your new uniforms I have already given them your designations along will name and uniform designs, So you guys can go to the tailor directly so that your uniforms are ready by tomorrow.
All the girls looked bit confused and started talking and asking questions but only one thing was said “ Tomorrow you will get all your answers, now go to the tailor” The girls did as they were told and went their way.
Sana couldn’t stop thinking that what the new section will be, what will be her designation, what her new uniform will look like, how the new girl will be , will she be friendly or snobby or filled with attitude, who will be permanently shifted to the new section. Thousands of thoughts were running through her mind, she kept laying on the bed and thinking till she dosed off .
The alarm rang in her phone at exactly 9am , Sana quickly got up from the bed as she didn’t wanted to be late for her work as she was getting ready , she remembered that Marry have not made her permanent yet and will she even be getting a permanent and a raise before she could think any more the cold water hit her from the shower and brought her back to reality , She quickly washed her long thick hair as it will take almost an hour to dry them before she could go leave for work.
She quickly towel dried her hair as best as she could after the shower and wore her clothes and let her hair dry naturally she had 40 minutes before she would leave for work , looking at the extra time Sana decided to have some breakfast and relax while her hair dries and thought that she would go to dry her hair with a dryer after few minutes but she lost the track of time while using her phone, by the time she realized it was already 10.30 she was already late for work , so she quickly tied her hair and hair not making sure they are covered and ran for her work.
As she entered the shop she saw everyone had a smile on their face and all laughed as she entered and started congratulating her for become a permanent employee of the new section, but Sana felt something wrong , well she thanked everyone and went to Marry’s office.
Marry : Ah Sana. Good your here I want you to meet someone.( Marry pointed to the girl sitting on the chair in front of her)
Sana could only see a girl wearing a black shiny sleeves top with a high ponytail of semi brown and black silky straight hair, Sana moved forward to meet the girl and see her.
The girl in the chair was no more then 22 a very pretty girl with a smile on her face , milky white skin , beautiful face with just a little makeup and bright red lipstick. She was wearing a tight fitting sleeveless top of rubber which hugged her tightly , showing her proper body shape , that was worn with a creamy white and black pleated skirt also of rubber which reached till her knees, the girl got up from the chair giving Sana a complete of herself and her black leather high heels , the heels must be at least 6 inches which made her a hover a foot over Sana. As Sana was examining the girl , the girl extended her arm for a handshake , which displayed short shinny rubber gloves on her hand.
Before Sana could say or ask anything the girl took the lead and started saying in a tone which made feel Sana more inferior to her.
Susan: Hello I’m Susan, we both will be working in the new section, but before we talk any further you have to learn few things,
1st you will address to me as Miss and nothing else I don’t want you to say Miss Susan, Susan or anything else only miss.
2nd you are to only speak when spoken to. Otherwise the only words I want to hear for you are “YES MISS” , and that also loud and clear with a cheerful.
3rd you should always have a smile on your face, specially in front of the customers.
4th you will always be respectful with everyone either me , customer, staff or Mistress Marry. Respect should be given no matter what. Even if someone is rude to you or whatever you will not stop respecting anyone.
5th you will always be ready in your uniform by 9am. Unless you can’t . (A small giggle came out)
6th and last your not allowed to make eye contact with anyone, so it’s that you always keep your head down and eyes on the floor (as Susan was saying she placed her gloves hand of Sana’s hijab covered and pushed down)
Now is that understood??
As Sana was listening she felt Miss was getting taller and taller with every word, Sana didn’t even realised that this was happening in real case she was slowly sinking and sitting on the chair by the time Miss stopped talking and the only words that came out of her mouth were “yes miss” in a weak tone.
Miss just rolled her eyes and said “I think you haven’t, so as there are some changes left to be made in the section which will take a day or two and we can’t pay the staff for relaxing at home. So till the section is ready ,you will come here daily at 9am and write all the rules which you have to follow and you are not allowed to stop from 9am to 9pm you will keep writing them, oh I forgot to tell you that from now on that your shift will be of 12 hours instead of 9, your lunch break will be from 3-3.15 in this time you have to have your lunch and use the toilet if you want cause you won’t be getting any more time then that”.
“Here, sign on the dotted line of each paper and your name in the blanks”
Miss handed Sana a file , it contained a contract for the permanent job, Sana took the file and did as she was told. Once all the paperwork was done from the end of Sana she was given a stack of papers and few pencils and was told to go out of the office and start writing.
As Sana left with her head still lowered, Susan sat on her chair again.
Mary: Wow, Susan you proved yourself and did what you said. Now I’m confident that I have made the right choice my new line.
Susan: Thank you Mary , I’m glad that I fulfil all the requirements you were looking for. So before we were interrupted, there are few changes needs to be done in the section and I have also explained everything to the contractor, in a time of 2 days the section will be ready and operational.
Mary: Great , So I’ll see you in 2 days , but I needed to ask you few things before you leave.
Susan : Sure, please do.
Mary: Don’t you think that we need to change Sana’s appearance, I mean she would look out of the place.
Susan: Oh I’m way a head of you on this just wait till tomorrow, I’m going to the tailor to pick her uniform.
Mary: Ah okay……
They kept discussing for sometime on various things and Finally Susan stepped out of the office. Susan thought before leaving the shop she should check on Sana, so she looked around but Sana was no where to be scene , she asked one of the staff and was told she’s sitting in the Staff lunch room.
Susan Thanked the girl and started walking to the lunch room. Inside the lunch Room she saw Sana sitting on the comfortable chair with her hijab loosen and twirling a strand of her hair between her fingers and writing very slowly.
Susan shouted as she closed the door. “What do you think you are doing, You have a task in hand and your just fooling around and pretending that you are doing the giving work”. Hearing Miss’s voice a cold shiver ran to Sana’s spine and she quickly got on her feet and lowered her head, before Sana could say anything. She was told to pick her stuff and follow Miss outside, Sana picked up the stack of papers and pencils and followed miss to the corner of the shop.
A small table was placed there by one of the staff girls.
Susan: You are to stand Or kneel here and write, the girls will be keeping an eye on you that if you are doing your work or not, I will be coming to check on you soon and if I got any complaint then it will be trouble for you. NOW START WRITING.
Susan kept standing there as Sana starts to write as fast as she could, while Susan called one of the girls and gave her instructions that to make sure Sana keeps writing in the same speed and also to report to her if she doesn’t and if she runs out of paper get her some more from Mistress Mary , the girl nodded with a wicked smile on her face and left.
Susan: Get this stupid thing of off your head.
Sana removed her hijab and started writing again as Susan just Snatched the hijab from her hand and walked out of the shop. Sana kept writing for hours under the supervision of the other, her fingers and palm were aching from writing contently, every time she would slow her speed or would stop writing, the girl would come and say “ Hmm, I’ll inform Miss” or they would just say the number of times she have stopped or slowed down.
Sana finally stopped writing as the clock struck 3, she was almost in tears from the pain in her fingers and palm from writing. Her neck back and legs were hurting as she was standing for past 4 hours.
She was glad it was lunchtime and she could finally rest for sometime, but she was just not lucky today, as she was just about to enter the lunch room, Susan entered the shop and called her.
Sana meekly walked to her with her head bowed and said “YES MISS” , hearing this a smile came on Susan’s lips and said: “ Come let’s have a look at what you have done, Go and bring empty and written stacks in the office” Susan elegantly walked into Mary’s office and started talking cheerfully, the office went silent as Sana opened the door and showed her work. Without even looking Susan threw the stack of written papers in the trash can and placed the blank ones on table.
Susan: Okay Sana come we have an appointment at the tailor and at the hair salon we can’t be late. (Susan got up from the office waving by to Mary and signalling Sana to come along)
As they step out of the shop Susan unlocked the car and told Sana to sit in the back seat. As Sana opens the back, she saw there was not enough space to sit as the back was already full with several stuff, for a second she thought that she request Miss to let her sit in the front but before she could say anything Susan started the car and said “We don’t have all day, Get In NOW), hearing it Sana managed to squeeze herself in the car with all the stuff and they were on their way.
After being squeezed between the boxes and the door for past 45 minutes Sana finally felt a relief as the car was parked and she was told to come. Sana got off the car carefully making sure that all the stuff in car was still in it’s place and started following Miss. They entered a building which looked very old, on entering Sana read a name and which reminded her that they must be at the tailor’s place.
As they kept walking they reached to a glass cabin but Sana was told to wait outside as Miss went inside. After the wait of 15 minutes she was called in and told to pick another cardboard box and go to the car.
Then squeezing her self in and the box both made their way to salon with Miss.
