Pandora Blake, Rosie Bower and Zoe Page work for a company with a fascinating way of motivating their sales floor staff: whoever brings in the most money in any given month gets to dole out a paddling to whoever came last. This month, that means Pandora gets their hands on Zoe – the team newbie who’s never been beaten before.

Zoe squeals and complains so much in the runup to her punishment that her colleagues humiliate her all the more to drive the point home. Before long she’s up on the table on all fours, utterly exposed, underwear around her ankles and legs spread. Every impact leaves her squirming and crying out, and she certainly doesn’t take her punishment lightly!

She’s left with a red, sore bottom, but it seems that the most wounded thing is her pride. Will this be enough to get her working harder in time for next month’s rankings?

We’re back at everyone’s favourite highly dubious sales & marketing firm this week, where it’s time for the monthly commission rankings to go live once more. After last month’s debacle, newbie Zoe swore she’d never come last again – and in fact she’s worked so hard to avoid it that she’s topped the list, giving herself the honour of paddling the backside of whoever’s numbers have slipped the most.

Which turns out to be Rosie, a senior exec who hasn’t done this poorly in years. Zoe and Blake are both her direct reports, so the whole affair takes on an extra frisson of glee for them. Rosie is determined to approach this as an opportunity to set a good example, and at first she seems almost to be managing it – even on a table on all fours with her trousers and panties around her ankles, somehow she maintains a little dignity. But for how long?

As the spanking wears on – and Zoe does seem to be enjoying it so very much – Rosie finds it harder and harder to keep her composure. As Zoe beats her and gropes her, exposes and humiliates her, it’s all she can do to breathe through it – and vow not to be so complacent in the coming weeks. We’ll be following the team for one more month, so watch this space to find out who bottoms the board next time…