Jackie had worked at the company for decades, working her way up through the ranks into the C-level suite. When the CEO retired, she was sure she was the head of the pack for the position. Instead, the board brought in Logan Peters to fill the role. Logan slashed everything he could while treating Jackie as if she was his own personal assistant. His plan was to grow through acquisition, yet he made Jackie do most of the work to make it happen.
Despite how Logan was running the place, she still cared about the company. She did everything in her power to keep the business strong. It was in the interest of this that she brought Logan to a tech convention where she had arranged a demonstration.
The lead researcher of the new tech instructed Logan and Jackie to sit as he arranged the equipment around their head.
“We gonna get hairdos?” Joked Logan as he laughed, “Maybe we’ll do manicures next.”
“It’s a little more in depth than that, Mr. Peters,” The researcher assured.
“Well, whatever, fire it up. We don’t have all day.”
The researcher mumbled as he hit a few switches, and Logan felt a jolt. The change was immediately noticeable as he reached up to his now beard-free face. “What the hell?” He asked before realizing, “Jackie! We’ve swapped bodies.”
Jackie smiled with all the charm and confidence that Logan usually exhumed. Now that she was the one in his body, it was easy, “Yep. But no one besides us three will ever know that. We’re gonna pay a lot of money to acquire this research, and then we’re gonna bury it. No one will ever know body swapping is possible. No one will ever know I’m not Logan Peters. I’ve got a lot to do to turn this company around from your failed policies, undoing your bad decisions and layoffs. And maybe if you play your cards right, there might still even be a place for you here...”
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