Mag-log inThe massive investment quickly arrived in our bank account, and our company was immediately put on the fast track to expansion and development.We moved into the top office building in the center of the central business district in the middle of the city, and the size of our office tripled.Meanwhile, Dustin was like a changed person.He shaved off his signature beard and looked a lot more energetic than before. He then led his technical team and worked tirelessly for three months before successfully launching a phenomenal mobile strategy game.The game's revenue exceeded ten million dollars on the first day of its launch.And with that, our company name made headlines and front-page news in the industry media articles for the very first time.During the after-party, Dustin and his girlfriend gave me a toast. Their eyes were filled with trust and pure admiration for me.I returned his toast and clinked glasses with him. All of our past disagreements were then forgiven and forgot
The Blackjacks' contract was up, and the project quickly came to a close.Jayden invited me out for dinner, saying that it was to review the intranet cybersecurity project.Then, he showed me a deck at the dinner table. He had compiled and turned how I'd handled the "20-dollar lunch controversy" into an internal training case study and titled it, "A Textbook Example of Internal Corporate Crisis Communication".Jayden sipped on his coffee and smiled at me, saying, "Ms. Summers, I have handled a lot of corporate crises before, and you were the first one who cornered the opposition and eventually destroyed them without resorting to dismissing or fining them."It's pretty brilliant," he said, praising me.I just smiled back at him and said, "You're too kind. I would've been rendered helpless otherwise.""No," he said with a shake of his head. "You weren't helpless. You were sharp, with the senses of a top predator."He said that he had described my handling of the situation anonymou
Lilian and Amber were not fired. However, their lives were even harder than if they had been fired.They were ostracized by the rest of the company employees. Nobody talked to them and nobody delegated any work to them either.In fact, the admin department even refused to distribute teatime snacks to them.During lunch time, the other employees would rather squeeze together in the pantry and eat their food standing instead of going anywhere near Amber or Lilian.The both of them became completely invisible to the rest of the company. Or, rather, the rest of the company avoided them like the plague.Lilian tried to instigate another controversy again, complaining loudly in the staff pantry that I was abusing my powers by bullying her and also treating the employees like slaves because I refused to provide lunch anymore.However, this time, nobody supported her anymore.They just glanced at her coldly or put on their headphones and pretended not to hear anything she said.Lilian
Lilian and Amber were then led out of my office, looking completely defeated.Dustin stood where he was with a complicated expression on his face.He looked at me with fear as if I were a stranger to him, even though we had been friends and comrades for years."Rach, I…"Dustin suddenly stopped talking, even though he looked like he wanted to continue.In the end, he just retrieved an envelope from his pocket and handed it to me.It was his resignation letter."I'm sorry," he said in a hoarse voice. "I was too stupid. I got affected by someone else's words and let the malicious comments get to me."I never should have doubted you. I also never should have…liked that comment behind your back."Dustin then inhaled deeply, like he was mustering the courage to speak, before finally looking at me."Actually, I wasn't just affected. I'll admit that I was jealous of you. I was jealous that you kept thinking about building your ideal, dream company, with your head in the clouds, whil
I sat in my office, sipping on the coffee that my assistant made for me, as I noted how upset my employees were through the surveillance cameras.Yet, I felt oddly calm about everything.They were the ones who personally destroyed my ideals, so I was only just giving them the reality that they wanted and demanded from me. It was exactly as they had wished.The lunch situation today got everyone complaining massively about it, but that wasn't enough.I was going to make the main instigator pay the price.I used the excuse of upgrading the company's intranet security systems to hire a team of professional IT experts who were at the top of their industry.The leader of the IT expert team was called Jayden Connor, and he was very tall and handsome. He wore a fitted suit, and there was not a single hair out of place when we met.He looked nothing like what a typical nerd in IT would probably look like. Instead, he looked a lot more like an elite lawyer of some sort.He was very stea
"Thirdly, all reimbursements require an official receipt from a food establishment. The receipts must bear the restaurant's full name, and the item purchased must be a food item or a meal expense. Handwritten receipts will not be accepted," I said."On the 25th of every month, the receipts for that month will be submitted to the admin department. The receipts must be approved by the admin department, the finance department, and finally, me."Once all reimbursements have been approved, the total amount will be paid out along with the following month's salary."After my mini-speech, the entire conference room was dead silent. Every employee who had been ecstatically rejoicing earlier was now staring at me in horror and disbelief.I looked at their amusing facial expressions and felt nothing.After the meeting was over, Dustin was the first person to rush into my office."You're crazy, Rachel Summers!" Dustin exclaimed. His eyes were red with anger as he pointed a finger in my fac







