로그인Someone had recorded the entire fiasco and posted it online.Kimmy, who already had a modest following, thanks to her so-called “good-luck charm” persona, instantly became the center of a viral storm.The clip spread at an alarming speed and climbed trending lists across every major platform within hours.Public opinion was overwhelmingly unified in its condemnation of Kimmy and Dale. [So much for a “lucky charm”! She’s criminally stupid! Because she couldn’t keep her hands off a few numbers, look how many people she’s hurt! I wish I could reach through the screen and throttle her!][Leave the technical work to the professionals. How’s that such a difficult concept? How have these two even survived this long?][That Dale guy is no better. Superstitious, ignorant, and petty!][With a brother-in-law like that, it’s no wonder the company imploded.][The real victims here are the workers. They did everything right and still paid the price for two idiots at the top.]No amount of
Realizing his schemes had been exposed, Dale’s face flushed red.He raised his hand and slapped Kimmy. “You lying trash, how dare you slander me?”Her head snapped to the side. The fair skin of her cheek turned red and swelled instantly.She lost her composure completely.She lunged at him, clawing, biting, and screaming as she went. “You’re the real fraud! You told me that if I joined your company, I wouldn’t have to do anything, and I’d still get paid! You kept hinting that I should get rid of Lisa. Now that everything’s blown up, you’re dumping it all on me?”“Shut up!”Dale shoved her hard.They tangled together, shouting and flailing. The scene spiraled out of control.At that moment, an employee came running in, gasping for breath. “Mr. Gugino, there’s been a terrible accident!”Michael was on the verge of blacking out from the scene before him.Hearing that only made it worse, but he managed to ask, “What now?” “The other batch of screws we shipped out this mor
“The accountant’s child was critically ill. Her husband had died in an accident not long before. She was drowning financially. She came to Ms. Turner as a last resort. And Ms. Turner organized a voluntary fundraiser across the plant and helped cover the child’s medical treatment.”The compliance officer shifted his gaze to Kimmy.“You were aware of this. In fact, you not only refused to contribute but also spread rumors on the production floor, claiming Ms. Turner’s actions were a publicity stunt to gain favor. You then followed her to the hospital, took a deliberately misleading photograph, and presented it as ‘evidence’ of improper financial dealings.”In just a few sentences, the entire sequence fell into place.Dale froze.When Kimmy had shown him the photo, he really thought he had been handed the leverage he could use to bring me down.After all, my standing on the production floor had long since eclipsed his.He pointed at Kimmy. His eyes were bloodshot from rage.“You t
Every eye in the room locked onto Kimmy.Squirming under the collective stare, she forced out a stiff smile. “Lisa, stop trying to drag me into this! You were the only one who ever handled those drawings. How would I know where they are?”As soon as she said that, a memory surfaced in her mind. Her face went pale.Michael was far too shrewd to miss that.He stepped closer toward her. His gaze was eagle-like and piercing.“Tell us now, where are the drawings?”Dale, frantic, grabbed Kimmy’s arm. “You must know where they are! We need them to start production and salvage this! Do you want to sink the entire company?”Kimmy stammered. She was unable to form a coherent sentence. “The drawings… They’re…”She knew that among the documents she had so triumphantly defaced in front of me a day earlier were the critical drawings.However, at that moment, she had been too busy savoring my humiliation to bother looking at what she was holding.Seeing her continue to stammer without giv
Michael was livid. He drove a punch straight into Dale’s face.“Dale, I trusted you to run this floor! Is this how you repay that trust?”Dale stumbled back. He stared at Michael in stunned disbelief. “Michael, what was that for?”Michael’s chest heaved. It took him a moment to rein in his breathing and calm himself down.He pointed at Dale and said in displeasure, “If someone hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have known that you’d made such a big mess. And you had the nerve to treat the talent I personally recruited at a premium like this!”Dale glared at me in fury.“Lisa, you went behind my back!”Seeing that Dale still refused to admit his mistake, Michael flung a report in his face.“Look at this!”Dale leaned down in a panic and picked it up.The moment he saw the bright red “FAILED” stamp on the report, the color drained from his face.It was the report for the very shipment he had just expedited.The document clearly stated that the batch of screws failed to meet internati
Gagged and bound to the chair, I could only watch helplessly as Kimmy walked away.I struggled against the restraints, but my efforts were in vain. Instead of breaking free, I only managed to topple the chair and crash painfully to the floor with it.The company was hurtling toward a man-made disaster that I could see coming but was powerless to stop it.First thing the next morning, Dale arrived on the production floor, overseeing the shipment himself. Once everything was dispatched, he walked in with a grin on his face.A smug smile was plastered on his face as he waved a document in front of me.“See this, Lisa? This is why you’ve been a middle manager for years. You’re just too rigid. This is the customs clearance certificate. If I’d listened to your hysterics about not shipping the product, the penalties alone would’ve crushed us.”Looking at his stupid, triumphant expression, I laughed inwardly.If we had delayed delivery, the worst outcome would have been liquidated dam







