Less than ten minutes after the liability agreement was signed, the company Slack blew up.Cassie had just dropped ten $200 Venmo requests in the group chat."Thanks for believing in me, everyone! This Black Friday, we're about to take off!"The energy in the chat ignited instantly."Cassie is the real deal, that's the kind of vision that gets things done!""Unlike some managers who just pinch pennies and never take a single risk."I read through the thinly veiled jabs at me on my screen, took a sip of my sparkling water, and didn't react.Then my phone buzzed with an Instagram notification.Cassie had posted.The headline was hard to scroll past: Gen Z Reclaims the Workplace: How I Disrupted Our Stale Director with Next-Level Strategy.In the caption, she'd cast herself as a fearless innovator who broke all the rules and refused to be held back.I, naturally, was the bitter, out-of-touch antagonist who'd been left behind.The comments were already piling up, hundreds of them."Iconic.
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