Firing Me From My Dad's Company
I'm scheduled to work overtime for all five days of the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. However, I decide to just put up with it because I remember that I have a 200,000-dollar year-end bonus at stake.
On the first day of overtime, the HR manager, Karen Beech, deducts 200 dollars from my pay, citing "lack of attention to personal image and affecting the company's overall reputation" as the reason.
I look at my neatly pressed dress shirt and slacks and frown.
"I've strictly followed the company's rules regarding my appearance. What's the problem?"
Without saying another word, Karen grabs a cup of hot coffee and splashes it all over me. "Well, you've got a problem now."
That day, an official message is pinned on the company's Slack channel. "Alex Sutherland violated our company's policy, affecting the company's overall reputation. Thus, he's fined 200 dollars."
Nobody speaks up for me in the channel.
That's because the newly appointed General Manager, Remy Lincoln, says that he wants to reduce costs and increase the company's efficiency, which would mean random layoffs. As a result, the entire office has been thrown into a state of panic, and everyone is looking out for themselves.
As for me, I am the highest-paid employee in the company with a monthly salary of 10,000 dollars.
On the second day of overtime, someone locks my front door from the outside, making me almost a minute late for work.
When I reach the company, Karen writes me up for being tardy and fires me on the spot.
I look at another sales associate behind her, Sandra Leach, who is pretending to be busy with work to avoid my gaze. She is the only person in the entire company who has ever been invited to my home.
I refuse to leave without a fight and request to see the company chairman, Mr. Richard Lincoln. However, Karen scoffs disdainfully at me and says, "Don't think that you have any influence on the company's decisions just because you're a sales manager.
"Mr. Remy Lincoln is Mr. Lincoln Senior's only son, which means his will is also the chairman's."
She then glances at my chest and adds, "Did you seriously think that a woman with zero assets like you could even attempt to seduce the chairman into changing his mind? In your dreams!"
I'm at a complete loss for words.
For starters, I am a man, and Karen has to be completely blind not to notice that. And secondly, if Remy really were my dad's only son, then who am I supposed to be?