The Intern Accused Me Of Getting Paid Doing Nothing
When the company’s bionic robot was announced to the public, its stock price skyrocketed tenfold overnight.
As the Principal Engineer, I received a year-end three-hundred-thousand-dollar bonus.
The next day, an intern named Alaina Zeller and the company’s vice president, Vincent White, cornered me at the restroom entrance.
Vincent scowled and glanced at his watch.
“Joel, you were in there for fifteen minutes. You mind explaining that?”
I did not grasp what was happening and answered casually, “I was using the restroom.”
Alaina reacted as if she had caught me red-handed.
She pointed at me and shouted, “See, Mr. White?! Mr. Lakely is literally getting paid to take a dump!”
Completely