Lisa, You have gone overboard today.

Half an hour later, Lisa found out from someone that Christine has arrived in the office. Yesterday, She had gone to Ray and Mark to tell them about her grievances. Ray said he is doing his best to convince Mark and Sam. Truth was that he was a coward. Does not he know what Mark and Sam are thinking? They do not want to give this chance to anyone else other than Christine. They did not even consider his recommendation while finalised other names. He is not brave to fight them head-on. He did ask Cletan but he also ignored him.

Lisa knew there is no point in talking with either Mark or Ray. She was familiar with Ray's personality. Mark avoided her as much as he could. Finally, when he had allowed her to come and visit him. He told her that if she thinks they have done injustice to her, she can just resign from her position but he would never change his decision. She is not a fool. She knew her limitations, she was not so good at programming. She will require a few more years to make her reputation wherever she goes. She would rather stay in this project and wait for her chance but by no means, She will make it easy for Christine. She will tarnish her good reputation in this team.

Lisa came to Christine's workstation. Christine was busy filling out her information on the onboarding forms.

"Congratulations Christine. You are too good with your acting. How did you manage to convince Sam to speak for you? I can understand why Mark recommended your name. It is no surprise at all. Does not he appreciate you and your work now and then whenever he gets a chance? What is so good about you? We are both at the same career level and are considered subject matter experts on our respective modules. Be it performance rating or promotion or awards or On-site. They always give preference to you over me. Don't you think it's unfair to me? Why am I not going there? Why it's you?"

"Lisa, If you think they have done injustice to you then you should go and meet them. Why are you coming to me? I did not ask for this opportunity. More accurately, I had refused to go in the first place but they are not listening to me. You can try to convince them. I will be very happy if they get agreed to this suggestion."

"Christine, don't be smug. You know very well that they won't agree with my suggestion. Don't act innocent in front of me. If you have not agreed for this role then why are you filling these forms?"

"Lisa, let's be clear on this issue. Even if they had not recommended my name this time, you would not be the person who had gotten this opportunity. You are not deserving. Some people have joined before you if we talk about seniority. You said that you are subject matter expert on your module but did your expertise helped this project in any way? Give me one user story ID that did not have defects. Tell me one iteration in which you delivered your stories on time. You are always bullying your juniors when they seek your help. There are people in this project who refuse to work with you because you never cooperate with them. You always come late to the office and leave the office premises at sharp at 5 pm. When we worked on the last couple of weekends, you were enjoying your weekend at the hill station. Was your work completed at that time? That was not the case either. Tell me one good thing for which Mark or Sam should recommend you. You are Ray's puppet so he will blindly side with you but not everyone is blind."

Lisa slapped Christine across her face. No one had noticed them arguing till now but sudden noise made them looked in their direction. One could see Christine's left Cheek swollen and red from a far distance. Sean and Sandra could no longer stand by and watch Christine getting bullied so they came to Christine's Desk. Sandra gave a hard push to Lisa and Lisa fell to the ground. She had her back facing to others so she had not noticed Sandra coming near her.

"Bi**h, How dare you slapped Christine? I would never allow you to bully her. You are talking about injustice here. The one who has suffered injustice is me. Every iteration, I need to coordinate with you on our combined stories. You would have received PIP ratings if you were not on good terms with Ray. You might have climbed into his bed."