After the boss went on a business trip, his young girlfriend tried to establish her authority in the company by making an example of me, the sales champion.
But she didn't know that the boss treats me like a revered ancestor on a daily basis.
Because all the company's salespeople are my trainees, and nearly all the clients were brought in by me.
Without me, the whole company would starve.
That day, I left the company, but just a few days later, she was on her knees, crying and apologizing.
"Please come back, my husband said that if you don't come back, he would leave me!"
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In order to secure a multimillion-dollar super contract.
I stuck it out and drank with the client until three in the morning, causing my stomach ulcer to flare up.
But when I forced myself to go to the office the next day, I was told that I'd lost my entire bonus for the month due to being late.
"Chen Yue, you were late by a whole minute, who gave you the guts to disregard company rules?"
The boss's young girlfriend Xu Lili stood with her hands on her hips, looking at me disdainfully, with a hint of glee as if she finally found a reason to blame me.
Being fined for being late?
When did this rule come into play?
Why didn't I know about it?
I was stunned, unable to react for a moment.
As the busiest sales department in the entire company, we always need to attend to clients outside, and our office hours are never fixed.
Thus, the sales department is also the only department in the whole company that doesn't need to clock in.
Seeing my confusion, Xu Lili directly slapped a piece of paper onto my face.
This was the attendance policy she had just created, and its content was truly an eye-opener for me.
A one-minute delay results in a one hundred yuan fine, a ten-minute delay is considered absenteeism, and a one-hour delay results in the deduction of the entire monthly bonus.
Looking at these extremely targeted regulations, I suppressed my anger and kindly reminded her that this attendance policy does not apply to the sales department.
But Xu Lili snorted coldly with full disdain: "You're just a bunch of lousy salespeople, what's with the special treatment!"
She's a recent graduate who, with her coquettish ways and sweet talk, won the boss's favor.
Ever since she became the boss's girlfriend, she has been arrogant and bossy in the company.
She would insult anyone she didn't like without a second thought.
Once, there was a female colleague whose performance was twice as good as hers, so she spread a nasty rumor that the woman was using her body to please clients.
She forced the woman into quitting.
Who would have thought she'd target me now.
I laughed out of anger, an undefined rage surged within me, and my stomach felt like it was being churned by a power drill.
Back when the boss couldn't even afford a meal, if I hadn't found ways to run business and secure orders, the company would have collapsed long ago.
Since then, the boss treated me like a god of wealth.
But just one phrase from her — "lousy salespeople" — negated all my contributions!
Beside me, Little Li from HR cautiously reminded:
"President Xu, the boss indeed allows salespeople to be late, especially since Manager Chen has always been the sales champion..."
But before Little Li could finish, she interrupted him.
"My husband left the company to me while he's on a business trip; I'm the lady boss. Is the company paying you to act like kings? If everyone shows up late, how can this company be managed?"
"Besides, so what if she's the sales champion? Without this company's platform, she's absolutely nothing."
Xu Lili carried herself like the number one in command, announcing on the spot that all sales staff would be considered absent if they didn't clock in.
She then arrogantly said to me:
"As a leader, you're setting a bad example by being late. This corrupt trend starts with you, and today I'll use you as an example to cut an entire month's bonus!"
"Chen Yue, from today, you will clean the toilets! If you don't want to do it, then pack your things and leave!"
In the next moment, everyone was shocked — letting the sales champion clean the toilets?
Seeing everyone seemingly defying her, Xu Lili laughed coldly, taking out her phone to actively call the boss.
Once connected, she immediately changed into a cutesy voice:
"Hello? Darling, there's an employee not listening to me and often goes absent; can I fire her?"
On the other end, the boss was helpless.
"Fine, fire whoever you want, but definitely don't upset Manager Chen."
Unfortunately, the overbearing Xu Lili only heard the first half of the sentence before hanging up, not catching a single word of what followed.
After hanging up the call, she looked at me with even more pride:
"My husband said, I can fire whoever I want. I advise you, either clean the toilets or get out of here!"