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Kicked hard by the cruel reality

By Urquhart CalliganPublished 3 years ago 4 min read

I, twenty-four years old, graduated a year and a half, now an electrical company as an operations assistant. My boss is a middle-aged uncle who is a very "chicken soup model", and my top boss, who is over 50 years old and has a Mediterranean haircut, listens to every word of "chicken soup" of his boss very carefully, and sometimes he even drinks immortal brew with his head on his back.

Once in a regular meeting, the boss suddenly drew a gaping circle on the whiteboard and asked, "Who can say what this is?" The employees didn't react for a while, only "Mediterranean" could quickly cooperate and guessed three times in one breath, but they were all wrong. The boss announced the answer: "This is an unfinished sentence. As a leader, I will not do things very successfully, just like this period, to leave a gap, to let subordinates fill it. To give the guys, especially the young people the opportunity to perform ah!"

"Mediterranean" looked excited to do a sudden realization, and rushed to lead the applause.

I resisted becoming such an old man.

The girl with the jade waist, sitting at the end of the girl named Ai Ting, the boss, and the usual regular meeting in the incitement and nonsense, Ai Ting's face has been piled with a warm and elegant smile. Her big, shiny eyes don't reveal a bit of the truth. This girl from the moment I entered the company on the right, chasing almost three months, her response is always not to refuse not to welcome.

At that time, the idea of resignation turned eight hundred times, the only thing that kept me, is Aiting, just Rating. I thought: I do not chase the hand to leave, it is not any play!

Not long after, Aiting took the unprecedented initiative to find me: "Let's eat together at noon."

"Ai ...... hey!" Happiness seems to come a bit suddenly! At this moment, I had not anticipated the real intention of Ai Ting to find me for lunch.

I only figured out the story later, "Mediterranean" often use the convenience of their positions to ask for kickbacks, cash, sometimes vouchers, sometimes some valuable gifts, and sometimes will use the time difference between delivery and receipt to take the money out for private turnover. This time there are 200,000 goods and payments can not be reconciled, the boss is angry, demanding a thorough investigation! "The Mediterranean" and Aiting are panicking!

I could never imagine that such a dignified and elegant-looking lady as Ai Ting would be a member of the Mediterranean. I was completely blindsided by this absurd truth! I looked at Ai Ting with tears in her eyes and stammered, "What's wrong with you? What kind of disgusting old man are you talking to?"

Ai Ting argued, "Don't think about it, okay? I'm not that kind of woman!"

Ai Ting looked at me with sorrowful eyes, and I believed her words!

"What do you want to do, right?"

She looked at me with tears in her eyes, almost petulant: "Someone has to take the blame for this. I don't want to lose this job, I've been in this company for two years, and I just got a raise this year, and my boss is ready to promote me to supervisor."

"Whoever made the mistake should take over! This should have been the 'Mediterranean' to bear ah!"

"How is that possible? He is the boss's direct descendant, the boss brought him to this company. This is a big deal now, there is always someone to take the blame. You think the boss does not protect him ah. In the end, it's not me who is unlucky." Said here, she tilted her head up to look at me, the big shiny eyes tickled my heart.

My heart crossed: "What do you want me to do, right?"

She smiled sweetly: "Help me. The money will soon be back in the company's accounts when you say that the business you handle first is diverted under the capital turnover. As long as the money can come back, not much responsibility. Anyway, you've only been with the company for a few months, it's not a pity to leave."

I don't know which of my tendencies is wrong and finally agreed with her. Probably because she said, "Don't worry, I'll keep this in mind. We still have a long way to go, so I'll take my time to thank you."

At that moment, I mistakenly thought that I was disillusioned in my workplace and happy in my love life. I didn't expect that this little bitch, Ai Ting, would tear down the bridge after crossing the river, and after I was lectured by my boss and expelled from the company without even receiving my salary for the month, she even blacked me out! Phone, WeChat, all blacked out!

I inquired with my former colleagues and got the news: "Rating, following the 'Mediterranean' to promotion and salary increase. Recently carried more than 10,000 bags, cattle very!"

And so I was out! Kicked off by the cruel reality!

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