Kingston looked at her. "That colleague named Holly was unwilling to apologize to you, right?"
Eevonne bit her lips. "It wouldn't matter to me if it was just as simple as not apologizing to me. Not only did she not apologize to me, but she even said to me in front of the entire office, 'Everyone in the company knows that you love to argue with others. You’ve fought with everyone in the company. You're the one with the problem, so why should I apologize to you?"’
"Damn it!" Kingston cursed. "Is there a difference between that and humiliating you in front of everyone?"
"It's fine to humiliate me in front of everyone. I was a shameless person anyway. The main thing after that, she told Mister Lourd in front of everyone in the company, 'Mister Lourd, don't bother with this matter. This has nothing to do with you. I’ll hold Eevonne responsible for this. Eevonne, such a large batch of the client's orders has been ruined. The client would want full compensation. You'll pay for that. The total is two hundred and forty thousand dollars '"
"She actually asked you to pay for the compensation?" Kingston said.
"Yes. She asked me to pay for the compensation. Don't you find it hilarious?" Eevone said.
"What about you? Were you willing to pay the compensation?" Kingston asked nervously.
Eevonne shook her head. "No matter how cowardly, how inferior, and how weak I was, I can't do such a thing as paying for compensation. I truly can't afford it as well. Besides, even if I was to pay, shouldn't it be the human resources department and the boss who come and discuss it with me? Also, I am a staff of the company and I'm being paid by the company. Every staff member would make mistakes. Could it be that when the staff is creating profits, the boss is at ease and feels it's all justified, but when it's time to time to pay compensation and take risks, the boss would want the staff to shoulder all the burden? If that was the case, who in this world would still dare to get a job? Even if I had to pay for the compensation, shouldn't the boss be the one to come and talk to me? A colleague, who is my equal, requested me to pay. Does she really think I was a fool?"
Kingston interjected "So you finally lashed out and handed in your resignation?" Eevonne smiled miserably. "I don't know what went wrong in my head that day. It was like I had gone crazy, and I slammed the documents in my hand aggressively on the table. All of my colleagues in the office were stunned. They looked at me in a daze. Many of the colleagues present were unhappy. 'Has she gone mad? She's going to have another episode again, isn't she?' At that moment, I did not care about it so much at all. With my face covered in tears, I shouted at Holly like crazy. Holly was so frightened that she hid in the boss’ office and refused to come out. She cried in our boss' office like a child who was overly frightened and extremely pitiful. My boss was away on business in those couple of days, so he was not in the company.
Everybody in the company was completely lost in a panic. They looked at me like I was a psycho, and none of them pitied me at all.
Holly cried pitifully as if she was a child who could not find her home. At that time, I even felt that I was an extremely vicious psycho who looked hideous and terrifying, let alone the others. It was just that there were no knives in the office at that time. If there was a knife, I might have already killed someone with it."
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