In the afternoon, the design department was having a lunch break and the workers were gossiping.
“Hey, did you hear about the case where manager Wang resigned?”
“Resign? Why the sudden resignation when he was doing all well until now?” Another colleague answered.
“I don’t know too! It was so abrupt that I was confused. Manager Wang had always been doing a good job!”
“I heard that he didn’t resign but was fired!”
“Fired? For what!?”
“I don’t know, I heard that it was president Mu that personally fired him!” Another colleague said.
Few of them gathered around and gossiped. The design department was always the first to learn of any news.
“Hey, Annabelle, do you know what happened?” One of them turned to Annabelle and asked.
Annabelle sat there and listened to them. She was drinking and she shook her head, “I don’t know.”
“Manager Wang had been working here for two years and he was fired just like that!”
“Our president Mu always favor competent men, it must be that he did some mistakes. Otherwise, president Mu wouldn’t have done that!” A colleague said.
Upon hearing her, the rest of the workers nodded in agreement. They had long known that Alistair was always fair in work. Everyone agreed about that.
They continued to gossip and speculate.
At that time, one colleague said, “I heard that it was because of Yoi…”
“Because of her? What do you mean?”
“It seemed that when Yoi came to interview, president Mu didn’t know about it and it was manager Wang that interviewed her, so…”
“It’s not just me, but everyone in the design department had heard it!” Annabelle said indifferently. She had already gotten used to Yoi taunting and pestering her.
When Yoi saw Annabelle’s expression, she glared at her furiously, “Annabelle, you better be careful not to let me catch you red-handed. Otherwise, I will never let you off easily!” After saying that, Yoi walked away.
Annabelle continued to stand on the same spot. She looked at Yoi’s back view and sneered coldly.
The woman couldn’t be bothered to argue with her. But Yoi was truly pushing it. Even Annabelle’s patience had a limit.
When the crowd saw Yoi leaving, the colleague that was gossiping about Yoi was apologetic. She came forward and looked at Annabelle, “Sorry about that Annabelle, I had caused you troubles!” She was the one that said that but Annabelle was the one getting the contempt.
When Annabelle saw her guilty colleague, she simply smiled at her, “It’s nothing. It’s not that she didn’t hear it and she simply wanted to find trouble with me!”
“I am truly sorry!”
“All right, don’t worry about it. Let’s get back to work!” Annabelle said.lightnoveldaily.com.
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