“How long are you going to drag this out? Don’t you know Julia desperately needs the money?”
When I stayed silent, his tone softened.
“Vivian, Julia urgently needs funds for her brother’s treatment. You know that, so why haven’t you approved it yet?”
“I filed the bonus application a long time ago, but Finance hasn’t released the money yet.”
Hearing disappointment in my own voice, I answered slowly.
“Then why don’t you go push for it? Julia is so kind and pitiful—don’t you know how to help her?” Ethan lowered his voice a little.
“Vivian, just do me this favor, alright?”
Hearing that gentle demand, my chest tightened. Just a favor for her? Then what am I to you?
You care about everything she faces, so I’m supposed to just do you a favor, right?
I muttered inwardly.
Julia, with nothing more than a junior high diploma, should never have been in this company. Ethan had slipped her in through the back door.
Everyone could see favoritism written all over his face.
“Also, Vivian.”
Ethan’s voice came again.
“Julia submitted an application for promotion to department manager.”
“Please help polish her materials and photos and send them to management.”
I froze when I heard this. “Didn’t I just get promoted to department manager two weeks ago? How is she applying?”
“She has a sick brother who needs money, right? Managers earn a good salary. What’s wrong with you making a little sacrifice?” Ethan replied.
“Just handle her work as a side task from now on. It’s not much.”
I trembled when I heard this. I worked diligently for three straight months to win a unanimous vote for my promotion to department manager.
And with one careless word, he instantly turned me into her subordinate.
Now he expected me to clean up her messes and even provide her food, drinks, and entertainment!
I thought back over the past five months.
From the moment Julia Snow joined the company, Ethan Reed dumped all of her tasks on me.
She had only a junior high education and couldn’t draft a weekly report, so Ethan always asked me to write it.
She couldn’t prepare a speech for the year-end awards ceremony, so Ethan pushed me to scramble one for her. I earned first prize at that ceremony with my hard work. Yet in the end, Julia stood on stage, stumbling through my speech as she accepted the award.
I did all of Julia’s work, but in the end, I got nothing, while she reaped the rewards.