The Twenty-Dollar Betrayal
Language: en
The company had just landed a massive account, requiring the entire staff to work overtime for thirty days straight. To compensate my team, I allocated $300,000 as a project bonus—exactly $20,000 for each of my fifteen employees. But when I walked into the office the next morning, I was met with a wall of cold, hostile faces. I fought to suppress the rising anger in my chest. Over the past six months alone, I had paid out over $4,000 in extra bonuses per person, yet their attitude toward me was growing increasingly toxic. Just as I was about to call them into the conference room to…