Trading Coupons For Conviction
Language: en
It was the end of the month, the day Altair Solutions was supposed to run payroll, but my bank account remained stubbornly empty. I marched straight into the Finance office. Maddie Price, the payroll clerk, barely glanced up. Her tone was all practiced, dismissive boredom. “Didn’t you pick up your annual Employee Perk Vouchers last week?” she asked, a manicured finger tapping her keyboard. “You got ten of those 1,000−off−2,000 coupons, remember? That’s ten thousand dollars in total credit. Your monthly salary is eight grand, so we actually topped you up with a two-thousand-dollar bonus,…