When Firing the Boss Backfires

I've spent five long and devoted years at the company.

At first, I think I'm getting a promotion soon. What I don't expect is that my superior, Jacob Hale, decides to burn bridges with me by forcing me to voluntarily quit the job. He also promotes Megan Osborn, a pretentious woman who spends her time kissing up to the right people.

That's when I also find out that the employee I've been training from the start, Cindy Sutton, and Megan are actually best friends of many years. They keep hunting for my faults just so they can send them to Jacob behind my back.

To make things worse, my boyfriend of seven years, Felix Wilkins, is even being flirtatious and intimate with Megan in public!

Fine!

I don't mind changing my identity and rejoining this game!

Early in the morning, someone from my company's Human Resources messaged me. They informed me that my team was being disbanded and that my team members would be reassigned to other groups.

Before I could even process that, the HR staff member secretly let slip another detail. The person being promoted to manager this time was another team lead from our department, Megan Osborn.

Megan's team had the worst performance in the entire department. She was only good at sucking up to others. She would spend her days buying drinks or bringing desserts into our superiors' offices.

I instantly felt my temper flare.

I had worked diligently at this company for five years, having joined just two months after the company was founded.

I was proficient in every functional department's operations and often trained other departments. I was also the one who handled most of the business dealings with headquarters.

My team also had the best performance in the entire company.

And now, they were telling me the person being promoted was the one who performed the worst? Also, my team was being disbanded?

Shortly after, the official email was sent to the company-wide mailing list. My team members all looked at me with obvious concern.

I closed my laptop and stormed into the manager's office.

"Mr. Hale, why is my team being disbanded?"

I was in a bad mood, so I didn't bother beating around the bush and got straight to the point.

Jacob Hale looked up at me with a somewhat impatient expression.

"Ivy, the company's been overstaffed lately, so we made some adjustments," he said. "Your team was the smallest, and after discussing it, management decided dissolving your group was the most cost-effective option."

I was absolutely floored. This was the first time I'd ever heard such a ridiculous reason for disbanding a team!

Besides, didn't the company know why my team had so few members?

I never withheld anything and worked hard to train my team—some for business roles, while others moved on to management.

Several of them had already been promoted in recent months.

Last month, Cindy Sutton was even selected as a team lead, putting her on the