Chapter 4 The Boss
Today, I finally got paid, but before I could get excited, I found out that my boss had deducted 200 yuan from my salary. I couldn't understand why - last month I was late and had 50 yuan deducted, but this month I wasn't late at all, yet they still deducted 200 yuan. A sense of injustice flared up in my heart like a little mouse jumping around.
At this time, Feng Ke walked over with his salary slip in hand, panting.
"Hey, look at that! Last month I was late for just one minute and they deducted 50 yuan from my pay! When I work overtime, why don't they give me 50 yuan per minute as overtime pay?"
"You're supposed to work overtime, and no matter how much you add, it's all in vain. The right to speak is not here with us, but with the boss. Didn't the boss say so? If you think you're earning too little, or if you think the management is too strict, you can quit. No one is begging you to stay, there are many people who want to work!" Zhang Xin raised her pale face, revealing a look of discontent.
"Alas, bosses are just so overbearing. For us small employees without any skills, there's really no way out. It's all the same wherever you go. All bosses are like this. Is it easy to find a job after quitting? New graduates are as numerous as locusts in the fields, too many of them and not enough jobs to go around. Alas, what can you do?" Old Wang stood up from his seat, shaking his head with a cup of tea in hand, looking like a submissive little wife.
"Damn it! If I had any way out, I wouldn't be working here!" Feng Ke slammed his paycheck and said angrily.
"What you're saying is just nonsense, completely useless! If you have the ability, go find a better job!" Liu Shanshan said with a mocking and sarcastic tone, revealing her white teeth.
Feng Ke pursed his lips and didn't say a word, his nostrils flaring upwards in anger.
"Hey, you're not bad off, only 50 yuan was deducted from your pay, I had 200 deducted! And the key thing is that I've never been late once." I held up my own paycheck, originally intending to comfort Feng Ke, but couldn't help complaining. "You guys tell me, why did the boss suddenly deduct 200 yuan from my pay?"
"What's your basis? You're just a fool." Liu Shanshan continued to say with a sarcastic tone, looking at me with a mocking expression.
I got angry, glared with round eyes, and flushed my face, looking at her gloating and bullying expression, I really wanted to fight with her.
"Don't glare at me, have you forgotten? Last month you got the boss's clothes dirty, that suit was expensive, deducting 200 yuan from your pay is not too much."
Liu Shanshan finished speaking, and I suddenly remembered.
It was on a certain morning a few days ago, when I was about to be late, I held a cup of hot soy milk and rushed into the office building. As soon as I ran out of the elevator, I met Auntie Xu who was cleaning up. Actually, at first, I didn't see her, but only saw the blue trash can. When I quickly ran past, I found that next to the blue trash can stood a woman wearing a blue uniform, whose figure was similar to the trash can. I busily nodded my head and greeted her, but unfortunately, in the moment when I turned my head to look at her, I rushed forward like a light cannonball and bumped into our boss who was walking ahead of me. A full cup of hot soy milk with just-out-of-the-pot temperature splashed generously onto the boss's high-end suit.
Luckily, my weight was light, so the boss's thin body like a chicken didn't tragically fall to the ground. He stood firmly on his feet, as if he was about to be murdered, with a pale face and greyish-white eyeballs filled with horror. But when he saw it was me, his eyes immediately turned into cold, ruthless and murderous ones, like stones in a riverbed.
"Suxiao Mei! Have you gone blind?!"
