Senior engineer Zhou Lin spent ten years at her company, building its core order system from scratch. Time and again, she stepped in to bail out well-connected colleagues who knew nothing but how to make PowerPoint presentations, making her the company’s invisible technical pillar.
At thirty-five, with a mortgage and car loan weighing on her, Zhou Lin couldn’t afford to change jobs lightly. Her boss, Mr. Lin, knew exactly where she was vulnerable. He subjected her to workplace gaslighting, maliciously cut the number of promotions available, took all the credit for himself and his cronies, and dumped all the hard, tedious work on her.
After seeing through the callousness of capital and the injustice of the workplace, Zhou Lin stopped putting up with it and decisively jumped ship to a competitor. Her fortunes turned overnight: she leapt three ranks to become technical director, tripled her salary, and finally broke free of the workplace’s constraints.
Without its key backbone, her former company was plunged into a dire crisis of System failures and technological collapse. Its core operations ground to a halt, its financing fell through completely, and it ultimately went under. This time, the honest employee who had been cast aside made the company that exploited her pay dearly for it!
