Pig Slop? My One Move Crushed Them

The employees didn't look concerned at all. Instead, they just looked like they were eagerly watching and waiting for more drama to unfold.

I watched as Lilian continued making a loud fuss in front of me, then I looked at the other employees watching us and giving her their silent permission to do so.

Suddenly, I felt a wave of disappointment engulf me.

I thought that Lilian would be done once she finished throwing a fit in my office. However, I soon realized that I had severely underestimated her.

The next afternoon, I saw an intern, Amber Nolan, who had only just joined us not too long ago, taking a few photos and videos of the lunch that was served that day.

Lilian was right next to her, pointing at the food and saying, "That's right, that angle is perfect. Make sure you catch all the grease floating on it. And zoom in on the fatty deposits still on the chicken. Yes, perfect."

Amber listened to everything she said and filmed the video as told.

I frowned and walked up to her. I asked, "What are you filming?"

Amber got a huge fright and hurriedly hid her phone behind her.

Lilian, on the other hand, faced me with a calm expression and said, "She's just filming her lunch for fun, Ms. Summers. She's vlogging about her life."

I looked at her for a bit and said nothing more. Still, my gut told me that there was more to what met the eye.

As I expected, a video suddenly went viral that very night. The caption read, "Heartless boss feeds employees pig feed and gaslights them afterward."

The video thumbnail was Lilian's "honest and straightforward" face.

Meanwhile, the video showed all the food that the hotel had prepared for lunch this morning. The video used a special filter and was filmed at an angle that showed all the greasiest spots in the food.

They even recorded my conversation with them earlier when I patiently explained things to them and purposely distorted and edited my voice so that I sounded prude and snobbish.

"I'm only doing this because…the food is of higher quality…don't have to fuss…"

My voice sounded harsh and hypocritical after their edits. The video then cut to Lilian's upset face afterward. She said, "We just wanted to be a little savvy and bring our own food from home, so we suggested a meal allowance plan instead…

"But instead, the boss accused us of being ungrateful and of biting the hand that fed us. We're all just lowly employees here, so of course we'd never dare to refute her words! The only thing we can do now is to grin and bear with all this disgusting pig feed every day at lunch."

The video then ended with a few screenshots of the lunch chat group, all showing the employees' complaints and dissatisfaction about the food provided to them.

The comments exploded with feedback from the netizens.

"This boss is so disgusting! How much more fake could she be?"

"Did she say the food was worth 100 dollars? Haha! I bet it's not worth more than 10 bucks!"

"Unionize and fight for your rights! Expose disgusting companies like these!"

In a short while, our company name, address, and even my photos were doxxed and posted in the comments for everyone to see.

The company phone was immediately spammed with hostile spam calls, and everyone wouldn't stop cursing and dragging us further into the mud.

Some of our ongoing business partners even sent me text messages, inadvertently questioning me about the controversy.

I was so mad that I couldn't stop shaking with fury.

I quickly got Mandy to prepare a copy of our contract with the hotel and our monthly billed receipts so that we could make a proper statement on our official website and social media channels to refute the accusations.

While busy with the PR work, my phone suddenly buzzed with a text message from Dustin Jagger, my co-founder.

He was my college friend, and we had gone through plenty of hardships together before finally bringing the company to where it was now.

I thought that Dustin was here to comfort me.

When I tapped into his message, however, I was shocked.

"Rach, I saw the video, and the people are going crazy commenting about it.

"Don't you think we should just do as they say? It's not going to look good for the company's finances if this controversy keeps snowballing."

I stared at the text message for at least a whole minute.

This made me feel even more upset than the hundreds and thousands of malicious comments on the internet about me.

Dustin was someone I trusted the most. We had made a pact to build the best and the biggest gaming company many years ago.

But now, he was asking me to compromise and cave in to the company's ingrates who were demanding a few additional dollars.

I didn't reply to him.

For some reason, I tapped into the viral video again and refreshed the comments.

At once, the most popular comment appeared before my eyes. It said, "I'm with the employees, and the boss must apologize! She's just a capitalist, and she should never be this arrogant!"