Chapter 131
“If we talk about academic qualification, everyone here in this room graduated from top universities. These two directors sitting in front of you are top students from Konig University. As for the experience, you don’t have presentable work up to this point. I saw your Christmas special edition jewelry. There’s a reason the sales for that were mediocre.”
Everything Elspeth said was like a sword stabbing into Alaina’s heart, making the confidence that was left in her shatter instantly. Alaina suddenly felt as though she was just a clown, showing off her immature skills in front of experts and embarrassing herself.
“Miss Lynwood, we’re all colleagues. How can you say that to me?” With her innocent look, all the male colleagues around her relent the moment she cried.
Since reasoning couldn’t work, Alaina wanted to play the victim but was exposed mercilessly by Elspeth. “You start crying whenever you can’t win an argument. Miss Sullivan, is that all you learned in Winthrop Group?”
At that moment, Alaina’s tears were hanging from the corners of her eyes. It didn’t seem right to let them fall or wipe them off, so they were left hanging awkwardly there.
“Enough. There’s no need to argue anymore. I’m the one who decided on this. Does anyone else here have any second opinion?” After looking at the conflict between Alaina and Elspeth, Callum cleared his throat and looked at Elspeth with a resigned and affectionate gaze. Although he knew at Elspeth wouldn’t put herself at a disadvantage, the things she said would surely upset Alaina
for quite some time.
Just then, Edmund sluggishly raised his hands. “I do.”
Elspeth thought that he was going to stir up trouble again, but his following sentence shocked everyone. “I want to take a few months off for a little distraction. I’ll pass the vice president position to Elspeth for the time being.”
With Callum’s arrangement and Edmund ‘vacating’ the position, there was nothing for Alaina to say anymore. Resentfully, she bore into Elspeth like a monster.
“It’s settled then,” Callum gave the ultimate word, finalizing the decision on this matter.
After the meeting, Alaina went to Elspeth with a humble smile on her face. “Miss Lynwood, I was a little too harsh in the meeting just now. I hope you don’t mind, but I didn’t mean to doubt your capabilities. I was just considering the best for the company.”
Although that was what came out of her mouth, Elspeth could tell what was on her mind. With Elspeth as the vice president, Alaina was afraid that she would rack her brain for ways to chase her out of the company. I’m really not that free, though.
anything to you.” Elspeth put on a faint smile. “Also, no worries about all the drama. Just like you said, considering what’s best for the company, we should maintain the status quo.
“You’re right, Miss Lynwood. By the way, you had a lot of contacts when you were the director of the Design Department, right? Can you…”
Hearing that, Elspeth understood Alaina’s intention. So, she was beating around the bush for so long for the contacts on my list. “It’s been too long. I don’t even remember what contacts I had…. Aren’t you the director of the Design Department now, Miss Sullivan? Meeting new people. shouldn’t be a lot of work for you,” replied Elspeth in a perfunctory tone as she patiently typed on
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