My Million-Dollar Exit

Synopsis

My phone screen lit up. [Your account ending in 639 received a 5 dollars deposit. Current balance: 28 dollars.] It was five dollars. I stared at the message for a long time, long enough for the screen to go dark and then light up again when a new message popped up in the department group chat. Joey from Admin dropped a screenshot in the chat, complete with three snickering emojis. Joey: [Oh my god, Mr. Harris's year-end bonus. Two million eight hundred thousand dollars. Am I seeing this right?] The screenshot was from the finance system's salary details. No one knew who took it or how it got leaked. It read: [Samuel Harris, Executive Assistant to the CEO, year-end bonus: 900,000 dollars.] My name was listed right above his. [Charles Reed, Deputy Director of R&D, year-end bonus: 5 dollars.]