After being fined 600,000 dollars for eating snacks, I quit.

My manager fined me six hundred thousand dollars for eating a snack bar during overtime, saying company rules mattered more than any contract I had closed.

What she didn’t mention was that I had just finalized a billion-dollar renewal and hadn’t left the office for thirty hours.

I signed the apology without protest, and submitted my annual leave request on the spot.

By the time I walked out of the building, the company’s largest client had already suspended the contract and demanded to speak to me by name.

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