His First Drink After the Promotion: He Started Sorting Out the Whole Business of Men's Supplements
The day Chen Guanyu was promoted to sales manager, the department group chat flooded with congratulations, but he sat in the parking lot for a long time by himself. Not because he was happy—because it suddenly hit him that the numbers he'd have to carry every month from now on were not on the same scale as the past three years. He was forty-two, had two kids, and seventeen years left on his mortgage.
What really put him on alert wasn't the sales targets—it was a Wednesday afternoon. He'd been taking clients out to eat for the third week straight. That day he'd had a round at lunch, and when he got back to the office to open his computer and reply to an English email, the cursor sat in the recipient field and he stared at the screen for a full two minutes, unable to remember the other person's name. Not forgotten—it was like the name was covered by something, clearly right there undernea...