Loud knocking on the door: “Knock! Knock! Knock!”
- Come in!
The accountant opened the door to his room, ran in, a contract in hand, a panicked face, and couldn't breathe:
- Sir! This is a faulty contract. The partner said he would sue us in court, and maybe we would have to pay a huge amount of money!
A chill ran down his spine.
- Why is that?
- I… I don't know! Go see it.
- Okay, you leave it on the table for me and then go out.
Trembling, he held the contract in his hand. With each word that ran past his eyes, sweat trickled down his forehead a little more. He mutters:
" It's over, it's over. How do bussiness like that ? Damn contract".
Lighting a cigarette, taking a long drag, releasing a cloud of white smoke like the coming future, he trembled in despair.
For the next few days, he was reeling from constant court appearances. What a useless lawsuit. Losing the lawsuit, compensating the contract, paying the court fees, the young man fell into miserable days, exhausted both money and people. Alas! "Quiet in the abyss" is not the title of the movie, it is his life now!
But the habit of life, " It never rains but it pours".
The dark days continued to surround him. Since the lawsuit happened, the company's reputation has been affected, its operations have been stagnant, its revenue has been gradually lost, and it is sometimes harassed by journalists and questioned by the authorities. The risk of bankruptcy is gradually appearing before his eyes without any way to save it.
Normally, people are prosperous, not deplorable. Every couple of days, an employee submits a resignation letter. Trang Trinh Nguyen Binh Khiem's two utterances resounded in his head like laughing and crying:
He understood the reason, but he still had to ask a cliché question:
- If I quit, who can take charge of the company's projects?
Some people are crooked with family reasons, others tell me to find new and better opportunities, then health, and then everything in the world. But he couldn't believe that the accountant he trusted the most, with one hand he supported and guided her since she graduated from school, also left him after giving him a green sentence:
- You give me a break, I can't work at a company that is about to go bankrupt like this.
"Bankruptcy", "bankruptcy", two words said as light as a feather, but as heavy as Thai Son, haunting, burdened in his heart, there was no way to relieve it.