A Life Debt Repaid novel Chapter 1412

"What's the point?" Ryan demanded coolly. "If the decision is theirs, how is it going to help our sales?"

"I'll say it again. This is neither to increase sales nor to exploit our own employees—I'm offering them the rebates as a reward," Sam explained solemnly. "Regardless of how things will turn out, they've more or less stood with us to surmount this crisis. At this time, we should be rewarding them to better encourage them."

"You could just offer them bonuses instead of some elaborate scheme," Ryan schemed.

"That would instead give them false hopes," Sam replied. "And they'd expect us to pay them a fat bonus whenever the company faces a crisis. Sure, they might be pleased this time, but they'd get unhappy should our rewards fall short. Rebates are the best choice—a suitable reward since it would not lead them to expect too much while making sure that they felt valued."

"I concur," one of the board members promptly said once Sam finished.

The other board members promptly echoed.

"Me too."

"I'm surprised how sharp you are when it comes to personnel management, Sam. Never underestimate the youth, as they say."

"Good old Marvin finally has his successor. Guess we're all worrying over nothing."

"We should congratulate him later. He's blessed to have raised a fine son."

Sam was actually embarrassed from all the flattery despite being thick-skinned, while Ryan was left ashen-faced.

He was certainly aggrieved that all the board members were all fawning over Sam—when did he become the lampshade while Sam received all the accolades?!

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After the meeting, various departments went to work with the sales and promotion of the new energy cars.

Today, his unit just happened to have an outing to North City. He told them he would be staying for the weekend, and they did not insist otherwise as long as their research progress was not delayed.

For Ryan's part, he was keen to see how things were at Saunderia—which only left him plenty aggrieved.

It was rare for him to have that many days off, and all he managed was to bear witness of Sam's achievements.

No one even mentioned Ryan after he left, as if he was never there!

Feeling wounded, he threw himself on his chair as he told Peter Lang to brew him coffee while asking for recent financial reports.

Just as he was about to start reading…