To save forty thousand in meal expenses, the boss threw away the entire company. Lin Chen paid out of pocket to secure an eighty-million order, only to have his commission canceled, his project stolen, and himself publicly demoted. He left with eight years of accumulated experience, using a reimbursement form to knock on the client's door. Who should pay for this meal? The clients saw through the truth, the contract bit back, and the boss personally welded a ten-million deposit and thirty-million final payment into a bankruptcy verdict.