Jin Heon stared at the message from Li Wei on her phone screen, stunned for a moment. Then, she subconsciously fiddled with her bedsheets as her fingers began to type furiously.
"Boss, you don't have to give me a raise," she typed almost without thinking.
But just as her finger was about to hit the send button, she hesitated. 'Is that too blunt?' she thought. 'It makes me sound like I have no emotional intelligence.'
So she deleted it and started typing again.
"Boss, you've already given me more than enough. After the Super Bowl, if the drink really takes off, maybe you can consider giving me a raise then?"
After finishing, she reread it twice. 'Does this sound too opportunistic?' she wondered. 'Like I'm hinting at something.'
She grimaced, grabbing her pillow and mauling it in frustration before deleting everything she had just typed.
