It's pretty obvious what happened with this story and the author's lack of inspiration, and not to defend this ... thing ... that I dropped years ago, but, picture this:
You worked in the sales department for 13+ years, you were young, hungrier, and all this energy lead you from Assistant to Head position, you've reached the pinnacle, got a better life, and started developing other concerns, family, aging, maturing, then, all of sudden, the job that lead you to this beautiful life you have becomes secondary, and you just start going auto-pilot to the point you actually couldn't care less about what happens there, as long as you get your share at the end of the month, you're good.
That's what happened with this story, the author was once younger, hungrier, had more energy, motivation, now, it's a thing to just get by.
Again, I'm not defending the author, but try doing the same activity for 13+ years and tell me how that played out, I know I couldn't bear it. But, I totally see where the author's is coming from, personally, I just wish the author would put an end to this - even if its abrupt - so people could move on with their lives, its pretty sad to the comments how stale/uninspired/unintersing the story it is right now (I couldn't tell, because I don't read this anymore) because as writer myself, I know we put part of our own experiences into writing, so, I can tell the author is probably not in a good headspace herself either but at same time, the juice is still being squeezed on so that's not fair with readers either.