The Things That Follow You: Installment Two - The Art of Being Helpful
THE THINGS THAT FOLLOW YOU A Penny Dreadful · Installment Two By the end of Melody Hart’s first week at Whitmore, Hale & Pierce, she had learned that there were several kinds of help in the workplace. There was the useful kind, which involved answering questions, explaining procedures, and occasionally pointing out that the printer everyone had been cursing for twenty minutes was unplugged. Then there was the other kind. The kind that arrived uninvited, rearranged your calendar, corrected you in front of your colleagues, and somehow left you feeling indebted to the person who had made your day considerably worse. Caroline Voss, Melody was beginning to suspect, had perfected the second kind. Of course, Caroline was always smiling. And that, Melody thought, was probably the most unsettling part. Chapter Two: The Art of Being Helpful By Friday, Melody Hart had learned three things about Whitmore, Hale & Pierce. First, the coffee machine on the eleventh floor was temperamenta...