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When I came out of the president’s office, I noticed that everyone in the office was looking at me.
Were they waiting to see how Mr. Humphrey, who was in a bad mood, would punish me?
As I emerged unscathed, a hint of disappointment flashed across the faces of several colleagues.
I sneered in my heart, and indeed, I disappointed them.
Melany hurriedly approached and asked, “How did it go, Esmeralda? Did Mr. Humphrey say anything?”
I handed the report, which Reynaldo had crumpled into a ball, back to her. “Mr. Humphrey said your report was too rigid and complicated, made according to a template. He was very angry and told you to leave.”
Melany’s face turned pale in an instant, and tears streamed down her face.
What should I do? I can’t afford to lose this job.
Last night, my daughter kept causing a fuss, so I just quickly filled out this report and handed it in.
“Esmeralda, I will redo it, I will redo it right away. Can you please go talk to Mr. Humphrey and ask him not to fire me, okay?”
“Tsk, Melany, did you ask the wrong person?”
Someone started gossiping again, mocking tone, “You should ask Kimberly, huh? Beg her? Hilarious, does she have that ability?”
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“Well, Mr. Humphrey doted on Kimberly the most. You must be out of your mind to ask someone whom Mr. Humphrey despises to help you plead your case.”
“But I also don’t know if Kimberly went to work today, and I don’t know if she will help me plead.” Melany said tearfully.
The person next to him sneered again, “Then you don’t need to ask for help from Ms. Duffy, what can she do for you?”
“Yeah, and Mr. Humphrey must have been in an even worse mood because he saw her, that’s why he wanted to fire you. You shouldn’t have let her help you deliver the reports!”
“You’re right, this woman is a bothersome jinx. Before she came, our Mr. Humphrey had never been so gloomy. It’s all her fault.”
I coldly tugged at my lips and said to Melany, “Don’t worry, I just deliberately told Mr. Humphrey that I made this report.”
Melany was startled.
Even the colleagues next to me were staring at me with a look of disbelief.
“Mr. Humphrey actually didn’t kick you out!”
I grinned at them and hummed, “Yeah, I disappointed you.”
“Hmph! Don’t get too proud, Mr. Humphrey only didn’t kick you out because he felt sorry for you.”
“Yeah, a janitor, how dare he even think about comparing himself to Kimberly?”
I rolled my eyes speechlessly.
These people are really boring. It is they themselves who always bring up
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Kimberly, comparing me to her, which ironically mocks me for wanting to compare myself to Kimberly.
I am really impressed.
I ignored them.
They seemed to find it boring as well, and one by one they snorted at me coldly and then returned to their own workstations to do their tasks.
Only Melany looked at me with gratitude on her face.
She said, “Esmeralda, I didn’t expect you to be so kind–hearted. I’m sorry, I had a bad attitude towards you at first. I also heard a lot of bad things about you from them, so I prejudged your character.”
“It’s okay, you redo this report again, and this time, be more serious. After you finish it, I will submit it for you.”
“Uh, okay.”
Melany nodded quickly and then pulled me aside, whispering to me, “Those people just saw that Mr. Humphrey likes Kimberly, so they’re trying to flatter her. Don’t pay too much attention to it.”
I smiled faintly and said, “You all noticed that Mr. Humphrey liked Kimberly, didn’t you?”
Of course, although Kimberly was just a small secretary, Mr. Humphrey gave her more privileges than the head of the secretarial team.
And Kimberly used to enter the president’s office without any notification or knocking on the door.
The most enviable thing is that Mr. Humphrey was really good to her. Once, when she was resting in the president’s office, she suddenly said she wanted to cat pastries from a certain shop. Mr. Humphrey personally ran out and stood in line for over an hour to buy them for her.
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“How do you know he waited in line for over an hour outside?” I asked expressionlessly, not believing that Reynaldo would be such a patient
person.
Of course, if he truly loved Kimberly to the core, perhaps it would be different.
Melany hesitated for a moment and said, “They were spreading rumors, they all said that, and they were even speculating that Mr. Humphrey and Kimberly were about to get married.”
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