One of My Favorites

Dan Whitmore runs his department on warmth. He remembers birthdays, asks about weekends, keeps a bowl of mints on the corner of his desk, and notices when someone has done something new with her hair. He'll tell a woman on his team that her dress is one of his favorites, and mean it as a compliment.To Dan, it's good management - personal, generous, the reason people like working for him. To the women on his team, it's something they've learned to smile through. And to the Workplace Dignity and Remediation Act, a federal statute Dan has barely heard of, it's a pattern. Now a formal filing from an employee demands accountability.One of My Favorites is a near-future literary dystopia written as satire. Wherever you stand on the line between friendliness and harassment, the state's remedy is designed to register as grotesque.