Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Being the New Guy

I hate being the new guy at the office. The new guy has no friends, no people to have lunch with. The one who is always getting lost on her way to the pantry or the copy machine. The one who asks too many questions on how to retrieve or save a document. The one who smiles at everyone but has no idea what people's names are.

The new guy is dressed too well. Always comes in before everybody else, but gets to go home early. The new guy has a sparkling clean office. Gets taken out to lunch by all the partners on her first week. The new guy gets one of the newly issued computers, just because she's new, even if everyone else has put in a request weeks before.

You can't talk office politics in front of the new guy, you don't know her. You have to be nice to her, otherwise she might freak out and quit like the last dozen new guys.

God I hate the new guy.

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