He has mastered the 1,000-yard stare, enabling him to pass colleagues in the hallway without ever seeming to see them. Every office has neat freaks and slobs. At least the neat freak, while annoying in his fastidiousness, is not a menace. But you don't dare. Instead, you stash the danish in a drawer and lick your fingers.
Some offices have a surrogate mother or father.
She, or he, gets overly wrapped up in these colleagues' personal lives, believing herself to be kind and helpful. In fact, recipients of this wisdom see her as a noodge. Then again, many young people in offices could use an on-site parent, even an occasional slap on the wrist. These are the aggressively ambitious types who show up almost straight out of college with an inflated sense of self-worth and a conviction that patience and paying one's dues are as quaintly outmoded as a buggy whip. Or maybe they are unreconstructed computer types, who spend so much of their young lives sitting in front of a screen that they are not fully socialized.