Orientation" As a potential employee, I would be utterly disturbed. As if trying to retain all of the overwhelming information the narrator has given me isn’t stressful enough, my potential co-workers would certainly worry me, as well. To me, there are many unusual things in this story, but there some of the things described are characteristic of the workplace. While it is common to experience relationship drama and to have work benefits, it is not likely that serial killers would be allowed in the workplace. It is also strange that the narrator knows so much about everyone’s personal lives and daily habits. It seems as though the narrator’s own job is gaining expertise in his own workplace and co-workers. I have never experienced such an odd orientation for any job or other function. The speaker must have worked this job for a number of years. He is either extremely serious about his job or trying to scare the potential employee out of working there. The layout and design of the office building, as vaguely described by the speaker, seems normal with side-by-side cubicles and various compact offices. The people, however, make this office seem out of the ordinary. Some of the rules and regulations that are enforced in this office also seem absurd. For example, the speaker in forms the potential employee that employees “are allowed to heat food in the microwave oven,” but “are not, however, allowed to cook food in the microwave oven.” This policy just makes no sense to me. If the employees are allowed to use the microwave, what’s so different about cooking the food than heating the food? Is it because cooking the food would take much longer and use a greater amount of energy? The speaker gives the orientation almost as if he is trying to frighten the potential employee. If the potential employee abuses just about any of these policies, he may be let go. Furthermore, the office employees all have unique stories, which the speaker knows all about; this aspect of the office is the most unusual. Overall, the office seems to be set up as an ordinary workplace would be, but the interesting employees within the office make the orientation exceptionally peculiar.