THERE’S a new kid on the block at work and he’s driving you round the f**king pipe. Here’s what the obsequious little twat is up to.
Offering to work late
You knock off at 5.30pm with military precision, but this eager-to-please little shit revels in working on ‘just until I’ve got these notes typed up’. He’s already giving you paranoia that you’ve jumped the queue in the next round of redundancies.
Asking irritating questions
‘How does the marketing strategy reflect our brand?’ He’s blatantly currying favour with inane questions your manager will love pompously answering at length. A more pertinent question would be ‘Why does the guy sitting next to me have a bottle of vodka in his desk?’
He’s brilliant at techie shit
You’ve only got a shaky grasp of Word, but this baby-faced wanker is a walking software encyclopedia who suggests using all sorts of new-fangled computer programs you’ve never even heard of. You suspect these may be irrelevant or impractical, but he’s still making you look like Benny from Crossroads.
He wants to start an office suggestions box
He thinks it’d be a brilliant idea for people to post their blue-sky-thinking ideas in a poxy cardboard box – and your corporate plodder boss thinks it’s genius. Now you’ve got to think up something innovative and you’ve never done that in your life. Your best idea of ‘Asking Josh if he wants to f**k off’ somehow isn’t going to cut it.
Bringing in homemade treats
He’s unilaterally decided Friday is ‘cakes day’ and brings in a Tupperware box full of sugary goodies. You wonder which is most annoying: the way he always offers the boss first dibs, the brown-nosing crawler, or the fact that they’re actually f**king delicious.
He’s like you at that age
You’d forgotten the naive, overconfident, enthusiastic twat who joined all those years ago. Christ, that was you. The new guy will hopefully soon be as miserable as you, but deep down you know he’s destined to climb the career ladder like a rat up a drainpipe and in a year or two he’ll be your f**king boss.
