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"Good" Behavior
Written on August 10, 2009 by Code MonkeyI don't know how your office works, or even if you are IN an office, but in our office we have "good behavior" days. These days generally occur anytime a new employee enters into our ranks. Today is a "good behavior" day.
We have hired on Rich, a software developer (round of applause please, give the man a warm welcome!). Today is Rich's first day in the office. He's been here for exactly 18 minutes and already I'm tired of being on good behavior.
Generally speaking, we are quite the loud, obnoxious, raunchy little motley band of nerds, geeks, dweebs and dorks (with a sprinkling of jocks thrown in for good measure). But today, the silence is deafening.
For all you folks out there who are tormented by periodically being forced to contain your inner overgrown child, I say we rail against the oppression! Let's stand up and fight for the right to be our boisterous, nerdy selves regardless of new people in our circle of acquaintence! If you want to yell Labyrinthe quotes across the room, so be it! Want to wear your ratty old Star Wars t-shirt? Do it! Feeling the regular, daily compulsion to speak Klingon, wear Elven ears or listen to Lemon Demon all day long? I say 'why not'? It's just a new guy. Sooner or later, the real you is going to shine through. Whether now or three weeks from now, your inner geek will escape the temporary confines of your nerd-containment chamber and reveal itself to the poor, unsuspecting new guy. I say 'why wait'? Why lure him into a false sense of security? A false hope of "normal" geeks (whatever THEY are)? Why give him time to get comfortable with his surroundings and his co-workers only to have his entire work reality altered the first day one of you crack and that evil, snorting, Weird Al singing, movie quoting inner dweeb escapes?
Of course, it has been said that most of "us" are introverts and not keen to taking kindly to new people until we've gotten used to them, that "we" clam up in new and unfamiliar surroundings, that "we're" shy, awkward, backwards and otherwise abnormal. I don't know who "they" are, but I do believe they may be right.
Viva la resistance!
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