17: People Like That

I love my job now. I'm still a little wobbly in regards to some processes and protocols but today I stopped feeling like a rookie. I have a handle on most of the things I need to know and my clients are starting to call me for stuff now, so its like REAL LOL. I love it! My team is dope too, so that just makes it better. We've all got the same type of sense of humor and work ethic. My boss did a really good job building this team..... well until he got to the last guy LOL. The last guy he brought on is a fucken weirdo. He's like 5'2 or some shit, little Jewish boy, 29, I think. He's like a brown-nosing, know-it-all, wanna-be. To the max though, like on all counts. He's in the office at like 8 asking me shit when I get in at like 8:20. If you don't know this shit, your ass shouldn't be here this early LOL. All the people who can help you come in right at 9. Sleep in, my nigga. Get here when they do. And I don't even do the same thing he does but I always feel like the question he asks is completely irrelevant to anything and he need not be concerned but asks it to come off smart or insightful. That shit is annoying as hell.

But taking the cake, yo, I swear this dude is faking being a smoker just so he can go out and smoke with the fellas. I swear! Far as anyone here knows, I'm a non-smoker so you'll never see me out there with them. I'm left to myself for those 10 minutes or however long it is they are gone. Dude''s first day he was sitting in here with me when they went down. He even commented, "Guess it's gonna be just me and you when they go down huh?" "Guess so" I said but I'll be damned if the very next day he didn't have a pack of cigarettes and a monkey on his back. He's been going downstairs with them ever since. And then, maybe a week or so ago, we left the office at the same time. He lit a cigarette when we came out of the building even though Grand Central is right across the street. LITERALLY right across the street. He couldn't have taken more than 2 puffs from point A to point B, especially because we were talking in the process. I'm about to say goodnight, leave him to smoke his cig and he's like "eh, I'm done" and puts the damn cigarette out, whole then a muhfucka! I don't even smoke cigarettes and I was mad as shit about it LOL. Cigarettes are expensive as hell here. No real smoker is going to basically throw away a whole cigarette like that and not bitch about it the whole rest of the way to where they going. I'm sorry. And just to make sure I was right, I asked one of the guys on my team later and he was like "hell nah" LOL but he also said he didn't think dude really smoked either. See, I knew I wasn't crazy. And I swear he like wants to bang my boss. Or probably just BE him. I don't know why cause cool accent aside, he's kind of a mess, but dude literally takes on his persona sometimes, even going so far as mispronouncing "Anthony" the way my boss does, saying "Antny" like him. That shit is creepy, yo.

The only good thing about him is that he seems to be able to take a joke. The fellas crack on him all the time for one thing or another and he rolls with it. They really just fun with him mostly, they save the mean stuff when he's not around. I wouldn't even call it mean; I think we all agree he is the most likely to shoot up the fucken office but they are still pretty cordial with him. They just would never choose to hang out with him. We've all worked with people like that. This dude is definitely "people like that" LOL. He seems to be good at the job though so I guess we'll have to get use to him...... him and his not knowing NEITHER Jay-Z NOR Biggie is from the Bronx ass...... All in the kool-aid, that's just how he do. But I leave the babysitting to the boys, I don't have time for the foolishness . I don't like him, don't trust him, and I think it's just gonna be a matter of time before he gets that he is never really gonna be "one of them" and quits. I'm calling it.