Few people in the American work force are strangers to the employment setting that is the office—other than Daniel Orozco. Whether it is despised or admired is a never-ending debate between millions of people who lead completely different lifestyles. Some feed off the energy, or the lack thereof. Some live through the day to day trying to cope with the normalcies of their careers, leading to interesting personal lives that are filled with mystery. Daniel Orozco creates a narrator in “Orientation” who seems to be projecting his inner self onto the characters in his office– allowing the audience to question the validity of the narrator’s point of view.
Orozco’s career has always been in writing; he never longed for the normalcies of life that …show more content…
Each of the employees he describes throughout the office tour have their own problem. Not all of them are odd problems to have, but the narrator may be exaggerating them for the sake of making his own life seem more stable. The beginning of the short story opens with the narrator explaining to the audience an elongated list the things required by them with the position they hold. “all the forms in your inbox must be logged in by the date shown in the upper- left- hand corner, initialed by you in the upper-right-hand corner, and distributed to the Processing Analyst whose name is numerically coded in the lower-left-hand corner…” (Orozco,p1). Such rigorous and tedious conditions put into effect immediately upon receiving the job shows that the office could be a place filled with stress over small minute details – much like a stereotypical office job. These conditions could be driving the narrator mad with boredom, allowing him to create these characters in his mind. Perhaps “orientation” is actually
Orozco’s career has always been in writing; he never longed for the normalcies of life that …show more content…
Each of the employees he describes throughout the office tour have their own problem. Not all of them are odd problems to have, but the narrator may be exaggerating them for the sake of making his own life seem more stable. The beginning of the short story opens with the narrator explaining to the audience an elongated list the things required by them with the position they hold. “all the forms in your inbox must be logged in by the date shown in the upper- left- hand corner, initialed by you in the upper-right-hand corner, and distributed to the Processing Analyst whose name is numerically coded in the lower-left-hand corner…” (Orozco,p1). Such rigorous and tedious conditions put into effect immediately upon receiving the job shows that the office could be a place filled with stress over small minute details – much like a stereotypical office job. These conditions could be driving the narrator mad with boredom, allowing him to create these characters in his mind. Perhaps “orientation” is actually