Summary Of Daniel Orozco Orientation

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The short story “Orientation” by Daniel Orozco illustrates the contemporary office work in a very unrealistic way and gloomy work environment. The story extends into employees individual and personal live in a very unusual way. The author portrays the workplace as a boring with too many unnecessary stapes and rules to do a simple task, “All the forms in your in-box 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. The lower-right-hand corner is left blank.” (Orozco 650). The writer presents his message by exaggeration a realty to extent of far-fetched events,

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