This, is an assumption, based off of one’s own, previous experiences as one started, working at the office, translated…
There was a new coworker with a style all her own, Nina, dressed in complete black, dyed her hair half white, bright red lipsticks, never smiled, so cold, so distant, not greeting anybody on her own, and, replied no more than three sentences when asked a question. What’s said of “strangers don’t come near” fitted her best.
The coworker, Wei-Wei who’s, half way senior at work, no matter how old she grows to, she still looked like a student, she has more seniority to Nina, but, not dared talked to her.
Several times, Wei-Wei wanted to work up the courage to say hi to Nina on her own, but, Nina’s cold glare shunned her out, and she’d, used that least noticeable sort of stature and movement, hidden back to her office cubicle.
On this day, before the workday’s out, Nina was nagged a bit, and had to stay after work, because something that happened.
She’d headed out onto the lanai on her own, perhaps, she’d felt upset, and needed to get a cigarette, to adjust her own moods?
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As Wei-Wei saw, because she’d not gotten the hang of work as she’d started working, thankfully, she had a kind supervisor, who’d not given up on her when she was at her lowest. Wei-Wei felt grateful, and treated her with an ice cream cone. Wei-Wei thought, that this was the way she’ll, treat other when she climbed higher up on the corporate ladder too.
And so, as Nina stepped away from her desk, she’d run to the super convenience mart, bought her favorite kind of ice cream cone, and, put it onto Nina’s desk when she wasn’t looking. She’d hoped, that Nina could know that someone cares about her, who’s, willing to, give her, some encouragement.
But Wei-Wei, she doesn’t quite know you yet, and, you don’t really know if she liked ice cream cones.
Maybe, the narrator was right, on how the individual didn’t even know if the person liked the ice cream cones, but she just wanted to offer the new coworker some little encouragement, like her own supervisor had shown her when she first started working, and, because the ice cream cone this supervisor found on her desk when she just started out working had given her a boost, that’s why she believed, that by showing that same gesture to this new person who’d just started working there using the same gestures shown to her would somehow, help the woman transition into work better. And the ice cream cone is not the point, it’s the thought, the heart that counts more!
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