One Month After

It has been a month since I first reported at my new job. And how have things been?
Things had been generally pleasant. I sometimes feel that my new officemates are fascinated with the animal called Dementia. From Day One, we had been laughing and teasing each other and have generally grown close to a point that we take it for granted that we are together.

Superman thanks me everyday. I know. Yes, it’s cheesy sometimes. And yes, I am flattered most of the time. But it can also be awkward for me sometimes. I appreciate that he appreciates my presence but I don’t think I’m as vital as he makes me feel with his constant expression of appreciation.

Now, Invisible Man and I, that would be hard to describe. Yes, we are friends. That much I can say with certainty. Yes, I can feel he is fond of me. Me, I try not to be as fond of him. I am a very emotional person and I don’t want to feel anything that I don’t want to feel. So I try to keep him at arm’s length while nurturing the friendship.

I am amazed by how open we can talk about things. He is not as open about his life as I am, but he is not evasive when I ask. And boy, do I ask! He must think I was an Inquisitor in a previous life! And he takes everything I share with him without judgment. I tell him things, trying to push the envelope a little sometimes, trying to see where his threshold ends. So far, I haven’t found it.

Glick, I think he’s in awe of me. Once, he made a tactical error. I marched at his table and called him at it. He felt so bad about it I received apologies via text well into to evening. Apparently, Superman had been having some difficulties with him also because he tends to charge half-cocked. When I reprimanded him, he was so shocked he kept to the straight and narrow for a while. That’s one of the things superman had thanked me about.


Glick means well but he needs constant guidance. I think he is in a vicious cycle. People walk all over him because he doesn’t have much confidence in himself. But he doesn’t have much confidence in himself because people walk all over him. I can see that he tries to fight it at times. But being inexperienced at it, he fails, which feeds his insecurity about himself all the more.

The Wonder Twins are so helpful and reliable. I feel that they both are raring to be more but do not know how to do it. I have somehow taken it upon myself giving them opportunities to expand themselves. But I try to guise it by asking for help. And since they are always willing to help me out (and are having a hard time saying no to me), I am hoping that by the time they realize what I’m doing, they have grown more confident and more competent.

I can sense they are not as happy about their jobs as they want to be. But I am hoping that the challenges that I’m throwing their way will engage them enough to renew their interest and grow their joy over their work.

Aquaman is a different ballgame altogether. His joy doesn’t come from work but his personal life. There really isn’t much I can do in that area. He is guided by his emotion. So what I’m doing is fostering a good relationship with him.

There are other people here, of course. But I do not have enough chances to form any kind of opinion or insight. Eventually that will come.

Almost everyday, I find myself comparing this job with the previous one. I do it less now than the first couple of weeks, but is still happens. Most of the time, my current one wins.

Up ahead, I have a huge challenge waiting for me. Superman is a bit afraid that when the time comes, things might fall apart and all the hard work and effort we have put and are putting in will all be for naught.

I have assured him that I don’t intend to back down. At the very least, I will do it in my most diplomatic, most political mode. If it does fall apart, it will not be because I didn’t give it everything I have. What happens after that will depend on the outcome.

And with that, this is Wonder Woman signing off for now.


P.S.
Thanks to comicsobsession.com, tvcrazy.net, benchtours.com and powerrecord.blogspot.com for the visuals.