They say that people are our mirrors. If you want to see yourself, look at the one next to you.
"Hello Alpha! Hello Miss Joyce!"
"Alpha, Kat, hi there!"
As soon as Emily went inside, a shower of greetings fell on her from all sides. The last days she felt like a real star. Only her colleagues acted as paparazzi.
"Hi Jena. Hello Rebecca." She knew by heart the names of all the girls working in the department, and even the guys from the men's department often came to visit them for joint dinner parties.
At the previous work place Emily communicated with a very narrow circle of colleagues, as she spent most of her working day alone, bending over her next scientific work or research design.