Everyone has been dragged though it; forced through those long four hour orientations by an underpaying job, your first day of school, or even a mind numbingly boring seminar. We hear the same information over and over again, until we have practically memorized the speakers every word. Daniel Orozco uses real life and fictional aspects to tell the tale of the usual orientation to make fun of an experience that many of us can empathize with. He makes use of various rhetorical methods to show the ins and outs of a clichéd orientation. “Orientation” takes place in a span of about ten minutes, but because the story is set up in a way so that the reader is the one on the orientation, it makes the story feel much longer. During the orientation, the only one actually talking is the person leading the orientation. This absence of dialogue makes fun of how all orientation essentially go. One person speaks the whole time, while everyone else just listens. What makes it even funnier, is what the person leading the orientation is talking about. There is almost half of a page dedicated to the supply closet, a fourth of a page dedicated to the phone policy, and almost another half of a page dedicated to a serial killer working in the office. The narrator gives details on top of details on how to do simple tasks. An example of this is when the narrator says, “This is a microwave oven. You are allowed to heat food in the microwave oven. You are not, however, allowed to cook food in the microwave oven” (pg. 107). This is a noticeably simple and straightforward task, but the narrator explains in extensive detail to make themselves seem more important. There is no reason for the orientation to be this detailed, but Orozco adding it to the story distinguishes this and probably every other orientation leader. Also there were some fictional moments in the story that added humor to the story. There is definitely no chance, that on an orientation fo